Warren criticizes Zuckerberg over secret dinner with Trump

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a 2020 White House hopeful, on Thursday called a newly revealed dinner between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and President Trump at the White House “corruption, plain and simple.”

“Amid antitrust scrutiny, Facebook is going on a charm offensive with Republican lawmakers,” Warren tweeted.

“And now, Mark Zuckerberg and one of Facebook’s board members–a major Trump donor–had a secret dinner with Trump.”

NBC News first reported the dinner, which occurred in October, on Wednesday.

Zuckerberg and Facebook board member Peter Thiel, a staunch Trump supporter and donor, met with the president and first lady Melania Trump at the White House while the CEO was in town to testify about Facebook’s new cryptocurrency, Libra.

A spokesperson for Facebook confirmed the meeting in a statement to The Hill.

“As is normal for a CEO of a major US company, Mark accepted an invitation to have dinner with the President and First Lady at the White House,” they said.