Ohio’s Richest Republican Backer Leslie Wexner Quits Party After Visit From President Obama
俄亥俄州最富有的共和黨支持者萊斯利•維克那退出共和黨
Leslie H. Wexner, the fashion retail tycoon whose net worth is estimated by Forbes to be $5.9 billion, recently told a small audience in Columbus that he has decided to quit the party he has called home for decades after Obama’s visit.
萊斯利•維克那是一位時裝零售行業的大亨，《福布斯》估計他的資產淨值達到59億美元（405億元人民幣）。最近萊斯利•維克那在俄亥俄州哥倫布市告訴很少一些人說他決定退出共和黨萊斯利•維克那在過去的幾十年時間裡一直稱共和黨是他的家。
“I just decided I’m no longer a Republican,” Wexner, the CEO of L Brands said at the event, according to the Columbus Dispatch. “I’m an independent,” he continued. “I won’t support this nonsense in the Republican Party. I’ve been a Republican since college, joined the Young Republican Club at Ohio State.”
萊斯利•維克那說：“我決定退出共和黨。我是一個獨立的人。我將不會支持共和黨的這個荒謬的人（指的是川普）。我從大學時候就加入了共和黨，我在俄亥俄州的時候加入了‘年輕的共和黨人’俱樂部。”
Wexner said that he hadn’t made any public declaration in a newspaper about jumping ship, but that he’s been contacting Republican elected friends and telling them that he now considers himself an independent.
萊斯利•維克那沒有在報紙上公開聲明退出共和黨，但是他聯繫了共和黨內當選的朋友們，並且告訴他們說現在他認為自己是一個獨立的人。
The billionaire, who has expressed some bi-partisan leanings in recent months, also reportedly had kind remarks about Obama’s visit to Columbus, which came before a rally for Cordray in Cleveland.
“I was struck by the genuineness of the man; his candor, humility and empathy for others,” Wexner said of Obama, according to the Dispatch. In addition to hearing the former president speak, Wexner’s shift in political attitude also seems attributed to President Trump. The CEO recalled a moment last year when he told employees that he felt “dirty” and “ashamed” when Trump equivocated about white nationalist violence at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last year.
萊斯利•維克那這個舉動的原因有兩點。第一，他更贊同民主黨人、前總統奧巴馬。他盛讚奧巴馬是一個真誠、坦白、謙虛、有同情心的人。第二，他討厭共和黨的川普。萊斯利•維克那在去年的時候曾告訴手下的工作人員說，川普在弗吉尼亞州中部城市夏洛茨維爾的一次集會中，對於白人名族主義者的暴力支支吾吾、含糊其辭。
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