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GOP megadonor no longer supporting Trump
The Hill ^ | 11/16/2022 | Jared Gans

Posted on 11/16/2022 7:41:24 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

A GOP mega-donor said that he would no longer support former President Trump after his announcement of a third presidential bid in 2024 on Tuesday night.

Stephen Schwarzman, the CEO and co-founder of the investment firm Blackstone, told Axios in a statement that the Republican Party should nominate someone else who will represent a new generation of leaders.

“America does better when its leaders are rooted in today and tomorrow, not today and yesterday,” he said.

“It is time for the Republican Party to turn to a new generation of leaders and I intend to support one of them in the presidential primaries,” he continued.

Schwarzman had been closely engaged with Trump on trade issues and had considerable influence in the Trump administration, Axios’s Jonathan Swan reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gop; jaredgans; megadonor; stephenschwarzman; supporting; thehill; theshill; theswill; trump
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WHO???
1 posted on 11/16/2022 7:41:24 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Blackstone? An affiliate of Blackrock?


2 posted on 11/16/2022 7:42:44 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Schwarzman/Blackrock is and has been an arm of the democrat party for years. Anyone that does not know this isn’t paying attention


3 posted on 11/16/2022 7:45:27 AM PST by oil_dude
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Good! Megadonors think they run the country.


4 posted on 11/16/2022 7:46:12 AM PST by stanne
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To: ChicagoConservative27

All the $$$ is going to align against MAGA. The best someone like me can hope for is the complete destruction of the Republican party. It’s time for a true populist movement and that isn’t coming from the Rs.


5 posted on 11/16/2022 7:46:41 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Stephen Schwarzman, the CEO and co-founder of the investment firm Blackstone, told Axios in a statement that the Republican Party should nominate someone else who will represent a new generation of leaders.

Hey Schwarzman A-hole....how about letting the PEOPLE nominate someone.....????

6 posted on 11/16/2022 7:47:42 AM PST by Mopp4 ("It is a cruel world, Herr Hauptman. You said it yourself.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Stephen Schwarzman, the CEO and co-founder of the investment firm Blackstone - Can ESAD!


7 posted on 11/16/2022 7:47:46 AM PST by ohioman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Every. Single. Time.


8 posted on 11/16/2022 7:49:34 AM PST by CletusVanDamme (Everywhere is freaks and hairies, dykes and fairies. Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When the source is the Hill, you know that this megadonor dude was a Democrat for a long time before Trump.


9 posted on 11/16/2022 7:50:02 AM PST by Steamburg (Other people's money is the only language a politician respects; starve the bastards)
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To: stanne

“Megadonors think they run the country.”

They know they run the country.

They didn’t get to be super-rich by believing that “democracy” stuff.

Btw—I have street creds for this claim. My grandfather was in the construction business—carried suitcases of cash and delivered them to CT politicians for decades.

Nobody ever got caught.

The local media never figured it out—and still writes glowing pieces about the dead corrupt politicians.


10 posted on 11/16/2022 7:50:18 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: CletusVanDamme
"Every. Single. Time."

For anyone wondering what this FReeper means when he wrote this, he's pointing out that the man in the article is Jewish. The comment is anti-Semitism at its finest. He's just too much of a f****** p**** to come out and say he hates Jews.

11 posted on 11/16/2022 7:52:35 AM PST by thefactor
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Just another malefactor of great wealth, as Teddy Roosevelt referred to these big donors that set unrealistic goals for the Republic.

“If they are so rich, why ain’t they smart?”

Accumulation of wealth and a true patriotic feel for the nation’s future are two unrelated skill sets.


12 posted on 11/16/2022 7:53:16 AM PST by alloysteel (People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do - Isaac Asimov)
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To: cgbg

“ Nobody ever got caught.”

Trump caught them. Everyone who knows or suspects anything and yet hates Trump is questionable


13 posted on 11/16/2022 7:53:36 AM PST by stanne
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To: stanne

You need to take a few steps back and look at the big picture.

Most people in politics are crooks—both parties.

This has not been fixed.

This was not fixed under President Trump.

We have zero evidence he could fix it if given another chance.

Speeches are talk.

Orange jumpsuits for crooks are the walk.


14 posted on 11/16/2022 7:55:31 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: bk1000

Separate but still Deep State.


15 posted on 11/16/2022 7:56:58 AM PST by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: oil_dude

Article says Blackstone, not Blackrock.


16 posted on 11/16/2022 7:58:55 AM PST by ConjunctionJunction (Vim vi repellere licet)
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To: JonPreston

Yeah, and the twenty-five years it takes to get that new party up and running, well… we can wait.

I’m sure the Democrats wouldn’t do anything inappropriate.

/s


17 posted on 11/16/2022 8:02:21 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: oil_dude

Blackrock is Lawrence Fink; Blackstone is Stephen Schwartzman. Different guys and very different politically.


18 posted on 11/16/2022 8:03:20 AM PST by masadaman
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To: masadaman

Sounds like someone out of the Bourne Series! Fine, he’s another political RINO, not worried about the American People.


19 posted on 11/16/2022 8:08:14 AM PST by princess leah
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To: ChicagoConservative27

WHO???

Who cares ,LOL


20 posted on 11/16/2022 8:10:45 AM PST by butlerweave
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