'Embarrassing': Trump's sparsely attended Beverly Hills fundraiser attracts zero celebrities
While making a rare West Coast swing to promote his controversial border wall with Mexico, President Donald Trump took time out to headline a fundraiser at the home of a Beverly Hill’s supporter that appears to have been a bust, reports the Daily Beast.
According to the report, tickets for the event at the home of health-care executive and GOP donor Lee Samson started at $15,000 and went as high as $150,000, but few took advantage of a chance to meet the president, with the Beast characterizing the event as “embarrassing.”
According to the report, the goal of the meet and greet — hosted by Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, national finance chairman Todd Ricketts and deputy national finance chairman Elliott Broidy — was to raise estimated $5 million for the GOP but likely came up short due to so few attendin
Trump reportedly told the crowd that he expects to win California in the 2020 election before being whisked away to his golf course in Palos Verdes.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/embarrassing-trumps-sparsely-attended-beverly-hills-fundraiser-attracts-zero-celebrities/
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