{"id":2426,"date":"2024-05-28T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2024-06-09T05:11:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T05:11:26","slug":"j-d-vance-courts-silicon-valley-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/j-d-vance-courts-silicon-valley-for-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"J.D. Vance courts Silicon Valley for Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Frustration with &#8220;Biden, Democrats and the state of the world has increasingly driven some of tech&#8217;s most prominent venture capitalists to the right,&#8221;\u00a0<em>The New York Times\u00a0reportedyesterday.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;I have \u2014 I&#8217;d say at this point \u2014 bigger disagreements with Biden than with Trump,&#8221; Sacks told Dan Primack last week at our dealmaker summit,\u00a0Axios BFD: San Francisco.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As\u00a0Puck put it: &#8220;An election cycle ago, Silicon Valley Republicans had to go into witness protection to support Trump. Now &#8230; an influential cohort of billionaires and quasi-billionaires are getting ready to write checks for 45.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0vast majority\u00a0of Silicon Valley money is still with Biden and the Democrats. But taxes are a huge issue for the tech world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump cut taxes when he was in office. Biden hasn&#8217;t raised taxes on the rich, but keeps saying\u00a0he wants to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vance has long been close to\u00a0Peter Thiel, a billionaire tech pioneer. But Vance also has built close relationships with other big Silicon Valley players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Vance introduced Sacks to his friend Donald Trump Jr. The three met in Washington after a\u00a0dinner with Republican lawmakers\u00a0on March 6 at the Conrad hotel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Frustration with &ldquo;Biden, Democrats and the state of the world has increasingly driven some of<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/j-d-vance-courts-silicon-valley-for-trump\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">J.D. Vance courts Silicon Valley for Trump<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2427,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions\/2427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}