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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 06:09 PM Aug 2016

Casino magnate Steve Wynn holds back support from friend Donald Trump

Casino magnate Steve Wynn holds back support from friend Donald Trump

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-17/steve-wynn-refrains-from-supporting-trump-or-clinton-for-now



Billionaire casino operator Steve Wynn is spurning his friend and longtime business rival Donald Trump in his presidential run, choosing to stay on the sidelines instead.

“I’m a friend of Donald Trump but I have not supported either candidate in the presidency as yet -- I’m friendly with Bill Clinton, I know Hillary,” Wynn said in an interview. “I’m hoping our conversation in America in this campaign gets to be more substantive, about the real issue facing us at the moment and that is a constantly increasing deficit in the government.”

Trump’s fellow casino operators have been mixed in deciding whether to back his run as the Republican nominee. MGM Resorts International Chief Executive Officer Jim Murren, a lifelong Republican, announced this week that he’s supporting Hillary Clinton because he said Trump has alienated and criticized women, the disabled, minorities and Muslim Americans. Sheldon Adelson, who runs Las Vegas Sands Corp., has endorsed Trump, though his financial commitment has been questioned.

Wynn and Trump have clashed in the past, butting heads two decades ago over development plans in Atlantic City, New Jersey, but eventually they patched things up. Wynn attended Trump’s wedding to Melania in 2005, according to the Washington Post, and Trump was there for part of Wynn’s wedding festivities in 2011, the Las Vegas Weekly reported at the time.
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Casino magnate Steve Wynn holds back support from friend Donald Trump (Original Post) Miles Archer Aug 2016 OP
It's Their Club, And You're Not Part Of It SoCalMusicLover Aug 2016 #1
Every Mega Buck person uses the Wellstone ruled Aug 2016 #2
 

SoCalMusicLover

(3,194 posts)
1. It's Their Club, And You're Not Part Of It
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 06:17 PM
Aug 2016

He goes to Trump's wedding, Hillary goes to Trump's wedding, Wynn is friends with both donald & Hillary.

Strange bedfellows.....or not.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
2. Every Mega Buck person uses the
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 06:33 PM
Aug 2016

National Debt as a talking point. Bullcrap,our national debt is mostly run up do to the lack of Tax collection for these same uber rich asshats. But,the rank and file eat this bogus crap up,and the only way to really do anything about it is do more deficit funding of our Nations Infrastructure.

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