Gay billionaire Peter Thiel says Donald Trump called him a “scumbag” for refusing to donate

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Gay conservative billionaire Peter Thiel has said that he won’t donate to the 2024 campaign of former president Donald Trump — even though he gave $1.25 million to Trump in 2016 — because Trump’s former presidency “was crazier than I thought.”

“There are a lot of things I got wrong,” Thiel said of his past support of Trump in a recent interview with The Atlantic. “It was crazier than I thought. It was more dangerous than I thought. They couldn’t get the most basic pieces of the government to work. So that was – I think that part was maybe worse than even my low expectations.”

Thiel said he didn’t donate to Trump’s 2020 unsuccessful re-election campaign and that political candidates have been “pestering me like crazy,” including Trump himself.

Trump called Thiel in April to ask for a $10 million donation, the same amount that Thiel donated to the failed U.S. Senate campaign of Blake Master of Arizona and the successful U.S. Senate campaign of Hillbilly Elegy author JD Vance of Ohio. When Thiel refused to donate, Trump reportedly told him…

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