This tech entrepreneur blamed Trump for Jan. 6 'insurrection' — and is now his AI pick

15 January

David Sacks, the tech entrepreneur who co-hosts the "All-In Podcast," is President-elect Donald Trump's pick for the White House's AI and cryptocurrency czar. But in 2021, Sacks — according to CNN's Andrew Kaczynski — was highly critical of Trump and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.

Kaczynski reports that Sacks blamed Trump for the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol Building and didn't hesitate to call him out repeatedly on X, formerly Twitter.

"CNN's KFile counted at least 20 tweets from Sacks — mostly criticisms of Trump from 2021 — that have since been deleted, including one mocking Trump and praising his then-presidential rival Ron DeSantis that was deleted by June 2023," Kaczynski explains in a KFile column published on January 14. "Among other deleted tweets were those that criticized people who refused to wear masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, including one from April 2021 linked to a since-deleted blog post where Sacks said in April 2020 that mask wearing should be mandated by law."

Kaczynski continues, "But the majority of deleted tweets from Sacks focused on the January 6 riot. Several referred to the riot at the Capitol as an 'insurrection.' Another took aim at Trump's false election rhetoric."

In a January 9, 2021 tweet, Sacks wrote, "When a party loses an election, it needs to look in the mirror and ask what it did wrong. Trump failed to do that in 2020. Many Democrats failed to do that in 2016. It's always easier to invent conspiracy theories than to accept defeat. We shouldn't let them get away w/ that."

Then, on January 11, 2021, Sacks tweeted, "Speech can be regulated under the First Amendment in ways that would have taken down the most incendiary tweets of Trump and the other rabble-rousers." And four days later, Sacks wrote, "What happened at Capitol was an outrage. Incitement is not 1A protected."

But now, according to Kaczynski, Sacks is saying he was wrong to criticize Trump in January 2021.

Sacks told Salon, "January 6 was a psyop designed to make President Trump look bad. I learned the truth, I updated my views and my X account. Apparently CNN thinks it’s a scandal that I temporarily believed some of their fake news."

Andrew Kaczynski's full KFile column for CNN is available at this link (subscription required).

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