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Fortune
Jessica Mathews

Kara Swisher says Silicon Valley’s growing concentration of power in Washington, D.C., is ‘really problematic’

(Credit: Steve Vargo—Fortune)

The bigwigs of the tech and venture are rallying around Donald Trump. But Silicon Valley’s longtime chronicler Kara Swisher is having none of it. 

“I think it's really problematic when a very small group of incredibly wealthy people control the access to the person in power,” Swisher said on stage Wednesday at Fortune’s annual Brainstorm Tech conference in Park City, Utah. She added: “I'm not naive, and don't think that rich people don’t control levers of power over the many, many decades or centuries our country has been in power. But this sort of explicit grab for power has worked really nicely for them.”

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