Liberal billionaire George Soros was at the White House late last year to meet with President Obama’s controversial top adviser on ISIS, according to the White House visitor log.Soros, joined by top aide Michelle’s Vachon and Bulgarian political scientist Ivan Krastev, met with White House ISIS czar Rob Malley late in the afternoon on October 8, 2015 in the Executive Office Building, according to a recent update of the log.
The White House did not return a request for comment on the topic of the meeting with Malley, the senior advisor to the president for the counter-ISIL campaign in Iraq and Syria.
Though Malley wouldn’t be named ISIS czar until a few weeks later, the terrorist force was almost certainly the topic of discussion at the meeting.
Krastev, the chairman of a foreign policy think tank in Europe, published an op-ed in the New York Times the day before the meeting analyzing the power struggle between Russia and the United States in Syria. Soros has been an active voice on the topic of how to handle Russia’s involvement in the campaign against ISIS.
It is unsurprising that Soros was given access to Malley. The billionaire sits on the board of trustees and is a major funder of...
