Zuckerberg gives Trump $1m despite president-elect threatening to jail him for life
Politics,Donald Trump,Meta,Mark Zuckerberg,Trump Administration,2024 Presidential Election,Inauguration
Mark Zuckerberg has handed $1m (£790,000) to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, just months after the president-elect threatened to imprison him for life.
The billionaire Facebook founder made the donation ahead of a private dinner with Mr Trump at his Mar-A-Lago club last month in a sign of thawing relations between the pair.
Facebook suspended Mr Trump’s account for two years in 2021 in the wake of the Jan 6 riots on Capitol Hill. Mr Trump has repeatedly suggested he could jail the Meta chief executive if his social media empire swung the outcome of the election.
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