July 17, 2024

Trump

Axios -  Silicon Valley was once solidly Democratic, with just a handful of Republican outliers. But now its red camp is growing and throwing around its weight, Axios' Scott Rosenberg and Dan Primack write. A significant chunk of the tech industry's money and power is lining up behind former President Trump. Venture capital billionaires Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz both plan to donate to Trump's election effort, following Elon Musk's decision to endorse Trump and spend tens of millions of dollars on a super PAC to aid his campaign.... The industry's giants — Microsoft, Apple, Google and Facebook — try to thrive under presidents from both parties, and their leaders usually try to avoid making headlines during campaign seasons.

CNBC - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump repeated false conspiracy theories about childhood vaccinations during a recent call with the third-party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to a video of the call leaked Tuesday. Trump can be heard saying that, after receiving vaccines to protect infants against life-threatening diseases, “You see the baby all of a sudden starting to change radically.”

The clip also shows Trump telling his ostensible campaign rival, “I would love you to do something. And I think it’ll be so good for you and so big for you.”  When Trump adds, “We’re going to win” the election, Kennedy responds, “Yeah. 

Guardian - Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s recently disbarred attorney is staring down an $150m debt, among others, after a judge dismissed his bankruptcy case on Friday. Giuliani owes the whopping sum to two Georgia election workers whom he was found to have defamed after the 2020 election

 Washington Post - The former U.N. ambassador and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, both former presidential contenders, put aside their feuds with Trump — handing him another big win.

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