Peter Thiel goes 'big league', joining Trump's presidential transition team
by Nicky Woolf and Julia Carrie Wong in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#2195A)
The PayPal founder's support for Donald Trump made him an outlier in liberal Silicon Valley. What do we know about this controversial billionaire?
Controversial Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel will be a member of Donald Trump's transition team, the campaign has confirmed.
Thiel's involvement in a Trump administration has been the subject of frenzied speculation in Silicon Valley, where the businessman was the sole prominent advocate for the divisive Republican candidate.