Peter Thiel said ‘incompetent’ Trump presidency could ‘end in disaster’: Report

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Billionaire investor Peter Thiel has reportedly spent the past few months distancing himself from President Trump, whose administration Thiel has described as “incompetent” during private gatherings with friends.

The PayPal co-founder and Trump booster told colleagues in January “there is a 50 percent chance” Trump’s presidency “ends in departure,” BuzzFeed reported Monday. Months later, Thiel told friends at an event in San Francisco he thought the administration was being run inefficiently.

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