Billionaire Sheldon Adelson Says He Might Give $100M To Newt Gingrich Or Other Republican
The Billionaire CEO of the Sands Casino mocks the American public that is angered by his attempts to buy the American Presidency. With an arrogance that can only come from having $25 billion in the bank, he openly mocks the fools that use his casino. He openly mocks the American way of doing things and the American sense of fair play and decency. The man is going to buy our White House just because he can and there is nothing that can stop him.
So the criticisms that he’s trying to personally buy the presidential election for Newt Gingrich are met with a roll of the eyes. “Those people are either jealous or professional critics,” Adelson tells me during his first interview since he and his wife began funneling $11 million, with another $10 million injection widely expected, into the former speaker’s super PAC, Winning Our Future. “They like to trash other people. It’s unfair that I’ve been treated unfair—but it doesn’t stop me. I might give $10 million or $100 million to Gingrich.”
Adelson, the 78-year-old CEO of casino giant Las Vegas Sands, certainly can afford to: With a net worth of roughly $25 billion, that $11 million, which jolted Gingrich’s flatlining presidential bid back to life, equates to 0.044% of his fortune. For someone with a $1 million net worth, the equivalent would be $440, or a two-night stay at Adelson’s Venetian casino. Adelson could personally fund an entire presidential campaign—say, $1 billion or so—and not even notice.
Is that fair? “I’m against very wealthy people attempting to or influencing elections,” he shrugs. “But as long as it’s doable I’m going to do it.
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