At a private meeting of Republicans on Friday, Meg Whitman, CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and a major donor to the Republican Party, likened Trump to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and hinted at the possibility of supporting the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton.
One donor, John Chachas, reported, “She posed the question, ‘Is it not reasonable to support Hillary Clinton’ given all the awful things Trump has said.”
Whitman, who ran for governor of California in 2010, made the remarks at the annual summit for the GOP, hosted by Mitt Romney, the party’s 2012 presidential candidate. Reporters were not allowed entry to the closed-doors meeting, but several attendees spoke about the remarks under the condition of anonymity. The Washington Post first reported the comments.
