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The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Steve Bannon says inauguration marks ‘official surrender’ of tech titans to Trump

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Steve Bannon at a Turning Point event in Detroit, Michigan, on 15 June 2024. Photograph: Rebecca Cook/Reuters

Steve Bannon, the former Trump White House chief strategist, has described the tech titans gathering at Monday’s inauguration as “supplicants” to Donald Trump making “an official surrender”, akin to the Japanese surrender to allied forces on the deck of the USS Missouri in September 1945.

Bannon, who served as architect of Trump’s 2016 presidential win but later fell out with the president-elect after he criticized his intellect and members of his family, told ABC News in an interview airing Sunday that Trump “broke the oligarchs” who had previously been aligned against him.

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