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Washington has seen rhetorical fire.
It has seen outrage, scandal, hearings, whistleblowers, and a thousand political wars.
But what Senator John Neely Kennedy detonated on the Senate floor this week wasn’t a speech, a criticism, or even an accusation.
It was an indictment-level political explosion aimed squarely at one of the most controversial figures in modern global politics:
George Soros.
And Kennedy didn’t whisper it.
He didn’t hint at it.
He didn’t circle around it with coded language.
He walked onto the Senate floor with a stack of documents, a scowl that could cut steel, and unleashed a monologue that instantly became the most replayed clip on Capitol Hill.
His opening line stunned even veteran staffers:
“George Soros’s billion-dollar riot fund just blew up — and it’s time we treat him like a domestic terror threat.”
You could have heard a pin drop.
THE CLAIM: SOROS’S ‘RIOT FUND’ IS REAL — AND IT JUST COLLAPSED
For years, Kennedy said, Soros has operated through a network of “globalist shadow nonprofits” to finance protest groups, civil-disobedience training, bail funds, legal defense pools, election-pressure groups, and activist collectives across more than 40 states.
Some of these groups are publicly known.
Others — according to Kennedy — exist only on paper, never filing complete financial disclosures, offshore-funded, or registered under vague humanitarian categories.
Kennedy tapped the stack of papers beside him.
“For a decade,” he said, “Soros has been writing what amount to riot checks. And this week, those checks bounced — morally, politically, and legally.”
He claimed new whistleblower documents trace direct funding pipelines between Soros-backed organizations and groups involved in recent violent protests that left cities scrambling to respond.
He didn’t claim Soros ordered the riots.
He didn’t claim Soros designed violence.
But he did say this:
“If you fund chaos, you’re responsible for chaos. His money doesn’t buy justice — it buys anarchy.”