"“Who would want us to stop building our electrical grid? Who would want us to stop us from having compute capacity to develop AI? Which adversary would want that?” he said. “There's only one: It's China.” “These are proxies for the Chinese government is my argument, and if they're not because I want them to be able to defend their names,” O'Leary said, calling Finlayson and others out by name, “come out, come out wherever you are.”"
"“At first, Finlayson said the comments spooked them, but after watching the clip, they were more baffled than anything. “This is so crazy and so outlandish. There's no way that people are going to believe this,” Finlayson said of their initial reaction. In a video posted to social media soon after, they disputed O'Leary's comments and mocked him for wearing flip-flops with a suit on television.”"
"“The only foreign operative here is a Canadian wealthy person trying to ruin our state.” Finlayson echoed the mocking tone when speaking to Business Insider on Friday, saying, “The only foreign operative here is a Canadian wealthy person trying to ruin our state.” O'Leary did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider."
Political strategists Gabi Finlayson and Jackie Morgan regained phone service while driving out of a Utah canyon and received messages encouraging them. Their names were mentioned during a Fox Business segment about Kevin O'Leary’s Utah data center project. O'Leary said critics have ties to the Chinese Communist Party and argued that only China would want the electrical grid and AI compute capacity stopped. Finlayson initially felt spooked by the comments, then became more baffled after watching the clip. Finlayson and Morgan posted a social media video disputing the claims and mocking O'Leary’s appearance. Finlayson later said the only foreign operative was a wealthy Canadian trying to harm the state. O'Leary did not respond to a request for comment.
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