Secret Meeting: Tech CEOs And Top Republicans Plot To Stop Trump

[Lakhota]

Billionaires, tech CEOs and top members of the Republican establishment flew to a private island resort off the coast of Georgia this weekend for the American Enterprise Institute's annual World Forum, according to sources familiar with the secretive gathering.

The main topic at the closed-to-the-press confab? How to stop Republican front-runner Donald Trump.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google co-founder Larry Page, Napster creator and Facebook investor Sean Parker, and Tesla Motors and SpaceX honcho Elon Musk all attended. So did Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), political guru Karl Rove, House Speaker Paul Ryan, GOP Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.), Cory Gardner (Colo.), Tim Scott (S.C.), Rob Portman (Ohio) and Ben Sasse (Neb.), who recently made news bysaying he "cannot support Donald Trump."

Along with Ryan, the House was represented by Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton (Mich.), Rep. Kevin Brady (Texas) and almost-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), sources said, along with leadership figure Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.), Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga.), Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (Texas) and Diane Black (Tenn.).

Philip Anschutz, the billionaire GOP donor whose company owns a stake in Sea Island, was also there, along with Democratic Rep. John Delaney, who represents Maryland. Arthur Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, was there, too, a Times spokeswoman confirmed.

"A specter was haunting the World Forum--the specter of Donald Trump," Kristol wrote in an emailed report from the conference, borrowing the opening lines of the 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."

Federal Aviation Administration records available on FlightAware.com show that a fleet of private jets flew into and out of two small airports near Sea Island this weekend. Fifty-four planes flew out of the airport on St. Simons Island, Georgia, on Sunday -- nearly four times as many as departed from the airport the previous Sunday.

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Wow, that's a lot of very powerful and rich people plotting to stop Trump. Just imagine the attacks against him if he would win the GOP nomination. Various sources also say there is a lot of dirt yet to be released about him.

 

[konradv]

Could it be "The Night of the Long Knives"?

 

[Lakhota]

Trump is a pauper compared to many who attended the secret meeting.

 

[Lakhota]

Adolf Trump has meet his match. This anti-Trump cartel will take him down - one way or another.

 

[BlackSuitPhantom]

I found an interesting article over at DroidForums.net that might be worth discussing. DroidForums is a sister-site to this one, and I got permission from cereal_killer to post this link below.

Apparently a number of leaders of the tech industry including folks like Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Larry Page, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently held a secret meeting with top Republican leaders (like Mitch McConell, Paul Ryan and Tom Cotton) on how to stop Donald Trump from winning the GOP nomination.

Here's the link: Tim Cook, Larry Page & Tech CEOs Secret Meeting with Top Republicans about Donald Trump

There are a number of strange things worth discussing regarding this event, but one of the oddest is that most of the CEOs that met with the GOP leadership are all liberals/Democrats. The fact that Trump is bringing people from opposite sides of the aisle together in opposition to him is probably worth its own discussion. What do you folks think?

 

[Correll]

I found an interesting article over at DroidForums.net that might be worth discussing. DroidForums is a sister-site to this one, and I got permission from cereal_killer to post this link below.

Apparently a number of leaders of the tech industry including folks like Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Larry Page, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently held a secret meeting with top Republican leaders (like Mitch McConell, Paul Ryan and Tom Cotton) on how to stop Donald Trump from winning the GOP nomination.

Here's the link: Tim Cook, Larry Page & Tech CEOs Secret Meeting with Top Republicans about Donald Trump

There are a number of strange things worth discussing regarding this event, but one of the oddest is that most of the CEOs that met with the GOP leadership are all liberals/Democrats. The fact that Trump is bringing people from opposite sides of the aisle together in opposition to him is probably worth its own discussion. What do you folks think?

I think these morons should spend more time thinking how they can work WITH Trump.

 

[cereal_killer]

I found an interesting article over at DroidForums.net that might be worth discussing. DroidForums is a sister-site to this one, and I got permission from cereal_killer to post this link below.

Apparently a number of leaders of the tech industry including folks like Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Larry Page, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently held a secret meeting with top Republican leaders (like Mitch McConell, Paul Ryan and Tom Cotton) on how to stop Donald Trump from winning the GOP nomination.

Here's the link: Tim Cook, Larry Page & Tech CEOs Secret Meeting with Top Republicans about Donald Trump

There are a number of strange things worth discussing regarding this event, but one of the oddest is that most of the CEOs that met with the GOP leadership are all liberals/Democrats. The fact that Trump is bringing people from opposite sides of the aisle together in opposition to him is probably worth its own discussion. What do you folks think?

I think these morons should spend more time thinking how they can work WITH Trump.

How, when he is going to strip all their political influence away? Game is up for them if he gets in office.

 

[Mac1958]

Not very secret.

 

[hadit]

I don't recall seeing any of you there. Just wait til we nail down the leak.

 

[Correll]

I found an interesting article over at DroidForums.net that might be worth discussing. DroidForums is a sister-site to this one, and I got permission from cereal_killer to post this link below.

Apparently a number of leaders of the tech industry including folks like Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Larry Page, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently held a secret meeting with top Republican leaders (like Mitch McConell, Paul Ryan and Tom Cotton) on how to stop Donald Trump from winning the GOP nomination.

Here's the link: Tim Cook, Larry Page & Tech CEOs Secret Meeting with Top Republicans about Donald Trump

There are a number of strange things worth discussing regarding this event, but one of the oddest is that most of the CEOs that met with the GOP leadership are all liberals/Democrats. The fact that Trump is bringing people from opposite sides of the aisle together in opposition to him is probably worth its own discussion. What do you folks think?

I think these morons should spend more time thinking how they can work WITH Trump.

How, when he is going to strip all their political influence away? Game is up for them if he gets in office.

NOt really. They will have plenty of power in Congress and the STates.

And Trump will be gone in at most 8 years.

 

[Lakhota]

Too many rich and powerful people out to stop Trump. They will squish him like a bug.