Tech industry leaders and top Republicans attend annual World Forum

Tech industry leaders and top Republicans attend annual World Forum

The Huffington Post has revealed in a Monday report that, over this past weekend, the American Enterprise Institute's annual World Forum in Georgia was attended by the CEOs of leading tech companies and some top Republicans.

According to the report citing unidentified sources familiar with the meeting, the main topic of conversation at the secretive World Forum this year was Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump’s bid for the White House.

The attendees at the World Forum -- which was closed to the public and media -- included Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Larry Page, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and a number of other high-profile executives from the tech industry.

The top Republican officials who attended the World Forum included Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConell, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, and Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton. The meeting was also attended by prominent policy analyst Karl Rove, Deputy Chief of Staff under President George W. Bush; as well as billionaire Philip Anschutz and The New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger.

Going by the information shared by The Huffington Post’s sources, most of the World Forum’s attendees were apparently unhappy about Trump’s emergence as the Republican Presidential Candidate, and the discussions chiefly centered on how he had gained support.

In an email from the World Forum, political commentator Bill Kristol -- referencing Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto -- said: "A specter was haunting the World Forum—the specter of Donald Trump."


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