Posted on 05/17/2024 7:35:59 PM PDT by bitt
Donors who once worried more about Donald Trump now see the president’s bid for a second term as the greater threat to America.
Joe Biden’s threat last week to freeze arms shipments to Israel along with reports that his administration is withholding intelligence about Hamas leaders’ whereabouts has reverberated throughout U.S. politics. Now, some Never Trump donors say the Biden administration’s policy toward the Jewish state is such a betrayal they’re considering jumping on board the Trump train.
Call it the rise of the Never Bidens, donors who once were more worried about Trump but now see Joe Biden’s bid for a second term the greater threat to America. The Free Press spoke with four donors who contributed tens of millions of dollars in the last election cycle. They say they are reconsidering their political giving in light of the president’s approach to the Israel-Hamas war. All of them expressed their frustration with Biden’s CNN interview last Wednesday, in which he said of Israel, “if they go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah.”
Cliff Asness, a Republican donor who says he “spent well over seven figures” to support Trump’s primary opponent Nikki Haley, told The Free Press that “My ‘Never Again’ is trumping my ‘Never Trump’ these days.”
“Biden is a huge disappointment, really a moral outrage with this arms embargo being only the latest and greatest outrage,” continued Asness, the co-founder of AQR Capital Management. “Despite my long opposition to him, this makes me more likely, though I haven’t quite gotten there yet, to see Trump as the better of two bad alternatives.”
Asness is not the only Never Trumper to move to the Never Biden camp.
Billionaire entertainment mogul and major Democratic donor Haim Saban wrote of Biden’s policy switch in an email to two senior White House advisers last week: “Let’s not forget that there are more Jewish voters who care about Israel than Muslim voters that care about Hamas.”
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They didn’t build that dock for food and supplies. Rumor has it that they will offload Palestinians to America. Calling Minnesota anyone?
What the hell did they expect from a shitty Marxist?
Retards waking up?
Whoda thunk it?
I would NOT doubt that!
It is understandable that Biden thinks Jews are reliably in his camp. After all they stuck with Obama despite his anti-Israel pro-Iran agenda, and are more reliable than even Black voters.
That said Jewish voters have a red line that stops at Israel. October 7 was a 9/11 event for us. As Bush 43 aptly put it, you are either with us or against us. Cutting off military sales to win a few votes in Michigan does not cut it. And it doesn’t help that the Hamas wing has a nice toe hold in his party.
Biden is trying to thread the needle, but in the end he may lose both Jews and Islamo-fascist voters.
“Democratic donor Haim Saban wrote of Biden’s policy switch in an email to two senior White House advisers last week: “Let’s not forget that there are more Jewish voters who care about Israel than Muslim voters that care about Hamas.”
Saban may have made a fortune off the Might Morphin Power Rangers, but he ain’t the brightest bulb. Sure, it’s probably true that there are more pro-Israel Jewish voters than pro-Hamas Muslim voters, but what about pro-Hamas *non-Muslim* voters? Maybe because he’s a big Dem donor Saban has his head in the sand with respect to his political allies, but he is completely ignoring the widespread support that the Palestinians have among Biden’s left-wing base.
Still,
The vast majority of American Jews will vote dem.
I was never worried about Trumps attention to duty after the first few days, but very worried about Biden’s agenda after about day one. That man is out of his element.
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