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The Trump-hating CEO of Victoria's Secret is quitting the Republican party after donating millions of dollars

Billionaire businessman and longtime political donor Les Wexner has been outspoken about Trump. In January, he posted a public video online, criticising the president's comments on immigration.

Les Wexner is quitting the Republican party.
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Billionaire businessman and longtime political donor Les Wexner is quitting the Republican party, saying he's had enough of the "nonsense."

"I just decided I’m no longer a Republican," Wexner said during a panel discussion with local business leaders in Ohio on Thursday evening, the same day that Obama visited Columbus, The Columbus Dispatch reported.

In January, he posted a public video online, criticising Trump's comments on immigration after the President referred to Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations as "shithole countries" in a White House meeting. "This is not acceptable," Wexner said in the video.

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This was the second time he had spoken out against the President. In August 2017, he criticised Trump's response to a woman being killed by a white supremacist during a racially-charged rally in Charlottesville.

"Hearing the remarks of yesterday, I repeat that this is not acceptable," he said in the video.

Wexner also commented on his encounter with Obama:

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