{"id":1741568,"date":"2022-11-16T18:47:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T23:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1741568"},"modified":"2022-11-16T18:47:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T23:47:54","slug":"two-gop-megadonors-both-trump-allies-announce-they-will-not-support-his-2024-presidential-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-gop-megadonors-both-trump-allies-announce-they-will-not-support-his-2024-presidential-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Two GOP Megadonors, Both Trump Allies, Announce They Will Not Support His 2024 Presidential Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwo-gop-megadonors-both-trump-allies-announce-they-will-not-support-his-2024-presidential-campaign%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1741568&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Two top allies of former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> announced Wednesday, the day after Trump announced his 2024 presidential campaign, that they will not support the former president.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Schwarzman, a billionaire investor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/11\/16\/trump-stephen-schwarzman-2024-presidential-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in a statement early on Wednesday that he would not support Trump in the Republican Party primaries for president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica does better when its leaders are rooted in today and tomorrow, not today and yesterday,\u201d Schwarzman said.\u00a0\u201cIt is time for the Republican Party to turn to a new generation of leaders and I intend to support one of them in the presidential primaries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, Ronald Lauder, a billionaire heir to the Est\u00e9e Lauder fortune, announced through his spokesperson that he would not support Trump\u2019s new campaign for president.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson did not indicate who Lauder would support in 2024, but a report from CNBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/11\/16\/trump-ally-billionaire-megadonor-ronald-lauder-will-not-back-trumps-2024-run-for-president.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted<\/a> that he has repeatedly given to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>Citadel founder Ken Griffin, a Republican megadonor who is worth approximately $30 billion, recently took a shot at the former president, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-11-15\/ken-griffin-to-three-time-loser-trump-step-aside-for-desantis?leadSource=uverify%20wall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019d like to think that the Republican party is ready to move on from somebody who has been for this party a three-time loser.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Griffin has given millions to DeSantis\u2019 political operation and said that DeSantis is \u201cgoing to run on a record of just unbelievable accomplishment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Griffin indicated he had a strong disgust for the woke indoctrination that is taking place in many schools across the country and stated he will back DeSantis if he runs for office.<\/p>\n<p>The hedge fund CEO, who is worth approximately $30 billion, recently relocated his business from Chicago to Florida, and it wasn\u2019t for the tax benefits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s gonna get me thrown out of here, but taxes weren\u2019t part of our decision to come to Florida,\u201d Griffin\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-11-08\/ken-griffin-praises-new-florida-home-it-s-not-just-low-taxes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0this week. \u201cWhen you\u2019ve got great schools, a great environment and your streets are safe and clean, that\u2019s when you\u2019ve got a place you want to live in and call home. There\u2019s something very special about the government in Florida and their focus on delivering traditional values for the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Griffin specifically talked about the damage that woke schools had on his children in Chicago and how he has watched his kids flourish in Florida\u2019s education system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy children went to a phenomenal school in Chicago \u2026 but their indoctrination in woke ideology was crushing,\u201d Griffin\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/10\/citadels-ken-griffin-woke-ideology-is-soul-crushing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cThey came home very confused about whether or not the United States was a good country. And they came home confused about what they could or couldn\u2019t say to a student who was Asian or otherwise of color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy son was reprimanded for telling an Asian student he was good at math \u2014 for stereotyping,\u201d Griffin continued. \u201cAnd it\u2019s unbelievable to see how that destroys the minds of children who are otherwise innocent and good and don\u2019t think about these kinds of things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWatching them transform here in school in Miami is perhaps the greatest gift Miami has given my family,\u201d Griffin added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two top allies of former President Donald Trump announced Wednesday, the day after Trump announced his 2024 presidential campaign, that they will not support the former president. Stephen Schwarzman, a billionaire investor, said in a statement early on Wednesday that he would not support Trump in the Republican Party primaries for president. \u201cAmerica does better &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1741571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1741571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}