Trump claims Zuckerberg told him ‘there’s no way I can vote for a Democrat’ after assassination attempt

Donald Trump has claimed that Mark Zuckerberg told him in a phone call shortly after the assassination attempt of the former president that there’s “no way I can vote for a Democrat”.

Trump told New York Magazine that the Meta CEO called him after he was shot in the ear at a July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

“Mark Zuckerberg called up and said, ‘I’ve never supported a Republican before, but there’s no way I can vote for a Democrat in this election,’” Trump told the magazine. “He’s a guy that, his parents, everybody was always Democrat. He said, ‘I will never vote for the people running against you after watching what you did.’”

Zuckerberg has previously spoken about the attempted assassination of Trump.

“Seeing Donald Trump get up after getting shot in the face and pump his fist in the air with the American flag is one of the most badass things I’ve ever seen in my life,” Zuckerberg told Bloomberg, a week after the Butler rally.

“On some level as an American, it’s like hard to not get kind of emotional about that spirit and that fight, and I think that that’s why a lot of people like the guy,” he continued.

Zuckerberg has not publicly endorsed a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. He told Bloomberg in July that he’s “not planning” to get involved in the election in any way.

“As Mark has said publicly, he’s not endorsing anybody in this race and has not communicated to anybody how he intends to vote,” a Meta spokesperson told New York Magazine.

A Meta spokesperson had no further comment when contacted by The Independent.

Trump’s comments on Zuckerberg come just days after Politico reported that the former president threatened to imprison the tech mogul.

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