{"id":14916,"date":"2025-09-27T15:05:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T15:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=14916"},"modified":"2025-09-27T15:05:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T15:05:21","slug":"tech-billionaire-ditches-dems-over-border-crisis-backed-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=14916","title":{"rendered":"Tech Billionaire Ditches Dems Over Border Crisis, Backed Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia says he left the Democratic Party to back President Trump, citing the border crisis and claiming Democrats \u201clet in criminals and dangerous people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tech billionaire, long a Democrat, said he began shifting Republican in 2021 over what he saw as weak immigration enforcement under President Joe Biden. \u201cI remember just being like, \u2018Holy cow, this is crazy,\u2019\u201d Gebbia told \u201cThe Katie Miller Podcast\u201d on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike, \u2018This is not right, this is a real problem and there\u2019s no reason why we shouldn\u2019t be enforcing the laws of our country and our border,&#8217;\u201d he continued. Gebbia said he turned to friend and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner for perspective and soon \u201cstarted to pull on that thread,\u201d expanding his focus to other issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI sort of, you know, begin to look at other topics and eventually came to the point where I don\u2019t think I can support a political party that wants to have an open border, that lets in criminals and dangerous people into our country,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s just not something I can get behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gebbia said his friendships with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Elon Musk also helped draw him toward supporting Trump. \u201cI\u2019ve been on my journey. Everyone\u2019s been on a journey,\u201d he said of his gradual shift toward Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think through, you know, certainly Bobby Kennedy and supporting him, and I\u2019ve been so grateful for the work that he\u2019s doing, to be somebody who just cares so much about the health of our nation, and you know, has no ties to industry and is really just able to bust through walls and sort of, like, right-size the ship,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Gebbia first volunteered in February with Elon Musk\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency to review federal retirement processes. 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