Major business executive sparks internal chaos at Financial Times as op-ed reveals Trump's Covid expose plans

By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2025-01-11 22:22:16 | Updated at 2025-01-16 05:10:53 4 days ago
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Tech billionaire Peter Thiel has sparked internal warfare in a major newsroom after an op-ed he wrote concerning Trump's plans for the deep state in US politics

The 57-year-old penned a piece named 'A Time for Truth and Reconciliation' for the Financial Times and discusses how the internet and the 'pre-internet custodians of secrets' has left Americans in the dark about many a contentious topic over the years. 

Thiel, a Trump supporter, wrote about the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC), referring to media organizations, bureaucracies, universities and government funded non-profit, citizen-based groups 'that traditionally delimited public conversation.' 

'Trump's return to the White House augurs the apokálypsis [unveiling] of the ancien regime's secrets. 

'The new administration’s revelations need not justify vengeance — reconstruction can go hand in hand with reconciliation. But for reconciliation to take place, there must first be truth,' Thiel said. 

Specifically, he referenced alleged secrets surrounding the Covid-19 Pandemic and how President-elect Donald Trump should answer the questions of the American people. 

'Did they suspect that Covid spawned from US taxpayer-funded research, or an adjacent Chinese military programme?,' Thiel asked in his piece. 

'Why did we fund the work of EcoHealth Alliance, which sent researchers into remote Chinese caves to extract novel coronaviruses? Is “gain of function” research a byword for a bioweapons programme? And how did our government stop the spread of such questions on social media?'

Thiel, a Trump supporter, wrote about the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC) and referred to groups he says 'delimited public conversation'

The 57-year-old penned a piece named 'A Time for Truth and Reconciliation' for the Financial Times 

As a huge donor to the likes of Trump and Vice President JD Vance, Thiel has become synonymous with right-wing politics in America 

In begging such questions to be answered, Thiel referenced other times the American people - and, in fact, those across the worldwide web - have been allegedly left in the dark at the hands of the internet and the 'DISC'. 

These include Jeffrey Epstein's prison suicide in 2019, which Thiel said almost half of Americans polled that year mistrusted the official story and suggested that 'DISC' had lost control of the narrative. 

Another referenced the assassination of John F Kennedy, where he claimed 65 percent of Americans continue to doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. 

'Perhaps an exceptional country could have continued to ignore such questions, but as Trump understood in 2016, America is not an exceptional country. It is no longer even a great one,' Thiel wrote. 

His call for the soon-to-be President to hand over these answers drew a range of criticism. 

Financial Times columnist Edward Luce described the piece as 'inside the mind of a Silicon Valley fanatic'.

'Peter Thiel makes Orwellian analogy between today's liberal democracy and South African apartheid - and calls for a truth and reconciliation commission to uncover the crimes of America's 'Ancien regime.' Beyond nuts,' Luce wrote on BlueSky. 

The comments on his article ranged from support to confusion as readers tried to grasp at what Thiel was saying. 

Trump shakes the hand of Peter Thiel during a meeting with technology executives at Trump Tower, December 14, 2016 in New York City 

Financial Times columnist Edward Luce described the piece as 'inside the mind of a Silicon Valley fanatic' 

The PayPal co-founder had previously campaigned for Trump and also said he wouldn't make any party donations in last years election 

'Spot on Mr Thiel. And the forgiveness must come only after the censors will have been persecuted to the fullest extent of the law, so to make sure that no new high censor ever dare again to emerge,' said one. 

'Peter Thiel outs himself as a conspiracy theorist in the Financial Times. Lovely,' one commenter wrote. 

Another wrote: 'This incoherent editorial would never have been published in the FT if it had been written by a non-billionaire. That being said, it does provide a salutary example of what happens to your mind when your information diet does not distinguish between fact and opinion.'

'Thank you for publishing original thinking despite the NPC class complaints in the comments. Truth hurts,' one commented. 

'I understand the criticism against the FT for publishing this, but I would applaud the editors, on the grounds that they have given me the opportunity to find out what one of the most powerful people in the US believes, and what arguments he tries to use. What he says is nonsense, but it’s important nonsense,' another wrote. 

The PayPal co-founder had previously campaigned for Trump and also said he wouldn't make any party donations in last years election. 

As a huge donor to the likes of Trump and Vice President JD Vance, Thiel has become synonymous with right-wing politics in America. 

The German-born entrepreneur has a fortune estimated at around $13.9 billion after co-founding PayPal and Palantir and investing early in Facebook. 

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