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."
More self professed, self indulgent “elites” who want to tell the rest of us how we should live our lives and who to vote for.
It’s stupid business to be high profile or clandestine, either way you will alienate a portion of your customer base
Obviously in front of the bad media (if possible) that could have come obummer’s way and obviously covering his back!
We’ve been had!
I agree! The mafia lived by a certain code of honor, I know, it sounds so counter intuitive! Nonetheless, these dirt bags are on my last nerve.
Why am I not surprised about Rush hiding negative info on Cruz!
Guest list = Traitor list or at least watchlist.
I hope Trump’s team doesn’t use iPhones, because you can bet Apple would be handing over all their data and conversations in order to further assist in the destruction of our freedom and liberty for the benefit of the elite ruling class in D.C.
I hope Trump is paying attention and keeping a list of these people hellbent on destroying our country.
I hope Trump finds and uses every possible means, legally and Constitutionally, to serve brutal justice to these traitors when he becomes POTUS.
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I’m sure he wears more than just a vest. I’m sure he wears one with titanium plates.
Because Obama is part of the uni-party. It’s all about the uni-party.
Oh they knew, but we did not!
This is like a freakin’ Ayn Rand novel come to life. Not sure if I’d want to peak at the last page or not, either.
That was only when Republicans had the fundraising advantage. Once that advantage for Republicans evaporated, primarily under McCain-Feingold, suddenly liberals didn't view money in politics as such a bad thing anymore. I'm sure their sudden support for obscene money in politics was just coincidental.
I am a Cruz supporter and I voted for Ted Cruz in the Primaries.... But this crap big business and the GOP is pulling to usurp the voting results is the kind of stuff that makes me want to support Trump.
Tim Cook is proving to be a loathsome human being.
Closed to the public and media, but Bill Kristol was sending an email from the conference? Karl Rove was there? What? They aren’t ‘media?’
Doesn’t the tech industry bankroll the Dems about 20:1 ?
This piling on is getting totally out of hand. It’s as if someone shone a flashlight on a cockroach nest and the critters all came rushing out.
Wonder if you could do something with the Apple logo (like you did with the CBS one).
That was brilliant, biting criticism. The same is needed here.
Rush talking about this. If the elites are agin’ him, we should all be for him.
I notice they ain’t worried about the Cruzer.
I’m utterly sickened. D@mm them all to h3ll.
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