{"id":9195,"date":"2026-06-27T01:51:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/brian-armstrong-supports-gop-at-fundraising-dinner-with-jd-vance\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T01:51:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:51:29","slug":"brian-armstrong-supports-gop-at-fundraising-dinner-with-jd-vance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/brian-armstrong-supports-gop-at-fundraising-dinner-with-jd-vance\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Armstrong supports GOP at fundraising dinner with JD Vance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recently, United States Vice President JD Vance reportedly<\/a> joined a dinner with donors, including Brian Armstrong, as part of his efforts to fundraise for the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

The dinner was held at the home of All-In podcast host Chamath Palihapitiya and included approximately two dozen donors, including Lip-Bu Tan, the chief executive of Intel.<\/p>\n

This fundraising dinner reportedly raised approximately $4.2 million, with Axios reporting that donors each paid $250,000.<\/p>\n

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Chamath Palihapitiya fires two besties at Social Capital<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Read more: Bitcoin bull Palihapitiya reckons \u2018nobody cares\u2019 about Uyghur genocide<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Vance is the Republican National Committee (RNC) finance chair, a role that is allowing him opportunities to get face time with donors before a likely<\/a> 2028 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

Armstrong has become an increasingly important political donor, contributing to the cryptocurrency-related Super PACs as well as contributing to a variety of different political candidates.<\/p>\n

Armstrong has also met<\/a> repeatedly<\/a> with<\/a> President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

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Coinbase: Politics for me, but not for thee<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Read more: Crypto lobbyists are busy preparing for the 2024 election<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

This aggressive move into politics from Armstrong comes after the infamous Coinbase blog post; Coinbase is a mission focused company<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

This blog post\/manifesto made it clear that Coinbase should not \u201cadvocate for any particular causes or candidates internally that are unrelated to our mission.\u201d<\/p>\n

It further added internal company policies to limit workplace communication about politics, limiting speech that would \u201cdebate causes or political candidates internally that are unrelated to work.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Armstrong apparently feels that this limitation does not prevent him from throwing his wealth around to support politicians who he can convince himself are related to Coinbase\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n

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Recently, United States Vice President JD Vance reportedly joined a dinner with donors, including Brian Armstrong, as part of his efforts to fundraise for the Republican Party. The dinner was held at the home of All-In podcast host Chamath Palihapitiya and included approximately two dozen donors, including Lip-Bu Tan, the chief executive of Intel. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-invest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}