A Former Never Trumper Makes the Case for Trump 2024 | Shaun Maguire

Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw

Shaun Maguire is a venture capitalist, tech entrepreneur, and Caltech physics PhD. He joined Rep. Crenshaw to talk about his journey from Never Trumper in 2016 to supporting President Trump in 2024. Shaun makes the analytical case for why Trump’s method for foreign policy makes sense. Namely, Trump’s ability to flex American power in a language that Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and China understand. Shaun also explains why parts of Silicon Valley are moving right, why our defense industrial base is in dire need of repair, and the physics of how black holes work.

• Becoming a Reformed Never Trumper
• Revelations About the Trump-Russia Hoax
• Recruited by DARPA – War in Afghanistan
• Narrative Violations – Trump at NATO
• The Hunter Biden Laptop
• Trump’s ‘Peace Through Strength’ Doctrine
• Trump’s Record of Countering Russia
• Deep Undercover Russian Spies
• How to Negotiate with the East
• Tips to Avoid Broken Brain Syndrome
• Has X Been Good for Free Speech?
• Politics in Silicon Valley
• Defense Startups + DoD Procurement
• tHe MiLiTaRy InDuStRiAL cOMpLeX
• The Deepest Mysteries in Physics
• Black Holes and the Beginning of the Universe
• Quantum Gravity, Bottled Water, and “The Bulk”
• Known Unknowns in Physics
• How LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves (for Dummies)

Shaun Maguire is a partner at the venture capital firm, Sequoia Capital. He has founded two companies (one in space technologies and another in global internet security) and holds a PhD in physics from Caltech. Shaun also previously worked at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He was deployed to Afghanistan for three months and his team received a Joint Meritorious Unit Award for their work. Follow him on X at @shaunmmaguire.