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Billionaire venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya detailed recently how personally meeting Donald Trump changed his perception of the former president. Earlier this month, entrepreneur David Sacks hosted a Silicon Valley fundraiser for Trump, raising $12 million. The crowd was full of wealthy tech businessmen and venture capitalists, many of whom Sacks later said were lifelong Democratic voters. Last week, Sacks and Palihapitiya recounted the event on their podcast "All-In." 'There is a huge gap between how the media tries to portray Donald Trump and what he's like when you meet him in person.' On the podcast, Palihapitiya admitted that he had "misjudged" Trump in the past, and his view of the former president changed after meeting him. "He is charismatic, he's intellectually sharp, and he's funny. And when you put that together, he can engage an audience for a long time and be totally extemporaneous," Palihapitiya said of Trump. "The other thing I would say that is, that he is very polite, and he's kind in a way that was disarming and was not what I expected, and so I felt that I had misjudged him many years in the past," he explained. "So, I was very glad that I had an opportunity to sit beside him and to actually interact with him one-on-one — it was really, really engaging." Palihapitiya explained that his interaction with Trump left a lasting impression, one that exposed the media's false depictions of him. "I think that there is a huge gap between how the media tries to portray Donald Trump and what he's like when you meet him in person — and that gap is really wide," Palihapitiya said. Trump, Palihapitiya said, impressed him with his "pro-American" and "pro-innovation" agenda, one that emphasizes "low regulation" and "low taxation." The platform, Palihapitiya added, "does stand very much in contrast with" the Democratic Party's agenda. Sacks told a similar story. "President Trump is extremely charming. He connects with people in like five seconds. I mean, he meets you and finds something interesting or funny to say, and he's hilarious," Sacks recounted."When he spoke in the living room, and he talked extemporaneously for an hour, he's speaking off-the-cuff. Every speech he gives is different," he explained. "People don't realize how entertaining he is."Something that especially stood out at the fundraiser, Sacks later said, was Trump's energy level."He's someone who's very sharp, very on the ball, very funny, and then his energy level is incredible," Sacks said. "So, he had started his day at Mar-a-Lago at 3:30 a.m. Then, he flew to Arizona, did a Trump rally in Arizona, then he flew to San Francisco for our event. He spent four hours at our event. ... Then, he flew to Los Angeles for more events the next day there. So, think about his day and his energy level was just amazing the whole time."Earlier this month, Sacks announced his endorsement of Trump.Sacks explained he decided to support Trump on the basis of Trump's economy performance, his foreign policy record, the border crisis, and lawfare.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A female has been booked for murder after police in Anaheim, California, said they responded to a gang-related shooting over the weekend — and a wounded male was pronounced dead at a hospital.Anaheim police said its officers as well as Anaheim Fire & Rescue personnel responded around 2:30 a.m. Saturday to the 800 block of West Cottonwood Circle in regard to a shooting.Detectives booked Cureno into the Anaheim Detention Facility for murder, police said, adding that she was being held in lieu of $1 million. Police said witnesses transported two victims to a local hospital before emergency services arrived.Jose Andres Abrego, 30, of Anaheim, was suffering from at least one gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the hospital, police said, adding that the second victim — also an adult male — was stabbed at least one time and is expected to survive. Detectives identified 24-year-old Jannett Cureno of Santa Ana as the suspect, police said, adding that she fled the scene before officers arrived.Authorities found Cureno around 1 p.m. Saturday in the 300 block of Newhope St. in Santa Ana and arrested her without incident, police said.Detectives booked Cureno into the Anaheim Detention Facility for murder, police said, adding that she was being held in lieu of $1 million. Police said detectives aren't disclosing additional details since the investigation is ongoing. Detectives are asking anyone with information about this incident to contact the Anaheim Police Department Homicide Detail at 714-321-3669 or Orange County Crime Stoppers at 855-TIP-OCCS.How are observers reacting?Commenters on the Anaheim Police Department's Facebook post about the shooting took no prisoners:"She’s just misunderstood," one commenter quipped. "Ask her mother if you don’t believe me.""Throw away the key now!!!" another user declared."Her life is over as it should be," another commenter said."Hell awaits her," another user predicted.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Bill Gates isn’t giving up on eradicating cow farts. In a recent public appearance, Gates explained just how he plans to stop them. “You know what happens with beef, my climate group Breakthrough Energy just announced, literally today, an investment in an Australian group called Rumin8, that helps cows not be so much a source of methane emissions,” Gates said. “So, we have two paths to solving that, that’s 6% of global emissions are cows, who burp and fart methane to an extreme degree,” he continued to laughter from the crowd. “You can either fix the cows to stop them from doing that, or you can make beef without the cow. And both of those you know will be pursued to see which one can lead to the best product in terms of taste, health, and cost,” he concluded. Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report,” who is himself on a form of the now-famous carnivore diet, isn’t pleased with Gates. “It’s interesting to me that here’s the man who owns the largest amount of farmland in the United States, Bill Gates, who now wants to, as he said, do something to cows so that they either don’t burp or fart as much, or we’ll just get off meat all together,” Rubin says. “Either way, I sense he’s going to profit a lot from one of those things,” he adds Want more from Dave Rubin?To enjoy more honest conversations, free speech, and big ideas with Dave Rubin, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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