Posted on 01/16/2024 9:43:43 PM PST by lasereye
Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman reacted to former President Donald Trump’s landslide victory in Monday’s Iowa caucuses by warning Democrats that incumbent President Joe Biden is toast.
“If you haven’t figured it out already, it is now abundantly clear that @realDonaldTrump is going to crush @POTUS,” the founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management wrote on his X social media account on Tuesday.
Ackman, who has become far more vocal in the public sphere since the Oct. 7 Hamas assault on Israel and the subsequent eruption of antisemitism on college campuses, repeated his call for the 81-year-old Biden to “step aside” so that the Democratic Party can “quickly get behind a strong, credible contender” for the presidency.
Ackman and Biden have history. In 2017, Biden referred to Ackman as an “a–hole,” according to an item recently unearthed by Mediaite.
The two men were guests at a dinner hosted by former Trump press secretary and hedge funder Anthony Scaramucci, according to Fox Business.
During the get-together, Biden was asked by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush why he declined to run for president in 2016. He then told the assembled guests that he passed up the White House run because he was still in mourning over the death of his son Beau in 2015.
When the room grew quiet, Biden apologized, saying: “I’m sorry…I’ve said enough.”
Ackman is then reported to have chimed in: “Why? That’s never stopped you before.”
Biden then turned to someone near him and asked, in reference to Ackman: “Who is this a–hole?”
He then turned directly to Ackman and said: “Look, I don’t know who you are, wiseass, but never disrespect the memory of my dead son!”
When Ackman reportedly tried to apologize, Biden would hear none of it, saying: “Just shut the hell up.”
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It’s the Democrat margin-of-cheating he has to crush.
‘He then turned directly to Ackman and said: “Look, I don’t know who you are, wiseass, but never disrespect the memory of my dead son!”’
Dementia Joe disrespects Beau’s memory by constantly making up lies about him (cf. Beau’s “death in Iraq”).
“Help us Obi Wan Michele Obama, you’re our only hope”
That’s precisely correct.
> It’s the Democrat margin-of-cheating he has to crush. <
Right you are. I’d feel a lot more confident about 2024 if the GOP elite was criticizing the 2020 cheat. But they have all either remained silent or have denied the cheating.
So why shouldn’t the Democrats cheat again in 2024? I will vote. But I sure won’t be placing any bets.
Trump crushed Biden in 2020... it didn’t matter then... It won’t matter now... because the GOP has done NOTHING to fix how Biden stole it.
Ackman is grinding an axe for Phillips.
He was slow to pick up that Business Insider is a sham, and he is, of late, becoming disillusioned with the leftie establishment. He’s new to the political scene.
Agree, you have to be far enough ahead (over +5%) that they can’t cheat. GOP elite are not the only ones cowed about talking about election integrity. i get 5 to 7 texts a week fromt he Trump campagin as a donor asking for more money and never do they address or bring up election integrity.
Just do what Fl did with Florida Senate Bill 90, that DeSantis signed, requiring vote by mail to be requsted by voter with id.
The fact that Ackman wants to help the democrats win, means he is a deluded pos.
Easy prediction:
Everyone knows that Biden will announce that he’s not going to run for reelection (due to health reasons) and that he will be replaced by a more formidable Democrat candidate. It’s all about the timing.
Hard to beat 117 million votes. 😳😊
Ackman and Biden have a nasty history from 2017, when Biden referred to Ackman as an “a–hole.”
<><>The two men were guests at a dinner hosted by former Trump press secy Anthony Scaramucci.
<><>Biden said he declined a 2016 run for president
<><>For full political effect, Biden then resurrected his son Beau’s death in 2015.
<><>When the room grew quiet, Biden apologized, saying: “I’m sorry…I’ve said enough.”
<><>Ackman is then reported to have chimed in: “Why? That’s never stopped you before.”
<><>Biden then turned to someone near him and asked: “Who is this a–hole?”
<><>Biden then addressed Ackman miffed b/c resurrecting his dead son did not have the usual effect.
<><>“Look, I don’t know who you are, wise-ass, but never disrespect my dead son’s memory!”
<><>When Ackman tried to apologize, Biden said: “Just shut the hell up.”
I still don’t fully grasp the deep-state total rage and hatred of Trump.
20 years ago, he’d be considered a centrist / moderate Republican
Moreover, there are people who would be far more radical in policies and demands to defund and dismember the deep-state and return the USA to a Constitutional Republic.
Eliminate Trump - and they will get others far more extreme.
They will pull Biden and put in big Mike...guaranteed.
“Eliminate Trump - and they will get others far more extreme.”
What they believe (so far correctly) is that the true extremists they fear do not have the toughness and/or the charisma to mount an effective opposition to their national and international kleptocracy.
President Trump is the enemy they know.
Part of their massive propaganda and lawfare attacks are to prevent future challenges from enemies they do not yet know.
Oh please, Biden has used Beau’s corpse as a cheap political prop ever since he died, the same as he did with his drunk-driving former wife. Biden doesn’t have a genuine bone in his body. He’s a complete fraud, who would say or do anything for a vote.
Ackman is half smart but often too clever by half. On the Israel and DEI issues he’s right. But he’s often just a blowhard and a bully. He’s lost a ton of money being clever, namely his very public short selling and public hit piece road shows against Herbalife, and his long position in Valient Pharmaceuticals. Sure in his business you’re going to make some bad bets but he’s sometimes so vocal about it as if he’s trying to convince himself he’s right - in those cases he was very wrong. I’m not sure why he’s such a die hard Democrat.
Biden didn’t run in 2016 because they already made a back room deal to give it to Hillary. She had the entire DNC angling for her, even cheating Bernie out of a fair shot at the nomination. It had nothing to do with Beau. They only dragged Biden out in 2020 because there was really nobody else with the credentials to put on the ticket. Andrew Yang, Buttigeg, Warren and heck even Harris were all jokesters.
People. Keep. Forgetting. About. VOTER. FRAUD.
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