Ricketts Spent Millions Bashing Trump, Now Wants to Pay Donald a Million to Beat Hillary

TD Ameritrade founder and DNAinfo boss Joe Ricketts spent millions bankrolling television ads that painted Donald Trump as a disgusting, woman-hating pig. But now he’s suddenly supporting Trump and has pledged to donate at least $1 million to the Republican candidate’s campaign, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Ricketts and his wife, Marlene Ricketts, donated at least $5 million to Our Principles PAC, the Journal reports. Our Principles PAC was “formed in January 2016 to thwart Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign,” according to FactCheck.org.

Our Principles PAC then paid for advertisements like this one:

The ad makes Trump out to be less than refined, attributing the following quotes to him:

• Look at that face. Would anyone vote for that?
• It really doesn’t matter what they write, as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ---.
• Women, you have to treat them like ----

And then there’s this one, where Trump is quoted using the words “bimbo,” “dog” and “fat pig” to describe women:

So after dropping all that cash to show the world Trump is a misogynist, you’d figure Joe Ricketts wouldn’t be voting for him. And you would be wrong. According to the Wall Street Journal:

“'The Ricketts decided they could not sit back and watch Hillary Clinton become the next president of the United States,’ said Brian Baker, a longtime political strategist for Mr. Ricketts.”

Donald Trump very well might be a horrible man who’s said terrible things about women. But it looks like Joe Ricketts prefers that — at least as much as $1 million can buy — to Hillary Clinton.

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