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The GOP's Message for Tech Billionaires: Be Like Peter Thiel
One lesson Republican insiders took away from Elon Musk's spectacular flameout? Be wary of billionaires who love the spotlight.
Already, Americans have heard about the likes of Mark Zuckerberg at Meta, Jeff Bezos at Amazon and in his capacity as owner of The Washington Post, Sundar Pichai at Alphabet (the parent company of Google and YouTube), Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Uber’s Dara Khosrowshahi and others bending the knee, ponying up donations, and doing whatever it takes to stay in the good graces of the second Trump administration. Someone who has done that rather well, my sources tell me, is Peter Thiel, the billionaire megadonor, Palantir cofounder, and card-carrying member of the so-called PayPal mafia alongside Musk and Trump’s “ White House & AI Crypto Czar ” David Sacks, two notable GOP converts. “Going into the midterms … the amount of ask for large six- and seven-figure donations from the NRCC, the NRSC, the presidential stuff, Trump, all the super PACs, the RGA, I mean, you name it—there’s going to be a flood in the phone calls and inboxes of every one of these people that participated two years ago,” the seasoned GOP strategist says.
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