President Biden’s re-election campaign criticized former President Trump on Friday over the guest list for Saturday’s big-ticket fundraiser in Palm Beach, Florida.
Trump is aiming to top Biden’s $26 million fundraising effort at an event hosted by hedge fund founder John Paulson in New York City last week. The event is expected to raise $33 million.
In a statement first sent to The Hill, the Biden campaign told attendees expected to criticize President Trump’s fundraising strategy of turning to billionaires to target programs such as Social Security. focused.
“If you want to know who Donald Trump will fight for in a second term, just look at who he’s having dinner with on Saturday night,” said Sarafina Titika, a senior Biden campaign spokeswoman. Bye. Tax fraudsters, fraudsters, racists, extremists.”
“Don’t get me wrong, Donald Trump is not what’s best for the American people and will follow the orders of his billionaire friends. He will take away their checks, cut taxes, leave hard-working Americans behind and jobs overseas, eliminate Social Security and Medicare, strip health protections, and ban abortion,” she added.
Biden campaign points to Trump and Paulson reportedly being considered Who said at New York University in 2018 that he would become Treasury Secretary if elected? panel It is possible that social security could be switched from a defined benefit type to a defined contribution type.
The group named Jeff Yass, a billionaire businessman and major investor in TikTok, as a potential participant who talked about privatizing Social Security accounts. wall street journal 2019 opinion article.
Protecting Social Security has been a key issue for Mr. Biden, a position reinforced after Mr. Trump recently said in a CNBC interview that “there’s a lot that can be done in terms of cutting back on entitlements.”
Additionally, the campaign pointed to payday lender founder Michael Hodges as a participant. The paper said he told other payday lenders in 2019 that donations to the Trump campaign in 2020 could mean access to the then-administration. washington post. He also pointed out that members of the Mercer family are donors to President Trump and hedge fund manager Robert Mercer has argued that the civil rights law was a mistake. new yorker.
The Biden campaign also named John Catsimatidis, who is expected to attend the dinner. Billionaire Catsimatidis, who ran for mayor of New York in 2013, compared former President Barack Obama’s 2013 plan to raise taxes on the wealthy to “Hitler’s punishment of the Jews,” the report said. newsweek.
The Biden campaign also claimed that grassroots fundraising, which was a strength of Trump’s previous campaigns, has slowed. Meanwhile, the Biden campaign told The Hill that March was its best month for grassroots fundraising to date, breaking personal records for small donations for the fifth consecutive month.
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