Trump got $100M donation from new Mavericks owner that Mark Cuban sold team to while calling Trump 'fascist'

Mark Cuban has been 1 of nan astir vocal critics of Donald Trump successful nan NBA. But 1 of his biggest business partners has reportedly made nan largest aid to Trump of immoderate proprietor successful American sports.

The family of Miriam Adelson, who bought nan mostly of nan Dallas Mavericks from Cuban successful December 2023, has donated $100 cardinal to her Preserve America governmental action committee backing Trump’s statesmanlike campaign, according to Front Office Sports. That number is nan largest governmental aid of immoderate proprietor successful nan NBA, NFL, MLB aliases WNBA. 

Trump was reportedly hoping for overmuch more, according to nan New York Times, arsenic nan erstwhile president was expecting person to $250 million. 

Adelson has besides reportedly spent "tens of millions" much to support Republicans successful legislature races astir nan country. 

The Adelson family are mostly shareholders successful Las Vegas Sands, pinch Patrick Dumont serving arsenic president and main operating serviceman of nan company. Forbes estimates that Adelson and her family person a nett worthy of $32.3 billion, making her nan 44th-richest personification and nan fifth-richest female successful nan world.

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Dallas Mavericks number proprietor Mark Cuban walks disconnected nan tribunal aft nan Mavericks nonaccomplishment to nan Oklahoma City Thunder astatine nan American Airlines Center.  (Jerome Miron/USA Today Sports)

The NBA's Board of Governors approved nan waste of nan controlling liking successful nan statement from Mark Cuban to nan families successful January 2024, for astir $3.5 billion. Cuban retained astir a 4th of nan statement successful nan sale. 

An progressive protagonist of Harris, Cuban has been dedicating overmuch of his ain clip and astir his full beingness connected societal media to advocating for her policies and debating against Trump's pinch various users. Cuban has gone truthful acold arsenic to travel others successful Democrat circles by calling Trump a fascist amid caller mainstream media comparisons of nan 45th U.S. president to Adolf Hitler and his supports to that of nan Nazis successful caller weeks.

"Donald Trump is not a normal candidate," Cuban told Jonathan Karl successful a caller ABC interview. "And I deliberation it’s not a agelong to telephone Donald Trump a fascist.

"He’s talking astir nan force wrong and going aft group utilizing nan military. He’s talked astir wide deportations wherever they’ll extremity group connected nan thoroughfare and cheque their papers. What does that punctual you of? Talking astir knocking connected doors and pulling group retired and deporting them, what does that punctual you of? That’s beautiful damn adjacent to fascism, if not nan meaning of fascism."

But contempt specified vehement rhetoric against nan erstwhile president, Cuban defended his business narration pinch nan Trump megadonor successful a caller question and reply connected FOX 5 Dallas.

"Do you cognize really everyone is voting who you activity with? Do you cognize really nan owners of your institution are voting? This is America. People get to take their candidates and ballot who they want, and that's what makes it amazing," Cuban said. "I've talked pinch my partners astir it, and they don't person an issue. They take what they choose."

According to nationalist records, Cuban has not fixed money to governmental candidates successful decades, and he said precocious that he hasn’t fixed Harris "a penny" contempt his support.

However, Cuban has gone to very distant lengths successful his quest to thief forestall Trump from getting elected. 

Cuban precocious engaged successful a multi-thread statement pinch aggregate X users, including 24-year-old erstwhile assemblage swimmer and blimpish activistic Riley Gaines complete criticisms of Vice President Kamala Harris' handling of nan confederate border.

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Mark Cuban speaks astatine a run rally for Democratic statesmanlike nominee Vice President Kamala Harris astatine nan University of Wisconsin La Crosse, successful La Crosse, Wis., Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (Abbie Parr/Associated Press)

Cuban, who has been a staunch advocator for Harris, Joe Biden successful 2020 and Hillary Clinton successful 2016, has defended nan VP's grounds connected nan border. Cuban moreover said he thinks nan actions she has taken to trim nan travel of forbidden migrants crossed nan confederate separator "have really worked" successful a caller CNBC interview.

Cuban's defense of Harris and Democrats has ramped up successful caller weeks. He has done respective interviews endorsing nan VP successful nan upcoming election, making statements that person raised eyebrows from blimpish voters. Cuban has suggested Trump is "a socialist" and moreover said he believes nan mainstream media "leans right" successful a caller CNBC interview. 

Earlier this year, erstwhile Biden was still nan presumptive Democratic nominee, Cuban went truthful acold arsenic to opportunity he would ballot for Biden complete Trump moreover if Biden was "being fixed his past rites."

"If they were having his past wake, and it was him versus Trump, and he was being fixed past rites, I would still ballot for Joe Biden," Cuban told Bloomberg News successful March.

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Mark Cuban and Donald Trump astatine a property convention to officially denote nan Affliction M-1 Global "Trilogy" astatine Trump Tower connected June 3, 2009 successful New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage)

However, Cuban has besides said he supported Trump astatine nan outset of nan erstwhile president's first candidacy successful 2015. 

Cuban has said he supported nan erstwhile president erstwhile Trump initially launched his first statesmanlike run successful 2015. Cuban elaborated connected his first support of Trump during an question and reply pinch Vivek Ramaswamy connected X connected August 7. 

"In 2015, I was like, ‘He's great. He's not a emblematic Stepford candidate.' I thought that was a positive," Cuban said. "A large portion of that is I didn't deliberation he had a chance. I conscionable wanted to benignant of screw things up successful accepted politics, which I'm not a instrumentality of."

"I don't attraction what his existent positions are," Cuban besides wrote of Trump successful a station connected his ain societal media app task "Cyberdust" successful July 2015. "I don't attraction if he says nan incorrect thing. He says what's connected his mind. He gives honorable answers alternatively than prepared answers. This is much important than thing immoderate campaigner has done successful years."

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