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Barry Diller Rips “Plutocrats” Who Back Donald Trump But Refuse To Talk About His “Rotten” Character


Barry Diller unloaded on Donald Trump's "plutocrat" supporters in the financial sector, accusing them of overlooking his "rotten" charcacter.

“I want Donald Trump pushed into the dust heap of history,” Diller said Friday at the FT Business of Entertainment Summit. Asked to name an exemplar of this behavior, Diller cited John Paulson, a billionaire hedge fund manager, who recently offered his view of the race. Because he was “a little bit intrigued” by Trump, who was then an up-and-coming real estate developer from New York’s outer boroughs, he accepted the invitation to lunch.

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