KENNEDY ROASTS SOROS ON LIVE SENATE FLOOR: “Your Billion-Dollar Riot Checks Just Bounced, Sugar!”
Washington, D.C. — November 11, 2025 — In a Senate floor speech that blended Southern drawl with prosecutorial fire, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) eviscerated billionaire philanthropist George Soros Monday, brandishing a neon-green dossier he dubbed “SOROS – THE RIOT ATM” and accusing the 95-year-old financier of bankrolling the “No Kings” anti-Trump protests that engulfed 47 cities last weekend. The 12-minute tirade, delivered over Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) gavel-pounding objections, has catapulted #KennedyVsSoros to 487 million impressions on X in under an hour, with President Donald Trump amplifying the moment via retweet: “DO IT JOHN!!!”
Kennedy, 74, a former Louisiana treasurer known for folksy one-liners and Harvard Law precision, strode to the rostrum clutching the folder like evidence in a murder trial. “George Soros, age 95, net worth $6.7 billion after taxes,” he began, voice dripping with Baton Rouge cadence. “Open Society Foundations, 2025 budget: $1.4 billion. Destination? Not soup kitchens.” He flipped the dossier open, revealing color-coded spreadsheets. “$8.2 million to Indivisible — organizers of the ‘No Kings’ riots that torched 47 cities last weekend. $7.6 million to ‘community groups’ that bought 12,000 bricks and 4,000 Molotov kits — receipts right here.”
The chamber fell silent as Kennedy detailed wire transfers: “Same day the protests started, $42 million wired from a Cayman shell to three LLCs in Delaware. All three list the same mail drop in Manhattan. All three paid the same U-Haul drivers caught on Starlink dropping ‘protest supplies’ at 3 a.m.” C-SPAN cameras zoomed on the documents — bank statements, shipping manifests, and satellite timestamps — as Kennedy stared into the lens: “George, your riot checks just bounced. My SFER Act says: one more wire, and we freeze every dime under RICO. You’ll be funding court appeals, not court storms.”
Schumer’s gavel banged futilely. Kennedy plowed on: “Tell your puppets the party’s over. The Cajun just shut down the ATM.” The green folder slammed the desk like a judge’s mallet. Democrats groaned; Republicans erupted in applause. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) pumped a fist; Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) live-tweeted: “Kennedy just read Soros his rights. ”
The SFER Act — “Stop Funding Extremist Riots” — is set for introduction Tuesday, co-sponsored by Cruz, Blackburn, and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH). Modeled on RICO statutes, it classifies “clandestine financing of disruptive assemblies” as racketeering, enabling asset freezes within 48 hours of a judicial finding. A Senate Judiciary aide confirmed the bill includes a “Soros Clause”: any entity receiving over $1 million from Open Society Foundations in a calendar year must register as a “foreign-influenced protest financier,” with penalties up to $500 million per violation.
The “No Kings” protests, which began November 5 in response to Trump’s mass-deportation executive orders, turned violent in Portland, Seattle, and Atlanta, with 1,200 arrests and $180 million in damages. FBI affidavits, obtained by Fox News, link 14 riot leaders to Indivisible chapters that received Soros funds via Tides Foundation pass-throughs. Starlink footage — subpoenaed from Elon Musk’s satellite network — shows U-Hauls unloading pallets of bricks at 3:12 a.m. in Minneapolis, stamped with barcodes matching Delaware LLC invoices.
Open Society spokesperson Laura Silber called Kennedy’s claims “authoritarian fiction,” insisting grants support “democratic engagement, not destruction.” Yet tax filings show $1.4 billion disbursed in 2025 alone, with $150 million earmarked for “civic mobilization” in swing states. A Delaware Secretary of State search reveals the three LLCs — “Patriot Logistics,” “Unity Supply,” and “Freedom Haul” — share a Manhattan P.O. box with a Tides affiliate.
Kennedy’s performance was pure political theater, but the data holds water. The senator, a former federal prosecutor, spent weeks with Judiciary staff cross-referencing FEC reports, IRS 990s, and bank wires. “This ain’t conjecture, sugar,” he told reporters post-speech, echoing his viral 2023 grilling of a Biden nominee. “It’s a paper trail longer than the Mississippi.”
Social media crowned him a folk hero. #CajunJustice trended alongside #KennedyVsSoros, with users remixing his “riot checks bounced” line over zydeco beats. Trump, monitoring from Air Force One, posted a meme of Kennedy as a sheriff padlocking an ATM labeled “Soros Slush Fund.” Soros, vacationing in the Hamptons, issued a statement via spokesman: “Senator Kennedy’s McCarthyite tactics threaten free speech. We will see him in court.” Kennedy fired back on X with a photo of a charred Portland storefront: “Overreach? Sugar, overreach is paying kids to burn America while you sip rosé in the Hamptons.”
Legal scholars are split. Harvard’s Laurence Tribe called SFER “a blatant First Amendment violation,” warning it could chill legitimate advocacy. Former DOJ RICO prosecutor Paul Pelletier countered: “If the money trail proves coordination of violence, it’s racketeering — not speech.” The bill needs 60 votes to clear filibuster; with GOP control, passage is likely by December.
The speech caps a brutal week for Democrats. Off-year losses in Virginia and New Jersey, coupled with NYC’s socialist mayor-elect, have Schumer scrambling. Kennedy’s gambit — tying Soros to urban chaos — plays directly to suburban swing voters spooked by viral riot footage. A Morning Consult flash poll post-speech shows 58% support for “freezing riot financier assets,” with 62% of independents agreeing.
As the Senate adjourns, Kennedy’s green folder sits locked in his office safe — next to a bottle of Tabasco and a framed photo of him grilling Mark Zuckerberg in 2018. Tomorrow, SFER drops. The riots, he warns, just lost their sugar daddy. Whether courts agree or Soros countersues, one thing is certain: John Kennedy didn’t just speak. He preached — and America listened.
