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April 16, 2024

Sheldon Adelson makes nice with Trump

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Evan Vucci / AP

Businessman and Republican donor Sheldon Adelson waits for the arrival of President Donald Trump to a campaign rally at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Friday, Feb. 21, 2020, in Las Vegas.

Despite a tense recent phone call with President Trump — first reported by the New York Times — the most important megadonor in the Republican Party, Sheldon Adelson, has signaled he is poised to spend big to support the president.

Last Monday morning a group of top Republican Party donors gathered at the Four Seasons resort in Jackson Hole, Wyo., for a Trump campaign fundraiser.

The donors gathered in a hotel ballroom, set up like a Silicon Valley retreat, with a yogurt parfait station, according to sources in the room.

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