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‘What choice do they have?’: US CEOs bend the knee to Trump

‘What choice do they have?’: US CEOs bend the knee to Trump

Even the president-elect’s corporate opponents are rushing to embrace him at Mar-a-Lago.

James Politi and James Fontanella-Khan
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Ted Sarandos, the 60-year-old chief executive of Netflix, has been a prominent Democratic donor for years.

But on Tuesday (Wednesday AEDT), he became the latest senior figure in corporate America to step into Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort to pay tribute to the Republican president-elect and build relations with his incoming administration.

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