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Anecdotal recollections of Trump’s interactions with tech moguls and media figures

The passage offers only vague, unverified anecdotes about Trump’s relationships with Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Stephen Schwarzman, and others, without concrete dates, transactions, or actionable leads. I Describes informal meetings between Trump and Silicon Valley executives in December (no year specifi Mentions Trump praising Jeff Bezos after previously criticizing Amazon tax practices. Notes Elon M

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November 11, 2025
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House Oversight
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House Oversight #019910
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The passage offers only vague, unverified anecdotes about Trump’s relationships with Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Stephen Schwarzman, and others, without concrete dates, transactions, or actionable leads. I Describes informal meetings between Trump and Silicon Valley executives in December (no year specifi Mentions Trump praising Jeff Bezos after previously criticizing Amazon tax practices. Notes Elon M

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illegitimate. Trump was not a politician who could parse factions of support and opprobrium; he was a salesman who needed to make a sale. “I won. I am the winner. I am not the loser,” he repeated, incredulously, like a mantra. Bannon described Trump as a simple machine. The On switch was full of flattery, the Off switch full of calumny. The flattery was dripping, slavish, cast in ultimate superlatives, and entirely disconnected from reality: so-and-so was the best, the most incredible, the ne plus ultra, the eternal. The calumny was angry, bitter, resentful, ever a casting out and closing of the iron door. This was the nature of Trump’s particular salesmanship. His strategic belief was that there was no reason not to heap excessive puffery on a prospect. But if the prospect was ruled out as a buyer, there was no reason not to heap scorn and lawsuits on him or her. After all, if they don’t respond to sucking up, they might respond to piling on. Bannon felt —perhaps with overconfidence—that Trump could be easily switched on and off. Against the background of a mortal war of wills—with the media, the Democrats, and the swamp—that Bannon was encouraging him to wage, Trump could also be courted. In some sense, he wanted nothing so much as to be courted. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, which had become one of the many Trump media bétes noires in the media world, nevertheless took pains to reach out not only to the presidentelect but to his daughter Ivanka. During the campaign, Trump said Amazon was getting “away with murder taxwise” and that if he won, “Oh, do they have problems.” Now Trump was suddenly praising Bezos as “a top-level genius.” Elon Musk, in Trump Tower, pitched Trump on the new administration’s joining him in his race to Mars, which Trump jumped at. Stephen Schwarzman, the head of the Blackstone Group— and a Kushner friend—offered to organize a business council for Trump, which Trump embraced. Anna Wintour, the Vogue editor and fashion industry queen, had hoped to be named America’s ambassador to the UK under Obama and, when that didn’t happen, closely aligned herself with Hillary Clinton. Now Wintour arrived at Trump Tower (but refused to do the perp walk) and suggested that she become Trump’s ambassador to the Court of St. James’s. And Trump was inclined to entertain the idea. (“Fortunately,” said Bannon, “there was no chemistry.”’) On December 14, a high-level delegation from Silicon Valley came to Trump Tower to meet the president-elect, though Trump had repeatedly criticized the tech industry throughout the campaign. Later that afternoon, Trump called Rupert Murdoch, who asked him how the meeting had gone. “Oh, great, just great,” said Trump. “Really, really good. These guys really need my help. Obama was not very favorable to them, too much regulation. This is really an opportunity for me to help them.”

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Anecdotal recollections of Trump’s interactions with tech moguls and media figures

Anecdotal recollections of Trump’s interactions with tech moguls and media figures The passage offers only vague, unverified anecdotes about Trump’s relationships with Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Stephen Schwarzman, and others, without concrete dates, transactions, or actionable leads. It lacks specificity for investigative follow‑up and repeats already known public narratives, resulting in low investigative usefulness and novelty. Key insights: Describes informal meetings between Trump and Silicon Valley executives in December (no year specified).; Mentions Trump praising Jeff Bezos after previously criticizing Amazon tax practices.; Notes Elon Musk pitching a Mars initiative to Trump in Trump Tower.

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