Michael Steinberger
speaker
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
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Why?
Because he thinks it's poking the bear that an uncontrolled border...
Lots of illegal immigration is radicalizing Americans against diversity, which he sees as really bad for the Jews.
Because if the voters want the border controlled and a democratically elected government doesn't deliver on what they want, they may turn to more radical solutions.
The backlash next time may be even more severe and people might turn to a genuine autocrat, which would be, in Karp's view, really bad for the Jews.
he pushes back furiously against any suggestion that Trump is an autocrat or a fascist.
In a recent interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin of The Times, for instance.
He said that any suggestion that Trump is a fascist is just stupid.
Yes, we've discussed it and he has admitted to being concerned about it.
And I think this goes some way to explaining why he is so ardently behind Donald Trump.
Because, again, he fears that if Trump doesn't deliver on his campaign promises, particularly on immigration, that what's going to come after this could be even worse.
That a demagogue in the mold of a Fuentes or someone like that could come to power, which Karp thinks would be very bad for the country.
And I think he sees the work that Palantir is doing with the Trump administration as preventive in nature in some sense.
I don't know the answer to that, which is kind of unsettling.
I've been talking to him for six years.
He expresses very strongly held views on a range of issues, but he has not said to me in private, nor has he said publicly what his red lines are, what things the Trump administration might do that would cause him to reconsider Palantir's work.
with the administration.
I understand why he doesn't want to say that because Palantir is a major government contractor and it's not in CARB's interest to tell the world what things, for instance, ICE might do that would cause Palantir to reconsider its work with ICE.
But what this really comes down to in a lot of ways is, do you trust Alex CARB's judgment about the moment we're in?
This is someone who is a scholar of fascism.
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