Soros was expecting the dollars value to crash (with a kamel toe win), it didn't. He had to close his hong kong office to pay the loss. No funding no riots.
Got a source on this? Sounds like a good read.
Although the exact reasons were not disclosed, this move comes just days after Soros' son, Alex Soros, through the family's Open Society Foundations, wasted tens of millions of dollars backing the biggest Democrat loser in a generation