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Donald Trump Megadonor Abandons Him As He Predicts Collapse in Support
Newsweek via MSN ^ | 22 May 23 | Ewan Palmer

Posted on 05/22/2023 4:09:24 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi

A top GOP donor who previously backed Donald Trump has announced that he will be supporting Ron DeSantis in the 2024 Election.

Hal Lambert, founder and CEO of Texas-based Point Bridge Capital, said he wants to "do a lot to help DeSantis win" amid strong speculation the Florida governor will confirm his presidential campaign in the coming days.

Lambert, who set up an exchange-traded fund named after the former president's Make America Great Again 2016 campaign slogan, MAGA ETF, and previously served on Trump's inaugural committee in 2016, told the New York Post that he decided to back DeSantis after meeting with him and wife in Florida three weeks ago.

Lambert said he was also put off by Trump's recent CNN town hall, where the former president continued to falsely claim the 2020 Election was "rigged."

"What voters who didn't vote for Trump in 2020 are going to vote for him this time based on his performance? I don't think anyone will," Lambert told The Post. "We can't talk about things from four years ago that can't be changed.

"Trump is going to have a difficult time winning the general election. The election won't be about Joe Biden's bad record. It will be a referendum on Trump instead."

It is reported that DeSantis will file paperwork declaring his presidential candidacy on May 25 to coincide with a donor meeting in Miami, before a formal announcement a few days later.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2024; blackmail; cianewsweak; circularfiringsquad; desantis; extortion; florida; globalistpropaganda; hallambert; maga; magaetf; nevertrumpers; openborders; pointbridgecapital; potus; rondesantis; ronstillcrushed46pts; shakedown; texas; trump; trump2024; trumpcult; trumpisgod; trumpordeath; weaknews
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To: srmanuel

That is very true.

The reason the establishment continues with this crap against candidates and leaders they do not like is because it has gone unchallenged to this point. The answer is not to ditch the target, but to return the favor x10.


141 posted on 05/22/2023 6:53:46 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Jim Noble

If you say there is nothing on the Presidential Election in the Constitution, you would be wrong, because there is plenty of relevant material in Article II.

Now if you said that States are allowed to set certain parameters of the election that are not delineated directly in the Constitution, you would be correct. But you did not say that.

Your point (much discussed on this forum) is that the Federal governnment has little to no control over certain aspects of the election process, such as Ballot Harvesting, Ranked Choice voting, how votes are collected, tallied, and resulted, and that is fair enough.

But saying we should leave it wholly up to the states is a mistake as well, especially since the Left controls the state election ballot process, and we have 22 states that have a Soros-backed Secretary of State in place (Last I heard)


142 posted on 05/22/2023 6:58:10 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: bankwalker
do any existing polls break it down by electoral votes?

I've seen breakdowns for some states, but not for all states. I know Trump as it currently stands, has a pretty decent shot of winning Nevada thanks to a lot of Hispanics flipping. He looks like he'll carry North Carolina by more than the 2 points he won it by last time. He currently leads in Georgia though I'm not sure exactly how much. Ohio and Iowa are shoe-ins for Trump. He is ahead in Arizona now. Obviously Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are going to be huge battlegrounds. He'd probably have to win by more than 2-3% nationally to carry Michigan or New Hampshire. It would take something like the 7% lead he currently has nationally to put some other states like Virginia or New Mexico in play.

143 posted on 05/22/2023 6:58:19 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: JonPreston
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ron-desantis-s-context-free-history-book-vanished-online-we-got-a-copy/ar-AA1btinh?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=5a0bac52b7104eb7b66a68290fd8357d&ei=64

The MSN got itself Saint Desantis’ first book ... it sounds like they are going to make a big stink over Desantis trashing Obama ... apparently the said book is now unavailable ... per the Post... but somehow they managed to get their hands on one...

144 posted on 05/22/2023 7:01:09 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: Maskot
You’re a special kind of ignorant. Wake up, grow up and open your freaking eyes

I see you can't refute a single thing I have posted, so you call names.

145 posted on 05/22/2023 7:01:41 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

A-a-a-a-a-a-n-n-n-n-d the same morons that told us that “Trump colluded with Russia, Russia, Russia” are telling us “the 2020 election wasn’t stolen”.....we are watching brain cells and critical thinking skills evaporate before our very eyes!!!!


146 posted on 05/22/2023 7:02:08 AM PDT by soozla (Truth prevails, regardless of who is willing to accept it ~ now or later. )
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To: Just mythoughts

These people and their books. Given how politics is consumed today, If you can’t put your thoughts in a Tweet, etc., give it up. No one I know has the time or inclination to turn off social media long enough to read a book.


147 posted on 05/22/2023 7:05:17 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ Free kiryandil )
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To: soozla
A-a-a-a-a-a-n-n-n-n-d the same morons that told us that “Trump colluded with Russia, Russia, Russia” are telling us “the 2020 election wasn’t stolen”.....we are watching brain cells and critical thinking skills evaporate before our very eyes!!!!

No, it is you who lack brain cells.

Not a single person posting here denied 2020 was stolen.

Try to think a bit before posting, you will look less like a fool.

148 posted on 05/22/2023 7:07:25 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: TexasGator

Sure. And that is a straw man argument, meant to add nothing to the discourse.

What is your point, besides saying someone I didn’t like in the past supported someone in the past that I liked? And it somehow makes my criticism of someone who thought enough of that aspect of a candidacy to blurt it out in a short interview, instead of real objections.

Or, maybe that is his only real objection, and his blather about Trump being unelectable because of his mean tweets is just meant to cover that real reason, that his money might have less attached political control or extra-corporate profit for him?

Is that it? In your mind, do you make up your mind, and then stick with that decision regardless of circumstances?

My denigration of this supporter and others who may support DeSantis is not based on their support of DeSantis, because people have many reasons why they might or might not support someone.

It is when the person comes out and explicitly states what I find repugnant and dangerous, that we need to stop talking about Election Fraud which is exactly the same as saying it isn’t important.

And it damn well is important, more important than nearly anything else. You may disagree on that point, but if you did, I would say you are fatally wrong.

Fatally wrong for our Republic.


149 posted on 05/22/2023 7:09:16 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: JonPreston
Well, Saint Desantis wrote this book back in the hey days of the ‘tea party’... ‘you know’ about the time the GOPe massaged it out of existence. This tells me he has had higher office intentions probably since grammar school.

I just cannot wait to see his life long tax returns.

150 posted on 05/22/2023 7:09:23 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: srmanuel

“...you would know that I agree with the idea that cheating happened, it doesn’t change the fact that Trump is not POTUS...”

I responded to you sentence: “Everyone assumed Trump was going to win in 2020, he did not.”

He did, but was cheated.

“...and 2020 Trump had not been convicted of a crime and facing a civil judgement over rape.”

Trump still has not been convicted of a crime and the rape charges were thrown out in the civil case.

“My point, which your emotions get in the way of seeing, is you can’t have a candidate who is convicted of a crime and facing a civil judgement involving rape.”

Again, Trump has not been convicted of a crime, and there is no civil juidgment against him involving rape. Again, in the civil case, the rape accusation was thrown out, even by a stupid jury.


151 posted on 05/22/2023 7:10:33 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Erik Latranyi

It is interesting in light of the Durham Report. Desperation is setting in on the lead up to DeSantis announcing. The GOP elite aren’t afraid Trump can’t win. Far from it. They fear he is on a steam roll and they’re lying on the road, not driving the machine. Their days of control and manipulation are coming to an end. As lovers of America, we should all be tickled pink.


152 posted on 05/22/2023 7:10:39 AM PDT by Paraclete
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To: Candor7
Of course the 2020 election was stolen......just take a look at what the stealers have done for the country. No way AMerica voted for that.

Cheating probably swung a few key states Biden's way, but the ugly truth is that about half the country did vote for Biden.

153 posted on 05/22/2023 7:11:21 AM PDT by x
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To: Erik Latranyi

MILLIONS in AMERICA will vote TRUMP or not at all.

I AM ONE.


154 posted on 05/22/2023 7:12:19 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Erik Latranyi

Lambert-—IF YOU are SMART enough to run such a large entity-—and YOU DO NOT THINK THE 2020 election was rigged-—you are a FOOL.


155 posted on 05/22/2023 7:13:32 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: x

Closer to 22%


156 posted on 05/22/2023 7:14:08 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: ridesthemiles
Lambert-—IF YOU are SMART enough to run such a large entity-—and YOU DO NOT THINK THE 2020 election was rigged-—you are a FOOL.

He never said it wasn't.

Learn to read FOOL

157 posted on 05/22/2023 7:15:20 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

These “mega-donors” typically know about 0 about elections.


158 posted on 05/22/2023 7:15:27 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro
These “mega-donors” typically know about 0 about elections.

Yeah, he was dumb enough to support Trump in 2016 and 2020...he knows nothing.

159 posted on 05/22/2023 7:16:25 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: going hot

Not voting is accepting whatever happens.

Are 2020’s non-voters so fed up they’ll vote Biden out next time?

Maybe, maybe not.

Still, whoever won the election in electoral votes, at least as many people voted for Biden as for Trump.

America is in real trouble.


160 posted on 05/22/2023 7:16:59 AM PDT by x
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