Trump’s team worries he wants campaign leaders to ‘kill each other’

“It’s the highest award you can get as a civilian. It’s the civilian equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor.” Trump explainincorrectly referring to the honor bestowed for bravery in combat. “But the civilian version is actually much better because everyone who gets the Congressional Medal of Honor is a soldier. They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been shot so many times, or they’re dead.”

Trump mentioned the award after being introduced by one of his top patrons. Miriam Adelsona big-spending Republican donor who became the world’s richest Israeli after her husband, billionaire Sheldon Adelson, died in 2021. The couple won Trump’s favor in 2016 by donating $25 million to his super PAC and $5 million to his inauguration. That landed them at the podium when Trump was sworn in, just a few rows behind Jared Kushner. Their donations actually earned Mrs. Adelson the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018 and prompted Trump to recognize Israel in 2019. sovereignty The Golan Heights is an Israeli-occupied region in southwestern Syria that was captured by Israel in 1967.

Four years later, the Adelsons gave $90 million to pro-Israel politicians, surpassing their previous contributions to pro-Israel politicians, and gave $300 million to the Republican-focused Senate and Congressional Leadership Fund, more than the next three donors combined. Intelligencer.