Thiel is the founder of Palantir and a member of so-called Paypal Mafia and Musk, and has funded most of Vance’s 2022 Senate.
He is probably the most mysterious and most worried about Vance billionaire ally in the Trump administration, a source who served for the first time told me. And, compared to his more openly active and traditional role in 2016, they were delighted to see his minority, including speaking at the Republican National Convention, where he lamented in particular “rather than going to Mars, we invaded the Middle East.”
In the Trump World, Thiel is now awarded praiseworthy for “putting down his head.” (“Now, does that mean he has backed out of politics,” they said, “or is it that he withdraws from politics in public?”)
Thiel did not return a request for comment.
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Although Vance partially established his brand as a “big technology” criticism within the party, including vigilance around data collection, calls for the repeal of Section 230 calls, and even willing to break down some companies under antitrust laws – he was on the ticket, the people he got along with the world’s attractions in the White House, with the stage of literary elites, which he got on the ticket, and then arrived at the White House, a comfortable magazine. ten years.
“The base is always skeptical of technology, and Steve Bannon is a good symbol,” a Trump source close to the president told me. “The tech population associated with the tech brothers always has a high level of doubt.”
“JD continues to hold the cards with Tech Bros,” a source close to Trump told me.
“I think he will only grow until the point where we hold elections in 2028, and I think he is the leader, but is there a list of challengers right now?” a former Trump administration official added.
Some Trump World sources pointed out that Vance’s role as ambassador for free tech rights and its quirky financiers is largely due to the cash tightening faced by the Trump campaign that advances in the 2024 election.
Vance proved to be the right time, sources close to Trump told me when they were described as “perfect storm” of factors in this era last year. “At that time, [Trump] Realize that you kind of have to do something else. ”
Just because Silicon Valley’s numbers support Trump doesn’t mean they have his ears directly, at least not all the time. Oracle’s billionaire executive chairman Larry Ellison, a U.S. buyer for Tiktok, reportedly reportedly met with Trump in private in recent weeks. But a senior administration during the transition, a senior administration told Wired that billionaire investor and former software engineer Marc Andreessen wrote a manifesto in his spare time and earned a reputation in the Trump world because he had too much relationship with Trump after working in Mar-A-Lago during the transition. Since then, Trump hasn’t said “so much” to Anderson, sources told me. Senior government sources said Andreessen was one of the top thought leaders of the party’s Silicon Valley Wing force and its impact on the party’s Silicon Valley Wing “mainly through the vice president, mainly”.
