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Meet Miriam Adelson, the billionaire GOP donor who’s given $100 million to support Donald Trump’s campaign

October 29, 20240
Miriam Adelson and Sheldon Adelson at the 2012 presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

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Politico reported that Miriam Adelson was the top female donor in the 2012 election — when incumbent president Barack Obama faced Republican candidate Mitt Romney — giving around $46 million to Republican super PACs, while Sheldon Adelson donated around $50 million.

The New York Times reported in 2021 that the Adelsons’ contributions to GOP campaigns and organizations had totaled around half a billion dollars since 2010.

Through the Adelson Foundation, they donated large sums to Jewish and Israeli organizations.
Miriam Adelson at a Dallas Mavericks game.

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Cuban sold his majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks for around $3.5 billion, but remains a minority owner.

She has been an ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump.
Donald Trump awarded Miriam Adelson the Presidential of Freedom.

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Trump garnered controversy for comparing the Congressional Medal of Honor to the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

“It’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian version — it’s actually much better because everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, they’re soldiers, they are even in very bad shape because they have been hit so many times by bullets or they are dead,” Trump said of awarding Miriam Adelson.

Trump later clarified that when he said the nation’s highest civilian honor was “better,” he meant that it is less painful to be awarded since recipients don’t “generally have to suffer.”

Following her husband’s death in 2021, she remains one of Trump’s biggest donors.
Miriam Adelson with Donald Trump.

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Sheldon Adelson died in 2021 at age 87 due to complications related to treatment for non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.

Miriam Adelson has continued to donate to philanthropic and political causes. Ahead of the 2024 election, she has donated $100 million to a pro-Trump super PAC and made several public appearances with the former president.

In September, Miriam Adelson called Trump “a true friend of the Jewish people” while introducing him at an event in Las Vegas focused on antisemitism.

In his speech at the event, Trump said that “the Jewish people would have a lot to do with the loss” if he loses the 2024 election and spoke about his relationship with Sheldon Adelson.

“Her husband would drive me crazy,” Trump said to Miriam Adelson. “‘You have to do this. You have to do that.’ You don’t know what I had to put up with.”