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Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, a major donor to the US presidential campaign of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, is the biggest single shareholder in the company that owns the New York Times, Republican candidate Donald Trump told supporters on Friday.
WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the Times published an article about two women who accuse Trump of sexual misconduct in 1981 and 2005.
The New York real estate mogul called those and other newly publicized allegations of inappropriate actions toward women false and said he would sue the Times for libel.
"The largest shareholder at the Times [company] is Carlos Slim. Slim, as you know, comes from Mexico," Trump said at a campaign rally in the state of North Carolina. "He has given millions of dollars to the Clintons and their initiatives."
Trump, who at campaign stops routinely mocks the US media and has made disparaging remarks about Mexican immigrants, went on to say that New York Times reporters "are not journalists, they are corporate lobbyists for Carlos Slim and for Hillary Clinton."
Slim, who Forbes magazine ranked as the world's second-richest man in 2015, owns a nearly 17 percent stake in the New York Times Co., making him its largest individual shareholder.
However, Slim owns Class A shares, whereas the Sulzberger family of New York controls the company and its flagship newspaper through its 90 percent ownership of Class B stock. A member of the family, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., is chairman of the Times company and the newspaper's publisher.
Comment: There may be more than meets the eye in these European protests fighting for "freedom and democracy". German relations with Turkey are at an all-time low ever since the failed coup last July. While some of the grievances against Turkey may very well be valid, the bigger issue here is that these protesters are also being used by neo-liberal powers that are attempting to bring Turkey back under their influence. And it's worth keeping in mind that it is this precise influence that wants Turkey as their terrorist-supporting gateway.