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☆ Hush money DA wants to use Trump's incessant bragging — about how sexy, thrifty, and fussy he is — against him at trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

"They didn't come out of the campaign," Trump said in the interview, referring to the payment at the center of the upcoming hush money trial, set to start March 25 in Manhattan. AdvertisementRead the 82 Trump statements prosecutors want to show hush money jurors here. In several of the statements prosecutors may use, Trump boasts of how attractive he is. AdvertisementTrump's side has argued that the 82 statements, some of them decades old, should be excluded from the trial. Failing that, they have asked state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, who will be the trial judge, to make prosecutors explain, statement by statement, how each would be used at trial.

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Fox held separate pre-Iowa town halls for DeSantis and Haley, but at 6 p.m. before prime time. Frustration boiled over when DeSantis' campaign manager, James Uthmeier, felt that a Fox graphic didn't show the extent of the candidate's appearances in Iowa. Asked by Ainsley Earhardt if she would withdraw if she lost New Hampshire, Haley said she would not. “I don't care how much y'all want to coronate Donald Trump,” Haley said. “I don't need any advice from RINO Kayleigh McEnany on Fox,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, referencing the conservative slur Republican in Name Only.

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NEW YORK (AP) — The curvy couch is making room for one more: Lawrence Jones will join the daily “Fox & Friends” morning show as a fourth host beginning on Monday. Fox News said Thursday that Jones will join Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade on the morning news and talk show, which airs from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. Eastern. Jones is losing the Saturday evening show he has hosted, making room for a new show with talk host Mark Levin. Jones, 30, has been with Fox News since 2018 and said “Fox & Friends” is where he made his first national television appearance. “It is truly a privilege to inform our audience every day and I can't wait to do so each morning,” he said.

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☆ Casey DeSantis hits back at reports calling her 'Walmart Melania': 'I do shop at Walmart'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Talia Lakritz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An opinion piece published by The Daily Beast referred to Casey DeSantis as "the Walmart Melania." In a "Fox & Friends" interview on Thursday, Florida's first lady brushed off the criticism. In Thursday's interview, "Fox & Friends" host Ainsley Earhardt asked Casey how she deals with the criticism. Ron DeSantis, his wife, Casey DeSantis, and their children Mason, Madison, and Mamie during his inauguration ceremony outside the Old Capitol on January 3, 2023, in Tallahassee, Florida. Lynne Sladky/AP"One thing that the corporate media did get right about me, I do shop at Walmart," Casey DeSantis said.

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☆ Ron DeSantis said he'd consider Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds as a running mate but when asked about it, she said she's 'busy'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Ron DeSantis said he'd consider Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds as a potential running mate. Kim Reynolds as a potential running mate if he wins the Republican nomination. In addition to suggesting her as a potential running mate, DeSantis criticized Trump for his recent attacks on Reynolds. "I thought the attacks on her were totally, totally out of hand and totally unnecessary."

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☆ CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin says covering the SVB meltdown is like ‘walking a tight rope’
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —Andrew Ross Sorkin woke up early Monday morning, long before the crack of dawn, after managing to sneak in a handful of hours of sleep. The New York Times columnist had been up late into the night working on his DealBook newsletter. And now he needed to rise for a special edition of “Squawk Box,” the CNBC program he has co-hosted since 2011. It is a story Sorkin described covering as “a balancing act, a little bit like walking a tight rope.” On one hand, he said, journalists must avoid sparking panic and causing a catastrophic run on the banks. “If you scream ‘fire,’ everyone runs out of the theater,” Sorkin said.

☆ Eric Trump's wife Lara Trump now co-chairs the RNC. Here's a timeline of their relationship.
▼ + stars: | 2022-03-15 | by ( Talia Lakritz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

2008: Eric Trump and Lara Yunaska met while out with friends and began dating three months later. Eric and Lara Trump in 2008. Davidoff Studios/Getty ImagesWhen they met, Eric was working for the Trump Organization and Lara was a producer at Inside Edition. Lara spotted Eric from across the room and was "immediately intrigued," she told Ainsley Earhardt in an interview on "Fox & Friends" in 2016.

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