Oracle’s Ellison joined Nov 2020 call about contesting Trump's defeat
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[May 21, 2022] By
Jan Wolfe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Larry Ellison,
billionaire chairman and co-founder of Oracle Corp, participated shortly
after the November 2020 U.S. presidential election in a phone call
focused on strategies for contesting former President Donald Trump's
defeat, according to an email revealed in a court document.
The Nov. 14, 2020 phone call, first reported by the Washington Post, is
the first known instance of a technology industry leader joining Trump
allies to strategize about how to contest the election result.
The phone call was described in a Nov. 14, 2020, email sent by Catherine
Engelbrecht, a conservative activist.
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Engelbrecht's email was revealed this week in a court filing submitted
by Fair Fight Inc, an organization founded in 2018 by voting rights
activist and Democratic Party politician Stacey Abrams.
Fair Fight filed a lawsuit in late 2020 challenging tactics used by True
The Vote, Engelbrecht's conservative vote-monitoring organization. That
lawsuit is still pending.
According to Engelbrecht's email, the phone call
Ellison joined included Senator Lindsey Graham and longtime Trump legal
adviser Jay Sekulow, among other Trump allies.
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Oracle's Executive Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology
Officer Larry Ellison speaks during his keynote address at Oracle
OpenWorld in San Francisco, California September 30, 2014.
REUTERS/Robert Galbraith
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An Oracle spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.
Ellison was among the few top technology executives to openly
support Trump during the 2020 campaign. The Desert Sun reported that
he hosted a fundraiser for the former president at his Rancho
Mirage, California, estate.
Ellison recently committed $1 billion in financing to help his
longtime friend Elon Musk buy Twitter Inc.. It is uncertain whether
Musk will complete his $44 billion acquisition of the social media
platform.
(Reporting by Jan Wolfe; editing by Andy Sullivan and David
Gregorio)
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