President-elect Donald Trump met with a slew of technology leaders at Trump Tower on Wednesday, including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg and others. The meeting was organized by Trump transition team member billionaire Peter Thiel, who famously drove the news website Gawker out of business by secretly bankrolling a controversial lawsuit by wrestler Hulk Hogan against Gawker Media earlier this year. Trump’s adult children—Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric—were also at the meeting. Trump’s inclusion of his children in political meetings has sparked increasing concerns about conflicts of interest, given their role in running the Trump business empire. The topics discussed during the 90-minute meeting were reportedly immigration, education and trade with China. There are few details about the conversation, however, because journalists were forced to leave the meeting after only a few minutes. Donald Trump has not given a press conference for 140 days now, or over four months. His last news conference was when he called on Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s email servers. Trump was slated to give his first news conference as president-elect today on whether and how he would disentangle himself from his vast business empire before taking office, but his spokesperson earlier this week said he was postponing it until sometime in January.
Trump & His Children Meet with Silicon Valley Leaders at Trump Tower
HeadlineDec 15, 2016
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