'No Celebrities': Embarrassing Turnout at Trump's Beverly Hills Fundraiser

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‘No Celebrities’: Embarrassing Turnout at Trump’s 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, California—Late 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 Trump’s campaign, and aimed to raise an estimated $5 million for the party. It was the president’s 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 Trump’s 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 Report’s 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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“Hundreds of people came,” Hier said. “Probably 400 people.”

“200,” Marlene corrected.

“No, 200 couples,” he said.

“Don’t quote him on that. It wasn’t 400.”

According to the Washington Post, 170 people attended the event at Samson’s home.

“It was a big turnout. It was wonderful,” Rabbi Hier said. “We couldn’t stay because of the sabbath. But the president shook hands with us. It was very nice... We couldn’t see the speech. The sabbath begins. That’s why we’re rushing home. It was sumptuous. There were a lot of things to eat. A beautiful home.”

[samplegirl]

1. Where's Clint, Susan or kid jock when ya

need em?

[IndianaDave]

8. Clint was at home, having incoherent dialogs with each empty chair he sees.

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]

65. Or pedophile Ted Nugent?

[Turbineguy]

2. Strange bedfellows.

How does somebody from the Wiesenthal Center end up in Trump's orbit?

[Delphinus]

20. I know!

I was surprised by that myself.

[MaryMagdaline]

36. Oh my God. This is not Simon Wiesenthal's Center anymore

-backing a known racist? Geez

[Kurt V.]

3. no james woods?

[HuskyOffset]

9. James Woods was there, but no celebrities were (NT)

[Kurt V.]

11. LOL

[IndianaDave]

12. That's great! I had a good laugh!

[Soxfan58]

29. ...

[UniteFightBack]

39. Bwaahhahahahhahaha nt

[obamanut2012]

44. hahahah

[Takket]

45. +999

[lunatica]

47. LOL!

That was very good!

[Little Star]

63. Made me laugh!

[MrsCoffee]

69. Zing!

[NurseJackie]

73. Bazinga!

[watoos]

4. Must be a forgiving Rabbi,

to pal up with a Nazi.

[Cha]

60. Really. It's surreal reading a rabbi

effusively praising a trump event.

[True Blue American]

5. Trouble raising money?

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]

13. Surely you could use that picture of Trump

to train puppies or line a bird cage...

[marble falls]

22. There's just some things even a bird or a puppy won't go near.

[True Blue American]

25. I thought of other uses.

Too stiff!

[JHB]

49. Using something that would scare the shit out of puppies seems counterproductive.

[Totally Tunsie]

66. There are legal penalties for animal abuse. n/t

[Scarsdale]

6. Even if they paid me,

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]

23. I'd go just to get a few words in at the "round table" before SS muffles and drags me out ...

the trick would be finding someone to go the $150,000 for me.

[UniteFightBack]

40. I would go to a rally if I could...I want to see these creatures up close. nt

[lunatica]

48. It's all orange covfefe

[Vinca]

7. When you can't get Ted "Fill Ur Pants" Nugent and Meatloaf to show, it's just sad.

[Bob Loblaw]

19. Capt. "Shityerpants" Nugent

[JI7]

10. how about people line Kevin Sorbo, Dean Cain , Tim Allen, and other

"stars" ?

[Submariner]

14. birthers Jon Voight and Kelsey Grammar, Chachi

[thesquanderer]

15. I guess they didn't want hamberders. (n/t)

[DirtEdonE]

16. Or origin juice. nt

[mgardener]

17. Sarah Palin

Didn't show?????

[watoos]

18. No Jack Nicklaus or Phil Mickelson,

to set up a golf outing at Trump's course?

[Blue_true]

67. Has Phil Mickelson played golf with Trump?

If my recollection is right, he never has played with Trump, several other players have not also.

[llmart]

21. I'm still trying to process that a rabbi would cozy up to Trump.

Maybe he's a fake rabbi.

[Lucky Luciano]

27. Maybe he's orthodox. Orthodox Jews approve of fuckface by a large margin.

Deeply religious mostly suck no matter the religion.

[FakeNoose]

32. FYI a lot of Jewish people are political conservatives

... 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]

41. I dogsat for an orthodox Jewish couple and the husband was voting rump - this was pre election.

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]

34. Maybe they have Sheldon Adelson disease.

[Dazbog]

52. I can tell you Rabbi Hier is a real Orthodox Rabbi.

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]

24. Couldn't even wrangle up a Kevin Sorbo, or Scott Baio?

Landing n Hollywood, hen can't even rustle up his D-listers. Hilarious.

[marble falls]

26. The "celebs" wanted to go, alright, they just didn't want to pay for quarter pounders ...

and to convefe with Donny Twoscoops.

[tanyev]

28. No Aunt Becky accidentally bumping into Trump so she can beg for a pardon?

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“I beg your pardon! No, seriously, I’m begging for a pardon.”

[whathehell]

53. .."Aunt Becky"?

[tanyev]

59. Lori Loughlin's character on Full House.

[whathehell]

64. Got it. Thanks. n/t.

[Demonaut]

30. cmon, no top names like Kid Rock, Nugent, Voight. Lucifer?

[Farmer-Rick]

31. Those fine murdering Nazis that Trump praises don't seem to bother the Rabbi

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.

[babylonsister]

35. It is for him; he thrives on the attention. nt

[lunatica]

50. So the solution is to have no celebrities

so red states will embrace us?

[lunatica]

56. First of all that "elitist snob" thing is a MAGAt talking point

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 hasn’t 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]

62. Thank You, lunatica! That's ridiculous

falling for the rw talking point about "celebrities" because most of them support Democratic principles.

[lunatica]

72. That and the 'concern' thing needs to be confronted

every time.

[HAB911]

37. Where the hell was Jon Voight??

[Bayard]

38. Just a question

Does he get to fly to these events on Air Force One? You know, our plane?

[HipChick]

43. yup..sure does..at taxpayers expense

[loyalsister]

42. Having a president that makes that headline possible is humiliating

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]

57. Don't forget Trump is first of all a celebrity

Self promoted all the way.

[loyalsister]

61. That's what I was getting at

It speaks to how he got to be president.

[Initech]

46. Womp womp!

[Leghorn21]

51. That's okay - Michelle Xai was there:

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]

54. Another inflation of numbers

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]

58. Well if Trump was there then there was one celebrity there.

Self promoted all the way, starting decades ago with every scam he could think of.

And the MAGATs claim to hate celebrities!

[MandelaObama]

68. They couldn't even get Scott Biao?

Guess he was too busy with his flourishing career watching reruns of "Charles in Charge"

[Hotler]

70. Your health care dollars at work.

"The event was held in the 22,000-square-foot Beverly Hills home of health-care executive and GOP donor Lee Samson."

[kskiska]

71. Not even Pat Boone?