The Soros family’s foundations may have designed the Albanian kangaroo court that the country’s socialist prime minister has used to jail his political opponents, but the U.S. government has spent nearly a decade funding this destruction of democracy among our NATO ally.
As we illustrate in the third chapter of the Washington Examiner’s exclusive documentary series, How Biden Aided Soros’s Favorite Narco-State, taxpayers have been forced to fund progressive political projects across the planet through the U.S. Agency for International Development — up to and until President Donald Trump announced a categorical freeze on this foreign aid until the White House conducts a total review of its $40 billion budget.
First unearthed by Judicial Reform in 2018, the Justice for All campaign for Albanian judicial reform was executed by East West Management Institute and funded by USAID. EWMI is just one of many organizations in the network of Soros-backed nongovernmental organizations, but its relationship with USAID goes back at least 30 years. The United States government has siphoned off more than a quarter-billion dollars to EWMI over the last 15 years, including $31.2 million in the last fiscal year. From the start of fiscal 2025 (this past October) until Trump froze USAID spending, EWMI already received nearly $10 million from Uncle Sam.
The Justice for All Project that created the corrupt court at the heart of the political persecution of Albanian opposition leader Sali Berisha was initiated with $9 million from USAID to EWMI under the Obama administration. Though a number of Republican senators expressed concern that the project “ultimately aimed to give the Prime Minister and left-of-center government full control over judiciary power,” USAID defended it.
“”Strong foundations are necessary because institutions like the high judicial council, the high prosecutorial council, have to be built on solid ground so that rule of law takes root,” said the head of the Justice for All project, Anne M. Trice. “The Albanian people need to have institutions that they can rely on to be acting with integrity.”
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Trice made close to a quarter-million-dollar annual salary when running the Albania project, according to public records, and virtually all of the EWMI’s reported revenue comes from government funding. USAID grants to EWMI that were still in effect when Trump announced the spending freeze included a $3.5 million project to “strengthen the civil society and media sectors in Uzbekistan” and a $6.4 million “anti-corruption” project in the Kyrgyz Republic.
Trump may have had to throw the baby out with the bathwater in executing such a broad pause of foreign aid, but just $10 million in USAID funding to a Soros-backed operation helped doom democracy in Albania, how much more damage could $31.2 million do every year? What about the $40 billion across USAID? Luckily for our democratic allies across the globe, Trump refused to wait and find out.