U.S. Politics

[Davkaus]

I'm not quite sure what the logic is around which donors to include in that data either. I mean, even the top one of close to $1.3m is a pittance compared to some of the donations that both Trump and Hillary have recieved. I guess the above numbers are those directly to Clinton's campaign, whereas the ones in this list are to the respective parties? that's a complete guess so if anyone actually knows I'd be happy to be corrected
 

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Top 10 Republican Donors – $186.5 million

1. Sheldon Adelson - $47.4 million The casino magnate has a net worth of $31.7 billion, according to Forbes, making him the 19th richest person in the world.

2. Robert Mercer - $23.5 million The CEO of the hedge fund Renaissance Technologies was the Republican presidential primary’s biggest donor early this year, and has invested in conservative think tanks, such as the Heritage Foundation, as well as publications, like Breitbart.

3. Paul Singer - $23 million Another hedge fund manager, Singer joked in June that, because he wasn’t satisfied with the two viable presidential candidates, he might write himself in or not vote altogether. While 99 percent of his fund Elliot Management’s campaign donations have gone to Republicans, none of the money has supported Trump, who Singer said would trigger a global recession if elected.

4. Richard and Liz Uihlein - $21.5 million The Midwestern shipping company magnates use their wealth mainly to conservative causes in the Midwest, including Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. In August, Trump’s campaign named Liz Uihlein as a potential economic policy advisor.

5. Joe Ricketts - $14 million The founder and former CEO of Omaha, Nebraska-based TD Ameritrade is also a major funder of wildlife conservation efforts.

6. Ken Griffin - $13.6 million Illinois’ wealthiest man with a net worth of $7.5 billion, the CEO of Citadel has remained a part of the anti-Trump movement while contributing to conservative causes.

7. Warren Stephens - $13.2 million The billionaire investor, who gave up on the newspaper industrybefore joining a Little Rock-based investment bank started by his uncle, has spent millions in the effort to prevent Trump’s nomination.

8. Ron Cameron - $12.1 million The grandson of Mountaire Corp. founder Guy Cameron, who is now the Little Rock-based company’s CEO, is a major Trump donor.

9. Diane Hendricks - $9.6 million Like Liz Uihlein, the co-founder and chair of ABC Supply, who has a net worth of $3.7 billion, was named as a possible future economic advisor to Trump.

10. Bernie Marcus - $8.6 million The Home Depot founder, once a supporter of former Republican primary candidate Jeb Bush, wrote in RealClearPolitics that he has decided to back Trump “because the fate of this nation depends upon sending him, and not Hillary Clinton, to the White House.”

Top 10 Democratic Donors - $259.4 million

1. Thomas Steyer - $67.3 million The billionaire environmentalist and former hedge fund manager announced his support of Clinton in June, despite having long-standing ties to the Clinton family.

2. Donald Sussman - $39.1 million Another hedge fund manager, Sussman poured the majority of his donations into pro-Clinton PAC Priorities USA and has described himself as motivated by the need “to leave my children a better country.”

3. Fred Eychaner - $34.3 million The owner of Midwest media conglomerate Newsweb Corp., Eychaner started his career as a journalist and has been a major funder of Democratic campaignssince 1990.

4. Michael Bloomberg - $20.1 million The billionaire CEO and founder of Bloomberg L.P. and former mayor of New York City disparaged Trump when announcing his support for Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in July. He is the eighth richest man in the world, with a net worth of $42.5 billion, according to Forbes.

5. James Simons - $19.7 million The hedge fund manager, who has a net worth of $16.5 billion, founded the hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, which may sound familiar, as it is run by the second-largest donor of Republican campaign efforts.

6. George Soros - $ 19.5 million A supporter of refugees and the Black Lives Matter movement, the hedge fund manager has given $3 million to a PAC seeking to mobilize Hispanic voters.

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7. Jennifer Pritzker - $19.5 million Formerly James Pritzker, the CEO of Tawani Enterprises is the world’s only transgender billionaire.

8. Dustin Moskovitz - $17.3 million The 32-year-old co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg in a Harvard University dorm before dropping out of school and co-founding workflow software company Asana.

9. Haim Saban - $13.5 million The chair of Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications was born in Egypt to Jewish parents. He has called a possible Trump victory “disastrous” for Israel.

10. Marsha and Henry Laufer - $9.1 million Henry Laufer had served as the Vice President of Research at investment management firm Renaissance Technologies, founded by Democratic donor Simon and led by Republican donor Mercer. The couple has given generously to Priorities USA and Women Vote!

 

 

[Ikantcpell]

Iam hoping trump wins it, just for the meltdown it would cause and cries for a new election from all social justice warriors.

[StefanAVFC]

2 minutes ago, Ikantcpell said:

Iam hoping trump wins it, just for the meltdown it would cause and cries for a new election from all social justice warriors.

Really?

You're hoping for a narcissist, racist, rapist, chauvinist, tax-dodging, manipulative, child to gain control of the most powerful country in the world, purely to spite people who hold a different opinion to you?

What a load of shite.

[ChrisVillan]

8 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said:

Really?

You're hoping for a narcissist, racist, rapist, chauvinist, tax-dodging, manipulative, child to gain control of the most powerful country in the world, purely to spite people who hold a different opinion to you?

What a load of shite.

What are you, a social justice warrior? You're in favour of social justice?

What a terrible person.

[Ikantcpell]

Just now, StefanAVFC said:

Really?

You're hoping for a narcissist, racist, rapist, chauvinist, tax-dodging, manipulative, child to gain control of the most powerful country in the world, purely to spite people who hold a different opinion to you?

What a load of shite.

He would still be a much better president than Hillary.

[Davkaus]

4 minutes ago, Ikantcpell said:

He would still be a much better president than Hillary.

...Based on what? The man can hardly string a sentence together, he doesn't respect half of the population because of their gender, he's a bigot in almost every concievable way, he's not informed on even the most well covered events in international affairs.

He's got two court dates within a month of voting day ffs, one of which, let me reiterate, is for raping a 13 year old. Of course it's only a pretrial, he's not been found guilty. There's every chance that he waits for females to reach the age of consent before he sexually assaults them.

[StefanAVFC]

14 minutes ago, Ikantcpell said:

He would still be a much better president than Hillary.

Not the point I'm making though is it?

[tonyh29]

48 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said:

Really?

You're hoping for a narcissist, racist, rapist, chauvinist, tax-dodging, manipulative, child to gain control of the most powerful country in the world, purely to spite people who hold a different opinion to you?

What a load of shite.

can you point me to the article where Trump got convicted of rape as I seem to have missed it ....

[Davkaus]

Fair point. He's friends with a convicted sex offender and he privately brags about sexually assaulting women, but neither of those things are a crime and none of the many accusations against Trump have resulted in convictions. It's worth noting he's only due in court for one of them, and the rest haven't amounted to anything, which is reassuring

Edited November 3, 2016 by Davkaus

[tonyh29]

3 minutes ago, Davkaus said:

Fair point. He's friends with a convicted sex offender and he privately brags about sexually assaulting women, but neither of those things are a crime and none of the many accusations against Trump have resulted in convictions. It's worth noting he's only due in court for one of them, and the rest haven't amounted to anything, which is reassuring

I thought the 13 year old victim from years back cancelled her public appearance today , presumably the court case will shortly be dropped as well  ... of course nobody is suggesting that any money may have changed hands  , cough

[TrentVilla]

23 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

can you point me to the article where Trump got convicted of rape as I seem to have missed it ....

Oh here you go again, with your innocent until proven guilty, everyone deserves a fair trial liberalism again.

What's wrong with a show trial or lynching of innocent people once in a while aye?

Bloody lefty

[Davkaus]

She says she dropped it due to recieving several death threats. It's worth noting that there's also a witness supporting her accusation. Hard to blame her if she does get cold feet, Trump and his Lawyer are pretty ruthless, just ask his ex-wife.

 

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“I will make sure that you and I meet one day while we’re in the courthouse. And I will take you for every penny you still don’t have. And I will come after your Daily Beast and everybody else that you possibly know,” Cohen said. “So I’m warning you, tread very **** lightly, because what I’m going to do to you is going to be **** disgusting. You understand me?”

“You write a story that has Mr. Trump’s name in it, with the word ‘rape,’ and I’m going to mess your life up… for as long as you’re on this frickin’ planet… you’re going to have judgments against you, so much money, you’ll never know how to get out from underneath it,” he added.

 

 

Big words from the same lawyer that denied the rape accusation on the basis that a man can't rape his wife. 

It's still a long way from a proper trial, but you have to wonder if either of these candidates is going to last a year in the job.

Edited November 3, 2016 by Davkaus

[StefanAVFC]

9 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

I thought the 13 year old victim from years back cancelled her public appearance today

Because of death threats.

[tonyh29]

1 minute ago, TrentVilla said:

Oh here you go again, with your innocent until proven guilty, everyone deserves a fair trial liberalism again.

What's wrong with a show trial or lynching of innocent people once in a while aye?

Bloody lefty

 

but in a sort of pedant way , do we now refer to the footballer as  Ched Evans the Rapist , Chad Evans the innocent rapist or just Chad Evens the cockwomble 

 

so the same sorta applies to Trump , he's not a rapist yet , and I didn't dispute the other claims 

[tonyh29]

1 hour ago, Davkaus said:

She says she dropped it due to recieving several death threats. It's worth noting that there's also a witness supporting her accusation. Hard to blame her if she does get cold feet, Trump and his Lawyer are pretty ruthless, this is the letter they sent to the ex-wife that accused Trump of raping her.

thing with Jane Doe is the story appears  to have surfaced first with a video on sale for $1 m and then the services of a man who claims Love paid someone $50,000 to kill Cobain

that doesn't automatically make her a liar and Trump innocent or excuse the death threats  but , well you know  ....

 

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Doe filed a lawsuit in April which was dismissed for technical filing errors. She filed fresh lawsuits in June in New York and California.

The allegations have received less media attention than other claims of sexual assaults by Trump partly because they appeared to have been orchestrated by an eccentric anti-Trump campaigner with a record of making outlandish claims about celebrities.

Edited November 3, 2016 by tonyh29

[villakram]

There are plenty of stories about Bill hanging out on that Epstein Island too, e.g.,

http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/police-sources-confirm-officials-charges-bill-clinton-pedophile/

"The internet is swirling with details from sources in the New York Police Department, as people are trying to confirm alleged reports of former President Bill Clinton having sex with underage girls."

[Davkaus]

Another batch of emails leaked today.Most notably just showing how much the DNC utterly **** Sanders over.

A few people have said the only thing people keep using against Clinton is "emails emails emails". That's because there's 55,000 of them, and they're continuing to leak. The whole carelessness of conducting business through Gmail is a big deal, and a crime that she seems to have got away with. But there's an awful lot more coming out all of the time by digging through the mails sent by her and her team.

Interesting ones so far, her just casually talking about matters of national security over gmail https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/43648

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> Agree but there may be opportunities as the Iraqi piece improves. > > Also, any idea whose fighters attacked Islamist positions in Tripoli, > Libya? > Worth analyzing for future purposes.

The head of comms at the DNC saying she'd do anything she could to make Clinton President, back in 2015. Sanders never had a chance,

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/44143

 

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From: April Mellody <aprilmellody@gmail.com<mailto:aprilmellody@gmail.com>> Date: January 14, 2015 at 12:02:33 PM EST To: ntanden@americanprogress.org<mailto:ntanden@americanprogress.org> Subject: hrc Hi Neera! I am sure I am far from the first to make this offer but I want to make abundantly clear that I love to do anything at all to help in the effort elect HRC as our next POTUS. Anything. Anything at all. April

 

Clinton's campaign talking about moving around primary voting dates with the help of the DNC to give her an advantage against any other candidates, a year before she declared she was running https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/43823

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We agreed that if she gets a significant primary challenger, we need to consider changing course and getting NY, NJ, and maybe others to move their dates earlier to give her hefty early wins.

To give some context for that, they shuffled the date of the primary in NY so that the deadline to register to vote was before the first debate between Clinton and Sanders.

[Davkaus]

This is pretty intriguing. An engineer working on a project named after one of the owners of Google, that he's worried doesn't seem legit, and they're trying to sweeten things with a "position later on"...Hopefully more comes out about the nature of this.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/42784

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>> John, >> Mikey Dickerson was the lead engineer brought in to fix the Obamacare website (you probably know more about this than I do, but link below just in case). >> We are desperately trying to get him to oversee the Eric Schmidt project. He's apparently open to doing it but a little worried about how legit it is and what it means for later on. I was hoping you could call him to tell him how important the project is and how much faith higher ups would have in his ability to deliver a really good product ...and how that would inevitably mean a position later. >> I'm going to talk to him as well, but would be really helpful for him to hear the same talking points from you. We really want/need this guy running this project and let's just say he'd be a really strong CTO for a national campaign. >> Would you be able to do that? Mikey is low key so I'm not worried about him blabbing if you tell him it's a confidential conversation. >> Cheryl, adding you on here in case HRC may want to meet with him to discuss Obamacare website...that would REALLY help us make the case to him!!

 

[jon_c]

Whatever else you believe is true or not about Trump, he is a consistent and proven liar. He lies constantly, and is constantly found out about it. Why would anyone want to vote for a person who cannot be trusted on anything at all that they say. 

[OutByEaster?]

Tough choice - Hate or Greed.