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Old 10-21-2015, 11:20 AM
 
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Multi-billionaire Carl Icahn has today announced that he will invest $150 million to get Trump elected. More money than all of the money raised by Hillary, Bush and Rubio combined so far.
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Old 10-21-2015, 11:27 AM
 
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Trump's friend Carl Icahn forms PAC to fight 'dysfunction in Congress' - Oct. 21, 2015
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Old 10-21-2015, 11:34 AM
 
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His PAC is to fight Congress' inaction on a number of important things including corporate tax reform. It is not to get Trump elected.
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Old 10-21-2015, 11:42 AM
 
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His PAC is to fight Congress' inaction on a number of important things including corporate tax reform. It is not to get Trump elected.
This

He's doing to get tax, immigration...etc reforms not for Donald.
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Old 10-21-2015, 11:45 AM
 
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Carl Icahn worth $21.6 billion invests $150 million in Trump campaign

That article doesn't say anything about giving it to Trump.

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Old 10-21-2015, 11:53 AM
 
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Sounds like he is trying to get some of the things Obama promised to do but never did, done.
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Old 10-21-2015, 12:04 PM
 
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Before he became a “prominent” billionaire, Icahn, remember, founded the options trading department at a firm called Gruntal & Company, which owed its existence to the generous finance that the criminal and future “philanthropist” Michael Milken gave to its parent company, the Home Group. Like Steinberg’s Reliance Insurance, the Home Group was a key player in Milken’s junk bond Ponzi scheme.
https://www.deepcapture.com/tag/pond-equities/

During the '80s, Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham created the corporate raiders. He was the billionaire Junk Bond King. But, in the corner stood the U.S. District Attorney waiting to file criminal and racketeering charges
The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the JunkBond Raiders: Connie Bruck: 9780140120905: Amazon.com: Books

He knew that Icahn had made billions as a corporate raider in the eighties and had pioneered the art of “greenmail.” (The raiders would buy a block of shares in a company and sell them back at a premium, in return for agreeing to drop a challenge to the company’s management.)
The Raid - The New Yorker
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Old 10-21-2015, 12:42 PM
 
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Carl Icahn worth $21.6 billion invests $150 million in Trump campaign

That article doesn't say anything about giving it to Trump.

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Of course, that's illegal.

Because Super-PACs are "independent" from the campaign of the candidate *wink *wink*
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Old 10-21-2015, 12:48 PM
 
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So Trump has a price...

Not like some of us didn't know that already.

I knew Trump would not self finance his own campaign for long. He's too cheap to do that.

You all been fooled by another billionaire. He is just like the Clintons, the Bushes. In fact he's good friends with the Clintons. All these corrupt billionaires do is promise you the moon and stars and once they win they will make sure they help those friends who financed their campaigns through

LMAO @ these conservatives voting for Trump.
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Old 10-21-2015, 12:59 PM
 
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Default Who cares?

$150 million spent on garbage doesn't change the characterization of the garbage.

Trump's candidacy will sink as the DETAILS of his plans begin to emerge and the deeper scrutiny happens. What a waste. Being this stupid, one wonders how in the world did Icahn manage to get so rich?
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