Sheldon Adelson, perhaps the single most important Jewish donor to the Republican Party, showed up in Cleveland Tuesday for the party’s national convention. The megadonor arrived to take part in a foreign policy discussion hosted by the Republican Jewish Coalition. Adelson is expected to contribute up to $100 million to the Donald Trump campaign. But…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Republican Party convention is asking Sheldon Adelson to cover a $6 million shortfall triggered by sponsors walking out over the nominee, Donald Trump. Politico reported Thursday that the appeal to the casino magnate came July 12, just six days before the July 18 launch of the convention in Cleveland. The convention…
Donald Trump has been having a difficult time raising money from donors. Just how difficult? He ended the month of May with a mere $1.3 million in his war chest, while his rival Hillary Clinton boasted $42 million in fundraising during the same filing period. It should have looked different, at least based on the…
Donald Trump may have the full support of Jewish mega-donor Sheldon Adelson, along with his reported pledge of $100 million, but the New York billionaire might sorely miss several other Jewish Republican donors turned off by his views on immigration and minorities and his choice of words and tone. As the general election heats up,…
WASHINGTON — Sheldon Adelson and the Republican Jewish Coalition reportedly are planning to bring Donald Trump to Israel. The Guardian over the weekend quoted what it said were sources close to the casino magnate as saying that the RJC – one of Adelson’s major beneficiaries – was planning the trip at Adelson’s behest, although nothing…
Now that Sheldon Adelson, one of the richest Jews on the planet, has endorsed Donald Trump and pledged to spend lots of his considerable fortune to elect the presumed Republican nominee for president, how should the Jewish community react? What a silly question, you might say. Why should the Jewish community have a response one…
Quickly assuming the mantle of Donald Trump’s chief Jewish advocate, Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon Adelson has reached out to Republican Jewish leaders asking them to follow his lead and contribute to Trump’s presidential campaign. “Like many of you, I do not agree with him on every issue,” Adelson wrote board members of the Republican Jewish…
WASHINGTON — Sheldon Adelson plans to spend tens of millions of dollars to help elect Donald Trump, the New York Times . The casino billionaire, Republican megagiver and pro-Israel philanthropist last week declared his support for Trump in a Washington post Op-Ed but did not say whether that would mean a cash infusion. The Times…
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