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.
ht. the big owe
Meanwhile the big tech/GOP confab to discuss stopping obama is scheduled to take place early in the summer of 2017.
Talk about a target rich environment!
They will probably come up with some new criteria for being president. No successful bozos, no one who will rock the boat, no Washington outsiders! Congressmen and senators will be scrambling to pass the new rules as laws. Ha ha! Toooooo late!
I’m beginning to like the cut of Trump’s jib.
Thank God Elon Musk and Tim Cook are around to decide who will be president for us little people. I can’t wait for them to start setting policy for us.
I do believe this is a revolution.
I heard that my neighbor, a man I greatly admire, Tom Cotton was included in this bunch, though I haven’t verified that yet. Must be a good reason if he was. Cotton is one of the few who actually works for a living in Washington. And he works for us, not the corrupt government.
I’m feeling nostalgia for the good old days when we were
“tin-foil-hat wearing conspiracy-theorist paranoids”
for believing that the modern world consists of us v them.
What majority percentage of Americans now draw a distinction between being labelled “conservative” versus “republican”??
Tim cook should be locked in room with Apple slave labor for a week. They’d “re-educate” his ass.
NEWS FLASH:
None of the people at the super secret meeting want Cruz to win either. It was anit-Trump because he has the overwhelming lead. If Cruz had the same lead Kristol’s e-mail would have read: “A specter was haunting the World Forum—the specter of Ted Cruz,”
Yes, they are in full panic mode because Cruz and Trump are the only possible winners and they both hate the GOPe .
That’s why Rmoney is back.
Lazlo’s sainted Mother worked in the aerospace field.
Her security clearance was up there pretty high.
After she passed I inherited some things. Mainly a box of signed Air Force stills of planes and stuff. A coffee cup with a skunk on it that only appears when you pour coffee in it (my pride and joy)
She had in this box a typed manuscript of William Cooper’s Behold a Pale Horse.
In the chapter on the secret government she circled several areas and wrote: ‘True’ or ‘Crap’ (one of her favorite expressions)
There were more True comments than Crap.
I never had any idea she ever thought about this stuff.
Apparently our Government is not our friend.
And once again these assholes prove they haven’t a clue.
Lazlo-does that skunk have anything to do with Kelly Johnson/Ben Rich’s bunch in SoCal? Because if so, man you’ve got yourself a hell of a momento.
It’s priceless.
“None of the people at the super secret meeting want Cruz to win either. It was anit-Trump because he has the overwhelming lead”
And that’s why everyone either has to vote for one or the other. And vote for the last one standing. No setting this one out.
MM
She used to fly out to ‘the Ranch’ from Edwards AF base
I am willing to trade.
Fully functional Military outfitted P-51 spitfire with all the trimmin’s would be my price
Lazlo: No government is ever the friend of the people who are subject to it. Remember George Washington’s warning,
“Government is like fire, an untrustworthy servant and a frightening master”.
That’s how the founders intended us to view government. Even the one they created. It’s a necessary evil at best and that’s all. That’s why in a republic democracy cannot be left on “automatic pilot” as we’ve done for the last several decades. It has to be watched over and properly managed like fire.
I heard Bob Marley and Elvis were there, too.
Those bastards!!!
SinewaveII you are spherically correct (observed to be right from all angles)
Perfect time for Sea Island to tip ohvuh
These traitorous hot shots passed out the cyanide pills and decided who would shoot the children in the head if Trump or Cruz win. Of course weasel Rove probably substituted a jelly bean for his emergency cyanide pill.
I was hoping they wouldn’t publish the report on the homosexual orgy that took place after the congratulatory dinner at the conclusion.
Over the last two weeks, I have been utterly amazed at the level of attack from all sides against Trump. I have never seen anything like this, based on its sheer volume and all-directions line of fire.
I had decided a few days ago to vote Cruz this Tuesday, not I’m reconsidering yet again. As one female voter in Mississippi was quoted Monday night, “Everyone in DC hates Trump. That’s why I’m voting for him.”
This reported so-called meeting sounds like a conspiracy.
And no REAL conspiracy has ever remained a hidden conspiracy for long.
So, just waiting . . . . .
And the more people like “Woody” bombard websites with anti-Trump crap, the more I can’t wait to vote for him.
Didn’t need a report/ If you couldn’t figure this you’re deaf, blind, and slow on the up-take. News flash: the shadow bastids have been running the show for a long time!
Well, gee … if I was in a gang of traitorous criminals busy plundering the Treasury unimpeded, I’d probably dislike Trump, too.
And Cruz …
Those damned Constitutionalists are a dangerous sort!
Sounds like a conspiracy to usurp the will of the people and worthy of an accusation of treason. They best be careful.