Oracle CEO Larry Ellison was concerned in a name the place various influential GOP figures—together with Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC), Fox News anchor Sean Hannity and Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow — brainstormed methods to contest the 2020 presidential election, reported the Washington Post. Details of the decision which occurred on November 14, 2020 have been revealed in new courtroom filings from a lawsuit introduced by voting rights group Fair Fight towards True The Vote, a conservative Texas vote monitoring group that disputes the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election.
“Jim was on a call this evening with Jay Sekulow, Lindsey O. Graham, Sean Hannity, and Larry Ellison,” True the Vote’s founder, Catherine Engelbrecht, wrote to a donor, in line with courtroom filings reviewed by the Post. “He explained the work we were doing and they asked for a preliminary report asap, to be used to rally their troops internally, so that’s what I’m working on now.”
Ellison is a high-profile GOP donor and has hosted fundraisers for former president Donald Trump. He has seemingly by no means expressed doubts concerning the 2020 election outcomes publicly. While the CEO has donated to each events through the years because the Palm Desert Sun factors out, he’s poured a considerable amount of cash into the GOP and conservative causes because the 2020 election. His $15 million donation in February to an excellent PAC related to Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) is likely one of the largest of the 2022 election cycle thus far.
Ellison’s proximity to Trump has led to considerations that Oracle might have had an unfair benefit in competing for federal contracts throughout the former administration. Oracle nabbed a profitable contract in 2020 to assist the Department of Health and Human Services to gather information on medical doctors who deal with COVID-19 sufferers with hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug embraced by Trump. It can also be nearing a take care of TikTok to retailer their US information, which Trump authorised in 2020.