Steve Bannon ribbed Gavin Newsom Wednesday on his new podcast, “This is Gavin Newsom,” saying the California Governor loved tech “oligarchs” like Elon Musk until they started supporting President Donald Trump.
“You love all the oligarchs — and particularly Elon — until they flip,” Bannon said. “And remember, all the rest of these oligarchs were all progressive Democrats until … .”
Newsom – whose podcast is billed as a forum for widely divergent political viewpoints – jumped in right there, and said he would refer to the major tech execs as “libertarian.”
“And I know these guys intimately, known them for decades,” Newsom added.