To: Brumar89 who wrote (17011 ) 7/26/2019 11:35:02 AM From: Brumar89 Respond to Peter Thiel attacked Google for Trump, Trump betrays him:thedailybeast.com Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday that he spoke with President Trump and the two found no evidence of threats to national security in Google’s work with China, refuting a baseless claim made by billionaire Facebook board member Peter Thiel last week. @realDonaldTrump “Billionaire Tech Investor Peter Thiel believes Google should be investigated for treason. He accuses Google of working with the Chinese Government.” @foxandfriends A great and brilliant guy who knows this subject better than anyone! The Trump Administration will take a look! 6:46 AM - Jul 16, 2019 tweet July 16 that his administration would “take a look” into whether Google had committed treason. Two days prior, Thiel made a speech in Washington, D.C., in which he floated the claim that Google’s conduct was “seemingly treasonous” because the tech giant had engaged with the Chinese government to build a censored version of its flagship search engine. In his comments, Thiel suggested that the FBI and CIA should investigate his claims against Google.Thiel, who founded PayPal and Palantir, is arguably Trump’s closest ally in Silicon Valley. The outspoken conservative tech leader backed Trump early and joined the administration’s transition team, arranging a contentious meeting between the president and prominent Silicon Valley executives in late 2016. Thiel was not speaking on behalf of Facebook, but his work on the company’s board naturally puts him at odds with Google.last week that it had stopped work on a censored Chinese search engine, codenamed Project Dragonfly, a product designed to block results related to topics banned by the Chinese government. Most Google employees only discovered the company’s work on the government contract after The Intercept published a report revealing the work, and hundreds of Googlers later signed a petition advocating for Google to drop the project.
