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63splitwindow

(2,657 posts)
Sat Aug 27, 2016, 08:53 PM Aug 2016

Here is why Don the Con recently said he had some "regrets"...

source: The New York Times

Donald Trump Appears to Take Sheldon Adelson’s Advice on Humility

" Donald J. Trump met privately last week with Sheldon G. Adelson, the billionaire casino magnate, who this spring pledged to contribute as much as $100 million to support Mr. Trump’s campaign but has not yet followed through on that commitment.

Meeting in his suite in New York’s St. Regis hotel, Mr. Adelson, the chief executive of Las Vegas Sands and one of the Republican Party’s largest donors, told Mr. Trump that he was committed to his campaign, but urged the brash candidate to demonstrate a measure of humility, according to five Republicans briefed on the conversation who were not authorized to discuss it publicly.

The conversation took place last Wednesday, the day before Mr. Trump used a rally in Charlotte, N.C., to say, without offering any specific examples, that he had regrets over “saying the wrong thing.”
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read more at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/politics/sheldon-adelson-donald-trump.html?_r=0

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demgrrrll

(3,590 posts)
1. Regrets, I've had a few, enough to fill the library of congresssssssss
Sat Aug 27, 2016, 09:09 PM
Aug 2016

But more, much more than this, I did it myyyyyyyyyyy wayyyyyyyyyyyyy. Interesting that Mr. Adelson has not made a contribution.

Walk away

(9,494 posts)
2. How is Adelson going to square giving $100,000,000 to a campaign run by an avowed anti-Semite?????
Sat Aug 27, 2016, 09:12 PM
Aug 2016

Stephen Bannon must be laughing his ass off at the prospect of spending Sheldon's bank roll while he stokes the hatred of Jews by the "Alt-Right".
Proof that you can be a multi-Billionaire and still be a complete moron.

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