Billionaire Bill Ackman and his rich friends want someone, anyone, to bring down Zohran Mamdani. Their pitch: take our money, it won’t be much time and energy, and maybe you’ll get famous enough to use the campaign as a stepping stone to higher office.
https://jacobin.com/2025/06/ackman-mamdani-trump-campaign-finance
#news #USnews #NYC #NewYork #politics #government #elections #Mamdani #Ackman
A longtime Democratic-aligned donor, #Bill #Ackman
publicly backed Donald Trump and the Republican Party in the 2024 election cycle.
Ackman donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Republican-aligned PACs in the general election
after backing Dean Phillips in the Democratic primary,
both Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy in the Republican primary,
and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s run as an independent.
In a characteristically long-winded tweet from October 2024,
Ackman gave 33 individual “actions” that Democrats made him decide to support Trump over Kamala Harris.
Three of them (actions 13, 26, and 27) were about Ackman’s personal skepticism of #vaccines.
https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/billionaires-and-the-trump-admin-bill-ackman/
Bill #Ackman : " we didn't vote for this "
Sorry guys, but #YES you #DID vote for this.
Everything was written in the #Project2025 , but you didn't thunk he would go so far
As german CEO thought , in their time , that they would control #Hitler
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‘We didn’t vote for this’: Tru...
Bill #Ackman : " we didn't vote for this "
Sorry guys, but #YES you #DID vote for this.
Everything was written in the #Project2025 , but you didn't thunk he would go so far
As german CEO thought , in their time , that they would control #Hitler
Bill #Ackman : " we didn't vite for this "
Sorry guys, but #YES you #DID vote for this.
Everything was written in the #Project2025 , but you didn't thunk he would go so far
As german CEO thought , in their time , that they would control #Hitler
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‘We didn’t vote for this’: Tru...
$SPY Are we nearing another #Ackman bottom? $NKE currently down over 6% on the day and over 30% in the last month.
$SPY Are we nearing another #Ackman bottom? $NKE currently down over 6% on the day and over 30% in the last month.
"If ... on April 9th we launch economic nuclear war on every country in the world, business investment will grind to a halt, consumers will close their wallets and pocket books, and we will severely damage our reputation with the rest of the world that will take years and potentially decades to rehabilitate.
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The consequences for our country ... are going to be severely negative. This is not what we voted for"
But Ackman refused to take any responsibility for enabling the destruction: I don't think this was foreseeable. I assumed economic rationality would be paramount. My bad. #ackman
by placing massive and disproportionate tariffs on our friends and our enemies alike and thereby launching a global economic war against the whole world at once, we are in the process of destroying confidence in our country as a trading partner, as a market to invest capital. #ackman
Over the weekend Bill #Ackman, a hedge-fund billionaire who has been one of Trump’s most vocal supporters, suddenly turned on his champion, declaring on X that:
"The billionaire #Ackman, a staunch Trump supporter, put the market's fears about the fate of the global economy in the starkest terms possible.
What they're saying: "The President has an opportunity on Monday to call a time out and have the time to execute on fixing an unfair tariff system. Alternatively, we are 👉heading for a self-induced, economic nuclear winter, and we should start hunkering down👈," Ackman wrote in a lengthy post to X."
El multimillonario Bill Ackman dice que el Partido Demócrata necesita un reinicio completo: "Mucha muchedumbre necesita renunciar en desgracia" (audio) | El experimentado de la puerta de entrada #Ackman #audio #Bill #completo #demócrata #desgraci...
https://butterword.com/el-multimillonario-bill-ackman-dice-que-el-partido-democrata-necesita-un-reinicio-completo-mucha-muchedumbre-necesita-renunciar-en-desgracia-audio-el-experimentado-de-la-puerta-de-entrada/?feed_id=10180&_unique_id=67cabe7fc4453
Schemes for Privatizing Freddie and Fannie
#John #Paulson, the hedge fund billionaire, 🔸could score big if the federal government’s housing finance companies, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, are privatized.
He and #Bill #Ackman of Pershing Square Holdings,
another supporter of Mr. Trump’s,
each purchased stakes in Fannie and Freddie, 🔸which the federal government spent $187 billion to bail out in 2008.
There is no formal public accounting of just how many preferred shares Mr. Paulson still controls, and a spokesman for Mr. Paulson declined to discuss the matter.
Mr. Ackman’s investment in Fannie Mae common stock alone included 115.5 million shares, or 10 percent of the total.
Under the new Trump administration, John Paulson, the hedge fund billionaire, could cash out of his investment in the federal government’s housing finance outfits, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
⭐️What is clear is that Freddie and Fannie stocks surged at least 140 percent since Mr. Trump was elected,
a hint of profits that could soon be secured if the privatization goes ahead.
⚠️Advisers and former aides to Mr. Trump have already predicted that the companies are likely to go private during his new term,
💥although it might require bypassing approval by Congress.
Mr. Paulson declined requests to comment. In an interview with Bloomberg Television in September, he agreed the time had come for the federal government to unload Fannie and Freddie.
“They are now in a position where they’re fairly well capitalized,” Mr. Paulson said, “which would make privatization logical
@realTuckFrumper #cruz #Ackman and #Musk are desperate. They know fully well that #WeirdOldTrump will lose the election, so they are peddling these conspiracies like a cheap suit, hoping that these lies will stick. By the way, Marj has already said that the #ABCWhistleBlower is a lie.
@uncle_vinny We must accept all the gifts the universe bestows upon us without regret. No matter how huge one’s #ackman.
s gibt einen einfachen Grund, warum Multimilliardäre wie #Musk, #Thiel oder #Ackman Donald Trump unterstützen: Die Demokratie ist ihnen egal, weil Sie sich für unangreifbar halten. Geld dagegen ist ihnen sehr wichtig, Steuern eine unerträgliche Last. https://www.manager-magazin.de/politik/bill-ackman-und-co-diese-us-milliardaere-und-wall-street-groessen-stuetzen-donald-trump-a-1aafa91d-2cac-4d53-8e89-3b083f7a7f8e
Unsurprisingly, #Ackman and other Jewish mega-donors seem to have no qualms with antisemites, as long as they are the good old-fashioned ones like #Trump and #DeSantis, who despise Muslims nearly as much as they detest Jews. With that, they can live.
Trump's actions, such as accentuating Jon Stewart's Jewish last name "Leibowitz" (2013), making comments seemingly trafficking in Jewish stereotypes when addressing the Republican Jewish Coalition in 2015, his initial refusal to disavow support from former KKK leader David Duke during the 2016 campaign, his campaign's delayed condemnation of the extreme antisemitic harassment directed at Jewish journalists like Julia Ioffe after they wrote critical profiles of Trump/his wife, the use of his "America First" slogan echoing the antisemitic isolationist group from the WWII era, endorsing Neo-Nazi rioters chanting “Jews will not replace us” as good people, and listing a white supremacist leader as a delegate before removing him after media scrutiny – none of that seems to be a problem. Apparently, what makes one an antisemite in their eyes is wanting an end to 76 years of Israeli occupation and a brutal apartheid.
Bill Ackman Is Likely to Endorse Trump After Backing Longshot Candidates https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-30/bill-ackman-is-likely-to-endorse-donald-trump-after-backing-longshot-candidates or https://archive.is/J7CiN
Revealed: Who the Big Jewish Donors Are Backing in the 2024 GOP Presidential Primary Race https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2023-08-16/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/revealed-who-the-big-jewish-donors-are-backing-in-the-gop-presidentialprimary-race/00000189-f43f-d387-afaf-f4ff0d2f0000 or https://archive.is/oHrGv
Was, wenn Milliardäre mit ihren Zuwendungen an #Schulen & #Hochschulen oder von ihnen finanzierten Kampagnen #Personalentscheidungen & #Lehrinhalte beeinflussen?
Ein Beispiel aus den #USA
The Slow Newscast:
#Ackman: A billionaire’s #WarOnWoke
https://shows.acast.com/the-tortoise-podcast/episodes/ackman-a-billionaires-war-on-woke
