One day after we reported that Donald Trump Jr. has privately broken with his father over the Iran war, Peter Thiel, the PayPal and Palantir (PLTR) co-founder who was the first big tech investor to back Trump in 2016 and the biggest funder of super PACs behind JD Vance's 2022 Senate run, has also drawn a line in the sand over Trump's defining foreign-policy gamble.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/BloombergIn audio from an Oct. 12 private lecture in Nashville obtained by Decoded by POLITICO (Calder McHugh), Thiel told the room:
"I'm skeptical of [the war], I think we should not have done it. There were a lot of mistakes that were made."
"Maybe we don't have the hard power. Maybe we're going to lose the soft power war."
In other words, one of the architects of the MAGA-tech alliance now thinks the war was a mistake and that America may not be strong enough to finish it. The scoop crossed overnight:
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Peter Thiel, one of Trump's most influential billionaire backers, says the Iran war was a MISTAKE
"I think we should not have done it. There were a lot of mistakes that were made."
Thiel made the comments last week during a private lecture in Nashville.
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