Sheldon Adelson's Las Vegas Review-Journal twice endorsed Trump. Now it's advising him to admit he l

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Review-Journal twice endorsed Trump. Now it’s advising him to admit he lost.

By Elahe Izadi
11/12/2020, 4:06:01 p.m.

In October 2016, the Las Vegas Review-Journal was the first major newspaper to endorse then-candidate Donald Trump for president. While Trump “represents neither the danger his critics claim nor the magic elixir many of his supporters crave,” the editorial page wrote, he promised to disrupt the status quo in Washington by bringing a “corporate sensibility and a steadfast determination to an ossified Beltway culture."

Four years later, the Review-Journal — owned by Trump supporter and Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson — is advising Trump that he did indeed lose the 2020 presidential race and that he should start cooperating with Joe Biden’s transition team.

“President Donald Trump seeks to delay the inevitable,” reads the headline of the editorial, which appeared in print Thursday and published online Wednesday night. “It is too fitting that the Trump presidency concludes amid a babel of bluster and bravado,” the unbylined authors, representing the viewpoint of the paper’s management, wrote. “But the president does a disservice to his more rabid supporters by insisting that he would have won the Nov. 3 election absent voter fraud. That’s simply false.”

The editorial goes on to state that “there is no evidence” that fraud cost Trump the election, “no matter how much the president tweets the opposite and his supporters wish it so.”

Other newspapers have also run editorials demanding Trump stop peddling mass fraud claims without evidence, but the advice from the Review-Journal drew attention well beyond Las Vegas in part because of Adelson’s ownership of the newspaper.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2020/11/12/las-vegas-review-journal-trump-adelson/

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Related: EDITORIAL: President Donald Trump seeks to delay the inevitable (Las Vegas Review-Journal)

[C_U_L8R]

1. This thing shuts down when the money dries up.

Seems that's what's happening. Adelson may make lousy bets but he's not gonna just throw his money away on a losing cause.

[Me.]

2. Wow, Sheldon Kicking Him To The Curb

we need a burnt toast emoji

[MyOwnPeace]

4. Since it's that time of year,

how about that little "pop-up" thingy that shows when the TURKEY IS DONE!!!!!

[Me.]

5. Good One

[Leghorn21]

6. Yessiree, when I saw this today I sent it to everybody I know and I said

“THAT’S A WRAP PEOPLE, PACK IT UP!!!”

Whoo hoo!! see you on the other side!!

[Me.]

8. It's All Over But THe Weeping

[MyOwnPeace]

3. One by one, step by step.......

it's all going away, Donnie!

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Forget Trump losing the presidency. Shelly lost half a bill on Trump.

Keep your priorities in order.

[Me.]

9. Only Half....Too Bad