Posted on 08/02/2016 8:48:11 PM PDT by jazusamo
A Hewlett-Packard executive and Republican fundraiser said Tuesday she will back Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for president.
Meg Whitman said she plans to give a "substantial" contribution to Clinton's campaign to make sure Republican nominee Donald Trump
doesn't become the next president.
“I will vote for Hillary, I will talk to my Republican friends about helping her, and I will donate to her campaign and try to raise money for her,” Whitman told The New York Times on Tuesday .
Whitman, who ran for governor of California in 2010, said she doesn't agree with Clinton on many issues, but noted that the Democratic nominee would "be a much better president than Donald Trump."
An aide to Whitman said the billionaire businesswoman would personally give Clinton's campaign at least an amount in the "mid-six figures."
In the interview, Whitman also slammed Trump and said the Republicans need to "put country first before party," according to The New York Times.
She called Trump "a dishonest demagogue" and said he could take the country "on a very dangerous journey." She also said he has "undermined the character of the nation."
She said she stands by her former comments, in which she compared Trump to Hitler and Mussolini. She made the remarks during a private gathering of Republican donors earlier this year.
“Time and again history has shown that when demagogues have gotten power or come close to getting power, it usually does not end well,” Whitman said.
Whitman, who spent $140 million of her own money on her gubernatorial bid, is described by the Times as "a prized defector" for Clinton. The paper notes she is close to Mitt Romney and is rare female executive in Silicon Valley.
Ron Nehring, who served as national spokesman for Ted Cruz's presidential campaign, said he doesn't agree with Whitman's endorsement, but noted the "significance of it should not be discounted." He called her an "extremely tough, smart woman."
In a series of tweets, he noted Whitman was a "major supporter" of Mitt Romney and supported New Jersey Chris Christie in the 2016 Republican primaries.
"People listen to her," he tweeted.
"Trump now has a former CAGOP Gov nominee, a NY GOP congressman and Christie staffer all supporting Hillary. This is unsustainable."
Yup. I guess juices are thicker than water.
I always knew she was a closet liberal. I knew it from the start.
Can we assume these women are connected financially? Follow the money trail because there surely is one.
I’m shocked! NOT!! Once a RINO always a RINO.
Never mind. They are both menopausal.
ROTFLMAO! 16 years,I think.
Ummm, you sure can organize though!!!
HP does a lot of business internationally and buys a lot of goods and services overseas to do so. "America First" probably has little appeal to Whitman. Many thousands of jobs were moved out of the U.S.
Thanks!
Make the lists. Remember.
How did the Clinton Foundation help Meg?
Because of Meg and her shenanigans, We have Moonbeam II. What a sad waste of oxygen she is.
That's chump-change to the Clintons and by December they won't even remember it. Only that she's a filthy Republican ;-)
Ed
Odd post for me to read.
I have not bought anything from HP since 1985. They got “sloppy” (at least in my opinion) around that time. I owned two printers that cost $6000 each. They were work horses, though. 6 ppm! Support got really yucky. In those days you paid for a “contract” to have one of their support people to fix a downed printer in 24 hours. That stopped.
Just recently went on E-Bay for the very first time. I will never go there again.
Never have been to Yahoo. What does Yahoo do? Always sounded as if you were on a horse. “Yahoo!”
“It’s clear Meggy has a lot more money than brain cells. “
No, it’s clear Meggy wants to continue to keep her money and help “her kind” maintain their death grip on America. Unfortunately, she has lots of brain cells that work 110% of the time making money at our expense.
HP support sucks. Go to the site and type in your HP model. I could never find the support site working. In essence there was NO support. Not even drivers could be found.
She thinks of it as an investment, and she expects something in return. But it's true, sometimes you lose money when you invest.
We always knew what you were.
This will convince absolutely NO ONE.
She’ll be issued with a certificate bearing her name, and, under that, the words, “I am an Idiot.”
...”It’s clear Meggy has a lot more money than brain cells.”...
The elites all hang together. And, then there is the rest of us who are rapidly becoming poorer because of the national debt and no jobs.
Vs supporting Vs.....period.
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