KUALA LUMPUR: A petition demanding the United States government to declare American financier George Soros a domestic terrorist has gathered over 110,000 signatures, more than sufficient to compel the Trump administration to respond.
The Washington Times reported that the petition, which was posted on the “We the People” section of the White House website on Aug 20, had cracked the required 100,000-signature threshold within 30 days to trigger an official response.
“As of early Saturday afternoon, it has been digitally signed over 110,000 times,” the news report wrote.
The petition stated that Soros had wilfully, and on an ongoing basis, attempted to destabilise and commit acts of sedition against the US and its citizens, through allegedly creating and funding organisation exclusively devoted to facilitating “the collapse of the systems and constitutional government of the US”.
It added that Soros had also developed “unhealthy and undue influence over the entire Democrat Party and a large portion of the US Federal government”.
It then urged US Justice Department (DOJ) to immediately declare Soros and all of his organisations and staff members to be domestic terrorists.
According to the Washington Times, We the People was launched by former president Barack Obama’s administration to enable the public to post petitions that were potentially capable of acquiring a response.
However, it stated that none of the petitions that had broken the 100,000-signature threshold during Trump’s presidency had received a response, and several were already in the queue.
“An unanswered petition seeking the immediate release of Mr. Trump’s tax returns is currently the most popular with over 1.1 million signatures, and another asking the president to formally recognize the Antifa anti-fascist movement as a terrorist group has garnered over 300,000,” it added.