WIRED Roundup: Groypers Are Going Mainstream
Zoë Schiffer, Jake Lahut
created: Sept. 27, 2025, 10 a.m. | updated: Sept. 30, 2025, 3:47 p.m.
Turning to the White House, President Trump appears to have a new favorite billionaire, and this headline comes from your reporting.
You wrote this week about tech billionaire, Larry Ellison's increasingly cozy relationship with President Trump.
How much of it actually ended up with Super PAC supporting Tim Scott, separate story.
But essentially, Tim Scott was like an insurance policy in the event that the primary was closer and it got drawn out and people like Ron DeSantis and particularly Nikki Haley would've still been around, both Tim Scott and Nikki Haley are from South Carolina.
Perhaps uncoincidentally, Larry Ellison owns 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lanai among other flashy purchases he has made.
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