Soros-funded group's leader visited the White House, claimed credit for Trump’s NY prosecution

The President of a Soros-funded racial justice organization that supports liberal prosecutors visited the White House several times in the years before he publicly claimed credit for the Manhattan District Attorney’s prosecution of former president Donald Trump. 

Rashad Robinson, the president of Color of Change, visited the White House at least five times over the course of the Biden administration, according to White House Visitor logs reviewed by Just the News. 

But, Robinson may have visited the White House up to 16 times in that period. Two nearly identical names are found in the logs with different middle initials. If both entry types refer to Robinson, then it is possible that he visited the White House a total of 16 times. Both names include visits with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris several times since the beginning of the Biden administration. 

Color of Change did not respond to a request for comment and clarification about the number of Robinson’s reported visits or his public claims of credit for Trump’s prosecution. 

In May, Robinson released a statement following Trump’s indictment on business records fraud charges by progressive prosecutor Alvin Bragg in Manhattan. He congratulated his organization for helping to elect Bragg and touted success in holding him “accountable” to their aims.

“We have seen the fruits of our labor, not only with Bragg’s prosecution of Trump but with thousands of decisions that he has made and millions of decisions made by progressive prosecutors we helped to elect nation-wide,” Robinson wrote in the statement.

Robinson’s Color of Change PAC endorsed Bragg’s run for Manhattan District Attorney and pledged $1 million to support his campaign. 

“Manhattan is overdue for reform, and we’re confident Alvin Bragg can deliver it,” Robinson said at the time. “As a lifelong Harlem resident and the only Black man in this race, Alvin Bragg has had direct encounters with the criminal legal system that have shaped his understanding of injustices and informed his policy positions.”

Color of Change was also backed by prominent liberal mega-donor George Soros and his committee network. Soros directly gave $1 million to the PAC just days after it endorsed Bragg in the race. The New York Times reported that "Mr. Soros donated to a liberal group that endorses progressive prosecutors and supports efforts to overhaul the criminal justice system — in line with causes that he has publicly supported for years. That group used a significant portion of the money to support Mr. Bragg in his 2021 campaign."

FEC records show that Soros has given $1.45 million in total to the PAC and even more through other committees to which he contributes. These include Democracy PAC, which gave $2.5 million to Color of Change in 2020 and Win Justice, which gave $2,025,133 to the group, according to the Washington Free Beacon. 

Robinson’s Color of Change is not the only example of a link between the New York prosecution of Trump to the Biden administration. House Republicans previously probed Bragg’s office over the hiring of prosecutor Matthew Colangelo, who departed the Biden Justice Department in 2022, directly joining Bragg’s office as the investigation of Trump was heating up. 

The DOJ, responding to House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan’s requests, said that it had no records showing Colangelo communicating with Bragg’s office while he was serving at the Justice Department. 

The White House and Congressional Democrats also may have meddled in the second state-level case brought against former President Trump. 

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis charged Trump last year in a supposed RICO scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. During contentious hearings leading to the trial, Willis’s office disclosed that it had communicated with the White House in two written letters about "logistics and procedures” related to the trial. 

Earlier, records showed that Willis’ lead special prosecutor on the case, Nathan Wade, met on at least one occasion with President Biden’s White House counsel in Athens, Georgia, Just the News reported. 

Records also show that on November 18, 2022, Wade expensed travel to Washington, D.C., for an “Interview with DC/White House," just two days after Trump announced he was running for president in the 2024 GOP primary. 

There is also evidence that Fani Willis’s office communicated with the Chairman of the Jan. 6 Select Committee Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., to provide her office with evidence that might assist in her prosecution of Trump and other defendants. 

In a letter to Willis in December, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan and House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Barry Loudermilk said they found evidence to be troubling and asked for all documents related to the exchanges.