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“The FBI’s Latest Disclosure on the Adelson Crime Family”

by Arthur Bloom in Arthuriana on Substack

“The facts available already demonstrate that Jewish casino proprietors with connections to China have manipulated American foreign policy in what they see as Israel’s interest. That should not be a controversial assertion. They’re proud of it”

open.substack.com/pub/arthuria

Arthuriana · The FBI's Latest Disclosure on the Adelson Crime FamilyBy Arthur Bloom
#Press#US#Adelson

Israeli Kan TV Channel:
The families of prisoners in the United States met with Miriam Adelson last week, where she told them about President #Trump's intentions regarding the deal, her role behind the scenes, and the pressure the Trump administration exerted on #Netanyahu and the mediators to advance the agreement.

According to sources who met with #Adelson, she explained that President Trump exerted great pressure on Netanyahu and the mediators in order to reach an agreement. According to her, it was necessary to exert great pressure on the #Israeli side in particular.

Adelson told the families of the prisoners about her role behind the scenes in advancing the deal. Some of the families told Kan Channel: "We got the impression that if it weren't for Miriam Adelson, the deal would not have happened."

According to the families, Adelson assured them that the envoy Witkoff and President Trump are determined to reach a final agreement and release all the prisoners, and that they are prepared to exert the necessary pressure on those who need to ensure this is achieved.

#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS
#palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow @palestine @israel

Continued thread

Trump was fund-raising off his conviction with small-dollar donors as well;

His campaign, which portrayed him as the victim of a politicized justice system, brought in nearly $53 million in the twenty-four hours after the verdict.

Several megadonors who had held back from endorsing Trump announced that they were now supporting him,
including
🔸#Miriam #Adelson, the widow of the late casino mogul #Sheldon Adelson;
🔸the Silicon Valley investor #David #Sacks, who said that the case against Trump was a sign of America turning into a “Banana Republic”;
🔸and the venture capitalist #Shaun #Maguire, who, less than an hour after the verdict, posted on X that he was donating $300,000 to Trump, 👉calling the prosecution a “radicalizing experience.” 👈

A day later, #Timothy #Mellon, the banking-family scion, wrote a $50-million check to the Make America Great Again super pac.

#Ed #Rogers, a longtime G.O.P. lobbyist, had never publicly endorsed Trump or raised money for his campaigns.

On May 31st, the day after Trump’s conviction, he sent his first contribution to the ex-President. “There was no case to make that that was not targeted prosecution,” he told me.

He predicted that other Republicans who, like him, had been “allergic” to Trump would now get on board as well.

“I tell people I am a Bill Barr, Chris Sununu, Nikki Haley Republican,” he said, listing the names of Republican officials who had criticized Trump in blistering terms only to support him again in 2024;

Haley, despite having called Trump “unhinged” and a threat to the Republic, had announced the week before his conviction that she would vote for him.

“The choices are 🔹Biden or Trump🔹, and I’m at peace with that,” Rogers said in June.
“I wish it was a different equation, but it’s not.”

❗️Many donors I spoke with at the time described
🧨Trump’s trial as an impetus,
but they tended to cite a litany of other reasons, too, including questions about
🔸Biden’s age and fitness to serve another term, concerns about his
🔸economic policies, and gripes about some of his
🔸appointees, such as the head of the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan, who has launched high-profile antitrust investigations.

Trump, despite his populist rhetoric, deficit spending, and support for market-distorting tariffs,
has sold himself as a pro-business candidate.

He has promised extensive deregulation,
nearly unfettered drilling for oil and gas,
and tax cuts for corporations and wealthy individuals.

“A lot of the donors have just come to the conclusion that, when you add it all up,
the risks with Trump are behavioral
—personal behavior and what he says
—versus the policies,” the attendee at the Fifth Avenue fund-raiser told me.

It was a “rationalization” adopted by “even those who were initially very put off, very alienated, by his behavior at the end of his Presidency.”

🆘 By late May, Trump’s campaign had more money in the bank than Biden’s.

The incumbent President’s disastrous performance in a June 27th debate against Trump only accelerated the trend.

“After the debate, Biden looks like a loser,
so these people who were never going to give to Biden,
they’re now even more attracted to the idea of giving to former President Trump,”
the attendee at Fanjul’s dinner said.

“Because he looks like a winner.”

The following month, as Democratic donors and elected officials frantically pressured Biden to drop out of the race,
Trump and the Republicans again outraised the Democrats.

“The Zeitgeist in the business world is that Trump is going to be President again,”
a billionaire C.E.O. who is not a Trump supporter told me at the time.

“Therefore, why fall on your sword on principle?”

He added, “Businesspeople
—their main focus in life is to make money,
and you make money by backing winners. . . .

They’ve concluded, O.K., he’s going to be President,
let’s hold our nose and do what we have to do.”

#Billionaires coming out of the woodwork to support Trump. Wonder why? 🤔

Adelson Spends $95 Million to Boost Trump in #Michigan, #Wisconsin

#Billionaire is one of the top donors to Trump in 2024 race Super PAC has just $7.4 million to spend in final weeks

Bill AllisonOctober 15, 2024 at 10:00 PM EDT
Billionaire Miriam #Adelson, one of the most prolific donors backing Donald #Trump since his 2016 run for the White House, poured $95 million into her super PAC supporting him, according to the latest disclosures with the Federal Election Commission.
#CitizensUnited
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Adelson Spends $95 Million to Boost Trump in Michigan and Wisconsin

Billionaire #Miriam #Adelson,
one of the most prolific donors #backing Donald #Trump since his 2016 run for the White House,
🔥poured $95 million into her super PAC supporting him,
according to to the latest disclosures with the Federal Election Commission.

The donation exceeds the $75 million she and her late husband, former Las Vegas Sands Chairman #Sheldon #Adelson, combined to give to Preserve America PAC in the same period in the 2020 race

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

www.bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

Donald Trump explains the difference between the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Presidential Medal of Freedom:

"[The Presidential Medal of Freedom] that's the highest award you can get as a civilian, it's the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian version. It's actually much better because everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, they're soldiers, they're either in very bad shape because they've been hit so many times by bullets or they're dead. She gets it and she's a healthy beautiful woman."

He's talking about Miriam Adelson who he awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom after her late husband casino owner Sheldon Adelson donated millions to Trump's election campaign, and she didn't get hit by any bullets, so you know, which would you chose?

All of these f🤬cking people deserve each other:

'Trump stunned one of his wealthiest patrons, Miriam Adelson, the widow of the casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, by having an aide fire off a series of angry text messages to Mrs. #Adelson in Mr. Trump’s name, according to three people with knowledge of what took place.

The texts were particularly jarring because Mrs. Adelson and Mr. Trump had a friendly meeting just a week earlier at the RNC, according to a person briefed on the matter.👇

Timothy Mellon,
a wealthy banking heir and railroad magnate, has reached the stratosphere of American political influence as
the top supporter of Donald J. Trump, doling out millions to try to elect the former president and his allies.

To his neighbors in a Rhode Island beachfront enclave, he is better known as the prime suspect in the Narragansett Runestone Affair.
A hulking boulder once positioned just offshore in Narragansett Bay, the runestone bears inscriptions that some believe were left by Viking explorers. It was the stuff of local lore and attracted visitors at low tide
— to the consternation of Mr. Mellon, the pedigreed businessman whose home looked out on the rock.

And then one day it was gone.
A criminal investigation yielded a witness who had heard sounds of heavy machinery at night.
Mr. Mellon refused to talk and hired a former state attorney general as his lawyer.

Nearly a year later, the matter was resolved quietly:

Mr. Mellon agreed to return the stone, and prosecutors agreed not to bring charges.

The episode was a rare glimpse into the private life and the public dealings of Mr. Mellon, 81, a reclusive heir and railroad magnate who has recently turned himself into a political force.

He has surprised even political insiders with the size of his contributions this year,
throwing♦️ $75 million behind Mr. Trump’s attempt to return to the White House
and an additional ♦️$25 million toward Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent presidential run,
making him both candidates’ single largest benefactor.

All told, he has given♦️ $227 million in contributions to federal candidates and political committees since 2020,
nearly all to Republicans
— a sum that puts him in the top echelon of the party’s donors,
alongside far better-known megadonors like Miriam #Adelson and her husband, Sheldon, who died in 2021, and Liz and Dick #Uihlein.

Yet for all his financial influence, Mr. Mellon and his interests
— and what exactly is motivating his largess — have remained largely a mystery.

Interviews with his associates, along with a review of court documents and other public records, reveal
an ideologically driven conservative with a combative streak.

Mr. Mellon spent most of his life leveraging his family fortune to create his own.
His freight railroad, a regional line that 🔸repeatedly ran afoul of worker and environmental protections,🔸 was recently sold for $600 million.

Over time, Mr. Mellon’s politics shifted far to the right.
In the 1970s, his charitable giving supported feminist and ecological causes and Native Americans.

By 2014, he was posting comments in an online chat room
🔹comparing climate-change scientists to ISIS 🔹and worrying that terrorists could attack America using “donkeys coming over our Southern border.”
Most recently, he became a significant donor to Mr. Kennedy’s 🔹anti-vaccine group, Children’s Health Defense.
In an interview, Mr. Kennedy said Mr. Mellon’s contribution had come during the height of the Covid pandemic and appeared to be motivated by a shared concern over government lockdowns and🔹 “suppressing constitutional rights.”

Mr. Kennedy, who said he had met Mr. Mellon only twice, described him as “intensely curious, skeptical towards orthodoxies and passionate about personal freedoms.”

(He added that Mr. Mellon takes long cross-country drives alone “to talk to ordinary Americans” and has a fascination with Scandinavia.)

Mr. Trump’s campaign did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
Mr. Mellon rarely engages with the news media and did not respond to interview requests.
Even some of the candidates who accept his checks have little contact with him.

The most detailed accounting of his life comes largely from two sources:
an autobiography Mr. Mellon first published in 2014 and the paper trail he has left in court.

He has frequently become mired in disputes, some of them oddly small-bore and some just odd.

In May — the same month he made a $50 million donation to support Mr. Trump — he filed a lawsuit against a family-owned car dealership in Connecticut, complaining that he had spent $7,300 on a failed engine replacement for a 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee.

Years ago, he sued a group of explorers he had helped finance,
claiming they had deliberately overlooked the wreckage of #Amelia #Earhart’s long-lost plane so they could keep raising money for their expeditions.

Mr. Mellon was convinced he had seen Earhart’s head on the seafloor in a cellophane bag.

He lost the case, appealed, and lost again.

Testifying in a 2014 civil case, he estimated he had undergone depositions “15 to 20” times in his life and could not recall how many lawsuits he was involved in.
nytimes.com/2024/07/28/us/poli

Timothy Mellon outside an inspection train during a property tour in 1981.
The New York Times · A Pedigreed Rail Magnate Is Pouring Millions Into Electing Donald TrumpBy Alexandra Berzon

Something to think about before using the nickname "Genocide Joe"

"In a recent profile in New York magazine, Adelson suggested that she might want Trump to push for the annexation of the occupied West Bank if he wins a second term — described in the piece as “unfinished Israel business from Trump’s presidency.”"

forward.com/fast-forward/61803

The Forward · After hesitating, Miriam Adelson commits more than $100 million to Trump's campaignHer late husband, the casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, didn’t cut checks in 2016 for Trump until September of that year.

No one in the world has donated more money to Fat Nixon than billionaire, Miriam Adelson.

Her blatant bribery to drive her personal agenda amounted to $223M & should remind everyone that the Trump White House is up for sale.

"Kyrie, Trump, and the Billionaire" - PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT
youtu.be/idSngb_X5nQ
pablo.show/p/kyrie-trump-and-t