“They’re all calling me and they all want to support me,” Trump said of the Fortune 100 CEOs in an interview with Bloomberg. “And if you know politics, whoever is ahead gets all the support they want.” He added: “I can be a shrimp and everybody will still come to me.”
Although the majority of Silicon Valley moguls still vote Democrat, there is also a growing group of people who are declaring their support for Trump, and after the attack on the former president, this trend has accelerated. Just half an hour after he tried to shoot Trump, Elon Musk wrote on Channel X: “I fully support President Trump and hope he recovers quickly.”
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The British newspaper estimates that the heads of the giant technology companies are counting, to a large extent, on the Trump administration not fighting their monopoly position, not raising taxes on them, and not dragging companies such as Meta, Google and Apple to court. Part of the policy of protecting competition.
But the simplest explanation for this new trend is the growing belief that Trump will win the presidential election, and therefore it is worth gaining influence in his circle earlier, the Financial Times asserts.
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