Posted on 03/08/2016 9:32:02 AM PST by dennisw
Apple CEO Tim Cook attends secret meeting with tech and government elite to plot end to Trump presidential run
Technology industry leaders including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google co-founder Larry Page and Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk met with top GOP representatives at the secretive American Enterprise Institute's annual World Forum this past weekend to discuss how to halt Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, a report said Monday.
According to sources familiar with the meeting, elite U.S. figures representing a swath of corporate, private and political interests attended the conference hosted at the Sea Island resort off the coast of Georgia, an event closed to the public and media, The Huffington Post reports. While other issues were discussed, the main talking point was Trump's bid for the White House.
The supposed guest list reads as a who's who of tech and government. Along with Cook, Page, Musk and Napster creator Sean Parker, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was reportedly on site with House Speaker Paul Ryan, a gaggle of Republican senators and at least one democrat in Maryland Rep. John Delaney. Prominent policy analyst Karl Rove, Deputy Chief of Staff under President George W. Bush, was also present.
The private sector was represented by billionaire Philip Anschutz and The New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, among others.
"A specter was haunting the World Forumthe specter of Donald Trump," political commentator Bill Kristol wrote in an email from the conference, referencing Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto. "There was much unhappiness about his emergence, a good deal of talk, some of it insightful and thoughtful, about why he's done so well, and many expressions of hope that he would be defeated."
Trump infamously called called for a boycott on Apple products in February, a response to the company's resistance against helping FBI agents unlock an iPhone linked to last year's San Bernardino massacre.
The broader encryption debate was also a topic on discussion at the secretive confab, as the report claims Cook sparred with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who serves on the Senate Committee on Armed Services and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
"Cotton was pretty harsh on Cook," a source said. "Everyone was a little uncomfortable about how hostile Cotton was."
Those tech guys all LibDems. Anyone need more evidence of the Uniparty scenario?
The elites can donate millions to existing super pacs to saturate the airwaves with anti-Trump advertisements. Billions of dollars was represented at this secret confab
Lord, give us back the Italian Mafia. These people are far more evil.
So call off the FBI and DOJ he’ll help damage Trump, got it.
This is what makes me want Trump more than anything else.
if/when Trump reaches the needed delegates, they elites will pop.
true or not..... I read the other day that Trump wears a bullet proof vest. Perhaps some modern lightweight version
This “plotting” they speak of is in fact a Socialist Coup.
I would wear one, if I were him.
But we were told by the ‘real’ conservatives that Cruz is the outsider and that the establishment hates him more.
Waiting for you to work in the ‘gay’ angle here.
Because you don’t miss a beat.
or
Revenge of the Oligarchs
“This is what makes me want Trump more than anything else.”
I really believe this hysterical overkill will backfire.
I fear for Trump as our “Elites” are becoming serious in their drive to stop him. I do not put it past those people to assassinate Trump if it appears he will win the nomination. An analogy would be what was done to old Huey Long in the 1930’s-he was viewed as a threat so they shot him. I bring up Huey Long as there are many young people who are not aware of him. He was corrupt but was still a threat to the then “Elites.”
“This plotting they speak of is in fact a Socialist Coup.”
It seems to me to be democracy. A bunch of people get together to pursue their political beliefs. We might disagree with them and hope they fail, but I don’t see what they are doing as wrong.
Good grief!! All this over a guy who has lived a private life so far! Where were these jerks when the spector of Obama was on the rise!!! Trump’s presidency is speculation, everyone KNEW what Obama was about and did NOTHING!!!
Straight out of the ‘House of Cards’ plot.
It’s a war between the voters and the ruling class. The sooner Americans come to grips with this reality the better off we will be as a nation.
If Trump or any other Republican candidate receives the most delegates and is denied the nomination I become a registered Independent the next day.
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