“[The media] never takes [Trump] seriously, but it always takes him literally. I think a lot of the voters who vote for Trump take Trump seriously, but not literally.”

—  Peter Thiel

Speech at the National Press Club http://www.press.org/sites/default/files/20161031_thiel.pdf (October 31, 2016)

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