Editing David Geffen (section)

=== Political views ===
Geffen is a donor to [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] candidates and organizations, and was an early financial supporter of President [[Bill Clinton]]. In 2001, he had a quarrel with the former president over Clinton's decision not to pardon [[Leonard Peltier]], on whose behalf he had lobbied the President.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{Cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6387615.stm |work=BBC News | title=Faces of the week | date=February 23, 2007 | access-date=May 1, 2010}}</ref>

Geffen was an early supporter of [[Barack Obama]]’s presidential campaign and raised $1.3&nbsp;million for Obama in a [[Beverly Hills]] fundraiser.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-obama-idUSN2145471520070222|title=Obama finds friends, money in Hollywood|date=2007-02-22|work=Reuters|access-date=2020-02-14|language=en}}</ref>

Along with other Hollywood figures including [[Steven Spielberg]] and [[Brad Pitt]], Geffen donated to oppose [[2008 California Proposition 8|Proposition 8 in the November 2008 election]]. Proposition 8 would have amended California's Constitution to ban [[same-sex marriage]].<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.sfgate.com/webdb/prop8/?appSession=587482278271008&RecordID=14493&PageID=3&PrevPageID=2&cpipage=1&CPIsortType=&CPIorderBy= | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207142742/http://www.sfgate.com/webdb/prop8/?appSession=587482278271008&RecordID=14493&PageID=3&PrevPageID=2&cpipage=1&CPIsortType=&CPIorderBy= | url-status=dead | archive-date=December 7, 2008 | work=The San Francisco Chronicle | title=Proposition 8 contributions | df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Proposition 8: Who gave in the gay marriage battle?(Dreamworks Skg) |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jan-24-me-gay-marriage24-story.html|access-date=3 July 2012|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Proposition 8: Who gave in the gay marriage battle? (Dreamworks Studios) |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jan-24-me-gay-marriage24-story.html|access-date=3 July 2012|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> California's voters passed Proposition 8 by a margin of 52.24% to 47.76%. Decisions in federal courts ultimately invalidated California's prohibition of same-sex marriage. See [[2008 California Proposition 8#Legal challenges|2008 California Proposition 8 § Legal challenges]].

Geffen, among other wealthy Democrats, donated to [[the Lincoln Project]], a Republican-led super PAC that opposed the re-election of Donald Trump and the Republican Senators who supported Trump in the 2020 election.<ref>{{cite news |title=Six More Billionaires Donate To The Anti-Trump Lincoln Project |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2020/07/15/six-billionaires-join-christy-walton-to-support-anti-trump-republican-group-that-sparked-trump-twitter-tirades/|website=Forbes |date=July 15, 2020}}</ref>