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☆ A timeline of Elon Musk's political stances and donations before his latest embrace of the Republican Party
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Jake Lahut | Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

And as one of the richest and most powerful people in the world, Musk's political stances carry a great weight. Musk's political donations dating back to 2002 fit neatly into just a single landing page on OpenSecrets, a nonprofit organization that tracks money in politics. AdvertisementThough Musk historically hasn't been big on political donations, he's publicly said that he weighs in on politics when it could affect his businesses. Musk's political coming of age during the pre-social media era remains much of a mystery. His latest donations have all been to Republican candidates and causes, with Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware being the last Democrat to receive any Musk donations back in 2020.

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☆ Hush-money prosecutors say Trump's gag order should no longer protect Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels — but want to keep other parts of it
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewThe prosecutors in Donald Trump's criminal hush-money case say they're OK with the former president resuming his attacks on Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels, and other witnesses in the case — but that they want the judge to maintain other parts of his gag order. A courtroom sketch of Michael Cohen while under questioning by prosecutor Susan Hoffinger at Donald Trump's Manhattan hush-money trial. REUTERS/Jane RosenbergAfter the jury verdict, Trump's lead defense attorney, Todd Blanche, asked for the gag order to be lifted, saying the First Amendment's protections should take precedence. The prosecutors in the case will continue to be engaged in Trump's appeal, so they should continue to be protected by the gag order, prosecutors wrote. AdvertisementJust because the gag order should no longer restrict Trump's attacks on witnesses doesn't mean they won't have other protections, prosecutors wrote.

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☆ Tough-on-crime former NYC judges say even they wouldn't sentence Trump to prison in the hush-money case
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-08 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

AdvertisementWill Merchan sentence Donald Trump to jail? Merchan will not sentence Trump to prison, the four agreed. Merchan could theoretically sentence Trump to as little as a single day in Rikers, said Kamins, now in private practice at Aidala, Bertuna & Kamins. But even in the unlikely event of a low-jail sentence, Trump's appeals would keep him at liberty for years, all four judges said. "I certainly don't know what the right decision is, or what Judge Merchan will do," Obus told BI.

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☆ Trump's lawyer asked for a mistrial in his E. Jean Carroll case because she deleted death threat emails
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Carroll said she deleted emails with death threats after Trump defamed her. "Plaintiff admitted that she deleted multiple email messages pertaining to purported death threats made to her," Habba wrote. Advertisement"Despite being served with a subpoena in connection with this action, Plaintiff failed to take reasonable steps to preserve relevant evidence," Habba wrote. "In fact, she did much worse — she actively deleted evidence which she now attempts to rely on in establishing her damages claim." Carroll testified that she received death threats "daily" and deleted them from her inbox and from replies to her social media posts.

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☆ Bill Barr rejects Trump's plea that it's unfair to try him while he's running: 'You don't get immunity' by being a presidential candidate
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Bill Barr said Trump shouldn't get avoid trials simply because he's running for president. While Barr thinks Trump could be convicted in some cases, he doesn't want Trump to face prison time. Even though he has been critical of Trump, Barr has been outspoken in his attacks on some prosecutions of the former president. "I don't know of any attorney general who would walk away from it." Despite that prediction, the former attorney general doesn't think the former president should go to prison.

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☆ DeSantis says Trump shouldn't be charged in 2020 election probe
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( James Oliphant | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

“I hope he doesn’t get charged,” DeSantis told CNN in one of his first sit-down interviews with a mainstream national news outlet since becoming a candidate in late May. “We’ve gone down the road in this country of trying to criminalize differences in politics,” DeSantis said. The rare interview with CNN suggested a shift in tactics to catch Trump, who leads DeSantis in the race for the Republican nomination in opinion polls by double-digit percentage points. While DeSantis has proven to be a strong fundraiser, his campaign recently laid off several staffers in an attempt to slow its rate of spending. When an elected Democratic state attorney said he would not prosecute anyone over abortion or transgender care, DeSantis removed him.

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☆ Nearly a quarter of Republicans said Trump getting convicted would make them more likely to support the embattled former president: Politico/Ipsos poll
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A new poll from Politico/Ipsos details how American adults said they feel about former President Donald Trump's ongoing legal cases. According to the poll, most American adults said they want his sensitive documents trial to happen before the GOP primaries begin. Additionally, nearly a quarter of Republican adults said a conviction in the sensitive documents case would make them more likely to support him. According to the poll, if the former president gets convicted during the trial, only 16% of Republican adults said he should face imprisonment. According to the Politico/Ipsos poll, the majority of American adults want Trump's sensitive documents trial to take place before election and even before the GOP primaries begin in early 2024.

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☆ 'Trump can't win': Koch network releases ads targeting ex-president
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The political network financed largely by billionaire Charles Koch is launching a wave of digital ads targeting former President Donald Trump. The ads argue that if Trump becomes the Republican nominee next year, it will lead to President Joe Biden winning reelection. One of the spots, titled "Only Way," has a voiceover saying, "The only way Biden wins is if we nominate Trump again." All of the Koch digital ads cite public polling that say how key voters don't want Trump to be president again. The ads are also targeting voters at a tumultuous moment for Trump.

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Trump's prior indictment in New York on charges alleging falsification of business documents didn't move the political needle much. But there is recent polling that explains what Americans think about the prospect of Trump being charged with crimes, including some specifically about an indictment related to his handling of classified documents. Meanwhile, 63% of Americans, called "taking highly classified documents from the White House and obstructing efforts to retrieve them" a serious crime. Ahead of Trump's indictment in Manhattan, Quinnipiac University asked Americans whether they thought criminal charges, not an indictment, should disqualify Trump from running. A slim majority of all voters, 52%, said that in his New York indictment, Trump has been treated like anyone else accused of those same crimes and hasn't been unfairly targeted.

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☆ Stormy Daniels says Trump shouldn't go to prison over a hush money payment: 'I don't think that his crimes against me are worthy of incarceration'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

But she also thinks Trump shouldn't go to prison over hush money payment-related charges. "I don't think that his crimes against me are worthy of incarceration," Daniels told Piers Morgan. "I don't think that his crimes against me are worthy of incarceration. The crimes Trump was charged with are connected to an election-eve hush money payment of $130,000 made to Daniels in 2016 by Trump's former fixer and personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. The appeals court ruling was not legally connected to the charges brought by the Manhattan district attorney last week.

☆ Bill Barr says an indicted Trump shouldn't take the stand in New York because 'he lacks all self-control'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

He said it would be a "particularly bad idea" for Trump to testify because he "lacks all self-control." "I'm not his lawyer, generally I think it's a bad idea to go on the stand," Barr replied. "And I think it's a particularly bad idea for Trump because he lacks all self-control, and it would be very difficult to prepare him and keep him testifying in a prudent fashion." Barr served as attorney general under Trump from February 2019 to December 2020 and was considered a close Trump ally. In response to Barr's book, Trump called the former attorney general "slow-moving," "pathetic," and "weak."

☆ Manhattan DA was 'weeks' away from filing criminal charges against Trump in 2020, when he was still president, former prosecutor says
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Ashley Collman | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The Manhattan DA's office was weeks away from filing criminal charges against Trump at the end of 2020. Pomerantz resigned from the office when new DA Alvin Bragg decided against pursuing a Trump indictment. Pomerantz was initially brought onto the Trump investigation as a consultant at the end of 2020 by the inquiry's leading prosecutor, Carey Dunne. Investigators wanted to charge Trump for allegedly undervaluing his stake in 40 Wall Street, a building in lower Manhattan. The Manhattan DA's investigation into Trump never resulted in charges, after Alvin Bragg took over as the new DA in January 2022.

☆ Kevin McCarthy staffer argued Trump shouldn’t condemn violence on January 6 because the media would ‘win’
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Former Trump WH staffer Sarah Matthews described tension in the press office as January 6 unfolded. She said an aide argued that Trump shouldn't condemn violence because the media would "win." The aide, Chad Gilmartin, now works for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. She added that White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany was "receptive" to the idea. Gilmartin now works as a communications adviser for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who appears likely to be the next Speaker of the House.

☆ Trump thinks Elon Musk's poll about his future as the CEO of Twitter was a good exit strategy: 'I think that's a good way of stepping down'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Donald Trump thinks Elon Musk knew he would lose the poll on whether he should remain the CEO of Twitter. On Tuesday, Musk tweeted that he'll step down as Twitter CEO when he finds someone "foolish" enough to replace him. When asked on One America News if he had any advice for Musk, Trump said Musk needs a replacement who wears "a lot of different hats." After Trump's comments, Musk tweeted that it might be time for Trump to give up on being president again. In November, Musk reinstated Trump's Twitter account.

☆ Newsmax CEO reveals how he's challenging Fox News for right-leaning viewers, why his network won't endorse candidates, and why his friend Trump shouldn't run in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-04 | by ( Claire Atkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy says it challenges Fox News for conservative viewers but also wants Democrats. Ruddy said Donald Trump shouldn't run in 2024 because "he's a guy that doesn't need the presidency." Here's why a media CEO who considers Donald Trump a good friend doesn't think his good friend should run for president again. Let's talk about the Arizona call[during the 2020 election]: Fox News called that election within 20 minutes. I would prefer Trump not run because I don't think it's good for him personally.

☆ Scott Walker says it's 'dangerous' for Trump to attack DeSantis, encourages Republicans to look at a number of 2024 hopefuls
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Scott Walker cautioned Trump against attacking Ron DeSantis in the wake of the 2022 midterms. Scott Walker said it's "dangerous" for former President Donald Trump to attack Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as the two Floridians eye a potential 2024 presidential primary clash. So far, Trump remains the only major Republican to have announced a 2024 run. Walker would not say that Trump shouldn't run in 2024, rather he called for an expansive field that could feature many current Republican governors.

☆ Elon Musk and Donald Trump now own rival social networks. Here's a timeline of their rocky relationship.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Tim Levin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Former President Donald Trump said he's "very happy" that Elon Musk now owns Twitter. January 2020: 'One of our great geniuses'Former President Donald Trump speaks during a "Save America" rally in Anchorage, Alaska, on July 9, 2022. May 2020: Trump backs up Musk in feud with California covid rulesElon Musk meets Donald Trump at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. May 30, 2020. May 2022: Musk said he would reinstate Trump's Twitter accountTesla CEO Elon Musk. July 2022: Trump lashes outFormer President Donald Trump gives the keynote address at the Faith and Freedom Coalition during their annual conference on June 17, 2022, in Nashville, Tennessee.

Musk has said he would reverse Twitter's ban on former president Donald Trump if he bought it. Trump has previously said that he isn't going back to Twitter, and instead wants to focus on Truth Social. Before he was banned from Twitter, Trump had over 88 million followers. Since then, the two have sparred, with Trump calling Musk a "bullshit artist," in July, and Musk saying Trump shouldn't run for president again that same month. Musk also called Truth Social a "right-wing echo chamber," in a Financial Times interview earlier this month.

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