Former President Donald Trump attends the 148th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Might 7, 2022.
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Former President Donald Trump hosted a whopping $75,000-per-head fundraiser on the Kentucky Derby earlier than he made a public look to see 80-to-1 longshot horse Wealthy Strike’s historic win on Saturday.
Trump attended the primary leg of the Triple Crown Saturday to host a fundraiser for Trump-supporting Tremendous PAC “MAGA, Once more!” within the residence state of Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell — whose relationship with the ex-president has grown rocky.
McConnell refused to help Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election outcomes.
The forty fifth president was greeted with chants of “USA” as he appeared on an enormous big-screen TV at Churchill Downs about 20 minutes earlier than the 148th Kentucky Derby kicked off, in response to the Lexington Herald-Chief.
At one level through the fundraiser, he popped out from his suite to throw money to spectators down under, in response to the New York Instances.
The fundraiser, which was first reported by The Instances two weeks in the past, was attended by PAC leaders Pam Bondi, Richard Grenell and Matt Whitaker and Kimberly Guilfoyle — a conservative TV persona who’s engaged to Donald Trump Jr., in response to an invitation for the occasion.
The president has bestowed McConnell the nickname “Previous Crow Mitch” or “Damaged Previous Crow,” in latest months. The senator, who has represented Kentucky within the Senate since 1986, has shrugged off the president’s assaults. McConnell known as Previous Crow “his favourite bourbon” in reference to Previous Crow Bourbon, which has been produced in Kentucky since 1835 and is distilled by Beam Suntory.
McConnell didn’t go to the Derby and as an alternative attended a memorial for Sen. Orrin Hatch in Utah — a pal of the minority chief who died final month on the age of 88, the Instances reported.
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