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TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
Fri May 13, 2016, 09:24 PM May 2016

Sheldon Adelson: Trump in the White House ‘is the only way things will get better’ Read more here:

Source: Miami Herald

The multibillionaire casino businessman and Republican donor Sheldon Adelson endorsed Donald Trump early Friday morning, urging fellow Republican donors and party members to unite behind the presumptive nominee.

“While the primary cycle still has some important elections ahead, it is clear that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee for president,” he wrote in a Washington Post commentary. “I am endorsing Trump’s bid for president and strongly encourage my fellow Republicans — especially our Republican elected officials, party loyalists and operatives, and those who provide important financial backing — to do the same.”

Adelson, one of the Republican Party’s largest donors, has given generously to presidential candidates in the past. He donated at least $155 million in the 2012 presidential cycle along with his wife Miriam, at least $30 million of which went to a Mitt Romney super PAC. He was wooed by several GOP candidates during this election’s primaries but ultimately withheld an endorsement. The Las Vegas Review-Journal, which his family secretly purchased late last year, did endorse Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida before he dropped out of the race in March.

Adelson wrote that though he doesn’t agree with Trump “on every issue,” the real estate businessman is “a CEO success story that exemplifies the American spirit of determination, commitment to cause and business stewardship.”


Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article77388167.html



Well, so much for a fractured party. Adelson only could bankroll a Presidential campaign, but now you have billionaires backing billionaires.
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Sheldon Adelson: Trump in the White House ‘is the only way things will get better’ Read more here: (Original Post) TomCADem May 2016 OP
What things? BeyondGeography May 2016 #1
Maybe he meant in Israel. Capt.Rocky300 May 2016 #2
That's the one. nt procon May 2016 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author Octafish May 2016 #15
Times are tough for billionaires out there. DrToast May 2016 #4
When your net worth can jump $2 Billion in one day, what more do you want? Octafish May 2016 #11
This kind of stuff, IMO BeyondGeography May 2016 #13
Thanks! Wow, I've heard of one-track minds before... Octafish May 2016 #16
Deep question there BeyondGeography May 2016 #17
I thought he was all in for Hillary. hedda_foil May 2016 #5
Alzheimer's? OwlinAZ May 2016 #6
Get better for who? Cracklin Charlie May 2016 #7
Nice. He picks losers. truthisfreedom May 2016 #8
Wonder how much of a CEO success somebody without a millionaire father and 4 bankruptcies sinkingfeeling May 2016 #9
Kinda like this, I think jmowreader May 2016 #14
Jabba knows his endorsement sulphurdunn May 2016 #10
I was wondering who his Democratic candidate would be? libdem4life May 2016 #12

Response to procon (Reply #3)

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
16. Thanks! Wow, I've heard of one-track minds before...
Sun May 15, 2016, 07:58 AM
May 2016

...but that takes the plutonium.

Adelson would never say that when the Shah was around. Guy CIA and MI6 installed was a FRIEND of kleptocracy.

Why do neocons think the best way to protect Israel is to kill innocent people?

BeyondGeography

(39,375 posts)
17. Deep question there
Sun May 15, 2016, 08:38 AM
May 2016

Hatred, their own emptiness in spite of their material achievements which makes them miserable and nihilistic...I won't say fear because that lends an air of legitimacy to their views. We do know from experience how dangerous they are. Imagine an impulsive, like-minded buffoon such as Trump in charge and owing them.

Anyway, I told a friend of mine a while back I'm setting the bar low for the next President: don't blow up the world. I worry about it.

 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
12. I was wondering who his Democratic candidate would be?
Sat May 14, 2016, 02:36 PM
May 2016

Because they are giving money to both sides. And I'm pretty sure it's not Bernie.

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