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Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson has never been more powerful.
The Trump administration has advanced his ideological and financial interests, including an assist in his quest to build a casino in Japan.
by Justin Elliott October 10, 2018
LATE ON A THURSDAY evening in February 2017, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abes plane landed at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland for his first visit with President Donald Trump. A few hours earlier, the casino magnate Sheldon Adelsons Boeing 737, which is so large it can seat 149 people, touched down at Reagan National Airport after a flight from Las Vegas.
Adelson dined that night at the White House with Trump, Jared Kushner and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Adelson and his wife, Miriam, were among Trumps biggest benefactors, writing checks for $20 million in the campaign and pitching in an additional $5 million for the inaugural festivities.
Adelson was in town to see the Japanese prime minister about a much greater sum of money. Japan, after years of acrimonious public debate, has legalized casinos. For more than a decade, Adelson and his company, Las Vegas Sands, have sought to build a multibillion-dollar casino resort there. He has called expanding to the country, one of the worlds last major untapped markets, the holy grail. Nearly every major casino company in the world is competing to secure one of a limited number of licenses to enter a market worth up to $25 billion per year. This opportunity wont come along again, potentially ever, said Kahlil Philander, an academic who studies the industry.
The morning after his White House dinner, Adelson attended a breakfast in Washington with Abe and a small group of American CEOs, including two others from the casino industry. Adelson and the other executives raised the casino issue with Abe, according to an attendee.
Adelson had a potent ally in his quest: the new president of the United States. Following the business breakfast, Abe had a meeting with Trump before boarding Air Force One for a weekend at Mar-a-Lago. The two heads of state dined with Patriots owner Bob Kraft and golfed at Trump National Jupiter Golf Club with the South African golfer Ernie Els. During a meeting at Mar-a-Lago that weekend, Trump raised Adelsons casino bid to Abe, according to two people briefed on the meeting. The Japanese side was surprised.
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Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)?1522787581
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)but alas look what is being done to the "brown" immigrates and other POCs. I have no empathy for people like that.
IggleDuer
(964 posts)Why do they hate some Jews but not others.
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)So: We found that Trump raised a donors private business interests casinos! with Japans Prime Minister, while they were hanging at Mar-a-Lago. (We have it from two sources.)
And nope, that is not normal.
https://features.propublica.org/trump-inc-podcast/sheldon-adelson-casino-magnate-trump-macau-and-japan/
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