In August 2020, as the novel coronavirus was blazing across an unvaccinated United States, Don Ahern’s Las Vegas hotel hosted the event Evangelicals For Trump, despite previously being scolded by state authorities for staging a beauty pageant. Nevada fined Ahern $10,930 for violating the governor’s executive orders banning mass gatherings.
Undeterred, Ahern hosted a Trump campaign rally the next month at a warehouse he owns in the nearby city of Henderson; the city’s officials promptly fined Ahern $3,000. “I believe that it is my patriotic duty to do what is right for our country, and what is right is supporting President Donald J. Trump,” a bespectacled, mild-mannered Ahern explained at a press conference after the rally.
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