NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens of progressive nonprofits condemned President Donald Trump's general attacks on his political opponents and a specific report of a potential investigation into billionaire George Soros' philanthropy, Open Society Foundations.

“Targeting those you disagree with is a threat to the democratic values our organizations work tirelessly to defend, and is an attempt to silence those who disagree with President Trump,” the groups — including the American Civil Liberties Union, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Oxfam America — said in a statement Monday. “It is a continuation of the attacks on law firms, universities and the media. It is an attack on our most sacred value of free speech.”

The comments follow a report in the New York Times that the U.S. Department of Justice h

See Full Page