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Billionaires Who Changed Their Minds about Trump
Newsweek ^ | June 5, 2024 | Kritika Gogte

Posted on 06/05/2024 12:07:38 PM PDT by libstripper

A number of influential billionaires who previously publicly expressed their disdain for Donald Trump have now apparently changed their minds. Growing frustration over Joe Biden's economic and immigration policies, or indignation over his handling of the Israel-Gaza War, has lengthened the list of billionaires now signaling they support the former president.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billionaires
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Looks like Trump's not going to have the billionaire problem he had in 2020.
1 posted on 06/05/2024 12:07:38 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: libstripper

You know things are bad when billioniares are scared and align with a populist.


2 posted on 06/05/2024 12:09:15 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: libstripper

It might help a little that Trump knows what it’s like to be one. And the others can see how the elites treat one.


3 posted on 06/05/2024 12:24:20 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: central_va

Yup. But some are not scared. They just seem to care. Musk appears to one of the latter. Doubt he’s scared of much. Oh yeah he could buy and sell most other billionaires with what for him is pocket change.


4 posted on 06/05/2024 12:25:41 PM PDT by piytar
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To: central_va

He’s always had some of these billionaires in his corner. Steve Wynn for example. Or Mrs. Adelson who’s one of those listed. She supported him in 2020. Or Robert Bigelow. It appears they are looking for promises in exchange for support.


5 posted on 06/05/2024 12:39:45 PM PDT by joesbucks
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Last go around T had two important B’s - Richard DeVos (Amway) who brought Betsy DeVos with him and was quietly influential but now deceased, and Ken Langone. I don’t believe Langone is on board.


6 posted on 06/05/2024 12:56:37 PM PDT by Oystir ( )
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To: joesbucks
It appears they are looking for promises in exchange for support.

I see no such appearance.

7 posted on 06/05/2024 1:25:43 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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You wouldn’t if it involved Trump. If the shoe was on the other foot, there would be all kinds of cries of quid pro quo. Billionaire support s never free. If Trump is elected, which I can’t see as we all know it’s rigged, let’s watch to see what preferential legislation or contracts these folks get.


8 posted on 06/05/2024 1:30:19 PM PDT by joesbucks
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To: libstripper
Most sane people don't want to live in a country where the party in power has their opponents arrested.

Is too 'third world hellhole' for sane citizens. That's what's really behind this. Rich people, poor people, the working class and all other classed know in their gut what a totalitarian is - and it's Joe Biden and his goons and thugs. That's the real change that's happening.

9 posted on 06/05/2024 1:42:35 PM PDT by GOPJ (WOKE DEI hires are an easy way to work hard core commies and sexual weirdos into top corporate spots)
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To: libstripper

Excerpt:
A number of influential billionaires who previously publicly expressed their disdain for Donald Trump have now apparently changed their minds.

Bill Ackman
Elon Musk
Stephen Schwarzman
David Sacks

A good start.


10 posted on 06/05/2024 3:03:01 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: libstripper
Just a few.


11 posted on 06/05/2024 3:20:42 PM PDT by jmcenanly (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ― Winston)
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“You know things are bad when billionaires are scared and align with a populist.”

indeed ... and one of the biggest things that they’re scared of has naturally been omitted by newsweak, namely that the national socialist fascists have seized the levers of the Republic and now no one is safe from arbitrary destruction, regardless of their wealth ... in other words, EVERYONE is a peasant in the Democrats fascist society except those very few governmental officials at the very pinnacle of said fascistic government ...

it took a while, but even many of the extremely wealthy woke up one morning and realized that a lawful Republic will be gone forever if Trump isn’t elected ... hopefully, there’s enough of the rest of us who vote who also realize these same things, or at least enough who have been driven into desperate penury by the failed economic policies of the fascists and have had enough to vote against the fascists ...


12 posted on 06/05/2024 4:09:45 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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if Trump isn’t elected, even Musk isn’t safe ... if Musk refuses to capitulate to the fascists, they can cancel all of his space contracts, declare Tesla an illegal EV monopoly and break it up, and put X/twitter out of business via a thousand bogus Federal lawsuits ... and if that doesn’t work, they’ll plant evidence on him and allege hundreds of crimes, and if that doesn’t work, they’ll simply kill him ...


13 posted on 06/05/2024 4:14:47 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: catnipman

I cannot disagree with anything you said.


14 posted on 06/05/2024 4:29:30 PM PDT by piytar
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To: joesbucks

“It appears they [billionaires] are looking for promises in exchange for support.”

i want promises for my support too: I want the border wall completed and the border totally secure; i want a strong military; i want to drill, baby, drill; i want no more foreign wars with zero strategic value; i want the Deep State totally exposed and totally destroyed, including prosecution of illegal activities and punishment if convicted; i want a nation of laws; i want law and order; i want rampant crime stopped; i want inflation stopped; i want commerce free of destructive regulations; i want taxes lowered; i want the Fed attacks on the 2nd amendment halted, i want illegal aliens deported; i want all expenditures supporting illegal aliens halted, including free healthcare, free food, free shelter, and free phones; i want traitors and enemies of the state prosecuted and punished if convicted; i want all student loans paid back; i want all CAFE standards revoked; i want all EPA carbon standards revoked; i want the truth about COVID, mRNA vaccines, the efficacy of Ivermectin, and the persecution of dissenting medical personnel exposed and halted; i want all J6 prisoners pardoned and released; i want all J6 House members who committed crimes prosecuted and punished if convicted; i want all foreign agreements and “treaties” not ratified by the U.S. Senate terminated; I want NATO cough up all past due financial support and made to pay their treaty obligation in the future; I want the United States to withdrawn from the United Nations; I want tariffs on all Chinese goods that are contributing to the destruction of domestic industries; I want the Department of Education abolished; I all Biden Executive Orders abolished; I want all title XI reinterpretations of gender thrown out; I want all official, legislative, and legal gender references based on the X and Y chromosomes a person was born with; I want only XX females participating in women’s sports: I want only two legal genders.

and if the billionaires who support Trump want these things too, then i say more power to those billionaires!


15 posted on 06/05/2024 4:36:18 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: catnipman

Most billionaires are more interested in things financial. But your list is impressive.


16 posted on 06/05/2024 5:42:51 PM PDT by joesbucks
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To: joesbucks

“Most billionaires are more interested in things financial.”

me too ...


17 posted on 06/05/2024 7:34:12 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: joesbucks

You are so full of sh__ your eyes are brown.


18 posted on 06/06/2024 4:26:32 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

You have anything other than attack mode? We already know Trump has offered oil execs wide open drilling in Alaska & the Gulf in exchange for a Billion in campaign support. Why would it be any different with these wealthy people? Now, open the flood gates and attack away.


19 posted on 06/06/2024 4:54:12 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: central_va

You are right of course but I think that perhaps the Billionaire Trump story is overhyped to sell papers.

We have no evidence beyond just a few


20 posted on 06/06/2024 4:58:45 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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