Does Big Tech want four more years of Trump?
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🗓️ 8 October 2020
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| 0:00.0 | If you take stock of the last four years of the Trump presidency, it's been good for big business. It's been good for Silicon Valley. It's been good for Wall Street. |
| 0:16.5 | But very few people in Big Business are willing to say that aloud in 2020. Why is that? Joining me to discuss as Vox Business and |
| 0:26.0 | Politics reporter Emily Stewart. So Emily I write a lot about Silicon Valley |
| 0:31.0 | leaders and Trump. You write a lot about Wall Street. about Silicon |
| 0:33.6 | Wall Street leaders in Trump. So let's sort of compare notes here. |
| 0:37.2 | What are you hearing from the business community quote-unquote |
| 0:41.2 | elites about how they're feeling about Trump |
| 0:44.7 | 2020 and the prospects of a second term. My sense is like probably most of like |
| 0:52.2 | the richest of the rich would prefer a Donald Trump presidency |
| 0:56.2 | right like nobody wants to pay more taxes and there's a chance that if Biden |
| 1:00.4 | as president you might pay more taxes but But I think there is a very real difference |
| 1:04.7 | between Joe Biden being on the ticket |
| 1:07.8 | with Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren |
| 1:10.3 | potentially being on the ticket. |
| 1:11.8 | Like, you definitely have a sense. There's a little bit of a sigh of relief. |
| 1:15.8 | Take me back four years ago to 2016. |
| 1:18.6 | Where was the business community on Trump |
| 1:23.9 | four years ago. |
| 1:22.4 | It was like if Donald Trump wins the sky will fall |
| 1:25.6 | and the stock market will completely crash. |
| 1:28.0 | Like you can look back. |
| 1:29.0 | I wrote stories being like the stock market will crash |
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