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"The founder of a key support group for the US president has praised Gina
Rinehart as a “female Donald Trump” and backed a push by the mining magnate to
bring Trump’s policy ideas to Australia.
Toni Holt Kramer, the president and founder of The Trumpettes USA, told
Guardian Australia she had been friends with Rinehart since the first Trump
presidency in 2016, describing her as an “extremely brilliant woman”.
She has also thrown her support behind Rinehart to be a future Australian
ambassador to Washington under a Dutton government.
“She’s an incredible woman … She does so much good. I’m so impressed with her
through the years. To me, she’s sort of like a female Donald Trump,” Holt
Kramer said of Australia’s richest person.
“She has the right values for me … She thinks so normally, so intelligently,
and she’s only for the betterment of Australia. She loves Australia with her
heart and soul.
“I have no doubt she’d be a great ambassador. I wish she would be an ambassador
to Washington from Australia.”
The praise from Holt Kramer comes after Rinehart, who has described herself as
a Trumpette, revealed to her staff last month that a renovation of her Perth
company headquarters would be inspired in part by the Make America Great Again
(Maga) movement.
The redevelopment will include a silver sculpture of Peanut the squirrel, an
American pet squirrel that has become a cause célèbre of the Maga movement in
the US after it was euthanised by authorities. The plans also include a plaque
etched with a quote from Elon Musk on freedom.
Rinehart has long had strong views on government overreach and she is now
pushing for a Maga-like crusade in Australia, calling on the country’s leaders
to follow in the US president’s footsteps.
She has been openly cultivating her relationship with the opposition leader,
Peter Dutton, since the 2022 election, and has also hosted multiple fundraisers
for his campaign. Her company, Hancock Prospecting, is now the Coalition’s
second-largest donor.
At an event at her national mining day last November, Rinehart said Australia
should learn from the success of Trump."
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
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