Four years ago, his absence from the inauguration of Donald Trump would have been an event in itself.
His generous $ 5 million donation to the ceremony earned him the President's strong greetings before his inaugural address.
This January 20, Sheldon Adelson, who died Monday at the age of 87, will not leave an empty seat at the baptism of the Biden presidency.
Even alive and in good health, the casino mogul would never have set foot there.
His hatred of Democrats was commensurate with his fortune - $ 35 billion - immense.
The self-made man reproached them, among other grievances, for not supporting entrepreneurs.
And not
“because I didn't want to pay taxes,”
he insisted in 2012.
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Adelson was, it is true, a paragon of entrepreneurship.
Starting from nothing, he said he had created some 50 companies in his life.
Son of a Jewish taxi driver of Ukrainian origin, and a Welsh seamstress, he slept, as a child, on the floor of the family two-room apartment in Boston.
As
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