Peter Thiel says, ‘In case you maintain a gun to my head I will vote for Trump’

Peter Thiel, as soon as one among Donald Trump’s main monetary backers within the tech trade, mentioned Thursday that regardless that he is not offering cash to the Republican presumptive nominee’s marketing campaign this time round, he’d vote for him over President Joe Biden.

“In case you maintain a gun to my head, I will vote for Trump,” Thiel mentioned in an interview on stage on the Aspen Concepts Pageant. “I am not going to present any cash to his tremendous PAC.”

Thiel donated $1.25 million to Trump’s marketing campaign in 2016 at a time when the overwhelming majority of tech cash was going to Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Thiel, greatest recognized for an early guess on Facebook and for co-founding Palantir, additionally spoke on the Republican Nationwide Conference that yr and, after the election, helped arrange a meeting between Trump and high execs at Amazon, Apple, Google, Tesla and several other different big tech corporations.

Nevertheless, Thiel later soured on Trump and said last year that he would not be funding any politician within the 2024 presidential marketing campaign. That is after he spent $32 million on Republican candidates within the 2022 midterm elections with mixed results.

In Ohio, Trump’s choose, Republican J.D. Vance, defended a GOP-held seat against Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan. However in Arizona, Republican Blake Masters failed in his bid to unseat Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly.

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