Posted on 05/19/2024 2:25:07 PM PDT by Twotone
Tech adviser Jacob Helberg, who has donated large sums to Democrats, has joined a wave of big money donors rejecting President Joe Biden and supporting former president Donald Trump in 2024.
Helberg has donated $1 million to Trump’s re-election effort, making the tech adviser one of the largest financial backers of Trump’s bid to win back the White House in November. Just four years ago, Helberg was using his money and influence to support Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s doomed campaign for president, according to The Washington Post.
Helberg is one of a cadre of high-powered Silicon Valley businessmen who have warmed to Trump recently.
“The social cost of supporting Trump isn’t as great as it was,” Helberg said of Silicon Valley society, many members of which see that “Trump was right on a lot of make-or-break issues for America.”
After the Post reported Helberg’s contribution to the Trump campaign, Helberg posted on X: “This one’s for Israel.”
Helberg has given $844,600 to the Trump 47 joint fundraising committee, joining a small group of donors who have maxed out their contribution to the Trump group. By March, at least 20 others had given the limit to the group as well, according to FEC filings reviewed by the Post.
Helberg and Trump agree on a number of issues, but mainly China. The tech adviser and the former president bonded recently at Trump’s Florida resort Mar-a-Lago over the need to take an adversarial approach to China on trade, Tiktok, and other issues.
Helberg’s drift toward Trump is part of a trend of Democratic supporters who, disenchanted with Biden’s presidency, have taken a second look at Trump and like what they see, given the circumstances.
Trump’s former ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, said that he has spoken with many Jewish donors who are skeptical of Trump, but with Biden’s tilt away from Israel, have given the Republican candidate a second look, according to The Free Press.
“There is clearly a change going on, people who are active in politics with big money, people who were never Trumpers or reluctant ‘hold your nose Trumpers’ are telling me that Trump has to win,” Friedman told The Free Press.
Democratic mega-donor Haim Saban wrote an email to two Biden aides last week warning against the president’s increasing antagonism toward Israel amid its war against Hamas. Saban criticized the president for holding up munitions to Israel.
“Even beyond Israel,this [sic] sends a terrible message to our allies in the region ,and [sic] beyond,that, [sic] we can flip from doing the right [thing] to bending to political pressure,” Saban wrote. “Let’s not forget that there are more Jewish voters, who care about Israel,than [sic] [Muslim] voters who care about Hamas.”
When it comes down to it, most voters are going to vote their economic best interest. Business owners especially.
I believe there will be many voters this fall who will vote for Trump in the privacy of the voting booth, and still bad mouth him to their friends and family the following day. No one believes the lies on the economy because they see their bank balance shrink more and more each day even though their purchasing habits haven’t changed.
Blasphemy!
This guy sounds like one of our ‘mushy moderates’. You know the ones who wait to find out who the winner will be before siding with one.
Perhaps his domestic staff was out and he went shopping for his own groceries.
It may well be that some on the Left are beginning to realize that the crap the Democrats have been pulling over the past four years is damaging them just about as badly as it is damaging conservatives.
It also might be dawning on them that they had one of the foremost businessmen of the 20th and 21st centuries working for them for free, quickly turning around a moribund economy, leading with optimism and humor, and presiding over years of peace in the world.
And they voted against him.
He is a gay Jewish guy, not even a Republican moderate. But apparently reality of what the dims are about is just too much to ignore.
Trump owns a tech company now. He’s a made man in Silicon Valley.
Helberg’s a Silicon Valley gajillionaire?
I guess Howard Wolowitz landed on his feet after all.
1M to Trump and a 15M backdoor donation to dementia FJB! This is the way the game is played. You gotta play both sides if you’re smart and corrupt..so you throw a bone to the right wing candidate and a hefty filet mignon steak to your left wing demonic candidate.
Never forget: Donald Trump has Jewish grandchildren.
I will never understand how American Jews can ignore this.
Beau Biden’s widow is Jewish. Hunter’s current wife is Jewish. Ashley’s husband is Jewish.
If that is the case, he is probably trying to buy influence for the Gay Mafia to infiltrate his team.
Trump needs to be way more careful than he was last time regarding who he hires.
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