The Donald is now a champion for Israel after being promised $100 million from special interest

[Uno]

Sheldon Adelson Is Poised to Give Donald Trump a Donation Boost


By JONATHAN MARTINMAY 13, 2016

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• Sheldon G. Adelson told Donald J. Trump in a private meeting last week that he was willing to contribute more to help elect him than he has to any previous campaign, a sum that could exceed $100 million, according to two Republicans with direct knowledge of Mr. Adelson’s commitment.
  
  As significant, Mr. Adelson, a billionaire based in Las Vegas, has decided that he will significantly scale back his giving to congressional Republicans and direct most of his contributions to groups dedicated to Mr. Trump’s campaign. The two Republicans familiar with Mr. Adelson’s plans spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
  
  Mr. Adelson’s pledge to Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, comes at an opportune time. Mr. Trump has relied on a mix of his own wealth and small-dollar contributions to finance his primary effort and lacks the sort of major donor network needed to sustain him in the general election. Mr. Trump has said that he may need $1 billion for the campaign but has only recently begun scheduling fund-raisers and hiring finance staff members. Many of the Republican Party’s wealthiest contributors, including the billionaire brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch, have indicated they are unlikely to give to his candidacy.
  
  What remains unclear is how Mr. Adelson plans to contribute his money to Mr. Trump. He will give the maximum allowed to Mr. Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee, but to spend the amount he contemplates would require donating through a “super PAC,” able to accept unlimited donations.
  
  According to the Republicans familiar with Mr. Adelson’s planning, he and his advisers are still uncertain about which super PAC to use as their vehicle for the bulk of the contributions. They are wary of some of the current groups that purportedly exist to help Mr. Trump, who has been clear that he is uneasy with outside entities promoting his candidacy. At rallies, he has consistently criticized opponents who relied on super PACS, saying they were being bought by wealthy donors.
  
  Mr. Adelson, 82, the chief executive of Las Vegas Sands, is among the world’s wealthiest individuals and has given hundreds of millions of dollars to Republican candidates and causes over the years. In 2012, he contributed at least $98 million to Republican efforts, according to a study by ProPublica. But that money went to 34 separate campaigns and groups.
  
  
  Graphic: Where Trump Breaks With the Republican Party
  Mr. Adelson is frustrated by congressional gridlock and believes the only way to affect the country’s political system is to ensure a Republican president is elected, say the Republicans familiar with his thinking.
  
  While he may help some local or gubernatorial candidates, he is not planning to give much to congressional candidates or super PACs dedicated to keeping Republican control of the House and Senate, a substantial blow given the largess he has showered on them in recent elections.
  
  Mr. Adelson and his wife, Miriam, met with Mr. Trump and his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, at the St. Regis Hotel in Midtown Manhattan while Mr. Adelson was in town for a gala dinner to benefit the World Values Network, an organization dedicated to disseminating Jewish values in politics, culture and media. The two moguls, who do not know each other well, had met earlier in the campaign.
  
  But their conversation last week marked the first time they had talked in person since Mr. Trump effectively won the nomination this month.
  
  Mr. Trump assured the Adelsons that he was dedicated to protecting Israel’s security, an issue about which the couple are passionate.
  
  The Adelsons contributed to Senator Ted Cruz of Texas during the Republican primaries, but kept a far lower profile than they had in 2012, when Mr. Adelson was a major benefactor of Newt Gingrich. Mr. Trumptargeted Mr. Adelson on Twitter in October, writing that Mr. Adelson wanted to make Senator Marco Rubio of Florida “his perfect little puppet.”
  
  But Mr. Adelson was plainly not bothered — or he at least forgave Mr. Trump. He told reporters last week he would get behind Mr. Trump and wrote an op-ed article in Friday’s Washington Post extolling his fellow casino owner.
  
  “He is a candidate with actual CEO experience, shaped and molded by the commitment and risk of his own money rather than the public’s,” Mr. Adelson wrote, adding that Mr. Trump “has created a movement in this country that cannot be denied.”
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[JahFocus CS]

I can't vote for anyone backed by this fukking scumbag

 

[FAH1223]

 

[newworldafro]

Welp there goes that populism..........right back to the establishment......


Is DeezNuts still in the campaign?

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

That is a high energy donation...

 

[88m3]

Donald Trump Is Selling Out
His supporters don’t care, but independent voters might.
By Jim Newell


Donald Trump, as predicted, has begun to distance himself from some of the positions and postures that catapulted him to the Republican presidential nomination. This is always to be expected of general election candidates once they’ve clinched the nomination, but Trump’s shifts are special because the original stances were so far outside the norm of politics as usual—often for ill.

JIM NEWELL
Jim Newell is a Slate staff writer.

Despite issuing a tax plan that’s largely a giveaway to the rich, Trump had at least once or twice entertained the idea of closing a tax loophole or two that certain wealthy people exploit. He has now brought on two supply-side celebrities, Larry Kudlow and Stephen Moore, to scrub the plan of anything not ludicrously beneficial to the wealthiest people on Earth. To preserve all of those preferential tax treatments, alas, it looks like Social Security and Medicare will have to get all chopped up after all. That Muslim ban that roughly 7 in 10 Republican primary voters loved? Eh, just a “suggestion.” He’s having Rudy Giuliani take a look at it along with his border security plan.

Then there’s the meta-issue that undergirded his ability to take all of those unorthodox positions in the first place: the self-funding—well, self-loaning—of his candidacy, which will now cease because of the demands of funding a general election campaign.

What we are seeing in Trump’s new solicitation of big bucks—and his new positioning—is a validation of what he was saying about how politicians are bought and paid for by wealthy interests. In the primary, Trump was able to entertain both the light side of populism (preserving large social insurance programs, raising a tax or two on the wealthy) and the dark side (nativism) because he did not rely on contributions from elite Republican donors. Those heresies will have to be reined in now that he needs some scratch. “By self-funding my campaign,” Trump said in a typical line last September, “I am not controlled by my donors, special interests or lobbyists. I am only working for the people of the U.S.!” That Donald Trump would look at nominee Donald Trump as a proto–Jeb Bush. His own transition is testament to the truth of his original message.

They just like the guy: like how he speaks, like who he is, like how he irritates and threatens people they don’t like.

Reuters, for example, asked 40 Trump supporters if they cared that Trump would now follow a traditional fundraising model, and all but four said they “were not concerned.” This makes sense to anyone who has ever presented any uncomfortable fact to Trump supporters and found that they “were not concerned.” Plus, Trump supporters have a legitimate justification for allowing him to slide on this: They hate Hillary Clinton, who is going to spend north of $1 billion trying to defeat Trump. “You gotta fight fire with fire,” a cattle rancher from North Dakota tells Reuters. “Bring it on.”

The opportunity to beat up on Clinton has closed some chasmic rifts within the Republican coalition over the last 25 years. The question for Trump’s campaign is whether he has the ability to add voters to his coalition. That was never going to be easy, but he had at least settled on potent branding for his new opponent: “Crooked Hillary.” Not clever, but perfect, tying together the FBI investigation over Clinton’s email server, her connections to special interests, and the general societal impression that she is a fraud.

That’s where Trump’s turn to fundraising is most damaging: It blunts the effectiveness of his strongest message against Clinton in terms of appealing to swayable voters who hate politics as usual. He won’t lose the voters he’s had all along, but it’s going to be harder to convince new ones that she’s just another donor-owned crook now that he, too, will be a donor-owned crook. It will be less potent when he calls Clinton a stooge of Goldman Sachs—a powerful and not-untrue accusation!—if she can respond that he, too, accepts money from the same or similar institutions. Trump’s turn to fundraising sticks him in a box of conventionality, when unconventionality was both the greatest risk for his candidacy and what made him so fresh to begin with.

Introducing the Conservative Pundit Tracker: Where 25 Commentators Stand on Trump, Week by Week


womp womp womp

 

[dtownreppin214]

Did Trump ever say he would go through the general election self-funded?

 

[the cac mamba]

so they're spending a billion each to get a job that pays 400 thousand

this country is

 

[88m3]

so they're spending a billion each to get a job that pays 400 thousand

this country is

Your hero loves Israel

 

[88m3]

Senior Trump Adviser Says Idea That Words Matter Is ‘Ridiculous’

BY BRYCE COVERT MAY 14, 2016 12:56 PM

CREDIT: AP PHOTO/CLIFF OWEN

Barry Bennett, Trump senior political adviser

Donald Trump spent his first two weeks as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee changing his stances on a number of policy issues, sometimes multiple times. That got an interesting defense from one of his senior advisers on Friday.

Speaking on a panel on CNN, Barry Bennett, a senior political adviser to the Trump campaign, defended Trump’s waffling by saying that anything he puts forward is “a suggestion to Congress,” noting that “he has to persuade Congress to do it and all he can try to do is persuade Congress to go along with him.”

When a fellow panelist pointed out in response, “Typically, words matter,” Bennett had a strange response.

“Oh please, this words matter stuff. This is ridiculous,” he said. “You are looking desperately for a reason not to vote for him.”





He clarified only that he was referring to his fellow panelist’s “line of rhetoric.”

Trump has flip flopped on a number of high-profile issues since all of his fellow Republican candidates left the race. He has frequently called for a “total and complete” ban on letting Muslim immigrants into the United States, saying “we have no choice.” But this week he changed that stance, saying that his repeated call for a ban is “just a suggestion.”

Although he put out a detailed tax reform plan last year, he has now said it is just a “concept” and that he’s “not a huge fan” of the fact that the plan would give most tax relief to the rich and far less to the middle class. He also commissioned two conservatives to draft a set of possible changes to bring down the nearly $10 trillion price tag. But then he announced that he wouldn’t be changing his plan after all.

Trump has repeatedly promised his supporters that he will protect the large entitlement programs Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid from cuts. But ahead of a meeting between Trump and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI), who has yet to endorse him and who has frequently called for cuts to those programs, Trump’s chief policy adviser indicated that promise isn’t iron-clad. “After the administration has been in place, then we will start to take a look at all of the programs, including entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare,” Sam Clovis said.

Trump had also previously opposed raising the minimum wage, saying that wages are “too high” and that the floor has to be left “the way it is.” He now disagrees with that position, although his current view is hard to pin down. Last week he said he’s “looking at” a higher wage, but he later said that he wanted to have states raise the wage, not increase it at the federal level. Then hetweeted a defense against accusations from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) indicating that he wants a higher federal minimum wage across the whole country. Then shortly after that he said in an interview Sean Hannity that states should be left to determine increases because of different costs of living.

Senior Trump Adviser Says Idea That Words Matter Is ‘Ridiculous’

 

[Batter Up]

Did Trump ever say he would go through the general election self-funded?

Not that I recall, but i'm sure that won't stop him or his supporters from attacking Hillary for doing the same thing

 

[the cac mamba]

Your hero loves Israel

disappointing news

but then again, those yiddish string-pullers wouldnt let someone into the white house if they didnt

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

what you thought poor people really put people into power?

they prolly hit him with that mossad extortion..

 

[GzUp]

The republican trump supporters wont budge but I think the people who he needs to win over are going to be a problem.. he has like 10 million votes so far, how many does he need come election? I know its not about the popular vote.

 

[the next guy]

The republican trump supporters wont budge but I think the people who he needs to win over are going to be a problem.. he has like 10 million votes so far, how many does he need come election? I know its not about the popular vote.

He needs 65 million. Now its looking like 50 million. There is still too many uncommitted though.