Clinton mega-donor: Trump a ‘self-centered egomaniac’

Media mogul and Democratic donor Haim Saban is slamming Donald Trump, calling the presumptive GOP presidential nominee a “cynical, self-serving, self-centered egomaniac.”

“Donald Trump is a disaster,” said Saban, who has donated to Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, during an interview with the Jewish Journal published Wednesday evening.

{mosads}“He is a bully who doesn’t have the curiosity to understand the issues; he contradicts himself repeatedly; his views of the world are an unmitigated disaster for America and for the American people, and I believe that all of this will become clearer with time.”

Saban said Trump is not a successful businessman and not a billionaire. He also accused the real estate tycoon of not paying his taxes and of being an “oppressor of the weak.”

He said Trump is a “danger to America.”

Saban criticized the GOP standard-bearer of flip-flopping on his positions, citing Trump’s stance on Israel.

“One day he says he’s going to be neutral on the issue of the Israeli-Palestinian problem, and the next day — I guess after he gets some Republicans to give him a lot of money — he says, ‘Yes, Israel should build in the settlements,'” Saban said.

“The danger here is that he doesn’t understand the conflict between those two statements; he just doesn’t get it.”

He hit at Trump for not knowing enough about any one issue to speak coherently on it and for going back on much of what he says.

“One day, he says he’s gonna block the Muslims, and the next day he says, ‘Well it was just a suggestion,'” Saban said. 

“What a candidate says … these words carry weight. We cannot just dismiss the fact that he keeps contradicting himself. We don’t know what he stands for.”

Saban said Clinton has secured more votes than her Democratic rival, Bernie Sanders, or Donald Trump. 

“That is very indicative of where the American people are,” he said.

“Hillary Clinton is a person who has been committed to public service from the very first day she got out of law school until this very day; she has never, ever deviated from being a committed public servant and her history speaks for itself.” 

Saban said he’s known Clinton for a long time and knows what her beliefs are. He touted the Democratic front-runner’s qualifications over Trump, and commended her for her position on Israel.

“I know she wants what’s good for the American people, and she wants what’s good for [the] U.S.-Israel relationship,” he said.

“For me, that’s enough.”

On the other hand, if Trump gets elected to the White House, Saban said he thinks the candidate would “take action that would cause irreparable damage to this important relationship to both countries.”

“Between friends, there is room for disagreement,” he said.

“But you do not disagree with Donald Trump.”