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."
Bill is working overtime calling in their markers
HP seems to be producing a lot of strange things.
Drop dead, Whitman.
You made over $1 billion as CEO of eBay and the sellers there HATED most of the changes you made during your tenure.
And McCain wanted this moron to be his Treasury Secretary.
The 16th, 17th and 19th amendments were disasters.
How do you post a picture!!???
2 years and i still dont know how
Anyone supporting Hitlery, IMO, is a traitor and wants to destroy the county, destroy the military; and destroy our children and grandchildren’s future case closed.
Never heard of The United Nations Children Fund, no doubt.
A prominent member of the Kingdom of Whores only now to show her face. Money, power, and a female anatomy somehow makes you a rabid liberal without a brain. I refrained from using that word starting with a “V.”
California Republicans are just about all Uniparty these days.... what a scoundrel you are, Meg Whitman, wrapping your vagina solidarity in demented babble about “honesty” and “character”....
She’s pro abortion, pro queer “marriage”, pro open borders. Of course this globalist no-body will support Clinton. She should make it official and switch parties. She’s always been a disgrace to all republicans.
She can’t buy Trump so she’s putting a down payment on Hillary.
Owners not donors.
Leni
Garbage Woman for Trashy Woman
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.
Well, we got obama and that turned out pretty sh*tty. Now she wants to prolong the nightmare, by supporting hillary. Who, if she wins, will destroy this country within her first term. And talk of some Republican messiah will never happen, short of a civil war, because the country will be flooded with illegals and 3rd world savages, who will be given amnesty and vote. And that’ll be all she wrote, folks.
She is , was and always will be a socialist. Change parties , bitch.
lol
Please do -- somebody -- keep a list of these a-holes! We have long memories...
Remember that HP builds MOST of their money making products in OFFSHORE factories and uses foreign manufacturing. Any questions???
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