{"id":20385,"date":"2019-11-22T08:55:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20385"},"modified":"2019-11-22T08:55:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:55:32","slug":"warren-criticizes-zuckerberg-over-secret-dinner-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20385","title":{"rendered":"Warren criticizes Zuckerberg over secret dinner with Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;corruption, plain and simple.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Amid antitrust scrutiny, Facebook is going on a charm offensive with Republican lawmakers,&#8221; Warren tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And now, Mark Zuckerberg and one of Facebook&#8217;s board members&#8211;a major Trump donor&#8211;had a secret dinner with Trump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NBC News first\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/idnzptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqndvymz_ehsrbbysyfrbztypdzsq.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/idnzptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqndvymz_ehsrbbysyfrbztypdzsq.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1574493197471000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFdxr1IhYou9t36Hx9VQ5LqQXIB1A\">reported<\/a>\u00a0the dinner, which occurred in October, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg and Facebook board member Peter Thiel, a staunch Trump supporter and donor, met with the president and first lady\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mdssmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvbdycnp_ehsrbbysyfrbztypdzsq.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mdssmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvbdycnp_ehsrbbysyfrbztypdzsq.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1574493197471000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFeMWsk0B1jsY7BvLIeMBYEFCEqEg\">Melania Trump<\/a>\u00a0at the White House while the CEO was in town to testify about Facebook&#8217;s new cryptocurrency, Libra.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Facebook confirmed the meeting in a statement to The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a 2020&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20386,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20385\/revisions\/20386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}