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Vanity Fair: Peter Thiel In Line For Trump Intelligence Advisory Post

Billionaire Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel is in discussions to take a top role advising President Donald Trump on the activities of the intelligence community, Vanity Fair reported on Wednesday.

Thiel is “heavily leaning toward” taking a role as chair of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, which monitors the intelligence community and advises the President on its conduct, according to the Vanity Fair report, which cited an unnamed senior administration aide.

“He feels there’s a lot of good he can do and it’s worth putting up with all the bullshit and scrutiny that will accompany his appointment,” the senior aide said, according to Vanity Fair.

Thiel, a libertarian who spoke in Trump’s support during the Republican National Convention last year, made headlines earlier in 2016 for bankrolling wrestler Hulk Hogan’s successful defamation lawsuit against Gawker for publishing Hogan’s sex tape. Gawker was ordered to pay Hogan $140 million, declared bankruptcy and was ultimately purchased by Univision.

In 2003, Thiel founded Palantir, a secretive data-mining company that has won government national security contracts, including one for an intelligence system to support investigations by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

The unnamed senior administration aide told Vanity Fair, per the report, that if Thiel joins the advisory board he “intends to take a comprehensive look at the U.S. intelligence community’s information-technology architecture.”

“He is super-concerned about Amazon and Google,” the aide said, according to Vanity Fair, though Thiel is apparently less concerned about Facebook (and remains on the company’s board). “He feels they have become New Age global fascists in terms of how they’re controlling the media, how they’re controlling information flows to the public, even how they’re purging people from think tanks. He’s concerned about the monopolistic tendencies.”

Thiel joined Trump’s transition team days after the 2016 election, but appeared to sour on the President shortly afterward. BuzzFeed reported in August that Thiel told friends in January there was “a 50 percent chance this whole thing ends in disaster” and summed up Trump’s nascent administration as “incompetent.”

Thiel declined Vanity Fair’s requests for comment.

Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist and chair of conservative outlet Breitbart News, told Vanity Fair before his departure from the White House that he could not “overstate” Thiel’s “impact on the transition.”

In an interview on July 12, just over a month before he left his role in Trump’s administration, Bannon told Vanity Fair, “You will see in the near term that Peter will be taking on new responsibilities, like intelligence.”

 

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https://twitter.com/davidmackau/status/910558586799099904

 

[northside7]

Barcelona is never getting their independence

And?

 

[infamous114]

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/910612018893348864

 

[fortyacres]

https://twitter.com/Kanisha1Jackson/status/910603496168333312

Just incase you forgot what an actual President should sound like.

 

[Angeles1son85]

Mueller giving paul every chance to flip on trump to really break the case open and move it along faster mueller might have to go to plan b

 

[Breezy_Kilroy]

https://twitter.com/davidmackau/status/910558586799099904

Trump was definitely the mfer in class who you couldn't wait for them to read aloud.

 

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https://twitter.com/nydailynews/status/910677612778987522

 

[fortyacres]

 

[Angeles1son85]

man jimmy shoulda talked more shit he held back lol

 

[mc317]

Lewandowski: Manafort should go to jail for the rest of his life if he colluded

Lewandowski: Manafort should go to jail for the rest of his life if he colluded

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President Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said this week that, if anyone on Trump's campaign colluded with Russian officials during the 2016 election, they should "go to jail for the rest of their lives."

"I think if anybody, and I've said this, if Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, or Rick Gates or Carter Page, or anybody else attempted to influence the outcome of the U.S. election through any means that's inappropriate – through collusion, coordination or cooperation – I hope they go to jail for the rest of their lives," Lewandowski said at George Washington University on Tuesday, according to the Washington Examiner.

"It's very simple. Our election process is too serious, our democracy is too important to allow people to try and try and have influence from the outside for their own gain," he added.

 

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Lewandowski: Manafort should go to jail for the rest of his life if he colluded

Lewandowski: Manafort should go to jail for the rest of his life if he colluded

BY MAX GREENWOOD 2,142

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President Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said this week that, if anyone on Trump's campaign colluded with Russian officials during the 2016 election, they should "go to jail for the rest of their lives."

"I think if anybody, and I've said this, if Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, or Rick Gates or Carter Page, or anybody else attempted to influence the outcome of the U.S. election through any means that's inappropriate – through collusion, coordination or cooperation – I hope they go to jail for the rest of their lives," Lewandowski said at George Washington University on Tuesday, according to the Washington Examiner.

"It's very simple. Our election process is too serious, our democracy is too important to allow people to try and try and have influence from the outside for their own gain," he added.

That shit happens every fucking election though. Politicians and their teams tell the dumbest lies.

 

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Lewandowski: Manafort should go to jail for the rest of his life if he colluded

Lewandowski: Manafort should go to jail for the rest of his life if he colluded

BY MAX GREENWOOD 2,142

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President Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said this week that, if anyone on Trump's campaign colluded with Russian officials during the 2016 election, they should "go to jail for the rest of their lives."

"I think if anybody, and I've said this, if Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, or Rick Gates or Carter Page, or anybody else attempted to influence the outcome of the U.S. election through any means that's inappropriate – through collusion, coordination or cooperation – I hope they go to jail for the rest of their lives," Lewandowski said at George Washington University on Tuesday, according to the Washington Examiner.

"It's very simple. Our election process is too serious, our democracy is too important to allow people to try and try and have influence from the outside for their own gain," he added.

Damn, they flipping on one of they own already

 

[fortyacres]

wonder if Manafort really gonna do a bid for all these niggaz at his age..

 

[infamous114]

wonder if Manafort really gonna do a bid for all these niggaz at his age..

Lol motherfucker better flip

 

[naledgestate]

Long read

The First White President

The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy.

TA-NEHISI COATES
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/537909/

I read one of Coates' books awhile back- "Between the World and Me"....he is definitely a gifted writer.

I will definitely read that Atlantic piece when i get a chance.

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Long read

The First White President

The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy.

TA-NEHISI COATES
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/537909/

I read one of Coates' books awhile back- "Between the World and Me"....he is definitely a gifted writer.

I will definitely read that Atlantic piece when i get a chance.

i subscribe to the Atlantic...ill check it this weekend

 

[playmaker88]

As i said on must prepare to read his pieces.. i still havent read, the reparations joint.. and i gotta get to The first white president.. Im not and avid reader at all but im gonna cop his book.. there is a handful of books that ive wanted to read

 

[marc123]

wonder if Manafort really gonna do a bid for all these niggaz at his age..

Lol motherfucker better flip

I highly doubt manafort will flip. Snitchin on the potus is a big ask. Anything is possible tho.

 

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