Mark Cuban: Hillary Clinton Wants to Meet With Me!

Only billionaires with reality t.v. shows need apply.

Cue the Jaws theme song....



Hillary Clinton, a wonkish disliked Democrat with an “I’m better than the other option” approach, might be looking for some help from an unlikely source: the owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks.

The mogul and reality-TV star (not that one!) says Clinton’s people want to chat with him after he said he’d be open to a VP position.

According to Mark Cuban, Mavericks owner and star on ABC’s Shark Tank, Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has been trying for the past month to schedule a meeting with him. It’s no surprise: Cuban—who not too long ago called Trump “probably the best thing to happen to politics in a long, long time”—is a high-profile celebrity who has lately grown increasingly critical of Trump, this month likening him to a “guy who’ll walk into the bar and say anything to get laid.”

Clinton’s aides initially attempted to connect with the outspoken businessman roughly a month ago, he says, simply for a general conversation. But the Clinton campaign also apparently reached out to Cuban on Sunday, two days after a widely circulated online Meet the Press clip posted showing the billionaire with a boyish haircut saying that he’d be willing to consider the vice-presidential slot on her ticket.

“Someone who works directly for me used to work in the White House,” Cuban told The Daily Beast, explaining how the campaign got in touch. “They reached out to my employee to see if a meeting with someone in her camp could be set up. Didn’t say who [or] when.”

Cuban then added that he didn’t want to “overstate any intent”—just that Team Hillary is apparently interested in a sit-down; there was no specification that the conversation would be about the VP position...cont'd
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