A major donor to the Republican Party has said that he will not back Donald Trump if he takes another run for the Presidency in 2024.
Ken Griffin is a super-wealthy hedge fund manager. During the last election cycle, he donated around $46million to GOP politicians, making him the fourth-biggest donor to the Republicans last year, reports Bloomberg.
That’s a serious amount of money.
In a public discussion with Erik Schatzker at the Economic Club of Chicago yesterday, Griffin said he’s never personally donated to Trump in the past … and that won’t change if Trump decides to run again in 2024.
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“I think it’s time for America to move on,” said Griffin, before going on to call Trump, “so pointlessly divisive.”
Griffin also said he was “appalled” by some aspects of Trump’s behavior, including his willingness to “attack people based on where they came from or the color of their skin.” Heralding from South Florida, Griffin said he found Trump’s attacks on the Hispanic community “incredibly offensive,” adding: “We need to put that chapter of American history behind us.”
He did offer Trump some praise, calling his economic policies “pretty damn good.” Clearly, not so good that he’d want to see Trump return to the White House.
Although Trump might brush off criticism from someone who has not donated to him in the past. Griffin’s standing as a top GOP donor means his words carry weight. Also, if he’s no intention of donating to Trump, any donations he makes instead may go toward helping a GOP rival for the Presidency.
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Griffin’s comments come a day after former White House aide, and Apprentice contestant, Omarosa Manigault Newman also poured cold water on the idea of Donald Trump running again in 2024. Manigault Newman questioned whether Trump’s health was strong enough.
“I don’t know if he will even be healthy enough to run in 2024, and I think he needs to come clean to the American people about where he is on that before getting into a very stressful and strenuous race for the White House,” she said in an appearance on MSNBC.
The Washington Post reported on Monday that advisers to Trump have advised the former President to hold off announcing whether he intends to run again in 2024 until at least after the midterm elections.
They think if he announces now, and Republicans fail to secure the Senate or House in 2022, Trump could be blamed.
“The biggest point we drove home was that he doesn’t want to own the midterms if we don’t win back the House or Senate,” said one source, who spoke to the Post on the condition of anonymity.
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On top of the criticism from Griffin and Manigault Newman, today (October 5) also see the publication of a tell-all memoir by former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham. Entitled I’ll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw in the Trump White House.
Extracts of the book have already been serialized in several news outlets, and they paint a picture of a toxic and chaotic environment within the Trump administration.
Grisham says during Trump’s time at the White House, it was “a hot mess 24/7”, and resembled “a clown car on fire running at full speed into a warehouse full of fireworks.”
Mister P
Aw come on. Keep giving the idiot money.
Matthewnow
I hope Melania sits on Trump’s face and craps.
Cam
Why do you think she doesn’t regularly do that…….at his request?
Kangol2
Now he thinks Don the Con is “divisive”? What BS. Don the Con began his campaign in 2015 by slandering Mexico and Mexicans, remember? He fomented hate against Muslims, Black people, Latinxs, immigrants, migrants, women, the poor, people in cities, Jewish people, trans people, you name it. He appointed judges and backed fellow Republicans who are rabidly anti-LGBTQ. He had a gay puppet who claimed he was pushing for LGBTQ rights all over the globe, but did not openly condemn Hungary, Poland, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Uganda, Kenya, etc., let alone Russia, over their horrible record of mistreatment of LGBTQ people. The treasonous, corrupt liar Don the Con’s campaign and government repeatedly reached out to and possibly colluded with Russia, the US’s clear enemy, as the Mueller Report and the bipartisan US Senate Intelligence Reports made clear. Don the Con also engaged in disastrous policies with China, and has never explained his secret bank account there. In addition, Don the Con’s “economic policies” not only created some of the worst inequality on record and blew up the US debt by $7.8 TRILLION, because the GOP under Don the Con was spending like drunken sailors, but in 2020, Don the Con presided over the worst US economic collapse since the Great Depression, with 20 million jobs lost, crime surging up to 1980s levels, and mass death (600,000 dead because of Don the Con’s horrific incompetence), on top of everything else. And the Don the Con and his minions tried to stage a coup, right here in the USA! Now this idiot is admitting that Don the Con was and is “divisive”? Go back to your superrich bubble or vampire’s nest or wherever you hide away and leave the rest of us alone!
white-queer-african
LOCK HIM UP!
And his brood, cronies and enablers.
GayConservMan
You guys are HYSTERICALLY FUNNY!
Your ENTIRE article is about a man who will not donate to TRUMP if he runs for office again, yet he never donated to TRUMP in the first place!?!?
Wow! YOU DID JOURNALISM!!! ROFL!!!!!
Cam
I love it when the desperate right wing troll tries.
Sweetie, as the 4th largest donor to the GOP, he is telling them that if Trump runs, he might not donate to Trump supporting politicians running.
That’s not nothing. And the fact that you’re enraged it’s getting press shows you know that too.
Mundo
Thanks Cam for always pointing out the trolls,
Invader7
To quote Rose Nylund of the ‘ Golden Girls ‘… Rose : ” It was a tragedy . She was my only real competition . Dead, dead, dead. Muffin ? ” Substitute Agolf Twitterler for she and it becomes a TRULY good day for America and the rational ,sane, mentally balanced among us when the Orange Monster declares his re- run for the 2024 presidency. He’ll SCREW over the other Republithug cons , hand the midterms to the Dems , and ruin the other presidential campaign candidates chances of getting nominated or elected… The he DIES after he becomes the sole Republithug candidate but before the election in Nov 2024 !!! And a Democrat WINS again , pisses off the right wing PSYCHOS and SAVES America from the destruction Agolf Twitterler and his Neo Nazi FASCIST supporters inflicted on the USA…… ” Dead, dead, dead “
Invader7
Good. You deserve it – you cretin Neo NAZI Fascist low life douche bag scum !!!
MISTERJETT
you forgot LYING ASSHOLE!!!!!
Creamsicle
Is Ted Griffin related to Kenneth Griffin? Kenneth is the hedge fund manager who allegedly lied to Congress under oath about imposing buying restrictions on Gamestop, AMC, and other meme stocks at the end of January 2021?
Fahd
Trump is a cancer– in remission right now that he’s out of office, but looming, and with the potential to recur. I have new empathy for cancer survivors.
I like to think that Trump himself doesn’t want to run again, I can’t really see him interested in the job – he never was.
Not announcing his 2024 run is his most profitable position because he can continue to raise money until the last minute from all the dopes who have drunk the Koolaide. Those “contributions” eventually find their way into his own personal revenue stream.
Meanwhile, him not running works fine for the Republicans up for reelection in 2022. Some can use “I’m with Trump” as their campaign slogan where it will get them reelected, and the few Republicans in districts where Trump support is a loser can distance themselves. Trump not being an announced candidate will likely lead to fewer anti-Trump voters coming to the poll in 2022.
It’s better and more profitable for everybody if he doesn’t announce – my hope is that he’ll cite health concerns in the end when he announces he’s not running. He’s a physical wreck and getting worse from what I’ve heard.
As regards Republican donors, who’s going to replace Sheldon Adelsen as the new kingmaker now that he’s dead?
whateverokok
Who cares? What did you think politicians were? There for your best interests? Um, NO!!! And all this PC bullcrap has only made it worse. You now have to reap what you sow. I’ll be sitting here listening to my live Phish show and laughing my a– off.
GayEGO
Good for Ted Griffin, Trump is a loser!