Meta Denies Trump’s Zuckerberg Claim He Said He Can’t Vote for Democrats

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Former President Donald Trump reportedly said that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told him he couldn’t vote for a Democrat after the Trump assassination attempt. Meta denied the claims shortly after they were made public on Monday.

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Trump told New York Magazine that Zuckerberg called him after he was shot and told him, “There is no way I can vote for a Democrat in this election.”

Zuckerberg praised Trump in the call, according to Trump: “He said ‘I will never vote for the people who are running against you after I see what you did,'” apparently referring to Trump standing and pumping his fist in the air as he was escorted off the stage by Secret Service, blood streaming from his face.

A spokesperson for Meta denied that Zuckerberg had said anything about how he would vote, telling New York Magazine: “As Mark has said publicly, he is not endorsing anyone in this race and has not indicated to anyone how he plans to vote.”

Trump told the magazine that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos also called him and told him his reaction to the shooting was “the most unbelievable thing I’ve ever seen,” to which Trump said he replied, “I think it was a very natural thing I did. I think it was natural.”

Trump made the comments as he outlined his thoughts in the moments after his right ear was struck by a bullet while speaking at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. He told the magazine that he “wasn’t thinking about fear” at the time and that he has since chosen not to think about how he was “an eighth of an inch away from really bad things happening.”

Zuckerberg previously told Bloomberg that Trump’s response to the shooting was “one of the most badass things I’ve ever seen in my life,” but he stopped short of supporting him.

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Zuckerberg has had a checkered history with Trump and his allies, largely surrounding Facebook’s content moderation policies, as Republicans have repeatedly argued that the policy favors Democrats. Facebook’s decision to censor COVID-19 misinformation and remove posts about the infamous 2020 New York Post story about a laptop reportedly belonging to Hunter Biden has been the subject of numerous GOP-led investigations in Congress. In recent months, Zuckerberg has made several public statements aligning himself with Republicans, even as he has said he wants to remain “neutral” in the 2024 election. In a letter to the House Judiciary Committee last month, he alleged that the Biden administration “repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content,” adding that it was “wrong” for the company to cave to the pressure. But the Supreme Court ruled this summer that the federal government had not exceeded its authority by requiring social media companies to remove content it believed was misinformation. Facebook and Instagram also banned Trump after the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, prompting Trump to sue Meta. The lawsuit is ongoing despite the restrictions being lifted in July.

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Trump accused Zuckerberg of working against him in the 2020 election in his new book, warning that he would “spend the rest of his life in prison” if he did it again. Trump launched the attack in his new coffee table book, “Save America,” released Sept. 3. The book cites the more than $400 million that Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, donated to nonprofits that helped fund election efforts during the pandemic, money that conservatives have falsely claimed was used to help elect President Joe Biden. “We are watching him closely, and if he does anything illegal this time, he will spend the rest of his life in prison — just like others who cheated in the 2024 Presidential Election,” Trump wrote.

Read more

Mark Zuckerberg praises Trump’s ‘tough’ response to assassination attempt, but doesn’t endorse him (Forbes)

Elon Musk Spreads Misleading Claim About Mark Zuckerberg Donating Millions to Get Biden Into Office (Forbes)

What We Know About the Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump (Forbes)

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