Kamala Harris’ billionaire friend Laurene Powell Jobs owns a liberal magazine behind Trump’s ‘widely disputed’ report

The Atlantic has come under intense scrutiny in recent days following an unflattering report on the phenomenon former President Trump that has been hailed by critics and even those involved in the story from “fake” to “hit,” and a look at the influential owner of the liberal publication reveals a “real friendship” with Vice President Kamala Harris.

Billionaire philanthropist Work by Laurene Powellwidow of Apple visionary Steve Jobs and one of the richest people in the world, she is the owner of Emerson Collective, which bought most of The Atlantic in 2017.

Powell Jobs and Harris are 60-year-old women who rose to fame in liberal Northern California, but they have much more in common. New York Times reported last month that Powell Jobs, whose net worth reportedly exceeds $11 billion, is one of Harris’ “top confidants” who has spent money and given advice to help raise the vice president’s public profile.

“Now, in this year’s presidential election, the richest woman in Silicon Valley has emerged as an influential player behind the scenes. According to three people briefed on the gifts, she quietly donated millions of dollars to an organization supporting Ms. Harris.” reports the Times.

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“She played a hidden but pivotal role in helping push Biden out of the race, which made it easier for Harris to run,” the Los Angeles Times continued. “Powell Jobs, who is so close to the vice president that her staffers call her simply ‘LPJ,’ could have extraordinary influence or at least access in a potential Harris administration.”

The Times noted that thirty sources with “insight into their bond” believe Harris and Powell Jobs have “a true friendship built on shared political philosophy, interests in arts and culture and their trials of each other as women in the public spotlight.” .

When Harris took the oath of office as a U.S. senator in 2017, she called on Powell Jobs to jump into the photo with his family. “My extended family is here,” Harris said, waving to Powell Jobs and other close friends, the Los Angeles Times reported.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Harris and Powell Jobs took trips together, sometimes on the philanthropist’s private plane. Powell Jobs attended Harris’s wedding to Doug Emhoff in 2014, and Emhoff attended the wedding of Powell Jobs’ son in Hawaii earlier this year. Powell Jobs also visited the Biden-Harris White House at least nine times, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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She also attended the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where she regularly sat in the exclusive box for Harris’ friends and family.

Powell Jobs, who was married to Steve Jobs from 1991 until his death in 2011 and earlier this year paid about $70 million for San Francisco’s most expensive home, also opened her wallet to help elect Harris, while urging others to do the same.

Powell Jobs reportedly urged other powerful women and megadonors to support Harris, although the Los Angeles Times noted that she liked to make “undisclosed donations” and had “donated millions to the dark money vehicle Future Forward,” while friends wondered whether she would seek a formal role in the administration if her friend wins.

Many of her donations remain undisclosed, but over the years Powell Jobs has openly donated to many high-profile Democrats, including Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Barbara Boxer, Andrew Cuomo, Gavin Newsom, Beto O’Rourke, Kirsten Gillibrand, Tammy Duckworth, Dianne Feinstein, Elizabeth Warren, Kathleen Hochul, Cory Booker, Andrew Gillum, Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi, as well as Harris and groups like Planned Parenthood, according to Open secrets.

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Fortune also highlighted the close friendship between Powell Jobs and Harris last month in an article in which it called the Atlanta guy one of the vice president’s “biggest financiers.”

“Not only does Powell Jobs consistently donate to Democrats, but he also takes a special interest in his friend Harris. In 2023, Powell Jobs made three donations to the Biden and Harris re-election campaigns amounting to almost $1 million,” Fortune reports.

Powell Jobs has posted on X supporting liberal causes such as a path to citizenship for immigrants, various climate change initiatives and LGBTQ+ Pride, although she has remained silent on the platform since it was purchased by fellow billionaire Elon Musk.

In 2017, Powell Jobs took then-Senator Harris with him to a meeting interview on stage with journalist Kara Swisher at the Code conference. Swisher asked friends if any of them would run for president in 2020, Powell Jobs said, “One of us should… vote for her,” pointing to Harris.

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Seven years later, as speculation grows that Powell Jobs may be directly involved or at least extremely influential behind the scenes in a potential Harris White House, her liberal news organization is thrust into the spotlight thanks to a brutal story about Trump that has been widely shared and heavily scrutinized .

Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: long report released Tuesday about Trump’s interactions with the family of 20-year-old Vanessa Guillén, the daughter of Mexican immigrants who was murdered in April 2020 by a fellow soldier at Fort Hood.

After her remains were discovered two months later, Trump comforted Guillén’s family at the White House and offered financial assistance to cover funeral costs. But Goldberg reported that Trump flew into a rage when he received the bill, refusing to pay it, saying, “It doesn’t cost $60,000 to bury a f***ing Mexican!”

According to the report, Natalie Khawam, an attorney for Guillén’s family, told Goldberg that the family did not receive money from Trump and that the costs were ultimately partially covered by the military and donations.

Khawam has since accused The Atlantic’s Goldberg of lying. Guillén’s sister, Mayra Guillén, also criticized The Atlantic’s report and expressed her support for Trump.

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Curtis Houck, a conservative media watchdog and editor-in-chief of NewsBusters, criticized The Atlantic as a “political laundering operation for Laurene Powell Jobs and other liberal elites” designed to advance their arguments.

“She has a boring editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, who not only shares her worldview, but has also been a jerk with absolute arrogance,” Houck told Fox News Digital.

“If Laurene Powell Jobs told him to write a story about how good Trump is, he would say yes because that is his role in the world,” Houck added. “The Atlantic is where white liberals go to feel like they are still in charge and can claim to think deeper and care more than the frontiers of real America.”

Goldberg’s Atlantic piece included another explosive claim in the article that Trump once said: “I need generals like Hitler had. People who were completely loyal to him, who follow orders,” he quoted two anonymous sources who allegedly heard him say in the White House.

Trump’s spokesman called the claim “completely false” and told The Atlantic that “President Trump never said that.”

The Atlantic vigorously denied the claim that Powell Jobs was involved in Goldberg’s article or any editorial decisions.

“There is a strict firewall separating The Atlantic newsroom from our business side and ownership. The editorial team operates completely independently. Our ownership does not and never has influenced what we report or publish,” said Anna Bross, senior vice president of communications for The Atlantic. Fox News Digital News.

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Fox News contributor Joe Concha said The Atlantic’s attempt to harm Trump in the days before the election “has no legs.”

“This has been widely disputed, including by the family involved, and this reporter has a long history of engaging in Democratic activism. Remember, remember, Jeffrey Goldberg is the same so-called a journalist who promoted the “suckers and losers” hoax. This was in and he promised that further confirmation of this alleged statement by Trump would be presented… we are still waiting,” Concha said Fox News Digitall.

“Voters have been hearing for nine years that Trump is Hitler,” Concha added. “And that’s why these stories don’t move the needle one bit.”

But despite denials and backlash, The Atlantic’s attempt to take down Trump provided CNN and MSNBC with talking points for much of the week.

Harris’ campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Emerson Collective did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Fox News Digital’s Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.