Opinion: Peter Thiel’s AI Palantir Is Supercharging Trump’s Lawfare

Daily Beast via Yahoo ^ | 8/28/2025 | Michael Daly

[logi_cal869]

The software company founded by billionaire Peter Thiel has enabled his buddy, President Donald Trump, to conduct hardcore AI lawfare beyond its previous bounds.

Those bounds appear to now include the Federal Reserve Board after Trump told its Governor Lisa Cook she was fired earlier this week.

The hit was achieved with - snip - Bill Pulte, who seized a chance to make a mark for himself when President Trump appointed him to the usually low-profile position of director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).

Pulte took his first big step toward becoming his own man back in May, when he announced that he had entered into a partnership with Thiel’s Palantir to establish an “AI-powered Crime Detection Unit (CDU).”

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“No one is above the law,” Pulte dramatically declared at a press conference as if his liege, Trump, does not routinely act otherwise.

Pulte continued, “In partnership with Palantir, Fannie Mae’s Crime Detection Unit will increase safety and soundness by rooting out bad actors in our housing system. This cutting-edge AI technology will help us find criminals who try to defraud our system.”

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But, along with being able to detect major fraud nearly instantly, the CDU could just as easily identify minor violations in applications made years before from mortgages that remained in good standing. And from out of a pool of more than 50 million mortgages, the magic of Palantir AI produced a pair of applications for different homes in different states, in Michigan, and in Georgia, that Lisa Cook filed two weeks apart. She appears to have claimed both were her primary residence, in each instance qualifying for a more advantageous rate. Palantir AI even scrubbed the internet for rentals, indicating that one of the supposed primary residences had been listed.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: fighttruth; lisacook; palantir

[logi_cal869]

Some insight behind the Lisa Cook drama and a man whom I'd never heard about prior: Bill Pulte.

Technically a 'barf alert' with the author's tone & smears within, but the details outweigh the label.

More details at source (though unverified).

Obviously, the left is having a conniption over tools being used to sniff out their crimes. A tell of the author here is his use of "but" and qualifying critique, "the CDU could just as easily identify minor violations in applications made years before from mortgages that remained in good standing," as though the ends justifies the means.

Telling, right?

But I have a question: Why hasn't anyone used Palantir in pursuit of:

> J6 Conspiracy > Plandemic Conspiracy > "Russia Collusion" conspiracy > 2020 election fraud conspiracy

(should I go on? /s)

[fruser1]

Just wait until the IRS and local tax authorities start using it.

[Jane Long]

Telling, right?

But I have a question: Why hasn’t anyone used Palantir in pursuit of:

> J6 Conspiracy > Plandemic Conspiracy > “Russia Collusion” conspiracy > 2020 election fraud conspiracy

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Telling, indeed. Cry harder, leftists. Turnabout IS fair play.

And....in answer to your question ... maybe they ARE! 🤔

Hopefully 🤞🏼

[Reddy]

“ the CDU could just as easily identify minor violations in applications made years before from mortgages that remained in good standing. “

Wait a minute, weren’t Trumps’s NY loans made legitimately AND were in good standing, yet Leticia James hauled him through the courts and made him pay millions??

This authority needs to repent on behalf of the demonrat party, then cry me a river.

[logi_cal869]

My ‘hope’ is that the success of this is not overlooked by POTUS...

...by my other hand runneth over.

‘Faith’ is all I have left.

[Beowulf9]

I’ve read it goes active next week. Is that right?

I also saw comments on X saying they feared it would be used as a watchdog, like a thought police, to attack ones who use target words to claim you are about to commit a crime and go after you. Maybe the writer of that post was a dem. I don’t know.

But I do wonder if it will find these wacko’s on Youtube who put up videos like Robert Westman did, showing very realistically how they will go out and kill people. Or at least plan to.

This is the post:

“Idgius Alpha @IdgiusAlpha

Guys, this is NOT a drill. Starting next week, Gideon AI — backed by Palantir and built with help from former Israeli Defense Forces and engineers tied to Palantir, Axon, and even OpenAI — is being deployed across the US. This system claims to use “Israeli-grade ontology” to scrape the internet 24/7 for so-called “threat language” and then feeds it directly to local law enforcement. In other words, it’s a digital detective that never sleeps and flags you for crimes you might commit. Dozens of agencies have already signed on. Think about what that means: constant monitoring of your online speech, your posts, your activity, all under the guise of “safety.” This isn’t just tech, this is the architecture of a full-blown surveillance state creeping in through the back door.

⚠️ Ask yourself: Who decides what counts as a “threat”? How long before dissent, memes, or political speech get flagged? Today it’s about “threats,” tomorrow it could be about your opinions.

👉 Don’t ignore this. Talk about it. Share this. Ask questions. The future of freedom online depends on whether we let this slide quietly or call it out NOW.

#SurveillanceState #Palantir #GideonAI”

[Jane Long]

😱

[escapefromboston]

Peter is a homo and shouldn’t be near any position of power.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I reco’ed my pal to buy pltr @ 18. He bot 2500 shs, he’s up $300k.

[logi_cal869]

Yes, but the problem is much deeper and serious:

If the left had launched this under xiden, it might have been used to steal the ‘24 election as well.

Worse, this administration has clearly had its testes clipped and has demonstrated a reluctance to go for the throat (or perhaps has been coerced so; I believe that there was a ‘compromise’).

If that was not true, this is a tool to undo 24 years of progressive & deep state crimes/damage.

If it is true - i.e., that the rather minor things (eg “4”) we’re seeing are just to placate us - your concerns are shared and duly noted as valid & extremely pertinent.

[thinden]

But I have a question: Why hasn’t anyone used Palantir in pursuit of:

> J6 Conspiracy > Plandemic Conspiracy > “Russia Collusion” conspiracy > 2020 election fraud conspiracy

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who says they haven’t?

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Asking a question, per your comment.

Will you define "Israeli-grade ontology?"

Thanks in advance.

[Beowulf9]

Who knows. Those aren’t my words.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Who knows. Those aren’t my words."

No personal slap at you. It's amazing how Cohen got away with "Israeli-grade ontology" on a supposed informed interview with a supposedly educated interviewer.

Words matter. Bullshit, to bull shit, to male bovine excrement, to Bos taurus feces. Still the same thing. Cohen has no idea what "ontology" means to use it as he did. Neither did FOX's "online personality."

[napscoordinator]

Now you say something after he’s made 9.7 billion? A little late to the party.

[logi_cal869]

You’re not the first. Interesting thread below nonetheless

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1n2m9r1/anyone_know_anything_about_this_its_been/

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Thanks! That was jolly. Among the reddit responses....

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with this we've entered into states unknown--israel grade ontology with moon-tracked noctural emissions of pure vibes. there's no stopping this pure force of colonial oppression, deathcounts heading for cosmic. you can't chill this groove. we're on the 24/7 cycle of network and social media fusion. these forces tilt inward toward one another, until BANG--we all look up to the sky and see another failed starlink launch. we then collectively realize we're in the most retarded simulation ever and take the last sip of our can of white claw. i turn my attention over to emiru live and jerk it furiously.

my boomer father wasn't so lucky.

Jolly. And a tad rude....

[escapefromboston]

He can have all the money he wants . He just shouldn’t be near any political power.