Billionaire Republican investor Peter Thiel admitted that he was sceptical of Donald Trump‘s war with Iran and questioned whether the conflict had been a mistake.
Thiel’s remarks were revealed just two weeks before the mid-term elections, with Republicans fighting to maintain power in Congress.
In an audio recording of Thiel’s comments obtained by Politico, the PayPal and Palantir co-founder can be heard saying: ‘I’m sceptical of [the war]; I think we should not have done it.
‘There were a lot of mistakes that were made.’
He added: ‘Maybe we don’t have the hard power. Maybe we’re going to lose the soft power war.’
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