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Eugene

(62,767 posts)
Fri May 20, 2016, 06:24 PM May 2016

Sheldon Adelson backs Trump trip to Israel after $100m pledge, sources say

Source: The Guardian

Sheldon Adelson backs Trump trip to Israel after $100m pledge, sources say

The multibillionaire and Republican Jewish Coalition are arranging
visit before July convention, as Adelson also plans to donate millions
to Super Pacs for GOP congressional campaigns, conservative sources
told the Guardian


Peter Stone
Friday 20 May 2016 20.30 BST

Conservative and big-money allies of Donald Trump are laying the groundwork for him to visit Israel this summer, an idea backed by Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson, who recently indicated in a meeting with the candidate that he would provide about $100m to help Trump win the presidency, conservative sources have told the Guardian.

Three conservative sources with strong ties to Adelson say that the multibillionaire has touted the merits of a Trump trip to Israel, and planning has begun, though nothing has been finalized. “I’m sure Sheldon suggested the trip,” said one conservative donor close to Adelson.

Mort Klein, who runs the Zionist Organization of America and is close to Adelson, told the Guardian that Trump’s point man for Israel, Jason Greenblatt, informed him several weeks ago that Trump was “going to go there (Israel) before the (GOP) convention” which begins on 18 July.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/20/donald-trump-sheldon-adelson-israel-trip-campaign-donation
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Jackie Wilson Said

(4,176 posts)
1. ALL conservatives and their money will back him, eventually. Koch bros also, even though
Fri May 20, 2016, 06:29 PM
May 2016

they said something to the contrary recently.

I predict the day after the Democratic convention assuming Drumpf doesn't do something very Trump, (stupid), the Koch Bros will announce their support with hundreds of millions.

WhiteTara

(30,223 posts)
2. Democrats have to beat him just to thwart Sheldon if nothing else.
Fri May 20, 2016, 06:32 PM
May 2016

He needs to lose some more money in politics.

6chars

(3,967 posts)
3. Why so late?
Sat May 21, 2016, 12:10 AM
May 2016

From OP article:

"Trump canceled one trip in December after the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, with whom Adelson is close, publicly scolded the candidate for his proposed temporary ban on Muslims coming to the US."

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
7. you mean the guy who partnered with Adelson and then left without saying why?
Sun May 22, 2016, 02:31 AM
May 2016

It included Sheldon Adelson, the Republican Party’s mega-funder and, in some eyes, its kingmaker, and Haim Saban, a close ally and top donor of Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton, joining forces and putting aside politics to fight together against attempts to isolate Israel.

“When it comes to Israel, we are absolutely on the same page,” Saban declared, sitting next to a smiling Adelson in a joint TV interview. “When it comes to this, there is no light between us at all.”

Three months later, this bipartisan idyllic picture is all but shattered.

Saban, quietly and unannounced, has pulled out of the major anti-BDS initiative he helped launch with Adelson and has also minimized his role in an Israeli-American organization where both billionaires had been deeply involved. No reason was given for the move, but Jewish activists involved in these initiatives say that at the end of the day it was politics that drove apart the two magnates.

Read more: http://forward.com/news/israel/321793/haim-saban-dumps-pro-israel-coalition-over-sheldon-adelsons-far-right-wing/#ixzz49Mq2FUro

King_David

(14,851 posts)
8. And so ? What's your point ?
Sun May 22, 2016, 06:57 AM
May 2016
Jewish activists involved in these initiatives say that at the end of the day it was politics that drove apart the two magnates.


Saban is a Demorat like the vast majority of Jews and couldn't work with uber Republican Adelson .

No gotcha for you. LOL

Ha h ha ha - wasn't even a good try!
 

shira

(30,109 posts)
9. I think it's a guilt-by-association thing. Partner with Adelson for any reason...
Sun May 22, 2016, 07:13 AM
May 2016

...and therefore you're a Republican?

King_David

(14,851 posts)
10. And ridiculously that poster is breathlessly showing Saban parted with Adelson
Sun May 22, 2016, 08:20 AM
May 2016

because Saban is a Democrat.

So not sure what the point of that post is.

This particular Jewish community issue is not that complicated.

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
11. Not at all Adelson backs Republicans Saban backs some Democrats
Sun May 22, 2016, 10:44 AM
May 2016

both do it with approximately the same goals with respect to Israel-it's a win-win

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