The American companies include the investment firm Silver Lake, the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, and the technology company Oracle. The latter two are controlled by some of Trump’s most prolific supporters.

Marc Andreessen and his partner Ben Horowitz each donated $2.5 million to Trump’s super PAC during the 2024 election.

Andreessen, who said at the end of 2024 he was spending roughly “half” his time at Mar-a-Lago, was tapped as an economic adviser to Trump earlier this year, where he helped to recruit staffers to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). After unleashing a bevy of false claims, Andreessen led the charge for DOGE to virtually kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which he’d long loathed for its investigations into his investment firms.

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          That’s the funny thing about governments and billionaires, they don’t need to worry about things like that because it’s functionally impossible for them to run out of money.

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          Doesn’t matter, Elon will personally fund it so it can continue to be a nazi cesspool meant to destabilize