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'''Thomas Fahr "Tom" Steyer''' (born June 27, 1957) is a [[liberal]] billionaire and [[demagogue]] that made his money in [[hedge fund]]s as founder of Farallon Capital Management. He resides in [[San Francisco]] and has focused his resources on promoting the anti-[[Global Warming]] movement.<ref>[https://freebeacon.com/issues/emails-show-steyer-epa-coordination-to-undermine-agency-critics/ Emails Show Steyer-EPA Coordination to Undermine Agency Critics, Free Beacon, January 27, 2016]</ref> Steyer spent $50 million trying to elect [[Democrat]]s in 2014. He supported [[Hillary Clinton]] for President.
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'''Thomas Fahr "Tom" Steyer''' (born June 27, 1957) is a [[liberal]] billionaire and [[demagogue]] that made his money in [[hedge fund]]s as founder of Farallon Capital Management. He resides in [[San Francisco]] and has focused his resources on promoting the anti-[[Global Warming]] movement.<ref>[https://freebeacon.com/issues/emails-show-steyer-epa-coordination-to-undermine-agency-critics/ Emails Show Steyer-EPA Coordination to Undermine Agency Critics, Free Beacon, January 27, 2016]</ref> Steyer spent $50 million trying to elect [[Democrat]]s in 2014. He supported [[Hillary Clinton]] for President in 2016, and was himself a campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.
    
Steyer spent $140,000 a day on [[Facebook]] advertising for $1 donations trying to meet the 130,000 donor threshold to be included in Democratic debates. Speaking at the 2019 DNC Summer Meeting, Steyer said, "We can’t be chasing corporate money. … We should only be chasing people’s votes. As president, I would insist that the DNC not take one single penny from any corporation.”<ref>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/08/30/tom_steyers_12_million_failure_to_launch__141136.html</ref>
 
Steyer spent $140,000 a day on [[Facebook]] advertising for $1 donations trying to meet the 130,000 donor threshold to be included in Democratic debates. Speaking at the 2019 DNC Summer Meeting, Steyer said, "We can’t be chasing corporate money. … We should only be chasing people’s votes. As president, I would insist that the DNC not take one single penny from any corporation.”<ref>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/08/30/tom_steyers_12_million_failure_to_launch__141136.html</ref>
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In 2017, Steyer pulled $20 million to release a campaign against U.S. President [[Donald Trump]] to impeach him, his website NeedtoImpeach.com mentioned that the 3 million liberals had affiliated with the campaign.<ref>https://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/26/politics/tom-steyer-defends-impeachment-ads/index.html</ref><ref>https://www.needtoimpeach.com/</ref>
 
In 2017, Steyer pulled $20 million to release a campaign against U.S. President [[Donald Trump]] to impeach him, his website NeedtoImpeach.com mentioned that the 3 million liberals had affiliated with the campaign.<ref>https://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/26/politics/tom-steyer-defends-impeachment-ads/index.html</ref><ref>https://www.needtoimpeach.com/</ref>
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Steyer ended his campaign for the Democratic nomination for President on February 29, 2020, after a disappointing finish in the [[2020 South Carolina Democratic primary|South Carolina primary]].<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tom-steyer-ends-campaign-after-biden-wins-south-carolina-primary</ref>
    
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