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☆ Mitt Romney says Ron DeSantis 'looks like he's got a toothache' when smiling for selfies with Iowa voters: 'There's just no warmth at all'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

In a forthcoming book, the Utah senator says DeSantis "looks like he's got a toothache" in selfies. He also pondered whether DeSantis, who's "smarter than Trump," is ultimately more dangerous. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . "He looks like he's got a toothache," Romney observed about DeSantis' selfies with voters in Iowa, adding of DeSantis generally: "There's just no warmth at all."

Persons: Sen, Mitt Romney, Ron, he's, —, Ron DeSantis, McKay Coppins, Romney, Donald, Trump, DeSantis Organizations: Trump, Service, Florida Gov, Utah Republican, POLITICO Locations: Utah, selfies, Iowa, Romney

Rubin died Friday at a hospital in Manhattan after “a brief and sudden illness,” according to his nephew, David Rotter. “Steve Rubin was a great publisher,” Grisham said in a statement. “For more than a month, it was humanly impossible to miss ‘Fire and Fury,’" Rubin wrote in his memoir “Words and Music,” published earlier this year. Rubin joined Bantam Books, a venerable paperback publisher, in the mid-1980s, and remained there for six years before leaving for Doubleday. In his memoir, he offered a succinct, if incomplete prediction: “I suppose the headline of my obit will read 'Publisher of ”The Da Vinci Code" dies'.”

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NEW YORK (AP) — Rupert Murdoch, the 92-year-old Australian media magnate whose creation of Fox News made him a force in American politics, is stepping down as leader of both Fox's parent company and his News Corp. media holdings. Fox said Thursday that Murdoch would become chairman emeritus of both companies, effective at board meetings in November. Stock in Fox Corp., while positive this year, began to decline early in 2022, due in part to lawsuits and investor anxiety over the loss of viewers to smaller media outlets. While Murdoch never ran for political office, politicians in the United States and Britain anxiously sought his approval. Murdoch dismissed them as isolated instances that were “largely political because we're conservative.”Shares of News Corp. and Fox rose Thursday in early trading.

Persons: — Rupert Murdoch, Fox, Murdoch, Lachlan, Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch, Tucker Carlson, Michael Wolff, ”, Paolo Pescatore, ” Murdoch, James, Elisabeth, Prudence, Donald Trump, Wolff, Trump, Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, Britain's, Roger Ailes, Bill O'Reilly, ___, Kelvin Chan, Jill Lawless Organizations: Fox News, News Corp, Fox Corp, Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, Street Journal, New York, Walt Disney Co, Marvel, Geographic, Channel, CNN, MSNBC, Stock, “, Foresight, HBO, Forbes, Florida Gov, Sky, Sunday Times, Sun Locations: Adelaide, Australia, United States, Britain, Sky, London

☆ Rupert Murdoch completes the real-life 'Succession' story. Here's how his son Lachlan rose to the top.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Madeline Berg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Rupert Murdoch announced he is stepping down as the leader of Fox and News Corp.His elder son, Lachlan, will take over both companies, ending a decades-long family drama. She quit the family business years ago. AdvertisementAdvertisementThat left Lachlan and James, who have passed the title of successor between the two of them over the decades. For much of the 2000s and 2010s, it seemed as if James would eventually take over the family business. AdvertisementAdvertisementMeanwhile, Murdoch's favorite son, Lachlan, has been a Roman Roy-esque wild card, with the same right-wing politics as the "Succession" character.

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☆ Rupert Murdoch steps down as chairman of Fox and News Corp.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Lillian Rizzo | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as chairman of the board of both Fox Corp. and News Corp. , the companies said Thursday. Lachlan Murdoch, one of his sons, will become sole chairman of News Corp. and will continue as Fox Corp.'s executive chair and CEO. At the time, Fox had opposed having the elder Murdoch — as well as other top Fox executives — appearing in person, citing his age. Since July 2022, Murdoch had worked from his home in Montana rather than going into Fox or News Corp. offices, according to a securities filing. News Corp. owns newspapers The Wall Street Journal and New York Post, among other publications, while Fox is the parent company of right-leaning TV networks Fox News and Fox Business.

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☆ Rupert Murdoch has become a 'frothing-at-the-mouth' enemy of Donald Trump and often wishes for his death, new Michael Wolff book claims
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Rupert Murdoch has become a "frothing-at-the-mouth" enemy of Donald Trump, according to a new book. The Guardian obtained a copy of Michael Wolff's "The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty"Wolff claims in the book that Murdoch often fantasizes about the former president's death. Author Michael Wolff wrote in "The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty" that Murdoch has in recent times become a "frothing-at-the-mouth" enemy of Trump, per The Guardian's reporting on it. According to Wolff's book, Murdoch's anger has now escalated to the point where he has become fixated on the former president's demise. Wolff claims that Murdoch has made statements like: "'We would all be better off …?'

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☆ Tucker Carlson says Ron DeSantis did not kick his dog
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A new book claims that Ron DeSantis pushed — and possibly kicked — Tucker Carlson's dog under a table. "DeSantis pushed the dog under the table. The book also claims that Carlson came away from the meeting believing that DeSantis was a "fascist." Asked about the claims, DeSantis campaign spokesman Andrew Romeo also issued a strong denial. "Some will say or write anything to attack Ron DeSantis because they know he presents a threat to their worldview."

Persons: Ron DeSantis, — Tucker Carlson's, Carlson, Tucker Carlson's, Michael Wolff's, Murdoch, Ron, Casey DeSantis, Susie, DeSantis, Andrew Romeo, Romeo, Wolff, Donald Trump's Organizations: Service, Caucus, Florida Governor, Fox News, York Magazine, Wolff's, Trump Locations: Wall, Silicon, DeSantis, Boca Grande , Florida

☆ He Dissected Trump. Now Michael Wolff Performs an Autopsy on Fox News.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( A.O. Scott | More About A.O. Scott | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A story of chaotic corporate stewardship and generational conflict unfolds in the shadow of a looming actuarial certainty. A gritty reboot of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” you might say. In Wolff’s view, playing the saga for laughs is a risky choice: “To treat the Fox phenomenon and the Murdoch family as a cultural confection ripe for comedy,” he writes, “may be dangerously close to liberal sacrilege.”Maybe. You could also argue that laughing at Fox News — and at Donald J. Trump, the subject of Wolff’s recent best-selling trilogy and a major offstage character in “The Fall” — has been a cherished liberal pastime for years. Not that Wolff, who likes to play peekaboo with his own ideological leanings, has anything but contempt for a media mainstream (The Times very much included) that he sees as imprisoned by soggy left-leaning sentiments.

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☆ Michael Wolff’s juicy book on Fox News is set to hit shelves. Here’s why readers should be cautious when diving into it
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

In the forthcoming book, a copy of which CNN obtained in advance of its release, Wolff makes a number of shocking and explosive claims. Suzanne Scott feared she would lose her job as chief executive of Fox News amid the Dominion lawsuit, he reports. And Fox sources tell me that Wolff made no attempt to fact check his book with either Fox News or its parent company, Fox Corporation. With Fox News, where an author might be basing major claims using less-than-reliable sources, the risks are more pronounced, making such reporting efforts even more paramount. Fox News, for its part, is choosing not to respond to the specific claims Wolff makes in the book.

Persons: Michael Wolff, Murdoch, ”, Wolff, Rupert Murdoch, Sean Hannity, Suzanne Scott, Critics, Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk, Isaacson, Musk, Bret Baier, Jesse Watters, “, ” Wolff, Murdoch’s, ‘ Organizations: CNN, Fox News, Dominion, Elon, Eastern, Musk, Washington Post, Fox Corporation Locations: Manhattan’s Greenwich, Russian, Crimea

☆ Prosecutors want to know how drunk Rudy Giuliani was when he was advising Trump on overturning the 2020 election
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Prosecutors want to know how intoxicated Rudy Giuliani was during and after the 2020 election. They also want to know if Trump knew that Giuliani was drunk when he was advising the former president. An aide testified that Giuliani was "intoxicated" on Election Night 2020 but Giuliani said he was only drinking Diet Coke. Investigators have also asked witnesses if Trump gossiped about Giuliani's drinking, and if the former president ever said Giuliani's drinking habits affected his judgment. One Trump aide, Jason Miller, previously said Giuliani was drunk at the White House's 2020 election night party.

Persons: Rudy Giuliani, Trump, Giuliani, Coke, Jack Smith, Donald Trump, Jason Miller, Miller, Donald J, Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker, Michael Wolff Organizations: Service, Washington, Department, Trump Locations: Wall, Silicon, York, Georgia

☆ Opinion | Analyze This: Donald Trump’s Thoughts and Speech
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “Donald Trump’s Way of Speaking Defies All Logic,” by Michael Wolff (Opinion guest essay, Aug. 6):Mr. Wolff argues persuasively that much of what Donald Trump says can be chalked up to illogical and thus legally inconsequential blather and bluster. Except that is true only when one evaluates the former president’s pronouncements individually. Thus, the route to defeating Mr. Trump’s “my words are meaningless” defense is to assemble them into their coherent and sinisterly subversive whole meaning. To the Editor:Michael Wolff’s depiction of Donald Trump’s language and thinking as disordered rings true after years of hearing and reading the former president’s communications. His speech on the Ellipse on Jan. 6 contains a number of examples of indirect language.

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☆ Donald Trump’s Way of Speaking Defies All Logic - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Michael Wolff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The chaos he creates is his crime; there is, however, no statute against upsetting the dependable order. Many Democrats have come to assume that the dastardly effect of Mr. Trump’s political success must mean that he has an evil purpose. During his trials, prosecutors will try to establish that precise link. He is being pursued under several broad, ill-defined statutes like the Espionage Act, RICO, conspiracy and obstruction of justice. I’d guess that the Trump opposition doesn’t much care which it is — nefarious or spontaneous — but are only grateful that Mr. Trump, in his startling transparence, has foolishly hoisted himself by his own petard.

Persons: —, Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels, Jack Smith, Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg, Trump Organizations: Democrats, Capitol, Electoral, Trump

☆ 16 takeaways from Fox News' historic $787.5 million settlement with Dominion
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

In the moments after I watched the judge announce the settlement in court, 16 things went through my mind:1. Evidence obtained by Dominion in the lawsuit and filed to court ahead of the settlement appeared to support that theory. There's always the Smartmatic case. In court filings ahead of the settlement, Fox complained about the $1.6 billion price tag Dominion put on the lawsuit. "Would be pretty unreal if you guys like 20x'ed your Dominion investment with these lawsuits," read one text to a Staple Street executive cited in a Fox court filing.

☆ Jeffrey Epstein said he stopped hanging out with Trump 'when he realized Trump was a crook,' according to his brother
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Jeffrey Epstein hinted at his fallout with Donald Trump in an unaired interview, according to his brother. "He stopped hanging out with Trump when he realized Trump was a crook," Mark Epstein told Insider. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were friends for years, and the nature of their fallout remains hazy. "And in that interview, Jeffrey said he stopped hanging out with Trump when he realized Trump was a crook." Jeffrey Epstein was arrested in July 2019 on sex-trafficking charges and died in jail several weeks later while awaiting trial.

☆ Text message shows Fox News president refused to air Nevada election results because it would have sealed Biden's victory, The New York Times reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-05 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Fox News was heavily criticized by its viewers after it called Arizona for Biden in 2020. After the immediate backlash, Fox News President Jay Wallace was reluctant to call Nevada, per NYT. Nevada's election result would have made Joe Biden's victory all but certain. The network's election team was prepared to call Nevada on November 6, NYT reported, which would have all but cemented Biden's victory. But in a text message reviewed by the Times, Wallace, who has been the network president since 2018, refused to air the result.

☆ Donald Trump Jr. says no one has eaten more McDonald's 'per capita' than his father
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Donald Trump Jr. says no one eats more McDonald's "per capita, than Donald Trump." Trump Jr. added that it's "100% accurate" that no one knows the McDonald's menu better than his dad. On an episode of his "Triggered" podcast on Thursday, Trump Jr. talked about his father's trip to East Palestine, Ohio. "No one probably eats more of it, per capita, than Donald Trump," he added. Trump Jr., the former president's oldest son, also said it was nice seeing his father "just sitting there at McDonald's."

☆ Video shows Trump telling a McDonald's employee he knows the menu 'better than anyone in here'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Former President Donald Trump visited a McDonald's in East Palestine, Ohio, on Wednesday. Upon ordering, Trump tells a McDonald's worker he knows the menu "better than anyone in here." he tells them, before saying: "So, I know this menu better than you do. You can watch the full video here:The former president's love of fast food — especially McDonald's — has been well-documented. Trump loves to eat fast food in part because of a "longtime fear" of being poisoned, journalist Michael Wolff wrote in his book "Fire and Fury."

☆ Trump's billionaire friend Tom Barrack reportedly called his ties to the former president 'disastrous' for his business
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Former Trump advisor Tom Barrack is charged with illegal lobbying on behalf of the UAE. In testimony on Monday, the billionaire reportedly said Trump was "disastrous" for his business. The billionaire has been charged with illegally lobbying the Trump administration on behalf of the United Arab Emirates between 2016 and 2018. Barrack was charged in July of last year and his trial began earlier this month. A day before the testimony, Trump took to Truth Social to support Barrack, calling him a "highly respected businessman" who is "being unfairly persecuted."

☆ Trump told Rudy Giuliani to 'go wild' and 'do anything you want' in seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election: book
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Trump told Giuliani he could "go wild" in challenging the 2020 results, per a forthcoming book. In "Confidence Man," NYT reporter Maggie Haberman detailed how Trump placed his faith in Giuliani. "My lawyers are terrible," Trump reportedly said of many of the other attorneys on his team. Haberman detailed in the book that Trump spoke of Giuliani's newfound control during a phone call. I don't care," Trump reportedly said, according to Haberman.

☆ Trump's most important 2016 donor is sitting out 2020
▼ + stars: | 2020-07-24 | by ( Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +20 min

Robert and Rebekah Mercer ranked among President Donald Trump's most influential backers in 2016. A representative for Priorities USA Action, a leading pro-Biden super PAC, said the organization wasn't underestimating Trump's reelection forces, Mercers or no Mercers. (Bossie, like former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and many others, has recently found himself back in Trump's favor.) The Cambridge Analytica data that the Trump campaign paid for was "so stupidly wrong" and a "complete joke," Spicer added. But sources familiar with the Mercers' political spending said they have no evidence that the Mercers are doing so.

☆ The life of Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender and well-connected financier who died in jail awaiting sex trafficking charges
▼ + stars: | 2019-08-10 | by ( Ellen Cranley | Benjamin Goggin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Donald Trump ran in the same circles as Epstein, and seemed to be privy early on to the open secret that the financier was often surrounded by young women. American financier Jeffrey Epstein and real estate developer Donald Trump as they pose together at the Mar-a-Lago estate, Palm Beach, Florida, 1997. Davidoff Studios/Getty ImagesReal-estate mogul Donald Trump described Epstein in 2002 to New York Magazine as someone who "enjoys his social life" and likes women "on the younger side." "At one point, when his troubles began, he was talking to me and said, 'What can I say, I like young girls.' Even before the latest accusations came out against Epstein, Trump has done his best to downplay the friendship.

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☆ Cartea despre Donald Trump apare astăzi. Publicarea ei a fost devansată
▼ + stars: | 2018-01-05 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +3 min

Dezvăluirile celui care a fost cândva cel mai apropiat colaborator al lui Donald Trump vor fi publicate astăzi într-o carte scrisă de un cunoscut jurnalist american. „Este plină de minciuni, intrepretări greşite şi surse care nu există", a scris Donald Trump pe Twitter, după ce avocaţii săi au încercat să-i blocheze publicarea. a fost întrebat joi președintele Donald Trump. Cireaşa de pe tort este mărturia unui fost voluntar din stafful de campanie al lui Trump, care a povestit că a încercat să îl înveţe Constituţia pe magnat. Fostul sfătuitor prezidențial consideră că întrevederea a fost un gest de trădare din partea lui Donald Trump junior şi că FBI-ul ar fi trebuit înştiinţat imediat.

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