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...Ron DeSantis’s biggest donor is considering switching his support to Donald Trump, in a sharp rebuke of the Florida governor’s White House aspirations....
...“I don’t think I ever was against Donald Trump,” Hamm told the Financial Times....
...Billionaire investor John Paulson will host a Florida fundraiser for Donald Trump next month, as the former president tries to match Joe Biden’s money operation and pay for a growing pile of legal bills...
...Billionaire investor John Paulson will host a Florida fundraiser for Donald Trump next month, as the former president tries to match Joe Biden’s money operation and pay for growing legal bills and judgments...
...Joe Biden has almost $100mn more in his election war chest than Donald Trump, the president’s campaign has said, giving him a big money lead over his rival seven months ahead of the election....
...Washington under Donald Trump could abandon Ukraine, an act that would show catastrophic western weakness, writes Martin Wolf....
...Just hours after he was ordered by a New York judge to pay $454mn for fraudulently inflating the value of his properties, Donald Trump held a fundraising event at his ritzy Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach...
...Its top donor, Robert Bigelow, has flipped to Trump. On Friday, DeSantis accused the conservative media of protecting Trump....
...In November, DeSantis’s biggest donor Robert Bigelow, a real estate investor, told the FT he was considering backing Trump instead....
...In the autumn, Nevada real estate investor Robert Bigelow, who was DeSantis’s biggest backer after giving Never Back Down more than $20mn, told the FT he was considering supporting Trump because of the Florida...
...Never Back Down’s $20mn-plus megadonor, Robert Bigelow, has flipped to Trump....
...After Donald Trump’s attempted putsch on January 6 2021, US business leaders lined up to condemn the storming of Capitol Hill....
...His top donor, Robert Bigelow, recently threw his support to Trump. Last week, the chief executive of Never Back Down, the pro-DeSantis super Pac, resigned....
...Trump; 2013 — Donald J. Trump; 2022 — Donald J. Trump; 2023 — Donald J. Trump. This year’s Super Bowl has a distinctively Trumpy flavour too....
...And Robert Bigelow, who gave more than $20mn to a pro-DeSantis super Pac in March, recently switched his support to Trump, telling the FT the former president would win the GOP nomination so long as he can...
...Top Republican donors have plunged into the presidential race to give an early financial edge to candidates challenging Donald Trump for the party’s nomination, as the former president’s legal problems force...
...Recent polls had suggested US president Joe Biden was trailing Republican frontrunner Donald Trump in five of the six key swing states....
...The biggest, single contribution last year was a $20,000,500 donation from Robert Bigelow, the founder of Budget Suites of America, to never back down the Ron DeSantis super PAC....
...Frontrunner Donald Trump will (again) be conspicuous by his absence, opting instead for a campaign rally on the other side of the city....
...Donald Trump’s fundraising slowed in the second quarter of the year amid signs that some Republican donors are backing other candidates in the party....
.../ From William Bigelow, Boylston, MA, US...
...This is not what has been happening, certainly not under Donald Trump. But though the tone is different under Joe Biden, the reality is not, alas....
...More broadly, US president Donald Trump’s approach to matters of trade, international treaties and the humiliating manner in which he treats even America’s allies, illustrates how US foreign policy has posed...
...It will be hard for Donald Trump to become a US version of Hungary’s Viktor Orban. Yet we cannot just ignore the pressures....
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