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."
If there is an anti-democracy operation like this actually underway, and proves to be successful, I will vote for Hillary just to get the civil war started.
Karl Rove has been on Fox outlining the ways to beat trump.
Uniparty bump for later....
BUT the article says the meeting was closed to the media .. but there was Rove and Kristol, certainly media types. I guess they’re selective about the media they choose.
Perhaps a girdle holding in her Rubenesque girth.
Go Trump! Beat the PIAPS!
“Lord, give us back the Italian Mafia. These people are far more evil.”
Yes they are. The Mafia wanted to maintain, but skim, traditional cultures. The globalist freaks want to strip mine humanity of its morals, wealth, history, and very souls.
Isn’t that the difference between employees of fox versus people called in to give their opinions?
” The Mafia wanted to maintain, but skim, traditional cultures. The globalist freaks want to strip mine humanity of its morals, wealth, history, and very souls.”
VERY well stated. I kept it.
If you watched the first show this season the opening scene is senseless. They only needed to show that the two guys were in jail, not what they did in their spare time. Totally immoral cr@p deigned to desensitize us and it is apparently working at least on the younger generations.
Agree.
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I’m amazed that DRUDGE is burying this.
True!!! Obama is such a soulless servant of this scheme
Pretty much everyone from Natl Review, and Fox ... the list has expanded mightily these past couple of months! (or another way of putting it: we’ve been duped for a long, long time)
You’re missing the point.
The press has power enumerated in the bill of rights.
It’s not a matter of defending the right of someone to say something.
It’s about collusion.
“It’s about collusion.”
Isn’t what we do here collusion then. Just because something is done by people we don’t like for ends we disagree with does not change the fact that they are and should be free to pursue their goals.
Not when there is a carve out in the BOR.
The playing field is not level.
What’s a BOR?
Just who do you wish to give the power to to level the playing field?
Cooke is a lefty.
If that was his reason for being there, I’ll accept it and support it. I just saw his name in a report that he was blasting Tim Cook. I would be shocked if he threw in with the old guard on the trash Trump campaign.
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