High-Profile GOP Donor Meg Whitman Leans Hillary, Calls Trump Mussolini

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Via ABCNews

Republican donor Meg Whitman, the high-profile Hewlett PackardEnterprise president and CEO, indicated at Mitt Romney's closed-door summit on Friday that she would likely be supporting Hillary Clinton in November, according to multiple sources who were in the room.

"She posed the question, 'Is it not reasonable to support Hillary Clinton?' given all the awful things Trump has said," explained donor John Chachas.

She backed New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie during the primary season and criticized him for his subsequent support of Donald Trump.

Whitman's words come as a majority of Romney loyalists -- many of whom spearheaded the "Never Trump" movement -- are facing tough decisions about who to back this cycle. Romney himself has been one of Trump's most outspoken critics, and has openly declared he would not be voting for the presumptive GOP presidential candidate.

Two sources in the room said Whitman also compared Trump to historical demagogues, including Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. She then turned to Ryan to ask him how he could support Trump.

Ryan responded by saying he had party obligations as speaker of the House of Representatives, said the sources inside the room.

Whitman has previously gone on the record saying she wouldn't be voting for Trump.

"Look at the comments he's made about women, about Muslims, about reporters, it's just repugnant," she told CNBC in March.

According to Jim and Joanne, a couple from Southern California who declined to provide their last names, Whitman isn't the only donor here considering Clinton. The summit attendees took an informal poll at lunch, with the room splitting evenly among Trump and Clinton supporters, they said.

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