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Trump's billionaire backers are 'horrified' by the insurrection at the Capitol, but only two have broken with him

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The comments condemned the events at the Capitol, but only two expressed regret for supporting Trump.During the US Capitol siege on January 6 that left four dead and the building devastated, President Donald Trump posted several tweets that alleged election fraud and told the armed rioters he "loved" them in a video.

carried out by his supporters. The commercial-real-estate mogul Igor Olenicoff described the attack in an email to Insider as "very, very unfortunate" but said Trump was not to blame for what transpired.One of the president's biggest boosters, the casino mogulOnly two have gone so far as to rescind their support for Trump.. "Today I'm sorry I did that. ... I just hope that President-elect Biden will act to bring us together.

"When you have 100,000 protesters — I don't know if they had 50,000, 100,000, 200,000 — you're always going to have 20 to 30 crazies," John Catsimatidis, the founder of Gristedes, a major New York City supermarket chain,"I see on the front page of The New York Times that they're blaming everything on Trump," he said. "I think he addressed the audience. I didn't think he said, 'Go out and do violence,' you know, go out and do peaceful protests.

"After last week's horrific events, President Trump lost many of his supporters, including me," Leone wrote in a statement emailed toone week after the attack. "The actions of the President and other rally speakers were responsible for inciting the rioters. We need to find the best way to move forward as a country, get behind our newly elected President, and start working on the many difficult issues facing America.

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All of them must be held accountable JoeBiden

Nonsense. Many just don't want to draw attention to themselves, one way or another. And, I'd venture a guess that 2/3s of this wealthy cohort sprinkle dollars to both parties to hedge their bets.

They love the way he feathered their nests

I can’t imagine anyone is happy with what Antifa did at the capitol on Jan 6

They're not horrified..please...they would left him like Melania..or she will

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