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https://www.thedailybeast.com/no-celebrities-embarrassing-turnout-at-trumps-beverly-hills-fundraiser?via=FB_Page&source=TDB&fbclid=IwAR3kw_h0pwruGOpLuMKEx0QgGYKVShq7rBPH34LrvIu5l3w60Qn2TqSf3YwNo Celebrities: Embarrassing Turnout at Trumps Beverly Hills Fundraiser
Tickets for the event allegedly started at $15,000 and went as high as $150,000.
Tarpley Hitt
04.06.19 2:41 AM ET
BEVERLY HILLS, CaliforniaLate Friday afternoon, Donald Trump landed in Los Angeles for a re-election fundraiser. The event was organized by Trump Victory, a fundraising partnership between the Republican National Convention and Trumps campaign, and aimed to raise an estimated $5 million for the party. It was the presidents third visit to the celebrity-hub city and, by all accounts, not a star-studded one.
Celebrities? No celebrities, Rabbi Marvin Hier said of the event. Hier is the dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and gave the prayer at Trumps inauguration. Multiple valets in royal blue jackets, who declined to give their names because of their job, echoed his sentiment.
No celebrities, said one valet, driving past in a golf cart.
Yeah, no celebrities, said a second.
The event was held in the 22,000-square-foot Beverly Hills home of health-care executive and GOP donor Lee Samson. The 15-bathroom Italian-style limestone villa runs about $10 million, according to Zillow, and was named Robb Reports Ultimate Home of the Year in 2012. Tickets started at $15,000 for dinner, $50,000 for a photo op with Trump, and $150,000 to join his roundtable discussion, according to an invitation obtained by the City News Service.
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200, Marlene corrected.
No, 200 couples, he said.
Dont quote him on that. It wasnt 400.
According to the Washington Post, 170 people attended the event at Samsons home.
It was a big turnout. It was wonderful, Rabbi Hier said. We couldnt stay because of the sabbath. But the president shook hands with us. It was very nice... We couldnt see the speech. The sabbath begins. Thats why were rushing home. It was sumptuous. There were a lot of things to eat. A beautiful home.
samplegirl
(11,502 posts)need em?
IndianaDave
(612 posts)Susan was working on her speech about the vacuous nature of the Democratic Party.
Kid Shock was composing a musical rendition of his acceptance speech for the Republican Convention in 2020.
These are busy people.
keithbvadu2
(36,937 posts)Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)How does somebody from the Wiesenthal Center end up in Trump's orbit?
Delphinus
(11,841 posts)I was surprised by that myself.
MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)-backing a known racist? Geez
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)HuskyOffset
(890 posts)IndianaDave
(612 posts)UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)obamanut2012
(26,142 posts)That was very good!
Little Star
(17,055 posts)MrsCoffee
(5,803 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)watoos
(7,142 posts)to pal up with a Nazi.
Cha
(297,733 posts)effusively praising a trump event.
True Blue American
(17,989 posts)May be the reason I received a huge 2 foot invitation in the mail congratulating me for being a founding member of the ,Presidential Coalition!
Keep in mind the more money I give the higher I go in the Organization, from grass roots level to Platinum Status!
I am so thrilled to have this huge picture of Trump in my house I am placing it in the trash bin!
scrutineer
(1,156 posts)to train puppies or line a bird cage...
marble falls
(57,275 posts)True Blue American
(17,989 posts)Too stiff!
JHB
(37,162 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)I would not attend one of his hate fests. Repulsive, ugly, ignorant, orange-tinted con man. I am waiting for the "oranges" of his election to be revealed. Guess people with plenty of money can still be sadly lacking in brains and common sense.
marble falls
(57,275 posts)the trick would be finding someone to go the $150,000 for me.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Vinca
(50,310 posts)Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)JI7
(89,276 posts)"stars" ?
Submariner
(12,509 posts)thesquanderer
(11,993 posts)DirtEdonE
(1,220 posts)mgardener
(1,820 posts)Didn't show?????
watoos
(7,142 posts)to set up a golf outing at Trump's course?
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)If my recollection is right, he never has played with Trump, several other players have not also.
llmart
(15,555 posts)Maybe he's a fake rabbi.
Lucky Luciano
(11,261 posts)Deeply religious mostly suck no matter the religion.
FakeNoose
(32,777 posts)... however I wouldn't know how many of them support Chump. It has to do with the GOP supporting arms for Israel even in spite of their buddies in the oil countries. You'd think the "Nazi" tag would be a problem for them, but who knows?
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)It was more of a Republican thing for him than liking rump. Soon after they moved to Florida. I wonder how he is going to vote next time after he's been clearly shown what rump is all about. When Charlottesville happened I thought of him and that he actually voted for this person.
Hopeful rump is going to be routed in 2020.
Maggiemayhem
(811 posts)Dazbog
(39 posts)I happen to know his partner, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, who has a daughter that lives in my town, in my synagogue which I just attended today, and even saw Rabbi Cooper's grandchildren.
Sometimes I hate being an Orthodox Jew. Too many rituals and boredom.
Tarc
(10,476 posts)Landing n Hollywood, hen can't even rustle up his D-listers. Hilarious.
marble falls
(57,275 posts)and to convefe with Donny Twoscoops.
tanyev
(42,623 posts)Last edited Sat Apr 6, 2019, 11:48 AM - Edit history (1)
I beg your pardon! No, seriously, Im begging for a pardon.
whathehell
(29,095 posts)tanyev
(42,623 posts)whathehell
(29,095 posts)Demonaut
(8,927 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,212 posts)It amazes me how people are so willing to foget history for some temporary political power.
Trump cheers on and defends murdering Nazis in one breath then moves the embassy in Israel to suit conservative Jews in the next breath. My guess is the Rabbi thinks those Nazis Trump so carefully cultivates wont come after him cause, you know, he's rich.
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babylonsister
(171,094 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)so red states will embrace us?
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lunatica
(53,410 posts)It has nothing to do with what Democrats stand for. Celebrities can choose for themselves who they support, and quite a few of them support the Republicans, so your statement is groundless.
Barbara Streisand hasnt been active politically for decades, so that labeling attempt on your part fails.
And what the hell do you call Trump if not a celebrity with his beauty pageants and his The Apprentice show?
Your elitist snob argument is self defeating at best since the MAGATs are crazed over Mr. elitist snob in spades himself.
Cha
(297,733 posts)falling for the rw talking point about "celebrities" because most of them support Democratic principles.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)every time.
HAB911
(8,916 posts)Bayard
(22,168 posts)Does he get to fly to these events on Air Force One? You know, our plane?
HipChick
(25,485 posts)loyalsister
(13,390 posts)What's really embarrassing is that some voters are so impressed by celebrities that they would even care if they showed up at a political fundraiser. But, I guess it speaks to how he got there. And of course that is also humiliating.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Self promoted all the way.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)It speaks to how he got to be president.
Initech
(100,105 posts)Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)Michelle Xai, a young woman with a Monroe facial piercing, a megaphone, and dozens of anti-fascist stickers on her clothes, carried two signs, each with the names and images of children who died in Border Patrol custody. She was there on behalf of RefuseFascism.org, an activist organization which conducts sustained nonviolent protests at Trump-related events. Xai had already attended dozens.
MagickMuffin
(15,958 posts)Very weird behavior to have to inflate numbers to appear like there's always a larger crowd, of having more money then they do.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Self promoted all the way, starting decades ago with every scam he could think of.
And the MAGATs claim to hate celebrities!
MandelaObama
(25 posts)Guess he was too busy with his flourishing career watching reruns of "Charles in Charge"
Hotler
(11,445 posts)"The event was held in the 22,000-square-foot Beverly Hills home of health-care executive and GOP donor Lee Samson."