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mahatmakanejeeves

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Thu Mar 28, 2019, 02:30 PM Mar 2019

Meet the most improbable Trump megadonor -- a vegan "Buddhist artist"

David Fahrenthold Retweeted

Gao, who moved with his family to New York from Beijing in 2015, attended the exclusive cabinet dinner at Donald Trump’s inauguration (packages that included tickets to this event started at $100K). And he has visited the White House and Mar-a-Lago



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 I’ve ever worked on.

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Meet the most improbable Trump megadonor -- a vegan "Buddhist artist" (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2019 OP
Maybe it's the language barrier... NotAPuppet Mar 2019 #1
Well, this guy's an idiot. Perhaps he "reveres" the Dalai Lama, but doesn't believe in Karadeniz Mar 2019 #2
I wonder if he brought his own food. n/t Harker Mar 2019 #3
What's weird about a rich person supporting a rich person's ideal candidate? nt Lucky Luciano Mar 2019 #4
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