The theory began proliferating in mid-October in the form of questions about who was funding the latest caravan — without invoking Soros specifically. “I want to talk a little bit about who is funding the caravan,” Fox News’s Laura Ingraham said Oct. 16. Somebody is funding these caravans.”On Oct. 17, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) — a Trump ally with a fondness for deep-state conspiracy theories — fingered possible culprits that included Soros. Schlapp didn’t directly link Soros to the caravan, but he suggested Soros was responsible for “chaos at the southern border”:SCHLAPP: Who’s paying for the caravan? Suddenly, the Soros conspiracy theories were no longer welcome.

Source: Washington Post October 29, 2018 16:49 UTC