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☆ New ‘Apprentice’ Book Paints Trump as Wounded, Forgetful and Hung Up on Hollywood
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-22 | by ( Shawn Mccreesh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It was May 2021, and Donald J. Trump was wounded. He told Mr. Trump he wanted to write a book, not about the unpleasantness of the previous four years, but about that prelapsarian period before Mr. Trump entered politics. Mr. Trump was sold. “He was at his lowest then,” Mr. Setoodeh, 42, said over lunch in Manhattan’s West Village on Friday. “You’ll sell 10,000 books at one rally,” he told Mr. Setoodeh.

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☆ Trump Tries to Set Expectations, and Floats Excuses, for His Debate With Biden
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Shawn Mccreesh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

He repeatedly mused about the potential scenarios, lowering expectations that he would dominate Mr. Biden and then, as if he couldn’t help himself, raising them again. Mr. Trump, 78, has spent months casting the 81-year-old Mr. Biden as a husk of a man who can barely walk or formulate complete sentences. Republicans have pumped out a stream of videos of Mr. Biden walking stiffly — some deceptively edited — that are meant to be proof of Mr. Biden’s decline. “Biden can’t stand up!” one woman yelled during Mr. Trump’s speech. She stood near another woman who wore a T-shirt with a picture of Mr. Biden that read, “Impeach me.

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☆ At Biden Fund-Raiser, Hollywood and Democrats Let the Trump Attacks Fly
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Shawn Mccreesh | Adam Nagourney | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A Hollywood fund-raiser Saturday night intended to bolster President Biden’s war chest turned into a platform for some of the most concerted and toughest attacks to date on former President Donald J. Trump by the Biden campaign, as entertainers, Barack Obama and even Jill Biden assailed Mr. Trump’s ethics and his suitability to return to the White House. Ms. Biden, after being introduced by Barbra Streisand, said the choice was between her husband, “who honors the rule of law instead of trying to bend it to his way,” and Mr. Trump, “who wakes up every morning caring about one person and one person only: himself.”“Mr. Trump has told us again and again why he wants the White House — to give himself absolute power, to not be held accountable for his criminal action,” Ms. Biden continued. His aim, she told the crowd, “was to destroy the democratic safeguards that stand in his way.”Mr. Obama invoked Mr. Trump’s felony convictions — something that Mr. Biden has for the most part avoided doing — to applause from the crowd.

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☆ It’s Donald Trump’s 78th Birthday. He Isn’t Happy About It.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Shawn Mccreesh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Donald hates his birthdays,” Ivana Trump once said of her ex-husband. He looked genuinely upset on Sunday when his supporters sang an early “Happy Birthday” to him at a rally in Las Vegas. “You know,” he told them, “there’s a certain point at which you don’t want to hear ‘Happy Birthday.’ You just want to pretend the day doesn’t exist.”No doubt. The Trump team spent the week blasting out selectively edited videos of Mr. Biden toddling around Europe, looking like Corrado Soprano lost in Newark. “Biden was seen staring off into the distance and wandering around like a brain-dead zombie,” said Karoline Leavitt, a Trump campaign press secretary.

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☆ Election Updates: Trump turns 78 today, and Democrats are trolling him in Milwaukee.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Shawn Mccreesh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Nobody’s heard this story before,” Mr. Trump had said to the group. “I’ll never forget that Bibi Netanyahu let us down,” Mr. Trump told the group. Mr. Trump has indicated mixed feelings about his own birthday. The birthday celebration that Club 47 USA has planned on Friday will take place at a convention center down the road from Mar-a-Lago. Mr. Trump is expected to speak at 7 p.m.

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☆ After Verdict, Trump Revels in Embrace of His Most Avid Base: Male Fans
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Shawn Mccreesh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Sixteen thousand people erupted into rapture when Donald J. Trump walked into the Prudential Center in Newark at 10 p.m. Saturday to attend an Ultimate Fighting Championship match. He stayed until the grisly end, at 1:15 a.m. It was his first public outing since being convicted on 34 felony counts two days earlier. He walked out to Kid Rock’s “American Bad Ass,” a rock-rap trailer park anthem that samples Metallica’s “Sad But True” and has become the unofficial soundtrack of Mr. Trump’s quest to recapture the White House. Chosen one, I’m the living proofWith the gift of gab, from the city of truthI jabbed and stabbed and knocked critics backA moment after Mr. Trump took his seat, the stadium took up a spontaneous chant of President Biden’s name preceded by an expletive.

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☆ Election Updates: After trial, Trump returns to friendly turf at U.F.C. fight and on Fox News.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Shawn Mccreesh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

Mr. Giuliani’s run-ins with the law have left his life and finances in tatters. Mr. Giuliani has filed for bankruptcy and owes two Georgia women a $148 million judgment from a defamation case. “Anyone who thinks that Mr. Giuliani is off his game in terms of legal acumen is strongly mistaken,” Mr. Aidala said. Like many at the birthday party, Mr. Aidala was displeased by Mr. Trump’s conviction on charges related to hiding hush money paid to a porn star. In the video, Mr. Trump stands with a small crowd of people who appear to be some of his supporters.

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☆ ‘He’s Had Great Challenges’: Giuliani Holds 80th Birthday Amid Many Woes
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-01 | by ( Shawn Mccreesh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A few blocks away, at an Italian restaurant on East 56th Street, his former lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, was having a party for his 80th birthday. As he left a previous party celebrating the same birthday, he was served notice of his indictment in an Arizona election-interference case. He has also been indicted in Georgia in connection to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Mr. Giuliani has filed for bankruptcy and owes two Georgia women a $148 million judgment from a defamation case. Mr. Trump has done little to help with his legal bills.

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