Al D'Amato, former GOP Senator, and former Trump cabinet official, attends Biden fundraiser

[Drunken Irishman]

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-18/d-amato-former-gop-senator-attends-biden-new-york-fundraiser



EDIT: This is not in praise - just interesting that someone like D'Amato would be at a Biden fundraiser.

[Cha]

1. A few words from Biden..

“You guys are great, but Wall Street didn’t build America,” Biden told the donors. “You guys are incredibly important, but you didn’t build America. Ordinary, hard-working, middle class people given half a chance build America.”

[Politicub]

4. Boom!

Great for Biden!

[brooklynite]

2. I once sat at a table with D'Amato for Governor Cuomo...

He's a pretty establishment guy.

[melman]

3. Al D'Amato?

And that's being presented here as a positive thing? Now I have really seen it all.


Al D'Amato!

[Drunken Irishman]

6. Positive? No. Interesting? Yes.

[George II]

15. Who said it was a positive thing? Did you even BOTHER to read the OP at all??????

[bullwinkle428]

5. Al D'Amato? The last time this asshole was in the news was when he attacked

his estranged wife while she was confined to a hospital bed following surgery - a profanity-laced tirade.

https://nypost.com/2018/03/28/al-damatos-wife-has-video-of-estranged-husband-berating-her/

[11cents]

7. Ugh. Maybe the young'ns here don't know about his role in the Whitewater pseudo-scandal

Or that he was grossly corrupt, on the take, and mobbed up. The 90's were really when the degeneracy of the GOP became apparent, and he was one of its avatars.

[DarthDem]

9. Well

I think the point of the piece is that it's interesting. The fact that the former VA Secretary was there is also interesting. I always though D'Amato was a whining slime, but he's no Trump.

[JI7]

8. i remember he went off on that jackass burkman idiot for being a racist

[rpannier]

10. It is interesting

Not to sound suspicious or conspiratorial, but I'd be checking him for electronic devices
On a less suspicious, maybe he's checking out others because he's thinking about dump trump
The most logical to me, and it's not a bad thing, is that they may be friends and he was there as a friend
Inouye (D-HA) and Stevens (R-AK) used to visit one another during campaigns

[markpkessinger]

11. When was Al D'Amato a Trump cabinet official and what position did he hold?

I ask because I hadn't heard that he was (and as a former senator from my state, I would have taken notice if I had heard about it), and because I have been unable to find any verification of that claim.

[JI7]

12. i didn't click on the article but the trump admin official may refer

to a different person.

[markpkessinger]

14. Thank you!

Yes, you are correct. Should have read a little more carefully!

[George II]

16. Not the OP's fault, but it's a sloppy headline for the article:

First sentence - "Joe Biden drew a former Republican senator and an ex-Trump cabinet official to a New York fundraiser on Monday..."

[brooklynite]

17. Here's an interesting nugget:

Also on hand were Robert Wolf, former head of UBS Group AG’s Americas Unit and founder of the strategy and investment firm 32 Advisors, along with Dennis Mehiel, chief executive of Four M Investments; Michael Kempner, who heads the public-relations firm MWWPR; Jay Snyder, a principal at HBJ Investments; and George Tsunis, the founder of Chartwell Hotels.

Kempner invited me to this event, but has also held events for Bullock, Harris, and Booker