{"id":647,"date":"2024-06-28T03:47:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T03:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/?p=647"},"modified":"2024-07-01T03:10:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T03:10:06","slug":"ex-trump-backer-peter-thiel-if-you-hold-a-gun-to-my-head-ill-vote-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/2024\/06\/28\/ex-trump-backer-peter-thiel-if-you-hold-a-gun-to-my-head-ill-vote-for-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Trump backer Peter Thiel: ‘If you hold a gun to my head, I’ll vote for Trump’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tech billionaire Peter Thiel, formerly one of former President Trump\u2019s largest financial backers, said Thursday that he won\u2019t be giving Trump any money during this campaign cycle, but that may still vote for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you hold a gun to my head, I’ll vote for Trump,\u201d Thiel said in an interview<\/a> on stage at the Aspen Ideas Festival. \u201cI’m not going to give any money to his super PAC.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thiel gave $1.25 million to Trump in 2016 and was one of Trump\u2019s strongest supporters among business and tech leaders. During the 2022 election cycle, he spent over $30 million to help Republicans.<\/p>\n

Thiel, who was an early investor in Facebook and co-founded Palantir, has soured on Trump since the 2022 cycle after his backed candidate faced mixed results. Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) won his race, while Arizona\u2019s Blake Masters lost his.<\/p>\n

Last year, Thiel said the Trump administration was \u201ccrazier\u201d and \u201cmore dangerous\u201d<\/a> than he expected.<\/p>\n

“Voting for Trump was like a not very articulate scream for help,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are a lot of things I got wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tech billionaire Peter Thiel, formerly one of former President Trump\u2019s largest financial backers, said Thursday that he won\u2019t be giving Trump any money during this campaign cycle, but that may still vote for him. \u201cIf you hold a gun to my head, I’ll vote for Trump,\u201d Thiel said in an interview on stage at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}