Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook data it acquired
I wonder how confident Thiel was of a Trump presidency back in May 2016, when he started being open about his support for Trump. Perhaps he was operating with more knowledge than available to the general public and national pollsters? I wonder how involved he was with CA for the purpose of the election. His $1.25 million donation in October 2016 seems even more interesting in light of all this.I took out a bet on Trump when Thiel became open with his support. It was driven by my belief that he was  operating with deeper knowledge about the state of the nation precisely due to his association  with Palantir (mostly) and Facebook. I feel dirty about winning that one.