Robert Bigelow is a billionaire space industrialist and hotel conglomerate owner. In addition to his vast wealth, Bigelow believes space aliens are already on earth and we just have not discovered them yet. Bigelow gives a lot of money to republicans.
Last week the New York Times reported the DeSantis team had raised $30 million in the last month. Time Magazine is now reporting that $20 million of that financing came from one donor, billionaire Robert Bigelow.
(Via Time) – t’s been a rough two weeks for Ron DeSantis. Members of Congress from his own state have been endorsing Donald Trump in droves. A crippling gas shortage in South Florida coincided with the governor’s travel from South Carolina to South Korea, fueling a spate of negative headlines and “Where’s Ron?” memes. He’s been dropping in the polls. And perhaps most threatening to his presidential ambitions—some of his donors are pulling out.
But none of that is shaking the confidence of Robert Bigelow, the hotel tycoon and aeronautics executive who reveals to TIME that he is the largest donor by far to Never Back Down Inc., a super PAC backing DeSantis’s unofficial campaign for President. Bigelow, who was also the single-largest donor to DeSantis’s 2022 reelection bid, confirms that he has already donated a little more than $20 million to Never Back Down. He says that’s just a start. The super-rich businessman plans to continue putting his wealth behind sending the Florida governor to the Oval Office. “I will give him more money and go without food,” Bigelow says.
His initial donation is a substantial increase from the $10 million contribution he made to DeSantis in the midterms last July. Bigelow, who is based in Las Vegas, says he made the $20 million donation on March 27. A senior Never Back Down official recently told The New York Times that the PAC raised $30 million from March 9 to April 3, meaning two-thirds of those dollars came from Bigelow. (read more)
DeSantis might be filling up the bank accounts, but winning hearts and minds…. not so much.
Former Congressman David Trott (R-MI) – […] “I sat right next to DeSantis for two years on the Foreign Affairs Committee, and he never said a single word to me,” Trott said. “I was new to Congress, and he didn’t introduce himself or even say hello.”
“I go to my first hearing early, and DeSantis showed up right at the gavel time and didn’t say hello or introduce himself,” Trott told Politico. “And then the next hearing, the same thing happened. I think the third time it happened, I thought, ‘Oh, this guy’s not ever going to say hello to me.’” He said he eventually introduced himself to DeSantis.
Trott acknowledged that while DeSantis was talented at pressing his political ambitions, he was not likable.
“He never developed any relationships with other members that I know of. You’d never see him talking on the floor with other people or palling around. He’s just a very arrogant guy, very focused on Ron DeSantis,” Trott said.
He added:
He wasn’t really liked when he was in Congress. And now it’s coming home to, you know, prove out as some of the Florida delegation endorsed Trump and and some of the donors, you know, think he’s kind of awkward in terms of how he interacts with them. … If his pre-presidential campaign was playing out differently, then I’d say, ‘Well, maybe he just didn’t like me.’ But I think there’s something more at work here.”
Trott concluded, “I think he’s an asshole. I don’t think he cares about people.” (More)
Perhaps this explains why the DeSantis team needs to photoshop handshakes.
“Not likeable,” is why DeSantis almost lost to a black homosexual crack addict in his initial Florida governor’s race.
That’s DeTruth.
We Americans in Florida love Ron DeSantis. He’s actually getting rid of all the ill bred parasites that the 3 former carpet baggers posing as governors bused in for their profit. Poverty for profit is not an Amercan avenue, right? We Americans in Florida do not want DeSantis to leave us. Our nation is subdividing and we need a real leader while reconstruction takes place. I hope you find a good place for you up north. You deserve whatecer it is that think is just. LMAO!!!!!
While you love him i does not change the fact that he barely won his first term . He also lied to you when he promised to serve his whole term if you would elect him ! Do you really want another liar to replace the demented liar we now have ?
In my lifetime of nearing 88 years, the ONLY non-liar I have witnessed that DELIVERED what he promised when he had Control of legally, is PJDT.
Let us not forget HOW he won his first race…
Donald John Trump….
Wonder why his sycophants never mentions that little factoid?
Inconvenient truth for them!!! 🤔
Good. Then convince Ron to bow out of the 2024 race, endorse Trump, and get on with the business of governing Florida so I can still have some respect him.
It’s OK. Let the corporate media believe they are shaping things … till the end
As far as respect goes, it’s too late for that!
How can we respect someone who has No loyalty??? I am tired of looking over my shoulder…the facade is dead.
That is funny. He has encouraged a mass influx of residents since Covid to Florida, which isn’t welcomed.
Which is no doubt one of largest segments of his resounding victory – conservatives and Republicans fleeing Noo Yawk and Noo Joisey.
Also, that’s one of the biggest reasons why another feckless loser like Hochul managed to pull off a win, because lots of Zeldin’s voters moved to Florida.
And without Trump’s endorsement, the winner in the 2018 governor’s race would have been Gillum.
DeSantis is against Woke, CRT, Trans movement,
Lawlessness and many more mentally ill Democrat
policies that are destroying the USA.
DeSantis knows how to successfully attack and cancel
mentally ill Democrat Policies.
I like and voted for Trump but he never used his
Presidential Powers to ‘Drain the Swamp’.
DeSantis does what his donors allow. They are allowing social issues. It doesn’t mean anything and he gets a lot of leverage.
If he had any class, DeSantis would announce he is not running and support President Trump.
DeSantis is even doing a commercial claiming that he is in the way of the deep state going after citizens. I wonder where he heard (stole) that.
He is a user and an ingrate. If DeSantis had given his support to President Trump from the beginning, he would have a chance in 2028. Now everyone, at least the Trump supporters, has seen his true self. It is already to late to salvage 2028.
As a fellow NJ Transplant, I completely agree with every word you said!
My conclusion is the once highly respected by me DeSantis has proven to be a weak man who has allowed himself to be another Joe Biden; i.e., a puppet/front person for the likes of Paul Ryan, GWB, Karl Rove, Mike Pence and other establishment miscreants in return for hearing “Hail to the Chief” when he enters a room.
Great summation. I said a few months ago that RDS was the GOP establishment’s “Trojan Horse”. He’s fooling a number of people on our side who are convinced he’s more “conservative” than Donald Trump. We know now ideology is not the basis for this fight. It’s good vs evil, and it galls me to no end that the people who support DeSantis don’t seem to be bothered that the GOP establishment, that has done everything it could to destroy Trump and the Republican Party itself, is heavily behind DeSantis. Make the connection folks. The GOP establishment wants no part of MAGA and DeSantis is their man!
“It’s good vs evil, and it galls me to no end that the people who support DeSantis don’t seem to be bothered that the GOP establishment, that has done everything it could to destroy Trump and the Republican Party itself, is heavily behind DeSantis.”
They do not care. Their hatred of President Trump is far more important. Stop Trump. Whatever it takes.
You may be right. But people have painfully short memories about these political things. If RonD come out in early October and endorses Trump, we’ll know the DeepSTate has given him up and will be trying some other strategy. AND RonD will have given himself a chance at 2028.
I expect the Dems to dump Biden and resurrect Barry’s boy Michelle. Don’t know how they rid themselves of Kamala, but perhaps they could promise her the Senate seat from Ca. She’s a complete political whore and bites the biggest offering.
Stranger nastier uglier things have happened.
You have (intentionally?) omitted the Evil forces actively engaged in thwarting his attempts at every level. He is STILL FIGHTING, and telling TRUTHS. At State level, Rhonda Santis has had to fight no real battles at Federal level in the SWAMP. He will do what the RNC tells him to do (wherever he ends up), unlike PJDT, who is STILL telling the Truth about the RNC Swamp rats.
You said, “I like and voted for Trump but he never used his Presidential Powers to ‘Drain the Swamp’.”
President Trump supported the Florida governor when he was sinking and in danger of losing to a sleazy Swamper.
Plus all the politicians who resigned and the government employees that were fired during the 2016 term of President Trump.
He never stood a chance to drain anything – as a newcomer in DC, he had very few people he could trust, including the RINO leadership, who recommended nothing but swamp dwellers to him for his cabinet and staff.
It’s guaranteed, if he gets the chance, he won’t make that mistake again.
Given that he was being stabbed in the back and betrayed by literally almost everyone in his administration, he managed to do one hell of a job as president. A lesser man would have folded early on.
Unlike Trump, who couldn’t be bought, Desantis is already sold to all the highest bidders. (See the post on Bigelow, and many earlier ones on his backers.)
Mr. RonD has not come up against the DeepState in any way or form….in fact they Own Him with the millions$ they continue to use to promote him.
You certainly can admit this much.
Let Mr RonD stay in Florida for another 4 years, and pray he continues his good politics. Further, watch for him to endorse PDT…like every other Congressperson in Fla.
That ought to be your litmus test.
RonD is a young man, not much admired by people he rubbed shoulders with while in Congress…nor remotely tested by the behemoth Satan that controls so much of our govt.
If you dance with the Devil, the Devil likes you.
If you look at the Devil and say “No,” then the Devil brings his full wrath upon you. THAT’s what happened in 2016-2020 to Trump. If you can’t or won’t acknowledge that….well then evidently you are short an oar even if rowing with great passion.
I live on FL too, and feel blessed to have dodged Gillum and had DeSantis as Governor these last years.
I still support Trump: he was duly-reelected to serve a second term, and not only do I want him to serve it, this country (and the world) desperately needs him to serve it.
At one time I entertained Trump-DeSantis as a dream ticket. No more. The GOPe / UniParty lining up behind DeSantis is poison; they would not do so unless he behind closed doors repudiated serious efforts at MAGA. He’s been great going against DEI/CRT, but when you think of it, that’s kind of low hanging fruit for a Republican.
His failure to question the electronic voting machines also raises a big red flag.
Let him continue as Governor and maybe rehabilitate himself over time to someone that MAGA can have confidence in. In the meantime, NO SALE as a Presidential candidate.
Tom Wigand (“American Discerner” on Substack)
You love him? Keep him. We don’t like him. He’s a manufactured, inorganic money-grubbing meatball.
BTW, you love him but he doesn’t seem to love you. Where’s Ron today?
I’m an American and a Floridian, and you DO NOT speak for me! I don’t “love Ron DeSantis,” and he will NEVER get my vote again. I voted for him twice because he fooled me into thinking he wasn’t a backstabbing RINO swamp critter. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I won’t be fooled a third time! DeSwampis seems to have forgotten that it was President Trump who pulled his sorry butt over the finish line. He’s bought and paid for by the same scumbuckets who got us into this mess. They’re hoping DeSwampis will split the MAGA movement, and he’s willing to do their bidding. What does that tell you about him???
Bingo DP
The GOP establishment could care less about DeSantis. He’s a useful puppet in their strategy to deny President Trump the nomination. They don’t care about him or really winning the presidency. It’s about keeping their place at the Deep State dinner table and getting their share of the world’s loot. For both Democrats and many Republicans it doesn’t matter who the president is as long as that president’s name is not Donald J. Trump.
If the GOP establishment could care less about DeSantis then they should.
Sorry, I’m a Floridian and I ask you Not to speak for me~ Desanctimonious can Not wriggle out of this one~ And No, he does not care one iota about US! An ingrate at best~ The proof will be in his puddin’…
Bigelow was the former owner of Skinwalker Ranch and he was a good friend of Senator Harry Reid… that convinced congress to give that ranch millions of dollars years ago. The New York Post did a whole series on this. It’s on Youtube. One big scam!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/creepy-texas-investigating-deaths-of-six-cattle-found-with-their-tounges-removed-with-no-blood-spilled/
Get ready! DeSanctis’s evil donor is about to unleash some lying signs and wonders to convince us that we’re being invaded by aliens of the outer space kind. From now until the election there will be many efforts to divert public attention from the actual platforms and donors of the candidates. Many will fall for it. Keep your eye on the objective which, quite simply, is MAGA.
A former friend of Harry Reid, enthusiastically and early endorsed also by the likes of Paul Ryan, GWB, and Karl Rove, should tell you all you have to know about Ron DeSantis.
Bigelow’s contribution is interesting, but what’s even more interesting is Trott’s statements. Trott is no Trump supporter, and was a worthless congressman from here in MI. It’s strange to me that he’s crawled out of the woodwork to throw meatball under the bus…not that I mind. I’ll keep watching to see what the “foreclosure king”, Trott, may have up his sleeve.
RdS is now a ‘has-been’ presidential candidate in a has-been R party – they both just don’t know it yet.
President Trump is The Man of the Party and the party is the America First Party.
Damn skippy. To be honest, I really don’t want Reptilian Ron to be our “Governor” for another day. The Legislature is about to go do whatever it is they do when they aren’t passing laws that won’t help Floridians. We have no idea whose private jet DeSubstandard is on or where it will land each day. We are a ghost ship with no Capitan or crew.
DeSubstandard! Love it.
You are an import or a slug from up north who came here to get free stuff? We arent statists in Florida. You might want to learn the art of Federalism and adjust to it or go back to NY.
I was born in Orange County about 50 years ago. I have spent all but 13 of it here. My grandparents moved here in the ’20’s. With all due respect ma’am, Average Floridians who voted for your buddy twice are not excited at all by any of his narcissistic shenanigans. He had one job and that was to try and keep Florida between the ditches. We have been Californicated under his lack of real stewardship. Recall ron! ’23
He has pretty much left you Floridians for another girl /Presidential run but he is too chickenshit to say it outload like a man .
Is the headline grabbing stuff RDS does done by his executive order or by legislation? From up here in Alabama I get the impression everything RDS does could be undone in one hour by a new governor. Is that true?
Aside from the death penalty for child rapists, which shoulda been on the books a hundred years ago, they ain’t passed anything of real substance this legislative session that I can find. They did manage to pass the “live where you work ” WEF 15 minute cities bill.
What constitutes a bribe in this lawless nation we live?
A political donation over a normal reasonable amount. Or buying one of their son’s crappy paintings for an absurd sum of money.
Government means you are above the “law.”
They’re not aliens if they live here.
They traverse space and water as one.
Hence the disk-shaped flying saucer.
And they choose not to be noticed.
Space has no border >>> no need for doucments!!!!
I say give the money back
Why?
The capacity of the self absorbed to morph into what they think will gain them the most is limitless and once exposed, obvious.
Bigelow is correct; aliens are occupying Congress and the White House.
I would argue that most of them are demons.
The Radical Left Democrat Party of Death Degradation and Deviancy…The Evil Party!
We know next to nothing about “aliens”… perhaps they are demons.
“Evil” doesn’t necessarily constitute as aliens! I don’t believe Satan is an alien.
An alien is any being not born of the Earth. Satan is a fallen angel and therefore, an alien on Earth. God on the other hand chose, through Jesus, to also be part of the Earth in addition to its creator.
Going after Bigelow for his beliefs about aliens seems to me to be the lazy argument. Instead, go after Bigelow for the fact that – like one Elon Musk – he made his billions using taxpayer dollars as venture capital makes him a part of the Deep State/Swamp more so than a kook. I continue to look at RDS with suspicion because he continues to cozy up to the establishment because “that’s where the money is.”
I just looked up Musk’s bio – I don’t see much of this “using taxpayer dollars as investment capital” in it. Simply because he’s the 2nd richest person the planet doesn’t make him a government leech.
He founded a city mapping co., sold that and started Paypal, sold that to ebay, and started Tesla and SpaceX among other things.
SpaceX may have lots of government contracts, but his development of reuseable rockets has reduced the cost of launches by 90% below NASA cost, and we longer rely on Russia for getting astronauts into space. He’s opened up the solar syatem to exploration, benefitting the entire human race.
Tesla gets no more in tax breaks than any other car company.
That’s my main problem with Treepers; they attack so many good people and allies in this fight, mostly based on “feelings”.
Some think that Bigelow is a CIA front man.
Only Democrats can buy the White House outright. It’s not for sale to Republicans.
In every sense, Rove! DeSantis is a tool.
Uniparty.
Bigelow Aerospace is linked with the swamp so he will toe the company line. Also he made his billions in real estate as did our Great American President Donald J Trump I would imagine they have bumped into one another over the years as rivals.
I’d recon the $20 million was like extortion: “see, I’m a company man”. Our VSGDJT did the same things.
You can’t purchase charisma, just like “you can clap now” Jeb.
Just how did those “aliens” get through that firmament? Not asking for a friend!
So, a hotel billionaire wants illegal aliens making his beds for low wages?
I’m shocked.
What if Ron is the alien?
I posted the same. Spot on.
I too have detected something off kilter about Mr. DeSantos.
Robert Bigelow may be on to something. I went to Wal-Mart yesterday, and I swear I saw at least a dozen aliens.
Maybe “Don’t back down Ron” is an alien?
Compare “People of Walmart” to “Men in Black”.
There’s an additional interesting clip on rumble from one of the Nelk Boys, at the Nashville Trump recording where they present him with an authenticated Joe Di Maggio baseball bat, as they are connected to Dana White I guess he is behind it. Anyway more interesting are the other people in the room. All the way from South Dakota, 1000 miles away, is Kristi Noem, thought she was in the DePlantis camp, also Ronna McDaniel who DJT puts his hands on her shoulders behind her as she leads the way out. Round her neck might have been preferable. He also shouts out “Where’s my Kellyanne, come here” Always interesting who is where in these things.
Bigelow and DeSerpentes are Lizard People from whatever is hovering above SkinWalker Ranch.
Zuckerborg..
Knock me over with a feather! As a reader of this site and the commenters, I have read over and over again that we are in a spiritual war with evil demonic beings (fallen angels) led by the Destroyer Satan and pray to defeat him. But yet you scoff at someone that believes in extraterrestrials. What do you think are fallen angels/demons/ evil spirits. Of this world? No, not of this world, so are extraterritorial aliens. Aliens are beings that don’t belong to the earth, just as illegal aliens don’t belong in the USA.
By the way, the “alien spaceships” sighted and other such things, are demonic manifestations that don’t need spaceships, which are just for show to confuse people. If your mind is open to ghosts, time travelers, creepy aliens from another planet, then the demons can attack you and become these things, all to subvert your belief in God and His plans for all of us.
Yep.
Nurse, there is a difference between figurative speech and literal speech. Usually Democrats will take what is figurative speech and interpret it as literal speech.
If I said ‘I’d like to kiss you’, you might infer that I literally want to kiss you, but I am using figurative speech because I did not mean to imply in any way that I would want to kiss you for a number of reasons.
When someone says they believe aliens have a physical presence on earth, you can not possibly consider that statement in any way to be anything but a literal statement.
When you talk about good and evil, which are concepts accepted by society since the dawn of time, they can be accepted as figurative or literal.
While I do believe that good and evil do represent figurative speech, I also believe good and evil is manifested in the actions of living things.
I scoff at the notion we have aliens walking amongst us as I scoff at the physical manifestations of angels or devils doing the same.
Best of luck with that.
That’s a long winded way to say you don’t believe in Satan or his demons and the bible. Fair enough. Those who do have to have the intellectual ability to understand they are aliens on Earth.
Ironic isn’t it? How do they reconcile it I wonder? By thinking Satan and demons are human?
And the DeSantis pac wants to run Trump out of Florida. Don’t understand the reasoning because he will get the Florida electoral votes no matter where he lives.
Just insanity
There is certainly enough evidence of alien species on earth if not just the conehead skulls but the umpteen thousand encounters with the greys. If yer gonna toss shade don’t be such a troglodyte about it Sundance. If DeSantis almost lost to a crackhed and not vote fraud then Trump lost to Biden. The street is two way. Trump has to deal with RFK jr, Attacking DeSantis is futile. Calling RFK nicknames ain’t gonna cut it. And Trump was protecting Disney and his boy Don Jr lots the program trying to stop the boycott of Bud Light. Some shade needs casting here.. WTF is going on and who is on first.
I’m not a billionaire, but do believe that there are interdimensional beings here on earth. Some are good and some evil.
Hmmm, I never noticed the photoshop handshake when I saw the ad. But now that sundance pointed it out, I do think it is weird and awkward.
Weird that they (the Never Back Down crowd) feel the need to do that.
so is DeSantis lizard person?
Put your money where your mouth is Bigelow.
Give all your money to the DeSimpleton PAC.
I have cardboard refrigerator box that will make you nice home. May not stand up to the rain but such a person of virtue and character you claim to be Bigelow, you should be happy. LOL
Bigelow is just another little prick with money, that he believes makes him a man. All I see is a wanna be man in desperate need of a tune up. In plain English this wanna be man needs a good old fashioned walk behind the barn for a good talking too.
Desantis is not a Special Ops soldier either. He is just another lawyer, that sat in the rear echelon while the real men take care of business. Desantis and Bigelow can move into the same cardboard box, and tell each other how great they are.
He may be on to something. A lot of Democrats look like lizard people. Maybe they’re the aliens and have come here to conquer us. It would certainly explain their policies. You don’t do these things to people you care about and want to serve. The fact that are millions of humans who are dumb enough to go along with their plans is a big fat bonus for them.
You mean like the AOC / Schiff eyes? 😉
I don’t get why these hacks can’t hire competent Photoshop guys. I mean, give me an hour I could teach my six year old grandson to whip up a better one than that thing. Pathetic.
So, are these extra-terrestrials living on Earth or are they ultra-terrestrials (super beings native to Earth) ?
RDS: “he puts on his Sunday best, when the cameras start to roll…” RDS may be one of the aliens his bagman touts. lol.
Will all these old ass Hippies, like Bigelow, just fade away or die? Don’t go away mad, just go away.
I am so tired of that generation. My own generation. Except I was a working country boy, not a damn hippie. Always about them. Memememememememememe and me again.
Just let go already. Haven’t you done enough damage to our country? Haven’t you done enough damage with your spawn?
You may have re-invented yourselves as respectable, but in reality you are still the same degenerate nut bags who finally figured out how to game the system.
An ExtraTerrestrial (ET) UFO has a photon bubble
that surrounds a craft that has mass. It acts and travels
like a light ray. No sonic boom because outside of
photon bubble is massless while the craft inside has
no inertial force (no g-force). Index of Refraction at
the surface of the bubble is used to control speed.
It’s just like the USS Nimitz ‘Tic Tac’ UFO.
Yes, ALIENS exist on earth. They are called democrats and they are ANTI-HUMAN. These ALIENS must be DESTROYED in TOTAL!
LOL!
That’s a lot of money
All you need to know about DeSwampis is who backs him: Paul Ryan, Karl Rove, the Bushes, Romney, Murdoch, FAUX News, the Koch Brothers, Lizard Cheney, Ken Cuccinelli, an assortment of corporatist/establishment weasels, and now this guy. THESE are the people who own him and will be pulling the strings on the backstabbing little marionette that is Ron DeSwampis.
Has it occured to anyone that the Government has changed considerably over the last 20 years or so, and the government some people fdid business with in the past no longer even exists? There was a time (like during the Reagan years for example) when doing business with the government could be seen as very Patriotic.
“ “I will give him more money and go without food,”. THIS? from a billionaire… Please! If he is that enthralled, give it all, and scratch for your food (like a lot are likely compelled to do). More EMPTY words… must be a politician himself.
Maybe Bigelow is actually one of the aliens he believes exist on earth.
I think Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy did
an Alien comedy movie about this donor ??
The fact that yet one more billionaire is financing DeSantis, in tandem with the likes of Paul Ryan, George W. Bush and Karl Rove’s early endorsement of DeSantis, should prove we have a puppet/front man willing to assist the greedy power mongers in turning this country into one ruled by oligarchs.
Conversely, we have DJT who has a proven track record, is personally wealthy and is endorsed by the majority of members of Congress in Florida. Anyone who is weary of the oligarchs and corrupted deciding who leads this country should have no doubt whatsoever in voting for DJT.
I don’t care if he is not likeable. He has wonderful principles and policies. Frankly, I suspect that I would not choose Trump as a friend, either.
Aliens?
Oh lawd.
What is hilarious as Hell is these, as I call them, RINO in hiding sites like Redstate, Townhall and Hot Air trying to write rebuttal articles to all these stories that come out about Desantis!!! It is good for a laugh in the morning!!! 😆
Correct me if I’m wrong, doesn’t Robert Bigelow have a brother named Deuce?
Great movie and even better person (actor) Rob Schneider.