Trump’s very little big-money crowd

By BRUCE LOWITT

Billionaire investor John Paulson admitted Monday he contributed all but $900,000 of the $50.5-million raised Saturday night at his Palm Beach, Florida, home for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

Of the remaining $900,000 from the event’s attendees, billionaire Russian oligarchs Yuri Kovalchuk, Gennady Timchenko and Alisher Usmanov gave $290,000 apiece while billionaire former Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler gave $29,500.

“To buy former and maybe future president for kopecks is like, for us, how you say? Dimes and nickels?” Timchenko said. “He loses, so what? Is nothing to us. He wins, oh, boychik, sky is limit for next four years.”

The other 95 of the estimated 100 “guests” at the fundraiser, namely waitstaff and cleaning crew, each “contributed” five dollars to the event.

“We don’t want the fake-news media saying we’re only in the pockets of billionaires and multi-millionaire corporations, although we kind of are,” Trump campaign senior advisor Chris LaCivita said, “which is why we kept the crowd small, because the oligarchs said they didn’t want to be seen mingling with, um, ‘American filth’ is how they put it.

“The quote little people unquote,” LaCivita said, “and by that I mean the voters, and by that I mean those we can’t do the big favors for because the quote big people unquote, don’t want us to or won’t let us … what was I talking about? Never mind.”

President Joe Biden’s March 28 fundraiser at New York’s Radio City Music Hall featured former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton and attracted more than 5,000 supporters, raising more than $26-million.

“Big deal,” Trump said. “My fundraiser had the only former and future president – me. I could’ve gotten a former president, too, but who needs (George W.) Bush? Didn’t want him, didn’t ask him. It was a bloodbath without him.”

On Monday, Bush’s chief of staff and spokesman, Freddy Ford, said the 43^rd president actually received several requests from the Trump campaign to put in an appearance at the fundraiser.

“President Bush spent the weekend at the family’s Prairie Chapel Ranch in Texas and we advised Mr. Trump’s people he had more pressing matters to attend to,” Ford said. “According to his appointment calendar, the president spent Saturday night shampooing his cat, Bob; he gets kind of dusty chasing lizards.”