A Former Never Trumper Makes the Case for Trump 2024 | Shaun Maguire
Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw
Dan Crenshaw
4.6 • 16K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Shaun Maguire is a venture capitalist, tech entrepreneur, and Caltech physics PhD. He joined Rep. Crenshaw to talk about his journey from Never Trumper in 2016 to supporting President Trump in 2024. Shaun makes the analytical case for why Trump’s method for foreign policy makes sense. Namely, Trump’s ability to flex American power in a language that Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and China understand. Shaun also explains why parts of Silicon Valley are moving right, why our defense industrial base is in dire need of repair, and the physics of how black holes work.
- Becoming a Reformed Never Trumper
- Revelations About the Trump-Russia Hoax
- Recruited by DARPA – War in Afghanistan
- Narrative Violations – Trump at NATO
- The Hunter Biden Laptop
- Trump’s ‘Peace Through Strength’ Doctrine
- Trump’s Record of Countering Russia
- Deep Undercover Russian Spies
- How to Negotiate with the East
- Tips to Avoid Broken Brain Syndrome
- Has X Been Good for Free Speech?
- Politics in Silicon Valley
- Defense Startups + DoD Procurement
- tHe MiLiTaRy InDuStRiAL cOMpLeX
- The Deepest Mysteries in Physics
- Black Holes and the Beginning of the Universe
- Quantum Gravity, Bottled Water, and “The Bulk”
- Known Unknowns in Physics
- How LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves (for Dummies)
Shaun Maguire is a partner at the venture capital firm, Sequoia Capital. He has founded two companies (one in space technologies and another in global internet security) and holds a PhD in physics from Caltech. Shaun also previously worked at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He was deployed to Afghanistan for three months and his team received a Joint Meritorious Unit Award for their work. Follow him on X at @shaunmmaguire.
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| 0:00.0 | We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created. |
| 0:03.2 | As a member of Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office. |
| 0:07.2 | Experts on what they're talking about. |
| 0:08.8 | This is the podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | For insights into the issues. |
| 0:11.5 | China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions, |
| 0:15.9 | breaking it down into simple terms. |
| 0:17.9 | We hold, we hold these truths. |
| 0:20.1 | We hold these truths. |
| 0:21.2 | With Dan Krenshaw. |
| 0:22.1 | The eagle has landed. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome back everybody. |
| 0:25.0 | Today we have Sean McGuire with us and you know keeping in step with I think |
| 0:30.0 | what this podcast's habit is of having pretty interesting people on and sometimes it's good to have interesting people outside of policy politics |
| 0:38.7 | But that have of course opinions on what's going on to the country to get that point of view and Sean is a |
| 0:46.3 | Uber successful man is his own regard top venture capitalists. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm just a good ass |
| 0:51.5 | I'm just a good ass, I appreciate it. |
| 0:53.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah, dumb asses don't, are always this successful. |
| 0:58.0 | But your firm is a principal investor in clients like X, Instagram, YouTube. |
| 1:03.0 | We've been really outspoken on the, you know, |
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