Sheldon Adelson backs Donald Trump, says he’s Good for Israel

Sheldon Adelson backs Donald Trump, says he’s Good for Israel

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(JTA) — Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson said he will back Donald Trump now that Trump has locked up the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.

“I think that Donald Trump will be good for Israel,” Adelson, who is Jewish, told the BBC on Thursday, appearing at a gala in New York for the World Values Network.

What was unclear is if Adelson, one of the world’s richest men and a major pro-Israel giver, meant he would help fund Trump’s campaign, and to what extent. Trump, a real estate magnate and reality TV star, is himself a billionaire and has mostly-self funded throughout the primaries. However, he has said he would reach out to major donors now that he is heading into a heated general election likely to cost billions of dollars.

Adelson, who donated more than $90 million to federal political races in 2012, is among the Republican Party’s most heavily courted contributors.

Pressed if his thinking that Trump would be good for Israel meant Trump would receive his support, Adelson said, “I plan to, yes I do. Yes, I’m a Republican, he’s a Republican. He’s our nominee.” He was not asked whether that meant financial support.

In a departure from the 2012 race, when he spent heavily to boost Newt Gingrich’s unsuccessful primary bid and then gave generously to nominee Mitt Romney, Adelson had until now remained neutral in the 2016 nomination battle. This time around, Adelson did not want to handicap the eventual nominee. The perception among Republicans in 2012 was that the money Romney spent to defeat Gingrich early in the campaign had hobbled his campaign against President Barack Obama’s reelection.

Adelson nonetheless had hinted that he backed Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, and the Israeli newspaper he owns, Israel Hayom, provided Rubio with favorable coverage. Adelson’s wife Miriam favored Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. Both candidates ultimately dropped out.

The question of whether Trump would be “good for Israel” surfaced in December, when Trump, addressing the Republican Jewish Coalition — another major Adelson beneficiary — said he would not pander to the group or ask for its members’ money. He also said he would remain neutral on Israeli-Palestinian talks and would not before being elected say whether he would recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. He has since walked back those remarks, most prominently in an appearance in March at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

Adelson, quoted separately at the same event by The New York Times, suggested that supporting Trump was the right thing to do because he had bested his rivals.

“Whoever the nominee would turn out to be, any one of the 17 — he was one of the 17. He won fair and square,” said Adelson.

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Sheldon Adelson Says He Will Support Donald Trump

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The casino magnate Sheldon G. Adelson said on Thursday night that he would support Donald J. Trump now that he has become the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee.

“Yes, I’m a Republican, he’s a Republican,” Mr. Adelson said in a brief interview. “He’s our nominee. Whoever the nominee would turn out to be, any one of the 17 — he was one of the 17. He won fair and square.”

Mr. Adelson made the comments while at a gala dinner in Manhattan for the World Values Network, a Jewish organization.

Mr. Trump went after Mr. Adelson on Twitter in October, writing that the donor wanted to make Senator Marco Rubio of Florida “his perfect little puppet.” But Mr. Trump also courted him; the two men met in December. Mr. Adelson later said that they discussed Israel and that he found Mr. Trump “very charming.”

Mr. Adelson ultimately stayed neutral through the last few months of nominating contests.

Mr. Adelson said on Thursday that he had spoken to Mr. Trump recently, but did not elaborate about the timing or nature of their communication. He told another journalist that he thinks that Mr. Trump “will be good for Israel.”

Mr. Adelson’s voice of support was particularly notable given that the Republican Jewish Coalition, a group he has funded heavily, suggested after Mr. Trump became the presumptive nominee that it is focusing mostly on preserving Republican gains in the House and the Senate.

Also on Thursday, Gov. Pete Ricketts of Nebraska, whose family helped finance a “super PAC” devoted solely to stopping Mr. Trump, will endorse the Republican Party’s standard-bearer at an Omaha rally on Friday, an aide confirmed.

Taylor Gage, a spokesman for the governor, said Mr. Ricketts would appear and give remarks at the event with Mr. Trump.

The governor “has said for months that he would support the Republican nominee,” Mr. Gage said.

Members of the Ricketts family donated millions of dollars to the Our Principles PAC and seeded its earliest efforts at denying Mr. Trump the nomination. The PAC is still active, but it spent lightly in the Indiana primary, which Mr. Trump won soundly on Tuesday night.

Mr. Trump also won support from a former rival and the former Texas governor, Rick Perry, who told CNN on Thursday that he would try to help Mr. Trump and was open to being his vice-presidential nominee.

Mr. Perry had carved out early territory in the presidential race last summer by describing Mr. Trump as a “cancer on conservatism.” But Mr. Trump essentially rolled over him, claiming him as an early victim of his own candidacy.

Mr. Perry told CNN he would do everything he could to help Mr. Trump.

Those endorsements came on the same day that the House speaker, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, said he was not prepared to support the nominee yet. Mary Matalin, a former adviser to Dick Cheney, told Bloomberg Politics that she had switched her registration to Libertarian.

Who should we vote for?

So, vote for Benjamin. Terrific guy. Terrific leader. Great for Israel."

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Jews are scared. Many backed the wrong horse and now they are begging to be let in.

I agree. Jews are deathly scared of Donald Trump becoming President of the United States.

trump, because he's the best of a bad bunch.

don't delude yourself that he's anything but a civic nationalist who wants to improve the american economy - and nothing else.

use trump as a springboard to turn american politics into racial nationalism. move beyond trump. stop romanticising him as a hero and see him for what he truly is: a stepping stone.

ooh you need to ask for a raise. I've never seen THAT video before…

That's right. Just pretend that Donald Trump never made that video. It doesn't exist. Everything is going to be okay. Your fantasies are reality.

You're a cringy individual. Bet you're a Renegade cuck.

reminder

nah bro, we're only there for the shekels

I want some America First T-shirts.

Found some.

I hope he's wrong

Adelsohn does not give one fuck for Israel.
The guys whole life is a lie.

I don't know why Holla Forums ever though he was the next Hitler. I don't want a Hitler in the US, personally. The last thing I want is for the US to become another Euro-esque state that falls in line to dictators. Trump is good for me. Especially with his Nationalist/Nativist ideals. Closing the borders and fixing trade will do loads to put our economy back on top, and to keep it on top.

Everyone who isn't a complete retard will support the nominee if they still want some kind of future. Mittens and Ryan are down and out, so no one gives a fuck what they think. As other anons have said, you'll start seeing more and more of the gop supporting Trump as he locks up the required delegates. The ones that oppose him at that point have either run back to the DNC or plan to retire from politics altogether.

The same will happen should Hillary win, but the commies have already started leaving the DNC which will make it weaker and more liable to splitting.

… are the jews just in denial at this point?

Yes, listen to your master kike Adelson.


I can see the kikes who shitpost here are just as retarded as Adelson.

Collectively they are schizophrenic.

Won't happen. That's why we'll see many of the big names support him. They can't go DNC. No one will every vote for a Democrat Romney. It'd be a joke. No one would take him seriously. Either they back the Republican Presidential nominee or they don't have a job next round of elections (for whatever position it may be the person is running for). Isn't Romney's career mostly over with anyway? That would explain why he's not backing Trump. Sheer spite.

Now they are trying reverse psychology. The ovens are being primed.

I know Holla Forums's feelings, but there are actually quite a few Jews, and even Zionists, that are not globalists. There are many that don't wish to spread Islam and multiculturalism to the world.

With that said, Adelson has been an open borders cuck so I'm not really sure what this means. Maybe he was just mesmerized by the AIPAC speech like so many others.

and now that the corrupt parasites that have slowly destroyed our country for decades see which way the wind is blowing, they think throwing their support in the same direction is going to save them

it won't

That's not good enough. If Trump is not running around stabbing every jew he sees in the eye then he must be in bed with them. How is he supposed to be elected? Apparently some people here think that's the best way to get elected and change the system.

Adelson is a strange figure.

Mittens received a big black eye from the last election and Trump destroying him early ended his career. Ryan is a similar spot, but due to his name being tied to ttp and his betrayal as speaker. Jeb was a joke and ended up dragging the Bush name into the muck.


He realizes that Trump is really in a position to take the presidency, so he'd have to be retarded to oppose him openly at this point.

You're thinking too much in terms of with us/against us.

Trump was ONLY able to get where he is today by playing the jews' own game and winning. That's why no matter what the shills say about Trump being a kike puppet, it won't ever matter to us; we already know he has a lot of dealings with jews, and we EXPECT that, because if he is and always was full 14/88 all the fucking time, he never would have gotten anywhere. He had to still pay some lip service to the jews this very primary election season. It doesn't mean he's actually in cahoots with them, it means he knows how to play their own game and appear to be on their side in order to win.

Adelson, just like Trump, now sees that he might be in trouble for all his past kikery, since Trump is taking the nomination and might become Pres, and is throwing support behind him (or perhaps appearing to do so) to possibly save himself. He's trying to play Trump's game in order to come out on top.

If (when) Trump gets POTUS, that's when we'll see his hand revealed (although it may take a couple years to see his full hand of cards). If he gets the white house and actually caters to the kikes for longer than several months, then I'll know for sure something is up.

The bottom line is that I think Trump will figuratively be stabbing jews in the skulls like you want, but like any good commander knows, it's not all about the size of your forces; it's about where they are and when to strike.

I was just playing around. I agree with you fully really. I feel like a lot of people on Holla Forums miss the big picture or fail to see that Trump, good or bad, gives us a lot of time and options than Hillary who will come down hard and fast, faster than any of us can realize.

THAT'S RIGHT
KISS THE KOSHER RINGS DONALD!

JUST WAIT FOR HITLER BRUH

I'm convinced Adelson is the current leader of the international Jewish crime syndicate started by Meyer Lansky.

LOL WHO WE VOTE FOR LOL WOW
Reported.
LOL WHO WE VOTE FOR LOL WOW
Reported.

Is this on your Trump shill talking point list? It's a strawman and it pops up constantly on this board.

THEN WHO ARE WE VOTING FOR

That would actually make a lot of sense. I wouldn't be surprised. Do you know if there's any connection between the two?

That's right, simple goy. Donald Trump is your savior. He's totally on your side. Donald is going to make (((America))) great again.

There now, that's a good goy.

Donald Trump was indirectly connected to Meyer Lansky. Pic related. Read the story on the right hand side. It mentions Lansky.

But the story on the left is the one about Trump.

More garbage shill threads. Sage.