Michael Steinberger

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509 appearances 6 recordings 6 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 3 Jul

Michael Steinberger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Daily · Inside the Tech Company Powering Trump’s Most Controversial Policies · 16 Dec 2025 podcast

And Trump's name comes up and he says, and this was unprovoked, I didn't even say anything.

And he says, I don't think Trump is a fascist.

I don't think Trump is an anti-Semite.

I don't think Trump is a bigot.

It really felt like he was trying to convince himself of something.

And, you know, at that point, it became clear to me that he believed that Trump was likely to win the 2024 election and that he was, in a sense, in a way, talking himself into getting behind that.

Well, I think he certainly recognized that he was going to have to say nice things about Trump this time around.

I mean, the first rule of doing business in Donald Trump's Washington is don't piss off Donald Trump.

The second rule is do everything you can to curry favor with Donald Trump.

And if you're a major government contractor, as Palantir is, you have a particularly acute need to curry favor with Donald Trump.

So Karp recognizes that a second Trump presidency is potentially a huge opportunity for Palantir.

and he writes a million-dollar check to the Trump-Vance Inauguration Committee, and Palantir lands a number of deals during the first months of Trump's second presidency.

Its software is used extensively by Doge.

It gets a $10 billion contract with the Army, and it also gets another contract with ICE, this one for $30 million to help with deportations.

And amid all this

Karp starts publicly singing Trump's praises.

Honestly, I think he's quite brilliant at this.

Saying lots of nice things about Donald Trump in public.

He says that on the issues that are of paramount concern to him now, the border and national security, he thinks that Trump is doing a great job.

And when confronted during interviews, if this represents a big shift in his own position, he insists no.

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