The casino billionaire is planning to back the newly reconstituted Preserve America effort to help the former president.
Miriam Adelson , controlling shareholder of the Las Vegas Sandals Corp., watches the Phoenix Suns play the Dallas Mavericks in the first half of an NBA basketball game in Dallas, on Feb. 22, 2024. | Tony Gutierrez/APRepublican mega-donor and casino billionaire Miriam Adelson plans to help bankroll a massive super PAC for Donald Trump as he seeks to close his financial gap with President Joe Biden.
How much Adelson will donate to the super PAC is not clear, though the person familiar with her plans said the group was expecting to spend more than it did four years ago when Adelson and her late husband, Sheldon, donated $90 million to Preserve America. Their funds accounted for about 85 percent of what the organization raised in total.
Adelson’s relationship with Trump stretches back years. Miriam and Sheldon had a seat on the dais at Trump’s 2017 inauguration, and in 2018 Trump awarded Miriam, a physician who specializes in drug addiction rehabilitation, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In a 2021about Miriam Adelson’s political activity, Trump praised her as a “wonderful woman who her husband loved greatly and, at the same time, respected for her great intelligence.
During the 2020 campaign, Preserve America was overseen by Chris LaCivita. LaCivita is now serving as Trump’s co-campaign manager and is no longer active with the super PAC.
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