Republican Meg Whitman endorses Clinton, calls Trump an ‘authoritarian’ threat to nation

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Meg Whitman, the Silicon Valley executive and prolific Republican fund-raiser, endorsed Hillary Clinton for president Wednesday night.

In a Facebook post, she said Donald Trump’s “unsteady hand would endanger our prosperity and national security. His authoritarian character could threaten much more.”

Whitman’s views on Trump are no surprise. The unsuccessful Republican candidate for governor of California in 2010 compared him to Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini at a June meeting in Utah of Republican donors and executives and helped bankroll an anti-Trump super-Pac this Spring. She is close to 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney, the sponsor of that meeting, where she also reportedly indicated that she would probably be supporting Clinton.

But few, if any, Republicans as prominent and financially potent as Whitman have gone so far to defect to Trump’s Democratic opponent, who she praised for her experience and “stable and aspirational leadership.”

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