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Meet the most improbable Trump megadonor -- a vegan "Buddhist artist"
David Fahrenthold RetweetedGao, who moved with his family to New York from Beijing in 2015, attended the exclusive cabinet dinner at Donald Trumps inauguration (packages that included tickets to this event started at $100K). And he has visited the White House and Mar-a-Lago
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A Buddhist artist from China + a $20,000 @KFC Zinger carved out a meteorite + $237,000 in donations to Trump and the GOP = one of the weirdest stories about a top GOP donor Ive ever worked on.
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Meet the most improbable Trump megadonor -- a vegan "Buddhist artist" (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Mar 2019
OP
Well, this guy's an idiot. Perhaps he "reveres" the Dalai Lama, but doesn't believe in
Karadeniz
Mar 2019
#2
What's weird about a rich person supporting a rich person's ideal candidate? nt
Lucky Luciano
Mar 2019
#4
NotAPuppet
(326 posts)1. Maybe it's the language barrier...
Karadeniz
(22,563 posts)2. Well, this guy's an idiot. Perhaps he "reveres" the Dalai Lama, but doesn't believe in
Buddhist principles.
Harker
(14,030 posts)3. I wonder if he brought his own food. n/t
Lucky Luciano
(11,258 posts)4. What's weird about a rich person supporting a rich person's ideal candidate? nt