GraceRandolph Posted June 10 Posted June 10 NEW YORK — Wall Street executives spent three years doing everything they could to distance themselves from former President Donald Trump. Now they're busy coming up with reasons to vote for the guy. Many high-dollar donors at banks, hedge funds and other financial firms had turned their backs on Trump as he spun unfounded claims that the 2020 election had been stolen and savaged the judicial system with attacks. Today, they're setting aside those concerns, looking past qualms about his personality and willingness to bulldoze institutional norms and focusing instead on issues closer to the heart: how he might ease regulations, cut their taxes or flex U.S. power on the global stage. "I don't know that anyone really believed he was a threat to democracy," said Point Bridge Capital founder Hal Lambert, an investor and Republican donor. Lambert had backed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the 2024 primary but is now supporting Trump. Republican business titans from hedge fund executive Nelson Peltz to hotel mogul Robert Bigelow have come out in favor of the presumptive GOP nominee. Even those who loudly denounced Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election are backing his bid to return to the White House. Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman — who once labeled the U.S. Capitol insurrection that followed a Trump speech on Jan. 6, 2021, "an affront to the democratic values" of the country — is once again one of the former president's most important allies on Wall Street. Top financiers like hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman, who called on the then-president to resign over the riot, and Citadel's Ken Griffin, who dubbed Trump a "three-time loser" in elections, are considering offering their support. The new embrace of Trump threatens to further blunt the fundraising edge that President Joe Biden maintained through the opening innings of the 2024 campaign. But beyond that, it suggests that a key Biden argument — that Trump's actions since his 2020 defeat have made him unfit to lead the country again — is falling flat with a pivotal constituency that has an especially large stake in the rule of law. The former president "is a much better choice than what we have now. Just check out the four years that Trump was in office versus the three years that President Biden was in office," said John Catsimatidis, the billionaire New York radio station owner and real estate investor. Gas and food prices were lower. It was easier to conduct business, he said, and it was a lot cheaper to secure financing for second homes. "I remember I got a mortgage on one of my homes I bought in the suburbs for 2.75 percent," said Catsimatidis, who is estimated by Forbes to be worth $4.3 billion. "It's horrible what's going on." Though he's a longtime Trump ally, Catsimatidis is no longer an outlier among the Republican Party's top donors. Trump will have a major opportunity to persuade even more corporate leaders to support him when he speaks to the nation's top CEOs at the Business Roundtable's quarterly meeting on June 13. Biden will be traveling to Italy for the G7 meetings, so White House chief of staff Jeff Zients will address the Roundtable in his stead. Full article: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/10/billionaires-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-trump-00162219 1
ZeroSuitBritney Posted June 10 Posted June 10 2 minutes ago, aadrl1 said: The same OP and his 100000th Pro-Trump, Anti-Democrats thread on this forum The OP works harder than Trump here How is this a pro Trump / anti democrat thread, dupe account?
GraceRandolph Posted June 10 Author Posted June 10 39 minutes ago, aadrl1 said: The same OP and his 100000th Pro-Trump, Anti-Democrats thread on this forum The OP works harder than Trump here I voted Biden in 2020 and am voting 3rd party in 2024. Would never support Trump in 2 million years.
Gottasadae Posted June 10 Posted June 10 Oh wow, what a shocker It's obvious as a day that huge corporation sharks are gonna vote for Trump, they want to pay a low, unfair tax rates and bleed us for another billions in profit Look at dat clown Elon
Onyxmage Posted June 11 Posted June 11 Corrupt CEOs voting for a convicted Felon who cant even vote, own a gun or sit on a school council? Sounds about right.
If U Seek Amy Posted June 11 Posted June 11 These people were always going to support Trump if they previously did. They only said they wouldn't to avoid both public and governmental backlash at the time to protect their money. This means absolutely nothing they are just opportunists
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