August 21, 2016

Billionaire Thiel Has No Plans to Give to Trump Campaign: WSJ

Paypal co-founder and GOP convention speaker Peter Thiel has no plans to donate to or raise money for Donald Trump, WSJ reports, citing a spokesman. NOTE: Thiel in convention speech extolled Trump as the antidote to income inequality and a "broken" govt; see related story NOTE: Thiel last yr gave $2m to a super-PAC that supported former HP CEO Carly Fiorina and more than $8,000 to Utah Sen. Mike Lee's re-election campaign Related: The Strange Politics of Peter Thiel, Trump's Most Unlikely Suppor

Source: Bloomberg Politics