According to an article in The New Times titled “Inside the Worst Three Weeks of Donald Trump’s 2024 Campaign,” Trump has been getting into multiple private and public disputes with his allies and supporters, driven by his growing frustration over the campaign’s trajectory. The report suggests that his anger has made him vulnerable to manipulation, leading to confrontations with key backers.
One such conflict has emerged with Israeli-American casino billionaire Miriam Adelson, a prominent supporter of Trump’s previous campaigns. Sources familiar with the situation revealed that Trump instructed his aide, Natalie Harp, to send a series of angry text messages to Adelson. These messages criticized the management of Adelson’s super PAC, Preserve America, which has been pouring millions of dollars into pro-Trump advertising efforts in crucial battleground states. The texts accused the super PAC’s leaders of being “RINOs” (Republicans in name only) and suggested that Adelson’s late husband, Sheldon Adelson, would not have tolerated their approach.
Preserve America, a key financial force in Trump’s re-election bid, has reportedly been spending around $18 million weekly on advertisements in three swing states. The fallout from these texts is particularly striking given that Trump and Adelson had a cordial meeting just a week prior at the Republican National Convention.
The Times report also highlights the role of another influential figure, Ike Perlmutter, the former chairman of Marvel Entertainment. Perlmutter, another significant Trump donor, allegedly pushed Trump to attack Adelson, hoping to sway her support towards a rival super PAC that he backs. Despite these efforts, Adelson has not reduced her financial support for Trump, though sources close to the campaign express concerns that the incident could potentially impact her future contributions.
Adelson and her late husband were among Trump’s largest donors in the 2020 and 2016 elections, and they played a critical role in advocating for the relocation of the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Spokespeople for both Adelson and Perlmutter declined to comment on the situation.
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First things first, if anyone believes a word in the Slimes, I have a bridge that I’m about to sell you.
And if they are going to pull support for President Trump, then they are RINOs because they are showing that they are Republicans only in name.
Anything coming out of trash NYT is Fake News!
JJ: You cannot be that stupid. The same story that appeared in the NYT, also has been circulating on the right wing blogs. There is a growing internal debate among the RNC and several of the large supposed MAGA PACs on whether there are sufficient funds focused on traditional “get out the vote” efforts at the local and state levels versus national media buys, internet ads etc. The Adelson PAC and others are extremely frustrated with Trump’s seemingly endless obsession with personal grievances, litigating the 2020 election, the personality attacks etc. rather than focusing on the positives and the policy differences with the Dems. They want to win this time and cannot understand why Trump’s campaign is seemingly shooting itself in the foot on an almost daily basis. Adelson is singularly focused on winning in November, on unconditionally supporting EY and has been vocal in criticizing these daily Trump campaign reversions to his personal grievance agenda.
Bunch of super rich snobs who only care about their own power
Don’t believe everything you read especially in the fake news NY Slimes or the New Slimes, same garbage.
Donald Trump is tough as nails and knows how to handle himself and those around him.
Trump does has a problem being a team player, and realizing that the “team” is more than his own MAGA circle. A big part of the problem is that he never had to deal anyone he couldn’t intimidate, e.g., all the corporate boards he dealt were corporations he owned rather the public corporations held by shareholders who weren’t controlled by management. He needs to learn to “play well with others” (and especially with other Republicans and conservatives, since MAGA only won’t win an election).