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Trump’s MAGA Stooge Slithers Into Controversial New Job
April 14, 2026
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Photo Illustration by Eric Faison/The Daily Beast/ShutterstockThe AI giant suing Donald Trump’s administration over what it calls an illegal vendetta has quietly begun mending fences with the White House—after quietly hiring a well-connected former Trump insider.Anthropic has been locked in battle with the administration since February, when CEO Dario Amodei refused Pentagon demands to remove safeguards blocking its product Claude’s use for mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, 45, responded by designating the company a “supply-chain risk to national security”—a label previously reserved for foreign adversaries—and Trump ordered all federal agencies to stop using Claude. Anthropic filed two federal lawsuits in March, alleging unlawful retaliation.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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