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 estateand 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. Hes 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 hed 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
LuckyLib
(6,814 posts)is enough for many of us to throw in the towel.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)The Canadians would be building it to keep us out!
0rganism
(23,855 posts)"See? We got a GREAT DEAL on that Canadian border wall, I even got them to build it for us."
7962
(11,841 posts)So stupid either way.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)rpannier
(24,304 posts)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
840high
(17,196 posts)care who leaves.
Ex Lurker
(3,808 posts)Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)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 Dillers Thirty Bucks"
"Community Activists Hope to Put a Stop to $150 Million Park Atop Pier on Hudson River"
24601
(3,940 posts)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)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)New rule....anyone who says this has to follow through....
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)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.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)solar Max
(54 posts)Might as well stay put.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)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.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)NonMetro
(631 posts)Because I never heard of this freakin' dude!
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)crim son
(27,462 posts)I've heard it all before.