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[SIZE=7]GOP Donor Les Wexner Announces Departure From Republican Party After Obama Visit[/SIZE]

The L Brands CEO had previously condemned Donald Trump’s response to Charlottesville in a speech to employees.

By Sebastian Murdock
09/15/2018 03:13 PM ET

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[SIZE=2]Les Wexner, seen in 2016. (Astrid Stawiarz via Getty Images)[/SIZE]

Ohio billionaire and longtime Republican donor Les Wexner says he is officially done with the party, and was prompted to leave after former President Barack Obama visited the state.

Wexner, the CEO of retail conglomerate L Brands, which owns Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works, announced at a leadership summit in Columbus on Thursday that he “won’t support this nonsense in the Republican Party” anymore, The Columbus Dispatch reported.

The announcement, made at a panel discussion, came the same day Obama visited Columbus before heading to a rally in Cleveland to support Democrat Richard Cordray’s run for governor.

“I was struck by the genuineness of the man; his candor, humility and empathy for others,” Wexner said of Obama.

Wexner said he’s been telling lawmakers that he is now an independent.

“I just decided I’m no longer a Republican,” he said.

Last year, following a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Wexner condemned the racists in a speech to his employees. He said Trump’s tepid response to the violence ― in which a white supremacist killed counterprotester Heather Heyer ― made him feel “dirty” and “ashamed,” the Dispatch reported.

In a speech in Illinois earlier this month, Obama also called out Trump’s lukewarm response to the violence, in which the current president said there were “very fine people” on both sides.

“How hard is it to say Nazis are bad?” Obama said.

Wexner has long donated to Republican causes, including cutting a check to Jeb Bush for $500,000 in 2015 during Bush’s presidential run. The billionaire philanthropist has also donated $2.8 million to With Honor, a super PAC that endorses both Republican and Democratic candidates.

During the panel discussion Thursday, former Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman praised Wexner for standing up to his former party, the Dispatch reported.

“If you don’t think things are right, open your mouth,” Wexner responded.

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He looks Jewish. Probably why he is more upset with Trump not setting things straight with Neo-Nazis

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I didn’t see the kippah or yarmulke…

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Eyes, ears, facial structure. The Nose. Its hooked. :D. Let me research am sure he is

Edit:
– He is –
"Leslie “Les” H. Wexner is a businessman from Columbus, Ohio, and currently chairman and CEO of the Limited Brands Corporation. In 1963, after helping his parents, who were Russian Jewish immigrants, "
Leslie Wexner

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I thought this thread was about being hit below the belt

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Effing Ashkenazi Jew.

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I believe it still is. It is an open secret that the GOP gets a huge chunk of its funding from wealthy Jewish American business men. And It is also a known fact that Trump hobnobs with Neo-Nazis. To weaken the GOP, you know what to exploit. And Obama is doing just that.

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Some of the material the infamous guy from the Austria wrote, titled “Achtung ! Juden”, about how to identify…you know…actually work. There may be a select group of outsider people who may fit the description, like Armenians, Georgians, Al Sham Levantines… and a few errors here and there…but that manual actually works.

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I purposely avoid judging people by their looks.* So that kind of particularity may be missed.

  • except people who are so ugly, they make babies cry.
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I don’t judge. But I observe. I have a penchant for anthropology. I prefer to acknowledge and appreciate the uniqueness of populations in relation to their geographic, cultural, linguistic and historic distribution. I don’t judge, I acknowledge

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Viksed

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Hehehehehehehehehe! Now is when the donor’s ethnicity becomes an issue, just because he has seen sense and stopped subsidizing the national fool.