Silicon Valley Billionaire Says He’s Backing Trump Again

Published on June 4, 2024

Doug Leone, a billionaire investor who renounced his support of President Donald Trump three years ago following the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol, will once again back the former president’s reelection campaign. “I have become increasingly concerned about the general direction of our country, the state of our broken immigration system, the ballooning deficit, and the foreign policy missteps, among other issues,” Mr. Leone wrote on X on Monday. “Therefore, I am supporting former President Trump in this coming election.” Mr. Leone ran venture capital firm Sequoia from 1996 to 2022. One of President Trump’s biggest donors in the predominantly progressive Silicon Valley, he joined the Trump administration’s task force of some 200 business leaders in 2020 to advise the White House on reopening America’s economy at the onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic....

Continue reading on website
Other news

Trump Campaign, RNC Say They Raised $141 Million in May

June 4, 2024
May was the best fundraising month so far for the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee, according to the two organizations.On June 3, the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee announced they raised $141 million during May. More than a third of that money was raised online within 24 hours after a New York jury issued multiple felony convictions against former Presiden

COVID-19 Vaccines One Likely Factor Behind 20,000 ‘Excess Deaths’: Scientist

June 4, 2024
The COVID-19 vaccines and pandemic lockdowns are likely a “strong contributing factor” to the nearly 20,000 excess deaths in Australia from the 2020-2023 period, according to one scientist.Martin Stewart has 14 years of experience as a biomedical researcher at academic institutions in Germany, Switzerland, the United States, and Australia.He also worked at the Robert Langer laboratory, named after