Paul Graham, the man behind the famous startup accelerator Y Combinator, has called on American voters to reject Donald Trump at the ballot box next week.
The former president looks set to gain momentum on Tuesday with the betting markets polymerized and Kalshi predicted a crushing electoral college victory thanks to a potential sweep of US battlefields. He owns shares in the Trump Media and Technology Group he came back to them March 2024 highs just as meme stock traders are pricing in the imminent defeat of opponent Kamala Harris.
On Tuesday, this contest finally came down to character, with Graham saying Trump was unfit to serve as president and commander-in-chief, and not just because of his attempt to cancel the 2020 vote on January 6, 2021. seeing as Trump has proven time and time again while in office that he doesn’t understand what it takes to run the highest office in the land.
“He ran the White House like a mob boss, choosing subordinates based on loyalty rather than ability. No one knows that better than those who worked for him.’ he wrote Graham recently created a storm of controversy to praise the companies involved in his attempt.creative mode“.
Half of Trump’s cabinet appointees are rejecting their former leader
Like former administration consultants John KellyTrump’s longest-serving chief of staff, and Mark Milleyformer chairman of the joint chiefs, both have alleged that the real estate mogul is the textbook definition of a fascist.
Trump’s defense secretary Mark Esper said “suitable for the office“while the latter’s attorney general, Bill Barr, called his former boss “full blown narcissist” he repeatedly put his interests above those of the country.
If you still haven’t decided who to vote for, here’s why I think you should vote for Harris. pic.twitter.com/ebBMbs1c7r
— Paul Graham (@paulg) October 29, 2024
“Nearly half of his previous administration’s cabinet-level appointees have refused to accept it,” Graham added. “They warn us what it’s like.”
Trump probably won’t worry that much about someone like Graham because he won so much voice support Of the technology entrepreneur Elon Musk, the world’s richest tycoon.
The Tesla The CEO has played a key role in the race organizing the voter the mobilizationfinancing his campaign, as well making policy proposals. A The Wall Street Journal studies have also found that it is fueling social media users X designed content rally support For the Trumps… whether they like it or not.
January 6 Riot in the Capitol
Silicon Valley is easily playing its most overt role in the election yet, and in many ways it’s been more prominent than the Hollywood A-list celebrities who weighed heavily in a campaign’s PR strategy.
A lot of attention has been paid to “PayPal mob” — Musk, David Sacks and Peter Thiel — all spent formative years Apartheid South Africa Before ending up working together on a digital payments startup more than 20 years ago. Trump candidate JD Vance once He worked for Thiel before entering politics.
But other luminaries of the tech startup scene have also thrown their weight behind Trump, including venture capitalists Marc Andreessen. He’s afraid that Democrats will cut themselves off from Big Tech companies that are reluctant to encourage innovation and have a vested interest in stifling it.
Graham’s Y Combinator helped grow a number of successful startups including AirBnB, Coinbase and Stripe thinks Trump completely disqualified himself for trying to bully Mike Pence taking advantage of its ceremonial function annulment of the vote in the certificate made on January 6.
‘Trump is a crook’
When Pence refused to go along with the plan, an angry mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, occupying offices and as well as the Speaker’s lectern The former president recently “”day of love“.
“Trying to stay in power after losing an election is the thing of a banana republic,” Graham continued, arguing that gracious acceptance is a prerequisite for a healthy, functioning democracy.
The YC founder has now hit the middle ground, calling himself a moderate and recommending Kamala Harris back.
However, his support could best be described as tepid, with Harris being better than the only other alternative.
“Harris is a typical politician. But Trump is a crook,” Graham concluded. “You can’t have that kind of person as president.”
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