REPORT: Billionaires Caught Using Donations To Urge NYC Mayor To Crush Columbia Protests

A group of CEO's and billionaires met with New York Mayor Eric Adams to encourage him to send police to Columbia University's pro-peace encampment. Ana Kasparian discusses on The Young Turks. Your Support is Crucial to the Show: https://tyt.com/team

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"A group of billionaires and business titans working to shape U.S. public opinion of the war in Gaza privately pressed New York City’s mayor last month to send police to disperse pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, according to communications obtained by The Washington Post and people familiar with the group.

Business executives including Kind snack company founder Daniel Lubetzky, hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, billionaire Len Blavatnik and real estate investor Joseph Sitt held a Zoom video call on April 26 with Mayor Eric Adams (D), about a week after the mayor first sent New York police to Columbia’s campus, a log of chat messages shows. During the call, some attendees discussed making political donations to Adams, as well as how the chat group’s members could pressure Columbia’s president and trustees to permit the mayor to send police to the campus to handle protesters, according to chat messages summarizing the conversation."

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