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... "We have a lot of great executives coming in, the top executives, the top bankers, they're all calling," Trump said at a press conference Monday in Florida, adding that he recently met with billionaire Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Alphabet Inc.'s Google.
The president-elect was speaking to reporters after announcing that SoftBank Group Corp. planned to invest $100 billion in the US following his meeting with Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son.
Trump has held a series of conversations with tech leaders at his Florida club Mar-a-Lago in recent weeks: a November dinner with Meta Platforms Inc.'s Mark Zuckerberg and meetings with Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple Inc.'s Tim Cook last week. Trump also said he plans to meet with the billionaire founder of Amazon.com Inc. Jeff Bezos this week.
"I had dinner with, sort of, almost all of them, and the rest are coming," Trump said, describing the outreach from the business community as "one of the big differences between the first term."
"In the first term everybody was fighting. In this term, everybody wants to be my friend," he said.
The president-elect had a mixed record with top business leaders during his first White House term. Trump dissolved two economic advisory councils only months after forming them as business leaders quit en masse following his response to a White nationalist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia. Other executives kept Trump at arm's length, fearing backlash from employees or customers. ...
... indicted an ex-FBI informant on Thursday evening for allegedly lying about President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden's involvement with Burisma, a Ukrainian energy firm. ...
Will MAGA change their narrative now that it seems to be based upon lies?