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RandySF

(58,776 posts) Thu Oct 15, 2020, 04:51 PM Oct 2020

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Adelsons Pour $75M Into Last-Ditch Effort to Save Trump

“Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam Adelson gave $75 million to a super PAC that flooded battleground states with anti-Joe Biden ads in September, a huge investment from the GOP megadonors as President Trump slipped in the polls,” Politico reports.

https://politicalwire.com/2020/10/15/adelsons-pour-75m-into-last-ditch-effort-to-save-trump/

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Adelsons Pour $75M Into Last-Ditch Effort to Save Trump (Original Post) RandySF Oct 2020 OP

Sheldon Adelson made his money from gambling, prostitution, and human trafficking. Botany Oct 2020 #1

Somehow the great business man Trump doc03 Oct 2020 #2

Sheldon Adelson Botany Oct 2020 #4

Rotten money after even more rot. C_U_L8R Oct 2020 #3

Sadly, it's just a drop in the bucket for the sleeze. TwilightZone Oct 2020 #6

Notice how their donation went somewhere Trump and his Klan couldn't get their mitts on the moneys? Hugin Oct 2020 #5

And Biden campaign is sitting on... 2naSalit Oct 2020 #7

Payback for Miriam's Presidential Medal of Freedom DesertRat Oct 2020 #8

B-B-But Geooorge Soooros!!1! VOX Oct 2020 #9

Botany

(70,499 posts)

1. Sheldon Adelson made his money from gambling, prostitution, and human trafficking.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Thu Oct 15, 2020, 04:54 PM

Oct 2020

I wonder how Trump's born again evangelical feel about that?

doc03

(35,325 posts)

2. Somehow the great business man Trump

Reply to Botany (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 15, 2020, 04:56 PM

Oct 2020

lost money doing the same.

Botany

(70,499 posts)

4. Sheldon Adelson

Reply to doc03 (Reply #2)

Thu Oct 15, 2020, 05:06 PM

Oct 2020

What a sweetheart. Mobbed up, gambling, prostitution, drugs, and a murder attempt.

C_U_L8R

(44,999 posts)

3. Rotten money after even more rot.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Thu Oct 15, 2020, 05:00 PM

Oct 2020

Go ahead, double down on dumb. Hope you lose it all.

TwilightZone

(25,467 posts)

6. Sadly, it's just a drop in the bucket for the sleeze.

Reply to C_U_L8R (Reply #3)

Thu Oct 15, 2020, 05:09 PM

Oct 2020

I have no problem with him wasting it, though. Maybe some will go to left-owned media, such as it is.

Hugin

(33,135 posts)

5. Notice how their donation went somewhere Trump and his Klan couldn't get their mitts on the moneys?

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Thu Oct 15, 2020, 05:09 PM

Oct 2020

Tells ya something big right there, don't it?

I think this is more about the down ticket rather than Trump.

2naSalit

(86,565 posts)

7. And Biden campaign is sitting on...

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Thu Oct 15, 2020, 06:20 PM

Oct 2020

$400+ million? Okay, let them waste their money.

DesertRat

(27,995 posts)

8. Payback for Miriam's Presidential Medal of Freedom

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Thu Oct 15, 2020, 06:33 PM

Oct 2020

Link to tweet

VOX

(22,976 posts)

9. B-B-But Geooorge Soooros!!1!

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Thu Oct 15, 2020, 06:39 PM

Oct 2020

He’s Satan and has given $666,666,666,666,666,666,666,666 to the Democrat (sic) Party!!1!

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