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by kyrra 2305 days ago
WSJ had an interesting piece a week ago: https://www.wsj.com/articles/oracles-man-in-washington-fans-...

TLDR: Oracle has a lobbyist (who was on Trump's transition team) that has gotten the ear of the Whitehouse and been pushing against Amazon and Google.

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Google can still get Trump's endorsement, just write him a check and he'll back Google instead.

Worked for a pardon, Paul Pogue's family just wrote a $200k check and voila, he's pardoned.

The office of president has never been more transparently for sale (ahem, "open for business") and there's absolutely no chance the Senate will perform any accountability here. He could literally murder someone on 7th avenue and there would be 51 votes against conviction.

Sad that it's come to this, but if it's $200k vs an industry-destroying precedent getting set, well... google should suck it up and write the check.