Get ready. There isn’t going to be another shoe to drop, it’s going to be more like an entire wing of Mar-a-Lago that comes crashing down, when Donald Trump finds gets wind of this. As you know, the governor of Florida has been busy in Israel, among other foreign locales. What is now coming to light is that Ron DeSantis has been having seen having dinner with Miriam Adelson and others. Adelson is the widow of Sheldon Adelson, a top casino mogul in Nevada and a major contributor to the Republican party and specifically to the 2020 Trump campaign. Axios:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis privately dined with Miriam Adelson — Trump’s top financial backer in 2020 — and other major GOP donors in Jerusalem yesterday, Axios’ Barak Ravid and Sophia Cai report.
Why it matters: DeSantis, considered Trump’s top rival for the GOP nomination, is expected to announce his presidential exploratory committee in the coming weeks.
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Politico reported in October 2022 that Adelson, widow to the late billionaire Sheldon Adelson, told several possible Republican candidates that she plans to stay neutral in the 2024 primary.
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But the image of Adelson dining with DeSantis is likely to infuriate Trump, who has treated virtually any sign of Republican support for the Florida governor as a personal affront.
Infuriate him? His TOP 2020 donor breaking bread with DeSantis? This is going to cause a ketchup tsunami, mark my words.
And that’s not the only betrayal. Not by a long shot.
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The dinner was hosted by Larry Mizel, a Denver-based business executive and philanthropist who founded the museum. In 2016, Mizel was the finance chairman for the Trump campaign in Colorado.
Behind the scenes:Â DeSantis sat between Adelson and Mizel during the dinner in Jerusalem, which lasted for about two hours, according to sources in the room.
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Sheldon and Miriam Adelson were early backers of DeSantis when he ran for governor in 2018, contributing at least $500,000 to the Friends of Ron DeSantis PAC.
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The Adelsons were also Trump’s biggest donors. In the 2020 election, $90 million of the more than $200 million they contributed to Republican groups and candidates went to Trump’s presidential campaign.
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Trump awarded Miriam Adelson the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018. Sheldon Adelson died in 2021.
Trumpty’s not going to see any $90 million from Miriam this year. Not with DeSantis there to pick her pocket.
Zoom in: DeSantis referred to Miriam Adelson as a “friend” in a speech he gave at the Museum of Tolerance today focused on the U.S.-Israel relationship.
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In another move sure to provoke Trump, DeSantis presented the former president’s decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem as partly his own achievement — saying he worked to “cajole” the administration to make the move.
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DeSantis didn’t mention Trump by name.
Follow the money. You can never go wrong when you follow the money.
We’ll see after deSatan announces and has to file FEC reports who is getting the big bucks and who is scraping the bottom of the barrel for donors. Some mega rich guy in FL, former supporter of the gov named Peterffy, has already cut the Floriduh gov loose. If he can’t satisfy the people in his own backyard, the people who presumably know him best, I think the money tap closes rather quickly. He does have $30 mil left over from his last campaign, but that’s not enough for the primary alone.
Miriam Adelson is quite a large fish. Good catch — assuming she writes DeSantis a big check.
Casino’s.
Ever notice how organized crime seems to run them? So much for law and order from russian blowing republiCLOWNS who line up behind a failed concentration camp guard and his cancer victim “wife”…
It’s not the other shoe that will drop, it’s an entire case of ketchup. The illgals cleaning Mar a Lago will earn their bread crusts now!