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Apple CEO Tim Cook at secret meeting with tech and government elite plotting end to Trump run
appleinsider.com ^ | March 07, 2016, | Mikey Campbell

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 Forum—the 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."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; california; dirty; election2016; gop; mikeycampbell; newyork; trump; uniparty
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1 posted on 03/08/2016 9:32:02 AM PST by dennisw
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To: dennisw

Those tech guys all LibDems. Anyone need more evidence of the Uniparty scenario?


2 posted on 03/08/2016 9:33:38 AM PST by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: dennisw

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


3 posted on 03/08/2016 9:34:15 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: dennisw

Lord, give us back the Italian Mafia. These people are far more evil.


4 posted on 03/08/2016 9:34:42 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: dennisw

So call off the FBI and DOJ he’ll help damage Trump, got it.


5 posted on 03/08/2016 9:34:55 AM PST by moehoward
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To: dennisw; The Mayor

This is what makes me want Trump more than anything else.


6 posted on 03/08/2016 9:35:42 AM PST by Mr. K (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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To: dennisw

if/when Trump reaches the needed delegates, they elites will pop.


7 posted on 03/08/2016 9:35:56 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

true or not..... I read the other day that Trump wears a bullet proof vest. Perhaps some modern lightweight version


8 posted on 03/08/2016 9:37:07 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: dennisw

This “plotting” they speak of is in fact a Socialist Coup.


9 posted on 03/08/2016 9:37:07 AM PST by Eddie01
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To: dennisw

I would wear one, if I were him.


10 posted on 03/08/2016 9:38:07 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: dennisw
If Trump is elected President, I hope he remembers all their names.
11 posted on 03/08/2016 9:38:38 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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To: dennisw

But we were told by the ‘real’ conservatives that Cruz is the outsider and that the establishment hates him more.


12 posted on 03/08/2016 9:39:19 AM PST by tatown (Career politicians got us into this mess and they have no intention of getting us out of it.)
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To: dennisw

Waiting for you to work in the ‘gay’ angle here.

Because you don’t miss a beat.


13 posted on 03/08/2016 9:39:40 AM PST by IncPen (The Republican and Democrat Establishment are the same thing, determined to maintain their power)
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To: dennisw
The Empire Strikes Back

or

Revenge of the Oligarchs

14 posted on 03/08/2016 9:39:43 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: Mr. K; dennisw; The Mayor

“This is what makes me want Trump more than anything else.”

I really believe this hysterical overkill will backfire.


15 posted on 03/08/2016 9:39:49 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: dennisw

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.”


16 posted on 03/08/2016 9:40:06 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Eddie01

“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.


17 posted on 03/08/2016 9:41:54 AM PST by conejo99
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To: dennisw

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!!!


18 posted on 03/08/2016 9:42:19 AM PST by To Hell With Poverty (Tan Hairpiece Eminent Domain Trump Curse Word French Poodle Forgot To Put Toilet Seat Down)
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To: dennisw

Straight out of the ‘House of Cards’ plot.


19 posted on 03/08/2016 9:42:47 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: dennisw

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.


20 posted on 03/08/2016 9:43:21 AM PST by Navin Johnson
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