Thread: Jewish GOP billionaire abandons Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump

Jewish GOP billionaire abandons Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump

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WASHINGTON – A fellow real estate billionaire of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has revoked his support for the candidate after incurring blowback for planning to attend a fundraiser in his name this weekend.

Martin Selig, a Jewish property developer who fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1939, originally cast his support for Trump as the default choice of a career member of the Republican Party.

“The fact that these are the two people who have been nominated for president, you have to live with that,” he said, in his tepid endorsement of the candidate.

Selig has now reversed course, stating that he will not participate in the planned August 30 fundraiser.

“Do you know what it’s like being a Jewish Republican in Seattle?” Selig told the Seattle Times. “The repercussions of what you hear from people is stunning.”

The phenomenon is not isolated to Seattle, however. Selig, worth an estimated $1.1 billion, was one of few Republican Jewish figures who had announced support for Trump nationwide.

While a handful of Jewish hedge fund managers have donated significant sums – including investor Carl Icahn, Trump’s old friend, and Cerberus Capital Management CEO Stephen Feinberg – most major billionaire GOP donors have held out, including Elliott Management Corporation founder Paul Singer, Baupost Group founder Seth Klarman, head of TRT Holdings Robert Rowling, Florida mega auto dealer Norman Braman and CAM Capital chairman Bruce Kovner.

Two other executives that had previously planned to co-host the Seattle event, Gordon Sondland and Bashar Wali, have also disavowed the candidate. Lifelong Republicans as well, both Sondland and Wali cited Trump’s treatment of the Khan family as the final straw that forced them to reconsider their support.

Speaking with The Jerusalem Post on Monday night, Selig said the event's organizers put his name on ​its invitation "without letting me know about it."

​"The Jewish people in this area are mostly Democrat," Selig said, who confirmed he will not attend to the fundraiser. He did not state whether or not he will vote for Trump in November. "That's just what it is. To be ​Jewish and Republican in this area has its complications."

​Selig sits on the board of the Republican Jewish Coalition.

http://www.jpost.com/US-Elections/Je...d-Trump-466377

"The Jewish people in this area are mostly Democrat," Selig said, who confirmed he will not attend to the fundraiser. He did not state whether or not he will vote for Trump in November. "That's just what it is. To be ​Jewish and Republican in this area has its complications."

You know, this is really a sad thing, that in our Republic with free elections, free speech, freedom of religion, multiculturalism, diversity, tolerance and dignity that a Jewish Republican has to withdraw from being a sponsor of a candidate he supports and wants to help become President of the United States is so pressured by "complications" in Seattle, because he's Jewish and a Republican, that he has to decline attending a fundraiser and withdraw his financial support for that candidate.

Is this where we expected our country to end up? Harming people with non-political "complications" because of their ethnicity and political party??! REALLY???

Well, thank the Democrats for that! Republicans may not vote for you because of your political affiliation, but we sure as hell aren't going to cause you "complications"in your personal and business affairs because as an individual you attended a fund-raiser and made a donation to a political candidate.

What is this country coming to?!

LET FREEDOM LIVE!!

VOTE FOR DONALD J TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!!

Meet the new American Democrat Socialist Nazis! They persecute people like Martin Selig, Donald Trump, and anyone that does not tote their party line!

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Exactly. It's unbelievable and outrageous! When their tactics intimidate a Jewish billionaire, imagine what their tactics have done to other more vulnerable voters in our inner cities.

Horrible. I always wondered how black Americans were so hard-lined Democrat when the policies of the Democratic Party kept them in slavery and then as second class citizens for 150 years after Republicans set them free from slavery and established equal rights for them.

I guess now we know. Threats, intimidation and worse. Horrible.

Focusing on multiculturalism and diversity seem to be dividing, not uniting messages.

Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeach

Focusing on multiculturalism and diversity seem to be dividing, not uniting messages.

When it's not our own multi-cultures and diversity, it is dividing.