Donald Trump's Business Sought A Stake In Parler Before He Would Join

[JonLP24]

Documents seen by BuzzFeed News show that Parler offered Trump 40% of the company if he posted exclusively to the platform. The deal was never finalized.

By Ryan Mac and Rosie Gray

Posted on February 5, 2021, at 4:50 p.m. ET

The Trump Organization negotiated on behalf of then-president Donald Trump to make Parler his primary social network, but it had a condition: an ownership stake in return for joining, according to documents and four people familiar with the conversations. The deal was never finalized, but legal experts said the discussions alone, which occurred while Trump was still in office, raise legal concerns with regards to anti-bribery laws.

Talks between members of Trump’s campaign and Parler about Trump’s potential involvement began last summer, and were revisited in November by the Trump Organization after Trump lost the 2020 election to the Democratic nominee and current president, Joe Biden. Documents seen by BuzzFeed News show that Parler offered the Trump Organization a 40% stake in the company. It is unclear as to what extent the former president was involved with the discussions.

The never-before-reported talks between Trump’s business organization and Parler, a social media network that promises less moderation than mainstream sites and is embraced by the far right, provide more insight into the frantic last weeks of Trump’s presidency. Until the Jan. 6 insurrection, after which Facebook and Twitter suspended or banned him for continuing to sow discord about the election, Trump used those internet platforms to peddle baseless conspiracy theories. While doing so, his representatives actively negotiated to bring him to Parler, which sought to make the president a business partner who would help it compete with Twitter and Facebook by getting him to post his content on its platform first.

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[OAITW r.2.0]

1. I am surprised Trump didn't jump on this.

He could shit post all day long and have a ready made audience to eat them up. Add merchandising marketing/sales channel and exclusive PPV broadcasting for the Trump Traveling Roadshow Rallies.....what's not to like?

[Proud liberal 80]

2. He doesn't really care about the ready made audience

As much as he complains about the elite, or MSM, or Twitter, or Hollywood, etc. he really wants to part of it and accepted...Parler is beneath him and doesn't give him the big audience that he wants...Similar to when the tapes came out on Melania and she was mad that the MSM wasn't doing fluff pieces on her, her friend was like she can do FoxNews and Melania said I don't want to go on Fox.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. He ain't never going to have a MSM gig again.

No Apprentice 2, no nothing. But Don knows a long con when he sees one. If he was really offered a 40% buy-in on Parler, he pretty much owns the operation....and I am sure he'd move to take a 51% share quickly. Trump will never build a private Parler on his own, this is a ready made takeover with a built in audience. Hell, he'd probably get some of the RW Evangelical sycophant's to join his con.