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Billionaire Trump Supporter Says San Fran Fundraiser Was ‘A Love Fest’

Charlie Kirk Staff

06/12/2024

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Billionaire Trump Supporter Says San Fran Fundraiser Was ‘A Love Fest’

Former President Donald Trump got some fantastic news in the backyard of former Speaker of the House and California Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

Billionaire David Sacks held a fundraiser for him and, as he said to Fox News host Jesse Watters, they raised more than they anticipated.

“I think it’s getting surprisingly big, Jesse. When we agreed to do the fundraiser for President Trump, the goal was just to raise $5 million, and we weren’t even sure we would do that because, as you well know, Silicon Valley is pretty much a liberal bastion. But we ended up raising $12 million,” he said.

“We had over a hundred people there, and it really was a total love fest. And then out in the streets, the San Francisco newspaper has been trying all week to gin up protesters, and nothing really materialized at all but hundreds of people to demonstrate in favor of President Trump, and they were cheering all along his motorcade so if that’s the enthusiasm gap in a liberal place at San Francisco, what is a tell you about the rest of the country?” the billionaire said.

“We had a lot of people in that room who had never donated to Republicans before or to Trump; they were new donors, or they have always been Democrat donors, and yet they came out. And I think I entreat that to the fact that Trump is making inroads into Silicon Valley and that also Biden is really alienating people,” he said.

“He’s really pursued a very hostile program towards innovation. He’s been very hostile towards crypto, he’s wanted to overregulate AI, and he’s basically shut down all M&A. So I think there are a lot of people in technology who are asking, what good is this for us? How does it help us to have another four years of President Biden? And I believe that Trump has basically declared that he is the crypto president, he is in favor of innovation, he is willing to listen. I think he listened extremely well to people in that room, and he fundamentally wants America to do well, Sacks continued.

“I think that people in tech who get to meet the president, get to get to know him, they see that he really cares. And I think they can be won over by him and I think are being won over by him,” he said.

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Charlie Kirk is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, a national student movement dedicated to empowering young people to promote the principles of free markets and limited government.

Charlie is also the host of “The Charlie Kirk Show” podcast, which regularly ranks among the top-10 news shows on Apple podcast news charts, and is the host of the nationally syndicated daily radio show on the Salem Radio Network live from 12 - 3 PM ET.
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