President Trump tweeted Tuesday that his administration “will take a look” at billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel’s statement over the weekend that Google should be federally investigated for allegedly aiding the Chinese military.
Why it matters, per Axios’ David McCabe: Thiel is the tech industry’s highest-profile Trump supporter, and one of the most powerful players in Silicon Valley.
- Thiel provided no evidence to back up his claims when pressed on Monday, stating that he was just “raising questions,” per Recode’s Teddy Schleifer.
- Trump said in his tweet that Thiel is “a great and brilliant guy who knows this subject better than anyone.”
- Trump’s chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow brushed off Thiel’s allegations during a Fox Business interview on Monday: “I’m just not sure where he’s going with this.”
What Thiel said on Sunday, requesting that the following questions “need to be asked by the FBI, by the CIA”: