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Another billionaire chooses Trump. This time, it’s the historically liberal Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

Gates told The Wall Street Journal that he was “impressed” by the president-elect.

“I had a chance to go have a long, and actually quite intriguing dinner with him,” Gates said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. He noted that he talked to Trump for three hours, along with Trump aide Susie Wiles and Gates’s aide Larry Cohen.

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It’s a stunning remark from Gates, one of the richest people in the world, who previously said he donated more than $50 million to Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign. The news of the meeting comes after Trump claimed last month that the billionaire was begging to have a meeting with him.

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    • Aphelion@lemm.ee
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      21 hours ago

      So you just bury your head in the sand until the unpleasant facts that don’t agree with your personal world view go away?

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        59 minutes ago

        A translation for @remington’s comment can be “I’m sick of hearing about this sick motherfucker.”

        I could be wrong, but a lot of people similarly feel that way about Trump, so it’s a good guess on my part. Shrug