Donald Trump (left) and Ray J.Photo: Courtesy Ray J
“He just felt like it was a good time to talk about business and technology and Black empowerment,” Ray J’s longtime manager and producing partner, David Weintraub, tells PEOPLE.
Weintraub says Ray J and Trump met for about five hours on Tuesday at the former president’s club in Palm Beach, Florida, that has become Trump’s post-White House home amid looming investigations of his family and a likely 2024 run.
Weintraub says Ray J, 41, and Trump, 75, traded some ideas in a more informal setting.
“He always wants to prove that he can conquer the next goal, and hopefully that would be to conquer something in the political arena,” Weintraub says.
Ray J (left) and manager David Weintraub.Courtesy David Weintraub
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Ray J (left) and David Weintraub (center).Courtesy David Weintraub
Exactly what shape that effort would take remains to be seen, Weintraub says: “This is very new.”
This is not, Weintraub cautions, the official debut of Ray J the politician.
“Ray has political aspirations. The clear-cut answer to what those aspirations actually are is to help people and to open doors for people that don’t have doors open,” he says, adding, “It’s not like saying Ray wants to be a mayor, Ray wants to be a governor. Maybe he wants to run for Senate, maybe he wants to go back to his roots and help a small town become more empowered.”
As for Ray J’s own political ideology, Weintraub says this: “Ray is a guy who believes in right and wrong and it’s not about taking a political side a this moment. It’s about opening doors and figuring out stuff that he wants to do.”
source: people.com
