The showrunning plutocracy behind the #MAGA / #heritageFoundation USA is operated by warlusting DOMESTIC terrorists, not merely the Russian nor Saudi nor Israeli nor Chinese parts of the empire. #ourCommonEnemy has names, like #rockbridge -- and #vought #thiel #mercer #koch #adelson #woodyJohnson and #theyWhoWillBeFirstAgainstTheWall
#adelson
One less opportunity for Dallas fans to see Luka next year 🏀 🎲
Mavericks could play Luka Doncic, Lakers in preseason game in Las Vegas, per report
The first Dallas vs. Doncic matchup of the 2025-26 season might come early.
#Dallas #Mavericks #LukaDoncic #LasVegas #NBA #Lakers #Sports #Basketball #Adelson #FireNico #SellTheTeam
Phase 1 of owners #Adelson/#Dumont's plan to move the #NBA #Dallas #Mavericks to #LasVegas is complete:
1️⃣ Trade best player, #LukaDoncic
2️⃣ Acquire Anthony Davis & scraps
3️⃣ Watch Anthony & Kyrie get hurt
And now, Phase 2 begins:
4️⃣ Increase ticket prices by 13.33%
Going exactly as the #Adelson's planned. Now in 3yrs, watch one of the following happen:
1️⃣ #Texas permits #gambling
2️⃣ #Mavericks move to #Vegas
...
▶️ Mavericks Fans Revolt Over the #LukaDoncic Trade | The Bill Simmons Podcast
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TbO8kUwddhQ&si=KsV65sRsJX9Kpoca
Trump was fund-raising off his conviction with small-dollar donors as well;
His campaign, which portrayed him as the victim of a politicized justice system, brought in nearly $53 million in the twenty-four hours after the verdict.
Several megadonors who had held back from endorsing Trump announced that they were now supporting him,
including
🔸#Miriam #Adelson, the widow of the late casino mogul #Sheldon Adelson;
🔸the Silicon Valley investor #David #Sacks, who said that the case against Trump was a sign of America turning into a “Banana Republic”;
🔸and the venture capitalist #Shaun #Maguire, who, less than an hour after the verdict, posted on X that he was donating $300,000 to Trump, 👉calling the prosecution a “radicalizing experience.” 👈
A day later, #Timothy #Mellon, the banking-family scion, wrote a $50-million check to the Make America Great Again super pac.
#Ed #Rogers, a longtime G.O.P. lobbyist, had never publicly endorsed Trump or raised money for his campaigns.
On May 31st, the day after Trump’s conviction, he sent his first contribution to the ex-President. “There was no case to make that that was not targeted prosecution,” he told me.
He predicted that other Republicans who, like him, had been “allergic” to Trump would now get on board as well.
“I tell people I am a Bill Barr, Chris Sununu, Nikki Haley Republican,” he said, listing the names of Republican officials who had criticized Trump in blistering terms only to support him again in 2024;
Haley, despite having called Trump “unhinged” and a threat to the Republic, had announced the week before his conviction that she would vote for him.
“The choices are 🔹Biden or Trump🔹, and I’m at peace with that,” Rogers said in June.
“I wish it was a different equation, but it’s not.”
❗️Many donors I spoke with at the time described
🧨Trump’s trial as an impetus,
but they tended to cite a litany of other reasons, too, including questions about
🔸Biden’s age and fitness to serve another term, concerns about his
🔸economic policies, and gripes about some of his
🔸appointees, such as the head of the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan, who has launched high-profile antitrust investigations.
Trump, despite his populist rhetoric, deficit spending, and support for market-distorting tariffs,
has sold himself as a pro-business candidate.
He has promised extensive deregulation,
nearly unfettered drilling for oil and gas,
and tax cuts for corporations and wealthy individuals.
“A lot of the donors have just come to the conclusion that, when you add it all up,
the risks with Trump are behavioral
—personal behavior and what he says
—versus the policies,” the attendee at the Fifth Avenue fund-raiser told me.
It was a “rationalization” adopted by “even those who were initially very put off, very alienated, by his behavior at the end of his Presidency.”
🆘 By late May, Trump’s campaign had more money in the bank than Biden’s.
The incumbent President’s disastrous performance in a June 27th debate against Trump only accelerated the trend.
“After the debate, Biden looks like a loser,
so these people who were never going to give to Biden,
they’re now even more attracted to the idea of giving to former President Trump,”
the attendee at Fanjul’s dinner said.
“Because he looks like a winner.”
The following month, as Democratic donors and elected officials frantically pressured Biden to drop out of the race,
Trump and the Republicans again outraised the Democrats.
“The Zeitgeist in the business world is that Trump is going to be President again,”
a billionaire C.E.O. who is not a Trump supporter told me at the time.
“Therefore, why fall on your sword on principle?”
He added, “Businesspeople
—their main focus in life is to make money,
and you make money by backing winners. . . .
They’ve concluded, O.K., he’s going to be President,
let’s hold our nose and do what we have to do.”
#Billionaires coming out of the woodwork to support Trump. Wonder why? 🤔
Adelson Spends $95 Million to Boost Trump in #Michigan, #Wisconsin
#Billionaire is one of the top donors to Trump in 2024 race Super PAC has just $7.4 million to spend in final weeks
Bill AllisonOctober 15, 2024 at 10:00 PM EDT
Billionaire Miriam #Adelson, one of the most prolific donors backing Donald #Trump since his 2016 run for the White House, poured $95 million into her super PAC supporting him, according to the latest disclosures with the Federal Election Commission.
#CitizensUnited
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-16/adelson-spends-95-million-to-boost-trump-in-michigan-wisconsin
Adelson Spends $95 Million to Boost Trump in Michigan and Wisconsin
Billionaire #Miriam #Adelson,
one of the most prolific donors #backing Donald #Trump since his 2016 run for the White House,
🔥poured $95 million into her super PAC supporting him,
according to to the latest disclosures with the Federal Election Commission.
The donation exceeds the $75 million she and her late husband, former Las Vegas Sands Chairman #Sheldon #Adelson, combined to give to Preserve America PAC in the same period in the 2020 race
Donald Trump explains the difference between the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Presidential Medal of Freedom:
"[The Presidential Medal of Freedom] that's the highest award you can get as a civilian, it's the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian version. It's actually much better because everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, they're soldiers, they're either in very bad shape because they've been hit so many times by bullets or they're dead. She gets it and she's a healthy beautiful woman."
He's talking about Miriam Adelson who he awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom after her late husband casino owner Sheldon Adelson donated millions to Trump's election campaign, and she didn't get hit by any bullets, so you know, which would you chose?
Trump's blasts billionaire GOP megadonor Miriam Adelson with angry text messages
As tensions run high in the former president's campaign, some worry he is susceptible to manipulation
https://www.salon.com/2024/08/12/blasts-billionaire-donor-with-angry-text-messages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Adelson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Adelson
#Trump #Trumpism #Adelson #SheldonAdelson #MiriamAdelson #GOP #billionaires #fascism #EnablingFascism #MAGA #libertarianism #FarRight
All of these f🤬cking people deserve each other:
'Trump stunned one of his wealthiest patrons, Miriam Adelson, the widow of the casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, by having an aide fire off a series of angry text messages to Mrs. #Adelson in Mr. Trump’s name, according to three people with knowledge of what took place.
The texts were particularly jarring because Mrs. Adelson and Mr. Trump had a friendly meeting just a week earlier at the RNC, according to a person briefed on the matter.👇
Timothy Mellon,
a wealthy banking heir and railroad magnate, has reached the stratosphere of American political influence as
the top supporter of Donald J. Trump, doling out millions to try to elect the former president and his allies.
To his neighbors in a Rhode Island beachfront enclave, he is better known as the prime suspect in the Narragansett Runestone Affair.
A hulking boulder once positioned just offshore in Narragansett Bay, the runestone bears inscriptions that some believe were left by Viking explorers. It was the stuff of local lore and attracted visitors at low tide
— to the consternation of Mr. Mellon, the pedigreed businessman whose home looked out on the rock.
And then one day it was gone.
A criminal investigation yielded a witness who had heard sounds of heavy machinery at night.
Mr. Mellon refused to talk and hired a former state attorney general as his lawyer.
Nearly a year later, the matter was resolved quietly:
Mr. Mellon agreed to return the stone, and prosecutors agreed not to bring charges.
The episode was a rare glimpse into the private life and the public dealings of Mr. Mellon, 81, a reclusive heir and railroad magnate who has recently turned himself into a political force.
He has surprised even political insiders with the size of his contributions this year,
throwing♦️ $75 million behind Mr. Trump’s attempt to return to the White House
and an additional ♦️$25 million toward Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent presidential run,
making him both candidates’ single largest benefactor.
All told, he has given♦️ $227 million in contributions to federal candidates and political committees since 2020,
nearly all to Republicans
— a sum that puts him in the top echelon of the party’s donors,
alongside far better-known megadonors like Miriam #Adelson and her husband, Sheldon, who died in 2021, and Liz and Dick #Uihlein.
Yet for all his financial influence, Mr. Mellon and his interests
— and what exactly is motivating his largess — have remained largely a mystery.
Interviews with his associates, along with a review of court documents and other public records, reveal
an ideologically driven conservative with a combative streak.
Mr. Mellon spent most of his life leveraging his family fortune to create his own.
His freight railroad, a regional line that 🔸repeatedly ran afoul of worker and environmental protections,🔸 was recently sold for $600 million.
Over time, Mr. Mellon’s politics shifted far to the right.
In the 1970s, his charitable giving supported feminist and ecological causes and Native Americans.
By 2014, he was posting comments in an online chat room
🔹comparing climate-change scientists to ISIS 🔹and worrying that terrorists could attack America using “donkeys coming over our Southern border.”
Most recently, he became a significant donor to Mr. Kennedy’s 🔹anti-vaccine group, Children’s Health Defense.
In an interview, Mr. Kennedy said Mr. Mellon’s contribution had come during the height of the Covid pandemic and appeared to be motivated by a shared concern over government lockdowns and🔹 “suppressing constitutional rights.”
Mr. Kennedy, who said he had met Mr. Mellon only twice, described him as “intensely curious, skeptical towards orthodoxies and passionate about personal freedoms.”
(He added that Mr. Mellon takes long cross-country drives alone “to talk to ordinary Americans” and has a fascination with Scandinavia.)
Mr. Trump’s campaign did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
Mr. Mellon rarely engages with the news media and did not respond to interview requests.
Even some of the candidates who accept his checks have little contact with him.
The most detailed accounting of his life comes largely from two sources:
an autobiography Mr. Mellon first published in 2014 and the paper trail he has left in court.
He has frequently become mired in disputes, some of them oddly small-bore and some just odd.
In May — the same month he made a $50 million donation to support Mr. Trump — he filed a lawsuit against a family-owned car dealership in Connecticut, complaining that he had spent $7,300 on a failed engine replacement for a 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Years ago, he sued a group of explorers he had helped finance,
claiming they had deliberately overlooked the wreckage of #Amelia #Earhart’s long-lost plane so they could keep raising money for their expeditions.
Mr. Mellon was convinced he had seen Earhart’s head on the seafloor in a cellophane bag.
He lost the case, appealed, and lost again.
Testifying in a 2014 civil case, he estimated he had undergone depositions “15 to 20” times in his life and could not recall how many lawsuits he was involved in.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/28/us/politics/donald-trump-2024-campaign-timothy-mellon.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Something to think about before using the nickname "Genocide Joe"
"In a recent profile in New York magazine, Adelson suggested that she might want Trump to push for the annexation of the occupied West Bank if he wins a second term — described in the piece as “unfinished Israel business from Trump’s presidency.”"
https://forward.com/fast-forward/618034/miriam-adelson-funding-trump-israel/
#Politics #USPolitics #Israel #Palestinians #Palestine #Hamas #Election2024 #Trump #Adelson
No one in the world has donated more money to Fat Nixon than billionaire, Miriam Adelson.
Her blatant bribery to drive her personal agenda amounted to $223M & should remind everyone that the Trump White House is up for sale.
"Kyrie, Trump, and the Billionaire" - PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT
https://youtu.be/idSngb_X5nQ
https://www.pablo.show/p/kyrie-trump-and-the-billionaire
How Donald Trump’s Donors Got Rich
Forbes found 133 billionaires or spouses of billionaires who donated to Trump’s campaign ahead of the 2020 election. They built their fortunes in 17 industries
Some clearly benefited from having a friend in the White House:
🔸Miriam #Adelson received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
🔸Kelcy #Warren, chief executive of Energy Transfer Partners, got clearance for his Dakota Access Pipeline, as well as a seat on the board of trustees at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
🔸Harold #Hamm, the oil baron, became an informal advisor.
🔸Linda #McMahon, who is married to WWE Chief Executive Vince McMahon, accepted a role as head of the Small Business Administration, before moving on to chair a pro-Trump super-PAC named America First Action.
On average, the donors contributed about $285,000 to the Trump campaign and its joint-fundraising committees, which split their hauls with the Republican Party.
About 9% of Trump’s billionaire donors, however, gave less than $5,000.
At least 19 also donated to pro-Trump super-PACs.
Unlike other types of political committees, super-PACs can accept unlimited amounts of money.
The #Adelsons, for instance, gave $90 million to a pro-Trump super-PAC called Preserve America.
Marvel Entertainment billionaire Isaac #Perlmutter and his wife, Laura, gave $21 million to America First.
Kelcy #Warren donated $10 million to the same group
From Free Speech Center
SLAPP lawsuits
This is what #richguys like #trump and #adelson do to shut folks up
"In the case of a SLAPP action, or strategic lawsuit against public participation, the actual purpose is to silence and even punish the defendant for speaking out on a matter of public interest through a costly and lengthy legal battle.
"Such a lawsuit also discourages others from speech that might prompt the plaintiff to go after them, too.
"A SLAPP suit represents both intimidation and an abuse of the legal process.
"Thirty-three states and the District of Columbia have passed laws to help defendants dispose of such claims relatively quickly. These are called anti-SLAPP laws based on the notion that people should not be burdened with meritless lawsuits for exercising their First Amendment rights."
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