Sheldon Adelson, Trump’s controversial tycoon and financier, dies at the age of 87

Sheldon G. Adelson, died at the age of 87. He was the son of a taxi driver, built the largest empire of casinos and hotel complexes in the world in Las Vegas, Macau, Singapore and other gambling meccas, but lost his life due to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

In a moment, the third richest man in the world, Adelson took singing gondoliers to the Las Vegas Strip and he bet all-inclusive that Asia would be a bigger prize than Sin City. In his later years, he became widely known for his political activism, including his donations to Trump and other Republicans, as well as his support for Israel.

In March 2019, Sheldon Adelson announced that he was receiving treatment for a non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and had recently resumed these treatments and even Las Vegas Sands announced last week that Adelson had been absent due to his cancer getting worse.

Adelson and his wife, Miriam, had been the most prominent financial sponsors of the Republican Donald Trump party. They contributed more than $ 123 million to conservative politicians in the 2018 election cycle, more than any other American citizen.

For a period of two days in September 2018, the Adelons injected $ 55 million into three conservative political action committees. Two months later, President Donald J. Trump awarded Miriam Adelson a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

In August, the pair of moguls, Adelson, donated $ 75 million to a super PAC launched to aid Trump’s re-election efforts.

Sheldon Adelson’s life story

Sheldon Adelson was the son of Jewish immigrants, he grew up with two brothers in a Boston neighborhood home, who during the second half of his life became one of the richest men in the world. In 2018, Forbes placed it in 15th place in the United States with an estimated value of $ 35.5 million.

“If you do things differently, success will follow you like a shadow,” Sheldon Adelson said in 2014.

Short but reserved, the stocky Adelson resembled an old-fashioned political leader and distinguished himself from most American Jews, who for decades have supported Democrats by wide margins.

Adelson was considered the nation’s most influential Republican donor during the last years of his life, sometimes setting individual contribution records during a given election cycle.

Adelson regularly received the party’s top strategists and the most ambitious candidates in his modest office, nestled between the casinos on the Strip.

At all times, helped ensure that uncritical support for Israel became a pillar of the Republican platform, Never more visibly demonstrated than when the Trump administration moved the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in 2018.

The Palestinians had strongly opposed the arson move and it had long been a priority for Adelson, Who had even offered to help pay for it, and for the Republican Jewish Coalition, of which he was the main benefactor.

Adelson and his wife, Miriam, were at the front and center of the ceremony in Jerusalem. In fact when asked at a gambling conference what he hoped would be his legacy, Adelson said it was not his dazzling casinos or hotels, but his impact on Israel.

The Truth News was able to find out that he gave $ 25 million, a record sum for a private citizen, A at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Israel. He established a group of experts in Jerusalem.

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Sheldon Adelson was closely aligned with the Likud Conservative Party and funded a free, widely read newspaper called “Israel Hayom,” or “Israel Today,” which supported both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some Israelis called him “Bibi.” -ton “.

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