Add in to the mix that Peter Thiel is slowly buying up the world's data, including the majority of our government's data and creating a dominant force in data analytics and global decision-making across health, defense, private sectors, IRS, DOJ, CIA... Nearly every branch of the government will have their data integrated into Palantir by 2025 with Microsoft providing the platform for the data to merge via Azure.
What are Thiel's motives? He states he won't have a "full-time role" in the Trump administration, insinuating that there is indeed a role for him. https://medium.com/@kellyjoturner/the-thiel-contradiction-a-case-study-on-palantir-and-techno-libertarian-ideals-d36ead5c3310