Another billionaire is bucking Donald Trump.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman, a prominent Republican fundraiser and one-time candidate for governor of California, will vote for Hillary Clinton — citing Trump’s “authoritarian character.”
“To vote Republican out of party loyalty alone would be to endorse a candidate that I believe has exploited anger, grievance, xenophobia and racial division. Donald trump’s demagoguery has undermined the fabric of our national character,” Whitman said in a statement released Tuesday night.
Trump “lacks both the policy depth and sound judgment required as President,” Whitman continued. “Trump’s instead hand would endanger our prosperity and national security.”
Clinton, Whitman said, has the “temperament, global experience and commitment to America’s bedrock national values.”
The defection of Whitman,a top supporter of Chris Christie’s presidential campaign, comes on the heels of another Christie loyalist, Maria Comella, also dumping Trump.
“Donald Trump has been a demagogue this whole time, preying on people’s anxieties with loose information and salacious rhetoric, drumming up fear and hatred of the ‘other,'” Comella, a former Christie and Rudy Giuliani aide, told CNN.
In the last week, billionaires Mark Cuban, Warren Buffett and former Big Apple mayor Michael Bloomberg have all bashed Trump.