'Not going to work': MAGA attorney scoffs at tech giants 'begging like dogs for mercy'
Amid reports that Meta and Amazon each donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration fund, a MAGA attorney scoffed on X — and issued an ominous response: "Not going to work."
Trump's inauguration is just weeks away — with invites already out to world leaders widely believed to be dictators — scheduled for Jan. 20. And Meta on Thursday announced it would donate $1 million to the president-elect's inaugural fund.
The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the donation, remarked it was the latest step by CEO Mark Zuckerberg to "bolster his once-fraught relationship with the incoming president."
"The donation, confirmed by the company, is a departure from past practice by Zuckerberg and his company, and comes after an election campaign in which Trump threatened to punish the tech tycoon if he tried to influence the election against him," the Journal reported.
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It also comes on the heels of a dinner last month between Trump and Zuckerberg at Mar-a-Lago.
Hours after the Journal report, Amazon reportedly followed suit.
"Amazon is planning to donate $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, a person familiar tells CNN, confirming WSJ," wrote CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins on X.
Collins' post caught the attention of attorney Mike Davis, a conservative legal activist with deep ties to the Trump administration, who shrugged off the donations.
"These trillion-dollar Big Tech monopolists are begging like dogs for mercy. Not going to work," Davis wrote on X, resharing Collins' post.
Davis founded the Article III Project, which defends constitutionalist judges, and served as chief counsel for nominations to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley. Davis also worked in the George W. Bush administration and clerked for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.
Trump and Zuckerberg have a fraught relationship — Zuckerberg banned Trump off Facebook following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. At the time, he said the risk of letting Trump stay on his app were "simply too great."
Collins' report also resulted in a poke from Condé Naste legal affairs editor Luke Zaleski.
"Render unto Caesar," he replied to Collins, recalling a famous biblical quote.