Tech Billionaires Explain Pro-Trump Fundraiser On ‘All-In’ Podcast Covering Deep State COVID Cover Up

Billionaires David Sacks and Chamath Palihapitiya explained why they’re hosting a Bay Area fundraiser for former Republican President Donald Trump this week on Friday’s episode of the “All In” podcast.

Trump will be the fourth presidential candidate to benefit from a Sacks-hosted event this cycle after Republican entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Democrat-turned independent running a third-party ticket.

“Things are looking very positive for Trump right now,” Sacks said. “We’re hosting a fundraiser for him, and he said that he wants to come on the ‘All In’ pod at some point so we just need to schedule that.”

Ramaswamy, Phillips, and Kennedy were also each featured guests on the podcast.

“We’ve asked President Biden,” Palihapitiya added, “and we have not heard back.”

Palihapitiya described himself as an “apolitical person who has to make a difficult decision every four years.”

“And I think most of us are like that,” Palihapitiya said. “The most important thing for me is get as many people on in a position to tell their version of the truth so that you can see an unfiltered version of that truth and decide for yourself.”

Jason Calacanis clarified “All In” was not hosting the presidential fundraiser, and that the event is independently organized by Sacks and Palihapitiya. Calacanis went on to explain he was getting “absolutely crucified” over news of the podcast co-hosts holding a fundraiser for the Republican candidate.

“For the people who are asking me not to be friends with Sacks anymore,” Calacanis said, “I’m going to be friends with Sacks forever. We love each other. We’re besties. He can have a different opinion than me.”

“I’ve heard the same thing,” said David Friedberg. “And I told friends and others that have reached out [with], ‘Why are you associating yourself with people that are doing a fundraiser for Trump?’ And I said exactly because I think it’s really important that people can have different political interests, different points of view, different beliefs, and still be friends, and still have a conversation.”

“If we can model that in any way,” Friedberg added, “I think it moves the needle because this whole thing where you only speak with, only hang out with, only talk to, only have dinner with people that you agree with, I think is exactly got us in the mess that we’re in today. People need to have a broader perspective.”

“Well said,” Calacanis replied.

“I really haven’t gotten any blowback,” Sacks said, beyond a “reporter knocking on my door and that kind of stuff.” Sacks characterized the blowback against other cohosts as “an indication of sort of the cowardly response to it.”

“It’s like a cancellation tactic,” Sacks explained. “I think the reason why they’re doing that is because quite frankly there’s a lot of preference falsification going on in Silicon Valley.”

The four-person panel went on to highlight recent revelations from the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. In a memo released last month, House investigators revealed documents which suggest National Institutes of Health (NIH) Senior Advisor Dr. David Morens inappropriately deleted records and colluded with government officials to evade transparency laws.

“If you just think about this from first principles,” Calacanis said, “We funded gain-of-function research to create these super viruses that what I think other people could just as equally call a bioweapon with the Chinese.”

“When it came out, the people who worked for us and we trust with our family’s safety,” Calacanis added, “they went on the offensive.” “These people were not elected by anybody. These people work for us, and they failed us. This is a crime against humanity of the greatest cause. People committed suicide, people died because they had depression. Our kids lost two years of school. This generation has lost their education.”

Calacanis called on the federal officials who sought to conceal their conduct amid the coronavirus outbreak from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to be prosecuted.

“If you hid this stuff from a FOIA request, you need to go to jail. There needs to be accountability here,” Calacanis said.

The co-hosts continued to hammer the “deep state.” “It’s sounds conspiratorial but it’s not,” Sacks explained. “It’s just the permanent bureaucracy.”

“We call ourselves a democracy but are you a democracy when the elected leaders come and go and the really powerful bureaucrats running the government, running these agencies stay for decades and decades?” Sacks said. Sacks cited Dr. Fauci as a prime example of an unelected bureaucrat willing to wait out presidents to implement his own policy agenda on gain-of-function research.

Palihapitiya started the segment by calling on Americans to embrace a higher skepticism of experts to protect against “lifelong bureaucrats that believe they’re above the law.”

“As much as you think an expert is an expert, you have to fight the tendency of saying, ‘I’m going to abdicate all of my intellect onto you and you decide.”