Posted on 06/23/2016 9:38:03 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, began making the rounds on Wall Street to raise much-needed cash for his campaign.
On Tuesday evening, Trump held a fundraiser dinner at the posh New York City restaurant, Le Cirque, with tickets going for $50,000 a seat. The event brought in an estimated $3 million.
Nearly 60 people were in attendance for the dinner, including: hedge fund billionaire John Paulson, private equity chief Stephen Feinberg of Cerberus Capital, billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, real estate developer Richard LeFrak, hedge fund manager Robert Mercer of Renaissance Technologies, and Anthony Scaramucci of SkyBridge Capital. New York Jets owner Woody Johnson was there too.
“What brought everyone all together wasn’t necessarily a love for Donald Trump, but a huge commonality to make sure Hillary Clinton doesn’t win,” said one attendee.
Over steaks and branzino, he told the group that he'd like to see an agreement reached regarding corporate taxes. He'd like for congress and companies to figure out how to bring the overseas profits back to the US.
"That's the kind of stuff Trump should be talking about," said the person who attended. "The issue is how do you thread the needle to make it an everyday person’s issue? The typical guy in Iowa or Kansas is not going to understand that's a way you bring back economic growth. It's inside baseball."
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
My guess is that about 80% of our fellow citizens are economic illiterates. They vote, so 80% of our elected officials are also economic illiterates. Pareto principle.
-——branzino——
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They couldn't afford Hillary's $250K fee for a speech and they got dinner and drinks too.
Illuminati.
I'm with you Brother.
No doubt! :(
My reputation precedes me......LOL.
Whassa matta wid AMERICAN Sea Bass? Oh, that's right; the wrecks and rocks are paved with them, but they're "threatened"!
Look, hackers are going to hack their way in -- what difference does it make The question is, how much would they pay to save themselves the time? Taking the money always worked for Bill when he had secrets rich foreigners wanted, and we still left the White House flat broke. Who knows where it goes?
Indeed! The same holds true for Harley Lady. Chances are more than likely, proven correct. Woman’s intuition?
We haven't figured out that when Hamburger goes from 69 cents a pound to $4.00 a pound, why it is not a cost of living increase.
You can have more than one you know. You can get free ones everywhere and then set your Yahoo mail to forward to the new one. I started real email with Netscape, then Earthlink, now have about a dozen which is a pain in the patush. Of course you can just not set them as active in your mail client and they will eventually die.
[“He had $57 million...and took out 16 candidates, so that’s $3.35 million per kill. [Hillary Clinton] had $183 million and she took out one 73-year-old socialist that wasn’t a Democrat until 23 months ago. She’s going to need a lot more money.”]
This is typical for Democrats. Buying votes and influence with other people’s money. Contrast with Conservative Trump....accomplishing much more with less money.
They are too arrogant and condescending toward us here in “fly-over country” to realize that we understand that, but the majority of voters in places like California and Massachusetts do not.
Trump will get a 0% loan for his next building project from these guys.
But I didn’t know until this day that it was Branzino all along...
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