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NeoConsSuck

(2,544 posts)
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 05:51 PM Oct 2015

Barry Diller Says He'll Leave the Country If Donald Trump Wins the White House

Source: Bloomberg

Barry Diller, the founder and chairman of IAC Interactive, knows show biz and New York real estate—and he is not impressed with the New York real estate mogul and superlative showman currently topping national politics polls.

“All he is is a huckster,” Diller said of Donald Trump. “Somebody who learned long ago in real estate that if you can make a big name for yourself, it can get you an extra dollar.” In addition to questioning the Republican front-runner's motivation for running, Diller attacked Trump for appealing to the nation's worser angels. “He’s a self-promoting huckster who found a vein,” Diller continued. “A vein of meanness and nastiness.”

Speaking with Erik Schatzer at the Bloomberg Markets Most Influential Summit, Diller vowed to pick up stakes if Trump becomes President Barack Obama's successor. “If Donald Trump doesn't fall, I'll either move out of the country or join the resistance,” he said. But Diller expressed his certainty that a Trump presidency will never happen. He said he’d put his money on it.

Over the years, the media mogul has indeed put major money on political causes, most of them Democratic. According to records on file at the Federal Election Commission, he has contributed to former Senator (and current Democratic presidential front-runner) Hillary Clinton, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, Vice President Joseph Biden, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Senator Charles Schumer of New York, and Sean Eldridge, a gay rights activist who ran unsuccessfully for Congress last year. Before the 2008 presidential race, Diller gave to Barack Obama . . . and to Obama's Republican opponent, Senator John McCain of Arizona. Diller spoke in defense of his favorite Republican today, as he analyzed the environment that's feeding Trump's unexpected political rise.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-10-06/barry-diller-says-he-ll-leave-the-country-if-donald-trump-wins-the-white-house

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Barry Diller Says He'll Leave the Country If Donald Trump Wins the White House (Original Post) NeoConsSuck Oct 2015 OP
He'll be part of a larger stampede. Trump and a gun-crazy culture LuckyLib Oct 2015 #1
Snotty Scotty's dream of a wall along the Canadian border may yet be realized. KamaAina Oct 2015 #8
and Trump would take credit for it 0rganism Oct 2015 #18
We hear this same shit every 4 yrs from both sides. 7962 Oct 2015 #2
Indeed. n/t PoliticAverse Oct 2015 #3
That was my first thought rpannier Oct 2015 #10
Yes it is stupid. I don't 840high Oct 2015 #14
I don't like Trump, but these plutocrats need to learn nobody gives a shit if they stay or leave NT Ex Lurker Oct 2015 #4
In this case I disagree. I'd be happy to see Diller leave. Jim Lane Oct 2015 #13
Does this give people a legitimate reason to vote for Trump? I really wouldn't consider it, but if 24601 Oct 2015 #19
We'll build a new town in Somalia and call it Galt's Gulch Jim Lane Oct 2015 #20
Gawd....I had forgotten about this ridiculous aspect of our presidential campaign season... pipoman Oct 2015 #5
Was watching this interveiw, Wellstone ruled Oct 2015 #6
The country? Hell, they just found water on Mars! KamaAina Oct 2015 #7
The radiation from the nuclear war Trump starts go around the world solar Max Oct 2015 #9
Me too. DCBob Oct 2015 #11
Is that Phyllis Diller's dog? milestogo Oct 2015 #12
If He Does Leave, I Can Honestly Say I Won't Miss Him, NonMetro Oct 2015 #15
Not gonna happen. If Trump got elected, it would be more of a surprise to Trump himself. YOHABLO Oct 2015 #16
I don't know who Diller is but I'm sure he'll go nowhere no matter who wins. crim son Oct 2015 #17

LuckyLib

(6,814 posts)
1. He'll be part of a larger stampede. Trump and a gun-crazy culture
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 05:59 PM
Oct 2015

is enough for many of us to throw in the towel.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
8. Snotty Scotty's dream of a wall along the Canadian border may yet be realized.
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 06:21 PM
Oct 2015

The Canadians would be building it to keep us out!

0rganism

(23,855 posts)
18. and Trump would take credit for it
Wed Oct 7, 2015, 11:06 AM
Oct 2015

"See? We got a GREAT DEAL on that Canadian border wall, I even got them to build it for us."

rpannier

(24,304 posts)
10. That was my first thought
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 07:16 PM
Oct 2015

Every year someone say they're leaving
I think only Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn moved.
It's an empty threat made by attention seekers and people who think we believe or care what they say

 

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)
13. In this case I disagree. I'd be happy to see Diller leave.
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 07:29 PM
Oct 2015

Not that this is enough to make me root for Trump, but it would be a consolation in case of a Trump win.

Diller is trying to build an environmental disaster -- "Diller Island" -- in the Hudson River:

"Do Not Take Diller’s Thirty Bucks"
"Community Activists Hope to Put a Stop to $150 Million Park Atop Pier on Hudson River"

24601

(3,940 posts)
19. Does this give people a legitimate reason to vote for Trump? I really wouldn't consider it, but if
Wed Oct 7, 2015, 11:11 AM
Oct 2015

it would get Diller to move, I might have to ponder it a bit.

Would we get to choose where he would move - that might clinch it?

 

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)
20. We'll build a new town in Somalia and call it Galt's Gulch
Wed Oct 7, 2015, 02:34 PM
Oct 2015

Minimal to no government regulation, and Diller and all his fellow parasites can go there.

Alas, I agree with the others in this thread who say that Diller's staying put no matter who wins.

 

pipoman

(16,038 posts)
5. Gawd....I had forgotten about this ridiculous aspect of our presidential campaign season...
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 06:14 PM
Oct 2015

New rule....anyone who says this has to follow through....

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
6. Was watching this interveiw,
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 06:14 PM
Oct 2015

the look on Dillar's face was priceless. And a bit latter old Bloomberg has a Guy from a Venture Capital Fund touting how Donald would be the best thing since sliced bread.

DCBob

(24,689 posts)
11. Me too.
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 07:23 PM
Oct 2015

I have looking for a good excuse to make the move. I think I can work remotely from anywhere and my construction engineer wife should be able get a job overseas as well.

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