The candidate quietly wooed Sheldon Adelson, Paul Singer and the Koch brothers.Donald Trump has spent much of his presidential campaign bashing his GOP rivals as beholden to major donors, and, in recent weeks, he’s expanded his attacks to include three major donors in particular ― Sheldon Adelson, Paul Singer and the Koch brothers.But POLITICO has learned that Trump or his surrogates have sought to build relationships― if not support ― from all three, calling into question the billionaire real estate showman’s repeated assertions that, because of his wealth, he has no use for major donors.
Trump’s courtship of Adelson, a Las Vegas casino mogul and ardent Zionist, involved a person phone call and also an attempted meeting in Vegas.
After declaring his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination in June, Trump called Adelson to tout his pro-Israel bona fides, according to sources familiar with the call. They say Trump mentioned that he lives in heavily Jewish New York and that his daughter married a Jewish man, real estate developer Jared Kushner.
Two separate sources close to Trump’s campaign added that his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski reached out to Adelson’s political adviser Andy Abboud to set up a face-to-face July meeting in Las Vegas between their bosses.
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