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Ari Emanuel stands to be a big winner if Orange Man Bad returns to the White House.
Amidst all of the despondency in the Washington-New York Acela Corridor over what to do with US President Joe Biden, Ari Emanuel was busy hanging out in Aspen and delivering a critical message to America’s politically rich-and-connected:
You have permission to abandon Joe Biden. Make peace with Donald Trump right now.
For Hollywood’s elite, this highly disturbing message is like ingesting arsenic.
Emanuel’s Tuesday abandonment of Biden came just ahead of other big-wig Democrat financiers like Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings who finally gave up on Scranton Joe yesterday.
Watching people like Emanuel and Hastings, who helped bankroll the E. Jean Carroll lawsuit in New York against Trump, is a real-time civics lesson to help understand what is happening with those who truly run influence the behavior of the American government.
MMA and pro-wrestling fans may claim to hate politics but politics is now a big part of our life because of the guy who owns UFC & WWE.
Ari Emanuel’s DNA is politics and government.
Nobody is better at maximizing political leverage for financial gain than this guy.
Which is why this video of Mr. Emanuel’s comments in Aspen — right after Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump on CNN — is such a critical moment for the donor class oligarchy.
If you know the relationship between Ari Emanuel and Donald Trump — as we have outlined repeatedly in articles at The MMA Draw — then you can have a hearty laugh watching Ari’s performance art in Aspen as he delivered “the bad news.”
It may have been bad news for the crowd but it was great news for him. He just had to channel his inner Skip Bayless to deliver the pantomiming. Ari said:
This is a pickle. The lifeblood, and I have a brother who's a politician, he's an Ambassador, the lifeblood to a campaign in politics, the lifeblood is money. And maybe the only way this gets, with smart lawyers looking at it, is if the money starts drying up.
But if this is as Biden says, the fight for our democracy and he talks about the soldiers... Man... He gave us a bunch of malarkey and I'm really pissed. We all should be really pissed.
You're going to know in the next couple of weeks if the money comes in. I've talked to a bunch of big donors and they're moving all their money to Congress and the Senate. I mean, I cannot believe we're in this situation."
Right next to Ari Emanuel on the Aspen stage was Tina Brown (former editor of Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and DailyBeast.com), the doyenne of Democrat Party media. Outside of Anna Wintour and Annie Leibovitz, no one is more establishment in Washington & New York than Ms. Brown.
I would cry for America’s status in the world if what we’re seeing right now it wasn’t so laughable. The Democratic Party power brokers aren’t upset about President Biden’s medical condition — they’re upset that they can no longer hide it and gaslight voters into believing it’s “fake news” or “disinformation.”
Operation Fake & Phony
The big-time market movers and multinationals are trying to get what they can while attempting to force an exit for President Biden. Whether they can execute this game plan (or not) is the big question.
What does any of this have to do with UFC & WWE?
If you understand what Ari Emanuel has built with TKO — which is a growing government contract monster in the mold of Boeing or Raytheon — then you clearly can see the puppet strings moving in American politics.
Study Ari.
Focus on Ari.
Any accurate vision of TKO’s future has to be viewed from the perspective of Ari Emanuel to understand what his next business moves might be.
Ari Emanuel’s message to his Democrat Party friends was permission to jump off of the Titanic. However, it was also a giant middle finger to his arch rival — CAA boss Bryan Lourd.
It was Mr. Lourd who produced a glitzy fundraiser with President Biden and President Obama in Los Angeles. Audio and video from that fundraiser showed a feeble Mr. Biden having to be navigated off stage by Mr. Obama. That video set the stage for Biden’s failure at the CNN debate.
Establishing a narrative as the obnoxious American political press likes to say.
With a politically-wounded President Biden on the ropes, the prospects of former President Donald Trump returning to the White House are increasing.
What that means for a lot of power brokers in the Democrat Party is bad news.
What it means for Ari Emanuel is very, very good news. He just has to manage to hide his glee from the public.
Why would Mr. Emanuel be so gleeful at the prospects of President Trump 2.0? There are hundreds of millions of dollars at stake for TKO in the form of business and legal protections. Let’s review all of the possible goodies Mr. Trump could lavish upon TKO.
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