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President Donald Trump declared Friday that Microsoft needs to occurrence Lisa Monaco, nan company’s president of world affairs.
Citing her roles arsenic “a elder National Security adjutant nether Barack Hussein Obama, and a Lawfare and Weaponization obsessed Deputy Attorney General nether Crooked Joe Biden and Lisa’s Puppet ‘Boss’ Attorney General Merrick Garland,” Trump posted connected Truth Social that Monaco’s existent domiciled gives her entree to “Highly Sensitive Information,” which he deemed “unacceptable.”
“It is my sentiment that Microsoft should instantly terminate nan employment of Lisa Monaco,” he wrote.
As Trump noted, Monaco worked pinch some Barack Obama and Joe Biden, including arsenic a lawman lawyer wide nether nan Biden administration. Trump rescinded Monaco’s information clearance earlier this year, successful nan an order that did nan aforesaid for Biden, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, and nan Biden family.
TechCrunch has reached retired to Microsoft for comment. Monaco joined nan institution successful May, taking connected a domiciled that oversees nan company’s cybersecurity policy, arsenic good arsenic its relationships pinch world governments.
Far-right activistic and Trump state Laura Loomer has repeatedly complained connected X astir Microsoft hiring Monaco, including successful a station that accused Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella of “disgraceful scammer behavior” and noted that he was “born successful India.” On Friday, Loomed triumphantly quoted Trump’s post and again called connected nan president to “cancel each of Microsoft’s authorities contracts.”
This isn’t nan first clip Trump has targeted a tech executive since returning to office. He previously said that Intel President Lip-Bu Tan must “resign immediately” complete alleged conflicts of interest. Then, aft Intel gave nan authorities a 10% liking successful speech for funding already committed by nan Biden administration, Trump described Tan arsenic a “Highly Respected Chief Executive Officer.”
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