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☆ Cassidy Hutchinson: Trump is the 'most grave threat' to American democracy
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Jeremy Herb | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

“I think that Donald Trump is the most grave threat we will face to our democracy in our lifetime, and potentially in American history,” Hutchinson told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview Tuesday. Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson speaks to CNN's Jake Tapper in New York on Tuesday, September 26. Laura Oliverio/CNN“The counts that Donald Trump is currently facing – he is facing counts of obstructing the Constitution – to me that is disqualifying. Donald Trump should be disqualified from being the president of the United States – to me that’s not a question,” Hutchinson said. “But I’m not confident he’s a good leader for the Republican Party because he’s a talking head for Donald Trump.

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☆ Pressure mounts on McCarthy ahead of shutdown deadline as Democratic Rep. Boyle blames 'infighting'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Chelsey Cox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON — Bipartisan lawmakers on Monday weighed in on a possible government shutdown, as pressure builds on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to get something passed with less than a week before the deadline. McCarthy, R-Calif., is in a bind and can't afford to lose more than four Republican votes on a spending bill. Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., said Sunday that he might back ousting the House speaker if such a compromise is reached. "Clearly it's a Kevin McCarthy problem," Heidi Heitkamp, a former Democratic senator from North Dakota, told "Squawk Box" on Monday about moving bills through the House. "People will get paid at the end of this," Mulvaney told "Squawk Box."

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☆ Crypto is growing up: Goodbye yacht parties and NFTs, hello regulation and practical tech
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-23 | by ( Phil Rosen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

The three-day Messari Mainnet conference in New York was less expensive and less fun than it was a year ago. That's the sense I got after spending three days rubbing shoulders with crypto founders, blockchain pros, politicians and executives at Messari Mainnet in New York City. Coinbase hosted reporters at a press breakfast during Messari Mainnet 2023. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe long shadow of Gary GenslerGary Gensler, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, did not attend Messari Mainnet, but no one could stop saying his name. "Gary Gensler cannot state whether ethereum is a security or not," Ramaswamy told the audience.

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☆ Pence trashes Trump's tax plan, says 10% tariff would 'increase inflation at the worst possible time'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Republican presidential candidate, former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the Pray Vote Stand Summit at the Omni Shoreham Hotel on September 15, 2023 in Washington, DC. Former Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday dumped on Donald Trump's plan to slap a universal 10% tariff on imported goods if he is reelected in 2024, slamming the idea as a "middle-class tax increase." An across-the-board tariff like the one Trump has proposed would worsen inflation and "reward adversaries like China," Pence's GOP presidential campaign said in an unusually sharp one-page memo. "He and his imitators in this race are backing away from American leadership," Pence said. Trump skipped the first debate last month, but he nevertheless stole much of the evening's attention.

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☆ 'You made it through winter': Anthony Scaramucci shares 3 reasons why he's still bullish on bitcoin
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Phil Rosen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Anthony Scaramucci believes the next decade will be "remarkably bullish" for bitcoin. He compared bitcoin to gold, and said Wall Street will eventually usher in mainstream adoption. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. "If you got your bitcoin, I wouldn't sell your bitcoin, you made it through winter," Scaramucci said in a fireside chat titled, "Why I'm still bullish." "When Wall Street has something in their arsenal, they sell it to their clients...The market [for bitcoin] is going to widen."

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NEW YORK (AP) — Doris Kearns Goodwin's next book is a work of history that's also close to home. The Pulitzer Prize winner's "An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s” is a reflection on her final years with her longtime husband, Richard Goodwin, the former White House speechwriter who died in 2018, and on the singular era they lived through. I’ve been drawn to such turbulent times -- the Civil War, the Industrial Revolution, World War II," Goodwin said in a statement. "This is the story of one of those times, of my husband and myself, and our generation shaped by the cataclysms of the 1960s. We see what historic opportunities were seized, what chances were lost, what light those years cast upon our own fractured time.

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☆ Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson says Rudy Giuliani groped her before Jan. 6 Capitol riot
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Rudolph Giuliani speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington, D.C., July 1, 2020. Kevin Lemarque | ReutersFormer White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson in a new book says ex-President Donald Trump's then-lawyer Rudy Giuliani groped her on Jan. 6, 2021, The Guardian reported Wednesday. Hutchinson writes that Giuliani — who is 52 years older than her — put his hand "under my blazer, then my skirt" on that day, according to the report. I lower my eyes and watch his free hand reach for the hem of my blazer," Hutchinson writes. "I fight against the tension in my muscles and recoil from Rudy's grip," Hutchinson writes.

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☆ Biden's son Hunter sues IRS, alleges unlawful release of his taxes
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Hunter Biden walks to the motorcade after arriving at Fort McNair, after U.S. President Joe Biden spent the weekend at Camp David, in Washington, U.S., July 4, 2023. REUTERS/Julia Nikhinson/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsWASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden sued the U.S. Internal Revenue Service on Monday, alleging unlawful disclosure of his taxes by whistleblowers who work for the U.S. tax agency. Hunter Biden is the first child of a sitting U.S. president to have been criminally indicted. Hunter Biden and prosecutors earlier had reached a plea deal over tax and gun charges, but it collapsed. Shapley and Ziegler have testified in Congress as whistleblowers about alleged political interference in an IRS investigation into Biden's taxes.

Persons: Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Julia Nikhinson, Joe Biden's, Gary Shapley, Joseph Ziegler, Biden, Shapley, Ziegler, Donald Trump's, Trump, Makini Brice, Scott Malone, Will Dunham Organizations: Fort McNair, U.S, Camp, REUTERS, Rights, U.S . Internal Revenue Service, District of Columbia, IRS, Republicans, Republican, Committee, White, Thomson Locations: Fort, Washington , U.S, U.S

☆ Trump reportedly told aide that she doesn't 'know anything about the boxes' after she was contacted by the FBI
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Trump reportedly told an aide, Molly Michael, not to discuss "boxes" with the FBI. "You don't know anything about the boxes," he reportedly told her. Michael also said that Trump wrote to-do lists on the back of classified documents. "You don't know anything about the boxes," Trump told aide Molly Michael, after he learned she'd been contacted by the FBI in connection with the probe, according to the report. AdvertisementAdvertisementTrump has pleaded not guilty to all 37 federal charges in connection with his handling of classified documents.

Persons: Trump, Molly Michael, Michael, Donald Trump, she'd, Jack Smith Organizations: FBI, Service, ABC, White House, Trump, Mar Locations: Wall, Silicon, Lago

The exchange, which prosecutors will almost certainly use against Mr. Meadows at trial, underscored the high-stakes gamble that he took by testifying. Mr. Meadows has appealed. But his testimony may have given ammunition to Georgia prosecutors as they prepare to try him, Mr. Trump and the 17 other defendants. “He did do a number of things which will make the prosecutors’ job easier,” said Caren Morrison, a former federal prosecutor and associate law professor at Georgia State University, of Mr. Meadows’s testimony. During the hearing in Atlanta, Mr. Meadows portrayed himself as a supremely busy man whose White House job often put him at the nexus of policy and politics.

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CNN —Former President Donald Trump, in an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker that aired Sunday on “Meet the Press” continued to make false claims around a variety of subjects including the 2020 election and the January 6 insurrection. The speaker of the House is not in charge of Capitol security. That’s the responsibility of the Capitol Police Board, which oversees the US Capitol Police and approves requests for National Guard assistance. The election was not rigged, and there is no evidence of any fraud large enough to have changed the outcome. Officials from the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security, along with state election officials, said in a statement after the 2020 election: “The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history.”This story will updated with additional fact checks.

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☆ Trump has sharp exchange with NBC's Kristen Welker after she asked if he watched the January 6 riot unfold on TV in the White House dining room
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trump had a sharp exchange with NBC's Kristen Welker when pressed about his response on January 6. The ex-president has been criticized for his response to the riot hours after it first began. "Tell me how you watched this all unfold," Welker asked the former president. Welker then asked: "What did you do when the Capitol was under attack, though?" AdvertisementAdvertisementAfter Welker asked if Trump called military or law enforcement when the Capitol was first attacked, Trump again pushed back.

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☆ Deaths haunt Corporate America via labor strikes
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Ben Winck | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

United Auto Workers union President Shawn Fain joins UAW members who are on a strike, on the picket line at the Ford Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Michigan, U.S., September 15, 2023. Manufacturing plants in Wentzville, Missouri, Wayne, Michigan and Toledo, Ohio will be empty as Ford Motor (F.N), General Motors (GM.N), and Stellantis (STLAM.MI) try to reach an agreement with the United Auto Workers collective bargaining committee. Deaths among the demographic that make up the workforce in the transportation sector are partly putting pressure on the problem. Follow @BenWinck on XCONTEXT NEWSThe United Auto Workers union started simultaneous strikes at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis on Sept. 15 after last-minute labor negotiations failed to result in a deal. Pilots organized with the Air Line Pilots Association rejected a tentative labor deal with Fedex on July 24.

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McAfee’s order shuts down the effort by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to have all 19 defendants tried together in October. Smith took more streamlined approach than Willis against Trump, and charged him by himself, without any co-defendants. Additionally, several of the Georgia case defendants have parallel proceedings in federal courts underway. If any of those requests are successful, it is still unclear what that would mean for the rest of Willis’ case. Meadows will continue to fight in federal court to move the proceedings out of state court.

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REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsWASHINGTON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Asked about Republicans launching an impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Joe Biden in Congress, Pennsylvania Democratic Senator John Fetterman clutched his head in mock horror and declared "Oh my God, really?" "Starting an impeachment inquiry will hopefully force the media to cover the mountains of evidence linking Joe Biden to Hunter's business dealings in a way that the American people haven't seen yet." Less than half believe Joe Biden did anything illegal and most voters polled in June said Hunter's legal issues had little impact on their plans to vote for or against his father. The White House sent out a list of comments from Republican House members saying evidence that Biden had done anything wrong had not been found. He did not cite any evidence of misconduct by Joe Biden.

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The White House denies any impropriety, calling the impeachment move "extreme politics at its worst." "Starting an impeachment inquiry will hopefully force the media to cover the mountains of evidence linking Joe Biden to Hunter's business dealings in a way that the American people haven't seen yet." He was under pressure from them to launch the impeachment inquiry. The White House sent out a list of comments from Republican House members saying evidence that Biden had done anything wrong had not been found. It also released a previous McCarthy quote in which he said a vote would be needed ahead of an impeachment inquiry otherwise it "would create a process completely devoid of any merit or legitimacy."

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☆ Judge denies Trump aide Mark Meadows request to pause ruling that sent Georgia election case back to state court
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Mark Meadows, White House chief of staff, listens to a question from a member of the media outside of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. A federal judge denied former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows' request for an emergency stay of a ruling that sent his Georgia election interference case back to state court, a court filing showed Wednesday. Meadows, former President Donald Trump's final chief of staff, had asked U.S. District Judge Steve Jones to pause his ruling pending an appeal in a higher court. Jones on Friday had denied Meadows' initial bid to move the sweeping Georgia RICO case out of Fulton County and into federal court. Meadows, argued Willis, is seeking a benefit that is aimed at protecting federal authority against interference by the state.

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Former Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., speaks during a forum on House and GOP Conference rules for the 118th Congress, at the FreedomWorks office in Washington, D.C., on Monday, November 14, 2022. Mark Meadows, Donald Trump's former White House chief of staff, on Monday sought to pause an order rejecting his bid to move his Georgia criminal election interference case to federal court. In a court filing Monday morning, Meadows asked a federal judge — who last week declined to move the case out of state court — to stay that order pending an appeal. Meadows' attorney said that "given the urgency of the matter," he will ask the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to pause the order unless the federal court grants his request for a stay. "While Mr. Meadows respectfully believes the Court erred, this Court need not agree to stay the Remand Order," his attorney wrote in the filing in U.S. District Court in Atlanta.

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☆ Clock ticking to avert government shutdown
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailClock ticking to avert government shutdownFormer Congresswoman Jane Harman and Mick Mulvaney, former White House chief of staff and Actum Strategic Advisors co-chair, join 'Squawk Box' to discuss if the government will end up shutting down this month, the Freedom Caucus' intentions, and more.

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☆ Watch Anderson Cooper react as he realizes Trump is playing the 'Phantom of the Opera' soundtrack at a rally
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Anderson Cooper's face was priceless as he recognized "The Phantom of the Opera" at a Trump rally. Andrew Lloyd Webber, the musical's creator, once asked Trump to stop playing his music. The song he recognized was the soundtrack from Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opera." "Is that — I'm sorry, is that 'The Phantom of the Opera' soundtrack playing?" Trump has an affinity for the "Phantom" soundtrack, MSNBC previously reported, citing a book by Trump's former White House press secretary, Stephanie Grisham.

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☆ Netflix reappoints former ambassador Susan Rice to board
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice speaks during the National Action Network National Convention in New York, U.S., April 12, 2023. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon Acquire Licensing RightsLOS ANGELES, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) has reappointed former White House official and U.N. ambassador Susan Rice to its board of directors, the streaming service announced on Friday. Rice served on the Netflix board from 2018 to 2020 before taking a role in President Joe Biden's administration as domestic policy adviser. Before her first stint on the Netflix board, Rice had a long career in Washington with positions including national security adviser and ambassador to the United Nations under Democratic President Barack Obama. Rice said she was pleased to rejoin the company's board, citing its commitment "to lifting the stories of people around the world."

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“That’s my initial reaction.”The hearing was focused on a request by two defendants to separate their cases not only from the larger racketeering trial but also from each other. At least two defendants in the Georgia racketeering case have their dates set – attorneys Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro – for Oct. 23. “You’ve got to consider the Georgia speedy trial statute,” says Amy Lee Copeland, former federal prosecutor and criminal defense lawyer in Savannah. “Chesebro and Powell demanded a speedy trial and, by statute, McAfee has to start the trial or start the jury empanelment. In 2014, she oversaw a 12-person racketeering case against a group of Atlanta teachers and principals who schemed to cheat on standardized tests, as well as a racketeering case last year against members of a street gang called Young Slime Life, which originally charged 28 people.

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Georgia prosecutors leading the criminal election interference case against former President Donald J. Trump and 18 of his allies notched a victory on Friday when a judge rejected an effort by Mark Meadows, Mr. Trump’s former White House chief of staff, to move his case from state court to federal court. But removal to federal court would have given him key advantages, including a jury pool that was more favorable to Mr. Trump. Conducting a trial in federal court would have also increased the likelihood that the United States Supreme Court, a third of whose members were nominated by Mr. Trump, would ultimately get involved in the case. The setback for Mr. Meadows came in the first of many rulings that are expected for the defendants who are seeking to have their cases moved out of state court. Mr. Trump has not filed for a removal to federal court, but he is widely expected to do so.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Mark Meadows, Trump’s, Meadows, ” Organizations: White House, Mr, United States Supreme Locations: Georgia

CNN —A federal judge on Friday rejected former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ bid to move his Georgia criminal case to federal court, a significant setback for Meadows and a troubling sign for former President Donald Trump. Meadows was the first of five defendants who already filed motions to move the case to federal court – and Trump is expected to do so, too. ‘Outside Meadows’ federal role’The indictment identifies eight overt acts Meadows allegedly took in furtherance of the scheme to overturn the 2020 election results. Meadows argued that these actions were part of his federal duties – and thus, the case should be moved to federal court – but Jones disagreed. independent of its conclusion” in the Meadows case, Jones wrote.

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☆ Peter Navarro: How a former Trump official's conviction could echo in ex-president's cases
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —The swift conviction of Donald Trump’s former trade adviser Peter Navarro for contempt of Congress sent two warnings to the multiple co-defendants in the ex-president’s approaching criminal trials. The second is that loyalty to Trump can be hazardous and often gets those who show it cross-wise with the law. Navarro, for example, who is is unrepentant and a true Trump believer, pledged to appeal based on executive privilege issues. (A CNN poll released Thursday found no clear leader in a hypothetical matchup between Biden and Trump.) Up until now, Trump associates often paid a heavy price for falling afoul of the law while their leader escaped.

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