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Gungnir

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5. As Trump Momentum Grows, An Unexpected Supporter Emerges (Hollywood)
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 02:23 AM
Mar 2016
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-11/trump-momentum-grows-unexpected-supporter-emerges

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the entertainment industry's rare conservatives (and independents) are lining up behind Trump — the real-estate mogul considered one of their own as a former TV star and producer.
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The numbers in support of Trump are staggering: "For every Cruz or Rubio supporter I talk to, there are 10 Trump supporters,” says one conservative wealth manager who has a deep bench of entertainment industry clients. He didn't want to speak publicly, though he admitted most of his firm's left-leaning clientele support Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

“I tell them, ‘if you don’t want to feel the Bern, convert your IRAs now rather than pay his 92 percent tax rate.’ I know they like their Teslas, private schools and million-dollar-mansions, but they won’t afford all that if they’re allowed to keep only 8 percent of their income.”
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To be sure, there's the conservative stars that are openly Republican. Actor John Voight, whose daughter Angelina Jolie is famously Liberal-leaning, threw his support to Trump on March 8. “I pray all Americans who have seen and felt the meltdown of America with the Obama years, to please fight for Donald Trump,” Voight said in his endorsement. Beyond Voight, celebrities outwardly supporting The Donald include Ted Nugent, Kid Rock, Stephen Baldwin and Duck Dynasty’s Willie Robertson, though there are many more in Hollywood are supportive but less vocal.

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