Aggrieved liberals have demanded a boycott of Ross’s companies as part of an effort to raise the cost, in their view, of enabling “white supremacy.”
Ross, chairman and majority owner of The Related Companies, a real estate development firm, and owner of the Miami Dolphins, has come under intense pressure to cancel a fundraiser planned for Friday at his Sandcastle estate in the Hamptons, New York.
Tickets for the event, which start at $5,600, will go to Trump’s 2020 campaign funds and the Republican National Committee. A private conversation with Trump will cost $250,000.
Only dead brains can explain the overblown “backlash” over a Ross-hosted Trump fundraiser in the Hamptons. Despite over-the-top media coverage, it’s a few noisy guys on a street corner by today’s jungle-law standards.
From The Washington Free Beacon:
Ross, who has been friends with Trump for nearly three decades, has personally donated hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, to politicians over the years. While a majority of these donations have gone to Republicans, the billionaire has also contributed significantly to Democrats, including a number of top party figures, some of which have taken money from Ross in recent years. For example:
- Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.)
- $15,700 (most recently in 2015)
- Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D., Mich.)
- $4,000
- Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.)
- $2,500 (in 2016)
- Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.)
- $2,500 (in 2016)
- Sen. Mark Warner (D., Va.)
- $4,600
- Sen. Bob Menendez (D., N.J.)
- $2,700 (in 2018)
- Rep. Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.), chairman of House Judiciary Committee
- $14,400 (most recently in 2016)
- Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
- $112,500
- Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
- $10,000
- New Jersey Democratic State Committee
- $20,000 (in 2018)
Maybe Ross — a developer with fortunes at stake every time his company lifts a shovel — would rather back a traditional, centrist Democrat who didn’t regard capitalism as a form of original sin. Too bad no such candidate exists in a field of far-left socialists and gaffe-prone bumblers with no chance to win.
Let the haters have their moment. I’ll bet that Equinox survives the purge.
