Tech titan Peter Thiel congratulated Donald Trump on his victory Tuesday evening, but declined to say whether he would be willing to serve in his administration.
“Congratulations to President-elect Donald Trump,” Thiel said in a statement provided to Business Insider. “He has an awesomely difficult task, since it is long past time for us to face up to our country’s problems. We’re going to need all hands on deck.”
Thiel, the 49-year-old libertarian billionaire who founded PayPal, was a staunch advocate of Trump’s through the campaign cycle, and notably accepted an offer to speak at the Republican National Convention in July.
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He was cited earlier this year as a possible Supreme Court pick in Trump’s administration. His name does not appear on a list of 21 potential nominees Trump said he would consider, though his credentials include a law degree from Stanford University.
Thiel argued in an appearance at the National Press Club last week that Trump facilitated a “new” kind of politics.
“He points even beyond the remaking of one party, to a new American politics that overcomes denial, rejects bubble thinking and reckons with reality,” Thiel said. “When the distracting spectacles of this election season are forgotten, and the history of our time is written, the only important question will be whether or not that new politics came too late.”
