Donald Trump To Tech Leaders: 'No Formal Chain Of Command' Here (cnbc.com)

A confab of tech titans had a "productive" meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower on Wednesday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told CNBC, as Trump moved to mend fences with Silicon Valley before taking office in January. Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Intel, Oracle, IBM, Cisco and Tesla were among the C-suite executives in attendance, with Apple CEO Tim Cook and Tesla CEO Elon Musk expected to get private briefings, according to transition staff. From the report: "We want you to keep going with the incredible innovation," Trump said. "There's no one like you in the world. ... anything we can do to help this go along, we're going to be there for you. You can call my people, call me -- it makes no difference -- we have no formal chain of command around here." At the meeting, Trump introduced billionaire Wilbur Ross, his Commerce secretary pick, and Goldman Sachs executive Gary Cohn, his choice for director of the National Economic Council. "They're going to do fair trade deals," Trump said. "They're going to make it easier for you to trade across borders, because there are a lot of restrictions, a lot of problems. If you have any ideas on that, that would be great."

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Re: "Just call me, we have no chain of command"

[Moof123]

While you may be right, I bet that the exact same actions in the exact same situation, but with Obama instead, would results in immediate calls for impeachement. The double standards between how much BS Bush got away with without any repercussions, and the completely overblown fake controversies created to de-legitimize Obama at every turn are a complete disgrace for this country. Several of those outright BS conspiracy theories were heavily driven by Trump no less.

Maybe with the full might of the CIA/FBI at his beck and call he can finally get to the bottom of that whole birth certificate (eye roll).