Trump: NeverTrumper Paul Singer "loves me now"

[tenorly]

President Donald Trump announced today that he has made a new friend: Paul Singer, the billionaire vulture fund manager who backed Marco Rubio in the Republican primaries and ripped into Trump.

“As you know, Paul was very much involved with the anti-Trump or as they say ‘Never Trump’ and Paul just left and he's given us his total support and it's all about unification,” Trump said during his Thursday press conference.

The newfound amicability is a significant departure for Singer, who publicly vented last summer that a Trump presidency could cause a global depression.

Representatives for Singer’s Cayman Islands-based hedge fund, Elliott Management, and his family foundation didn’t return requests for comment. But his comments on Trump, in the past, have been less than flattering.

“The most impactful of the economic policies that I recall him coming out for are these anti-trade policies,” Singer said of Trump at the Aspen Ideas Festival last summer, according to CNBC. “And I think if he actually stuck to those policies and gets elected president, it’s close to a guarantee of a global depression, widespread global depression.”

At: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/16/trump-nevertrumper-paul-singer-loves-me-now.html

[dhol82]

1. This will be interesting to follow.

[tenorly]

2. If someone could only hack into Singer's Caymans laundrette NML, the NAMES they'd find.

We already know the Romneys use it for tax evasion; I bet half the GOP caucus in Congress does too, as well as one or more of King Con's cabinet.

Plus, it's the perfect place to have one's bribes deposited if you're a GOP congresscritter.