Facebook co-founder donates $20 mn to defeat Trump

American Internet entrepreneur Dustin Moskovitz, a Facebook cofounder, said early Friday he was donating $20 million to help ensure the defeat of GOP nominee Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.

“If Donald Trump wins, the country will fall backward, and become more isolated from the global community,” Moskovitz said in a blog post titled “Compelled to Act” on the Medium.com publishing platform.

The 32yearold multibillionaire said the realestate magnate’s policy proposals were “so implausible” that they spark concern his White House run may be nothing more than a con game aimed at winning the election and boosting his brand.

Moskovitz said Trump’s signature plan to build a wall on the U.S.Mexico border, which purports to “improve the lives of Americans, would in practice hurt citizens and noncitizens alike.”

“So, for the first time, we are endorsing a candidate and donating. We hope these efforts make it a little more likely that (former Secretary of State Hillary) Clinton is able to pursue the agenda she’s outlined,” the Facebook cofounder said in the post, which was also signed by his wife, Cari Tuna.

The Nov. 8 presidential election has become a “referendum on who we want to be as individuals, as a nation and as a society,” Moskovitz said.

“Will we be driven by fear, towards tribalism, emphasizing the things that divide us (...) while building barriers to separate us from the rest of the world? Or, alternatively, will we continue in the direction of increased tolerance, diversity and interdependence in the name of mutual prosperity?” he asked rhetorically.

He added that he hoped his support for the Democratic Party sends a message to the Republicans that “by running this kind of campaign one built on fear and hostility and supporting this kind of candidate, they compel people to act in response.”

“Like many Democratic voters, we don’t support every plank of the platform, but it is clear that if Secretary Clinton wins the election, America will advance much further toward the world we hope to see,” Moskovitz wrote.

The Facebook cofounder said that, despite “reservations about anyone using large amounts of money to influence elections,” he and his wife were committing $20 million to numerous organizations, including the Hillary Victory Fund, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.