Thomas Klingenstein was an American financier, philanthropist, author, and speaker.
He is a partner in Wall Street's Cohen Klingenstein, which bears his own name, which manages $2.3 billion in investments, according to recent SEC disclosures, and is also the chairman and donor to the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank in the United States that has been called the "nerve center of the American right" for its importance, Exceptional intellectual leadership and deep insight . .
Klingenstein's grandfather was a successful investor and philanthropist, but since Thomas Klingenstein, or more precisely, since the Donald Trump era, he has taken a different approach from his family's traditional philanthropy and increasingly devoted resources to hard-line right-wing politics
John Eastman, a senior fellow affiliated with the Claremont Institute led by Klingenstein, is a former constitutional lawyer for Trump, who proposed a constitutional proposal to veto cheating state electoral votes after Trump's 2020 stolen election
Trump's constitutional lawyer, Eastman
For decades, Klingenstein has funded Claremont, a conservative think tank of which he chairs, and other conservative organizations, according to IRS filings. However, the Federal Election Commission's (FEC) campaign finance records show that Klingenstein's political contributions were modest and intermittent until the election theft occurred
More recently, Klingenstein has joined a "growth club" centered on big donors and an affiliated political action committee (PAC) "Growth Action". His $2.5 million donation to the club in January of this year catapulted him to the fourth largest patron of the PAC, and since 2020, he has donated a total of $7 million to the PAC.
The growth club's big patrons are conservative billionaires Richard Uihein and Jeff Yass, among others, and this political action committee is the largest donor to support Republican candidates who toppled the 2020 election
According to the latest data from the Federal Election Commission, Yass, who is worth $28.5 billion, has donated a total of more than $51 million to the Growth Club.
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Another conservative big donor, Virginia James, donated 14.5 million. Now Kragegenstein joins them as one of the most important donors to this PAC
According to the IRS, the Thomas Klingenstein Personal Foundation has donated $19 million to the Claremont Institute since 2005
Last year, Klingenstein released a video called "Trump's Virtues," explaining why conservatives should support Trump as the Republican nominee. Last week, he released a video titled "Trump's Virtue II" explaining why the United States needs Trump as president. Here's the video transcript:
Now that former President Trump has become the Republican nominee for 2024, it's time for Republicans, including those who doubt and can't stand him, to support him. The times demand that we do it
We are at war, we are fighting with a bunch of enemies who kick and spit on the United States. I call our enemies the "woke regime" or the "group quota regime," and this war is a war between those who love America and those who hate it, but we don't have a commander-in-chief. You can't win a war without a commander-in-chief
We should not care too much about whether our commander-in-chief is a real conservative, whether he is a role model for children, or if he says a lot of stupid things, or whether he is modest or dignified. What we should care about is whether he knows that we are at war, whether he knows who our enemy is, whether he knows how to win. Trump knows . .
Trump never apologizes for the United States, he rightly believes that the United States is the greatest country in history. Trump said he said well: "We have our culture, it's great, so we're going to keep it, and if we bring in millions of immigrants who are so different from our culture, we can't keep it." ”
Trump knows that his mission is to protect Americans, and it is to protect Americans. Protect them not only from foreign enemies, but also from global elites at home. He knows that the United States does not need more "diversity", (note: diversity is the core of the woke culture, quotas are the presentation of diversity) and it needs more cohesion
Woke radicals say Trump supporters are a threat to democracy, think about it, they're saying, "You Trump supporters are a threat to democracy," and woke radicals are disgustingly telling us that the United States is a systematically racist country, and Trump knows it's complete nonsense, and he thinks so too.
This accusation of systemic racism will not dampen Trump because he has no white guilt and no guilt. Trump told his supporters what they already knew: They weren't racists and they weren't white privileged. Woke activists silence those who dissident, but Trump won't. If they manage to throw him in prison, he will also roar like a lion in prison
Awakened radicals have the moral arrogance of fanatics, and Trump, God forbid him, rejects the utopian fanaticism of awakened radicals. He was a businessman, and he followed the laws and courses of the world by following facts and common sense.
Trump's base knows first-hand what the United States Trump wants to heal, they love him, and they know he loves them. They will fight for him because they know he will fight for them
Trump never condescends or uses poll to speak to his fellow citizens, even though he is a billionaire, he is one of them. An outsider who looks from the outside in, a man who spreads ketchup on a steak, a man who disgusts the anti-American elite . .
Trump's natural attraction turns ordinary patriots into an army, and without these men and women, we can't stop the left's revolution and take back our country. Unlike most conservatives, they are willing to fight for America. They follow Trump, and if there is no Trump, they will just sit at home. With him, they are united and determined
At Trump's rally, his audience always erupted in a cry of "USA USA," and in that moment, Trump and his audience pledged each other their loyalty and sacred oaths.
His enemies hate him to the bone. "Another Hitler!", they say, "elect him and he will be a reader of *dishes*!" we should take this hysteria as a hope that these American-haters have reason to fear that he and his party are crossing the threshold of victory for the reverse revolution
Trump hates his enemies as much as his enemies hate him. His enemies are none other than the enemies of the United States.
Trump is the most prominent figure of our time, and he has changed not only American politics, but also Western politics. If we are to retake America, we need someone who is unwavering, someone who proves that he can resist the modern woke political army that is going so hard to attack him, someone who wants to put an end to the deep state for which it has no sympathy and pity, someone who is convinced that America is still the last and best hope on this planet. This person is Trump
Politician Donald Trump is a surprise unconventional commander-in-chief against an unconventional military, the kind of person who is unbelievable to be president at any time. Trump is perfectly present in this tumultuous moment, and it would be too much to wonder if the presence of such an unconventional figure is appropriate.
Lincoln said that Americans are "almost chosen," and Trump gives us hope that God never gives up on those who are almost chosen by Him. Not anymore . .