Report: GOP Donor Hinted At Clinton Backing, Compared Trump To Hitler

Hewlett Packard Enterprise President and Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman is interviewed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Nov. 2, 2015. The occasion is to highlight Hewlett Packard Enterprise... Hewlett Packard Enterprise President and Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman is interviewed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Nov. 2, 2015. The occasion is to highlight Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s first day of regular-way trading following its separation from Hewlett-Packard Company. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) MORE LESS
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A high-profile GOP donor made waves Friday after hinting in a closed door meeting of GOP leaders that she would consider supporting Hillary Clinton and comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, according to a report by ABC News.

Meg Whitman, president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, reportedly shocked other members of a closed-door summit organized by Mitt Romney Friday night when she raised the prospect of supporting Clinton, according to ABC.

“She posed the question, ‘Is it not reasonable to support Hillary Clinton?’ given all the awful things Trump has said,” donor John Chachas to ABC.

Whitman, who served as Romney’s finance co-chair in 2012, told ABC News she would wait until runningmates are chosen in order to make her final decision.

“I haven’t made that decision,” she said, according to ABC. “We’ll see, get to the conventions, see who the vice presidential picks are. And then I will make that decision.”

This was not the last shocking thing Whitman reportedly said, according to ABC. Whitman allegedly went on to compare Trump to Hitler and Mussolini and conforonted Paul Ryan to ask how he could support Trump.

Whitman has been highly critical of Trump in the past. Whitman supported Chris Christie in the GOP Primary and slammed him for becoming a Trump ally, according to ABC. In March she told CNBC his attacks on women and minorities were “repugnant.”

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  1. All this Republican backlash against Trumpkin is beginning to make me giddy and delirious! Today is a good day to snide!

  2. “Yeah, but Hitler made the trains run on time,”, opined Dweebitz Queelitz III, adding, “Besides, the GOP doesn’t have a problem with the Jews. We love the Jews!”

  3. “Look at my Jew. Are you the greatest?”

  4. I don’t think she will go through with it, but if she openly started saying it is better to support Hillary, then threw her money in that direction…I may actually have to learn how to dance so I can do a happy dance!

  5. The comparisons to Hitler are unfair, Hitler served in his country’s armed services and saw combat.

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