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☆ Disney's wildest ride: Iger, Chapek and the making of an epic succession mess
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Alex Sherman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +88 min

Iger told Chapek that he lived for those "two-shower days," according to people familiar with the conversation. In January 2020, Iger told Chapek the plan was back on. During his 27 years at the company, Chapek had only attended one annual meeting — as a guest in the audience. Bob Iger, Disney CEO, during a CNBC interview, Feb. 9, 2023. WATCH: Disney CEO Bob Iger's exclusive July 2023 CNBC interviewTake the 'A'During Chapek's tenure as CEO, Disney lost more than a quarter of its market value.

Persons: Elham, Bob Iger, Bob Chapek, Iger, wasn't, Chapek, Michael Eisner, —, who's, he's, Clint Eastwood, Eastwood, Arthur Bochner, Jackie Hart, Kareem Daniel, Chapek —, Eisner, Michael Ovitz, Ovitz, Bob, Disney's, Kevin Mayer, Mayer, Bryan van der Beek, he'd, Tom Staggs, Staggs, Staggs —, Steve Jobs, cajoled Ike Perlmutter, George Lucas, Rupert Murdoch, Iger's, Susan Arnold, Arnold, Peter Rice, David Paul Morris, Rice, CNBC's Julia Boorstin, Mark Parker, Mary Barra, Michael Froman, Willow, Parker, John Donahoe, Roy Disney, Walt Disney, Stanley Gold, David A, CNBC Eisner, Big Bob, Little Bob, Christine McCarthy, Patrick T, He'd, McCarthy, Iger —, Coronavirus, Gavin Newsom, Michael Kovac, curtly, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Ben Smith, Smith, Disney, Randy Shropshire, Agnes Chu, Ricky Strauss, Chu, Strauss, Kevin Feige, Kathleen Kennedy, Who's, Alan Bergman, Bergman, Bob Kyncl, Daniel —, Iger didn't, Daniel rankled, Daniel, Chapek didn't, James Pitaro, Jesse Grant, CNBC Chapek, Jimmy Pitaro, Zenia Mucha, didn't, Mucha, Barbara Walters, Charles Eshelman, Scarlett Johansson, Scarlett Johansson —, Florence Pugh, Natasha, Yelena, " Johansson, Bryan Lourd, Johansson, Lourd, Steven Spielberg, Al Michaels, David Muir, Robin Roberts, Michael Strahan, Spielberg, Geoff Morrell, Alan Braverman, Alan Horn, Jayne Parker, Bochner, Claire Lee, Paul Richardson, Josh D'Amaro, Ron DeSantis, Morrell, Disney Animation —, George Floyd, Reba Saldanha, Reuters Chapek, DeSantis, Nicholas Maldonado, Octavio Jones, Chapek she'd, we're, " Morrell, CNN's Chris Wallace, Kristina Schake, John Skipper, Daniel steamrolled, Latondra Newton, Newton, Charles Krupa, Pitaro, NBCUniversal's Peacock, Dana Walden, Thomas Murphy, Josh Kushner, Privately, Schake, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Michelle Obama's, David Dee Delgado, Kara Swisher, hadn't, Netflix's, overhiring, McCarthy hadn't, Safra Catz, Kareem, DMED, Horacio Gutierrez, Justin Warbrooke, Alexia Quadrani, Bryan Castellani, Michael Buckner, Quadrani, Lindsay Lohan, Winnie, Nelson Peltz, Catz, Donald Trump's, they'd, Walden, Gutierrez, D'Amaro, Rich Polk, Walden he'd, Iger she'd, Mickey Mouse, Mark Rightmire, haven't, Indiana Jones, Halle Bailey, Ariel, Hamilton Faber, Rich Greenfield, Bob Iger's, — Mayer, McCarthy —, doesn't, they'll Organizations: Disney, Marvel, CNBC, Bloomberg, Getty, Walt Disney, Indiana University, Michigan State University, Shanghai Disney, Man, Hong Kong Disneyland, Walt Disney Parks, Resorts, Pixar, Fox, Chapek, Nike, General, Mastercard, Foreign Relations, University of Pennsylvania, Grogan, Disney's, Fallon, ABC, ESPN, ABC News, California Gov, New York Times, Disney confidants, Hollywood, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, Walt Disney Television, Walt Disney Studios, Hulu, HBO Max, Walt Disney Company, YouTube, Companies, Netflix, Apple, Disney Media, Entertainment, Stanford, Rights, Junior, petulant, Filmmagic, Brunswick Group, Covid, CAA, onetime Defense Department, Century Fox, Human, Florida Gov, Republican, Disney Animation, Reuters, Human Rights, HRC, Walt Disney World, Employees, American Foundation for Equal Rights, AP, Amazon Prime, Paramount, South Pacific, Capital Cities, Dow Jones, CVS, Kingdom, Variety, Trian Partners, Charter Communications, U.S, Comcast, Charter's, MediaNews, Orange, Allen, Co, Candle Media, Advisors Locations: Burbank , California, Midwestern, Brentwood, Los Angeles, Westlake Village, Iger, Hammond , Indiana, Shanghai, China, Hong, Fox, Willow Bay, Raleigh , North Carolina, Orlando, U.S, Hulu, Iger's Brentwood, coronavirus, Brunswick, Hollywood, Hawaii, Disney's, Marvel's, Anaheim , California, Montana, Florida, Rye , New Hampshire, Chapek, Hong Kong, California, missteps, South, DMED, Burbank, New York, India, Atlantic, Sun Valley , Idaho, America

CNN —Former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro goes on trial Tuesday as the second ex-aide to former President Donald Trump to be prosecuted for criminal contempt of Congress. With the judge finding that Trump did not make a formal invocation of privilege, Navarro will be severely limited in the defenses he can put in front of the jury. It declined to prosecute former Trump White House officials Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino, who were also subpoenaed by the committee and referred by the House to the Justice Department for contempt. Navarro told reporters outside the courthouse last week that his legal bills, including appeals of the case, would exceed $1 million. This is the same suit I wore in 2017 going into the White House,” he said.

Persons: Peter Navarro, Donald Trump, Navarro, Trump, Steve Bannon, Bannon, Amit Mehta, ” Navarro, he’d, crosshairs Navarro, Jared Kushner, Mehta, Prosecutors, –, ” Mehta, Mark Meadows, Dan Scavino, ” Organizations: CNN, Former White House, US, Appeals, Justice Department, Trump, Trump White House, National Archives, Prosecutors Locations: Washington, DC, China, Navarro’s

☆ House Oversight Democrats ask GOP to subpoena Affinity Partners, Jared Kushner's $3 billion Saudi-backed private equity fund
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Shortly after leaving the White House, Jared Kushner got $2 billion in funding from the Saudi government for his private-equity fund. Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince who developed close ties to Kushner, pushed the deal through, the New York Times reported. Now, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are asking the GOP to investigate with the same zeal they've applied to Hunter Biden. The letter puts special focus on a $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. AdvertisementAdvertisementBut MBS, who chairs the fund, intervened to push the deal through, according to the Times' repoAffinity Partners now has an office in Miami.

Persons: Jared Kushner, Mohammed bin Salman, Kushner, they've, Hunter Biden, Jamie Raskin, Joe Biden's, Raskin, Donald Trump's, James Comer, Comer, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Lockheed Martin, Jamal Khashoggi, Abraham, Austin Hacker, Hacker Organizations: White, New York Times, Service, Democratic, GOP, Affinity Partners, White House, Democrats, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, MBS, Trump, Intercept, The New York Times, Lockheed, National Security Council, Saudi, Times, Abraham Accords, Trump White House, Affinity, CNN Locations: Saudi, Wall, Silicon, Maryland, Saudi Arabia, Miami

☆ Fact Check-Altered image of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump in room with saws on wall
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

An image of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump pictured in a living room with bone saws hung on the walls is digitally altered. The altered photograph shows the pair dressed in formal wear, with two bone saws seemingly hung on the far wall. One user who shared the altered image on X, formerly known as Twitter, said, “Omg these are sick sick people #Jared #Ivanka” (ghostarchive.org/archive/tUaOi). Another added in the comments: “Are those bone saws on the wall?” (here). Saws cannot be seen hung on the walls in the original photograph posted by Ivanka Trump to X in 2019.

Persons: Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Jared, Ivanka, Read Organizations: Twitter, Reuters

☆ Jared Kushner’s Deal-Making Career Off to Sluggish Start
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Dion Nissenbaum | Summer Said | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Jeff Bezos has added a $68 million waterfront mansion on Florida's 'billionaire bunker' to his real-estate collection: report
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Jeff Bezos is now the owner of a $68 million mansion in Miami's Indian Creek Village, per Bloomberg. Celebrities like Ivanka Trump and Tom Brady have also bought property on the "billionaire bunker" island. Miami's Indian Creek Village is a separate municipality that has its own mayor and police force. An aerial view of Indian Creek Island. Representatives for Bezos, Indian Creek Village, and Indian Creek Property Owners Association did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider sent outside regular business hours.

Persons: Jeff Bezos, Ivanka Trump, Tom Brady, Bezos, Zillow, Insider's Hannah Towey, Chandan Khanna, Carl Icahn, Gisele Bündchen, Jared Kushner, He's Organizations: Bloomberg, Service, Privacy, Getty, Bezos, Property, Association Locations: Wall, Silicon, Indian, Miami, Washington, New York City

☆ 3 Factors Keeping Americans From New Weight-Loss Drugs
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Gina Kolata | More About Gina Kolata | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

That’s the median weight loss experienced by people who take Wegovy, a drug from Novo Nordisk. Many patients started by taking Ozempic, a diabetes drug also by Novo Nordisk that led to weight loss as a side effect. Mounjaro, made by Eli Lilly and approved for treating diabetes, is expected to be approved soon for obesity. While price and insurance coverage pose problems for patients, health economists expect prices to come down as more drugs are approved and companies face competition. Medicare is forbidden by law to pay for weight-loss drugs, although there is an intense lobbying effort to change that.

Persons: Eli Lilly, David A, Eli Lilly’s, “, ”, Ania, Robert F, Kushner Organizations: Novo Nordisk, Duke University, Yale University, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, “ Locations: Novo

☆ Once-distant Ivanka and Jared spotted returning to Trump events as the twice-indicted former president gains steam in the polls: report
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner distanced themselves from her family after Donald Trump left office. Their reappearance in the Trump orbit comes as Donald Trump's 2024 campaign poll numbers are up. Days later, she skipped her father's 2024 presidential campaign announcement and in April dumped the lawyers representing her and her brothers in a fraud lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. "If he's president again, Jared needs to protect his turf, especially in the Middle East." Lawyers for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner and representatives for the Trump 2024 presidential campaign did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.

Persons: Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Donald Trump, Donald Trump's, Trump, Ivanka, They've, Letitia James, Kushner, Jared, he's Organizations: Trump, Service, Trump Bedminster, Capitol, New York Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ Jared Kushner's dad Charles, who Trump pardoned, gave $1 million to a Trump super PAC
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Charles Kushner donated $1 million to Trump's super PAC. Kushner, who Trump pardoned, was one of the largest individual contributors to the super PAC. Trump and his allies have burned cash at an alarming rate, making the donation even more important. Christie has long thought that putting Jared Kushner's father in prison led to him being blocked within Trump's orbit. Charles Kushner's donation was one of the largest to the pro-Trump "Make America Great Again Inc" super PAC has received from an individual contributor through the end of June.

Persons: Charles Kushner, Kushner, Trump, Donald Trump's, Chris Christie, he'd, Christie, Jared Kushner's, Murray Kushner, Charles, Jared's, Lee, Charles Kushner's, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Eliyahu, Eli, Weinstein, doesn't, Edward DeBartolo Jr, of Famer Jerry Rice, DeBartolo, Ron DeSantis Organizations: Trump's, Trump, Service, The New York Post, Maricopa, Maricopa County Sheriff, Justice Department, San Francisco 49ers, of Famer, NFL, DeBartolo Jr, Florida Gov Locations: Wall, Silicon, Maricopa County, Florida

The dwindling cash reserves in Mr. Trump’s PAC, called Save America, have fallen to such levels that the group has made the highly unusual request of a $60 million refund of a donation it had previously sent to a pro-Trump super PAC. This money had been intended for television commercials to help Mr. Trump’s candidacy, but as he is the dominant front-runner for the Republican nomination in 2024, his most immediate problems appear to be legal, not political. The super PAC, which is called Make America Great Again Inc., has already sent back $12.25 million to the group paying Mr. Trump’s legal bills, according to federal records — a sum nearly as large as the $13.1 million the super PAC raised from donors in the first half of 2023. Those donations included $1 million from the father of his son-in-law, Charles Kushner, whom Mr. Trump pardoned for federal crimes in his final days as president, and $100,000 from a candidate seeking Mr. Trump’s endorsement. The extraordinary shift of money from the super PAC to Mr. Trump’s political committee, described in federal campaign filings as a refund, is believed to be larger than any other refund on record in the history of federal campaigns.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Trump’s, Charles Kushner Organizations: Trump’s PAC, Trump, Republican, PAC, Inc, Mr

☆ Melania Trump retreated from the public eye because of tell-all books and her rocky relationship with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Former first lady Melania Trump has not been a major presence on the campaign trail. People close to the first lady brought up tell-all books which cast her in an unfavorable light. Per The Times, Melania Trump had a sometimes strained relationship with Ivanka Trump — her stepdaughter — and son-in-law Jared Kushner. And Wolkoff's book, "Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady," also presented Melania Trump unfavorably. While Melania Trump has so far chosen not to join her husband on the campaign trail this year, she is poised to be a more visible presence next year.

Persons: Melania Trump, Donald Trump's, Ivanka Trump, —, Jared Kushner, Melania Trump's, Stephanie Grisham, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Trump, Melania, Wolkoff, Ron DeSantis, Sen, Tim Scott of Organizations: Service, White, New York Times, Times, Melania Trump, Republican, Gov Locations: Wall, Silicon, Florida, Tim Scott of South Carolina, Iowa , New Hampshire, South Carolina

☆ What’s the Status of Flaunting Your Status?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Guy Trebay | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“We are collectively spending more time checking out what the rich and famous are doing and less time on what Barry from H.R. and Sandra from accounting were up to last weekend,” said Nicholas Bloom, the William D. Eberle professor of economics at Stanford. “Wealth porn,” Stellene Volandes, editor in chief of Town & Country, termed such postings. And as with any permutation of adult entertainment, it’s free online: Anyone can watch. Yet their excesses were noted by a relative few.

Persons: “, ”, William Norwich, The New York Post’s, Hermès Birkin, Barry, Sandra, Nicholas Bloom, William D, Eberle, Karlie Kloss, Josh Kushner —, Slack, Kloss, hoi, Kushner, David Geffen’s humongous, Stellene Volandes, predacious, tycoons, Lacroix Organizations: The New, Stanford, Spotify, Town, Reagan, Metropolitan Museum of Art’s, New York Times Locations: The New York, facto, Calabasas, H.R, Grenadines

☆ Opinion | American Theater Is Collapsing. The Federal Government Must Save It.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Isaac Butler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The American theater is on the verge of collapse. The Humana Festival of New American Plays, a vital launching pad for such great playwrights as Lynn Nottage and Will Eno over the past four decades, was canceled this year. This season the Williamstown Theater Festival, one of our most important summer festivals, will consist of only one fully produced work, alongside an anemic offering of staged readings. The Lookingglass, a major anchor of Chicago’s theater scene, is halting production for the year. Nonprofit theaters are where many recent hits — including “A Strange Loop” and “Hamilton,” both of which won Pulitzer Prizes — started out.

Persons: Lynn Nottage, Will Eno, Edward Albee, August Wilson, Tony Kushner, Annie Baker, Simon, Garfunkel’s, “, “ Hamilton, ”, — Organizations: Public, New, Williamstown Theater, Oregon Shakespeare, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Nonprofit Locations: Oregon, New York

Weeks later, Mr. Trump is the former President Trump. Instead, in a brief televised address shortly before 2:30 a.m., Mr. Trump furiously laid down his postelection lie. For weeks, Mr. Trump had been peppering him with tips of fraud that, upon investigation by federal authorities, proved baseless. The cavalry “is coming, Mr. President,” Kylie Kremer tweeted to Mr. Trump on Dec. 19. On Jan. 15, Mr. Trump acquiesced to an Oval Office meeting with Mr. Lindell, who arrived with two sets of documents.

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Wegovy is a weekly injection that can help patients shed 15% of their weight alongside diet and exercise changes. Walgreens (WBA.O), one of the biggest U.S. pharmacies, is experiencing supply shortages for the higher strengths, spokesperson Erin Loverher confirmed. Doctors in six U.S. states told Reuters patients are reporting problems filling their prescriptions for the higher doses. Three of the doctors said supply delays at pharmacies had resulted in patients missing their Wegovy injections at the prescribed weekly interval. "Patients are often having to delay their injections because it's harder for pharmacies to get Wegovy in stock," he said.

Persons: Erin Loverher, Novo, Alicia Shelly, Shelly, Robert Kushner, Wegovy, Kushner, Denise Wells, Wells, Holly Lofton, New York University Langone, Disha Narang, Narang, Maggie Fick, Patrick Wingrove, Elissa Welle, Caroline Humer, Bill Berkrot Organizations: Reuters, Walgreens, Wellstar, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, Amazon Pharmacy, New York University, Northwestern Medicine, Barclays Research, Novo, Thomson Locations: U.S, Danish, Georgia, Chicago, Michigan, Chicago , New York, San Francisco, Detroit, Atlanta, Charlottesville , Virginia, London, New York

CNN —Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, testified before the grand jury investigating the aftermath of the 2020 election and the actions of the then-president and others, a source familiar with the testimony confirmed to CNN. Former Trump aide Hope Hicks also went before the grand jury, according to two sources familiar, testifying in early June. Some of the questions being asked in the grand jury were about whether Donald Trump was told he had lost the election, according to one of the sources familiar. Kushner’s and Hicks’ appearances before the grand jury are notable because both were members of the former president’s inner circle. Several key Trump White House officials have also testified befoe the grand jury, including Pence, Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows and former White House counsel Pat Cipollone, among others.

Persons: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s, Hope Hicks, Donald Trump, Kushner’s, Hicks, Mike Pence –, Kushner, Trump, befoe, Pence, Trump’s, Mark Meadows, Pat Cipollone, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Jack Smith’s, Joe Biden’s, Brad Raffensperger, Jocelyn Benson, Rusty Bowers, Benson, ’, –, ” Benson Organizations: CNN, Trump, Capitol, New York Times, Trump White House, White, Georgia, Michigan, Arizona GOP Locations: Arizona

☆ Opinion | Jersey Boy Takes On Florida Man
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“I think that he’ll show up at the debates because his ego won’t permit him not to,” Christie said. He won’t deal well with that.”I warned that Trump is an asymmetrical fighter, so it’s hard to know how to go at him. He’s never run against somebody from New Jersey who understands what the New York thing is and what he’s all about. He knows I know what his game is.”He said he isn’t running to get back at Trump for giving him a horrible case of Covid. And he said he isn’t seeking payback because Trump didn’t make him attorney general.

Persons: Trump, “, ” Christie, ”, Clinton, Marco Rubio, I’ve, He’s, who’ve, Christie, Jared Kushner, Kushner’s Organizations: Republican, Fox News, Trump Locations: Milwaukee, New Jersey, York

☆ A luxury project in Oman, which includes a Trump hotel and golf course, is being built by migrants earning as little as $340 a month
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Migrant workers in Oman are constructing a new luxury "city" that includes a Trump-branded hotel. They are laboring in extreme heat for as little as $340 a month, The New York Times reported. Critics of the project note that Oman is not regarded as a safe and welcoming environment for foreign labor. "Migrant workers are often not paid their full wages, forced to work excessively long hours, and denied adequate food and living conditions," according to a 2021 report from Human Rights Watch. Over a thousand migrant workers, many hailing from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, work 10-hour shifts before retiring to trailers that line the under-construction city.

Persons: —, Donald Trump's, of Oman —, Donald Trump, Trump's, Jared Kushner, Virginia Canter Organizations: Trump, New York Times, watchdogs, Service, Trump Organization, —, White, Getty, Human Rights Watch, Workers Locations: Oman, Saudi, of Oman, Washington, Muscat, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh

☆ My final, unexpected conversation with Cormac McCarthy
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( David Kushner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

My last conversation with Cormac McCarthy, the acclaimed and elusive novelist who died last week at 89, came as unexpectedly as the first. "I thought you said Cormac McCarthy edited your book on theoretical physics?" "I got the manuscript back in the mail, and it was marked up on every page," Randall told me. By the time I interviewed Randall, Cormac was spending his days at the Santa Fe Institute, a theoretical-research institute in the piñon foothills of New Mexico. "Don't do this to yourself," McCarthy told the guy, before shutting the door in his face.

Persons: Cormac McCarthy, McCarthy, —, Belying, Cormac, Lisa Randall, Randall, Gil, Jon, MacArthur, Murray Gell, Mann, it's, Einstein, they're, Doug Erwin, David Krakauer, David, Stella Maris, I'd, He'd, David Kushner Organizations: Wired, Stone, Harvard, drifters, Santa Fe Institute, Atari Locations: backwoods Florida, piñon, New Mexico, Texas, Tennessee, El Paso, Rolling Stone, SFI

☆ Ivanka Trump buried a photo of her dad at his granddaughter's bat mitzvah so deeply in her Instagram Stories that you wouldn't have known he was there unless you looked really hard
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Ivanka Trump left her father off her Instagram grid for a post about her daughter's bat mitzvah. Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, were moved to one of the last images on her Instagram Stories. Trump made a carousel-format Instagram post with 10 photos from her daughter Arabella Kushner's bat mitzvah celebration. We reflect on the weekend with full hearts and an abundance of joy and gratitude," Ivanka Trump wrote in the caption. The photograph showed Arabella sitting at a table next to Donald and Melania Trump, with Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, standing behind them.

Persons: Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump, Melania, —, Trump, Arabella Kushner's, Donald, Jared, Arabella !, Ivanka, Arabella, Melania Trump, Jared Kushner Organizations: Service, Monday Locations: Miami, Bedminster , New Jersey

☆ Ivanka Trump buried a photo of her dad at his granddaughter's Bat Mitzvah so deeply in her Instagram Stories you wouldn't have known he was there unless you looked really hard
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Ivanka Trump left her father off her Instagram grid for a post about her daughter's Bat Mitzvah. Donald Trump and his wife Melania were relegated to one of the last images on her Instagram Stories. Trump made a carousel-format Instagram post showing 10 photos from her daughter Arabella Kushner's Bat Mitzvah celebration. We reflect on the weekend with full hearts and an abundance of joy and gratitude," Ivanka Trump wrote in the caption. The photograph showed Arabella sitting at a table between Donald and Melania Trump, with Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, standing behind them.

Persons: Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump, Melania, Trump, —, Arabella Kushner's, Donald, Jared, Arabella !, Ivanka, Arabella, Melania Trump, Jared Kushner Organizations: Service, Monday Locations: Miami, Bedminster , New Jersey

☆ Ivanka Trump has 'disappeared' from Miami and will stay 'far away from daddy' as he faces indictment, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Kieran Corcoran | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Page Six said Ivanka wants to be "far from daddy" after he was hit by another indictment. The outlet — which has a history of breaking exclusive stories about Ivanka Trump — said she "has disappeared" and "will be staying far away from daddy" as the case plays out. Former President Donald Trump and daughter Ivanka Trump on stage in Cleveland, Ohio on July 21, 2016, when she was a core part of his campaign. Insider's Sophia Ankel reported in November that Ivanka Trump's decision to help her father's campaign and then advise his administration cost her friends. A photo from Trump's indictment showing boxes piled high in a bathroom at Mar-a-Lago.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Ivanka, —, Ivanka Trump, Ivanka Trump —, Jared Kushner, Timothy A, Clary, tanked, Insider's Sophia Ankel, Kel McClanahan Organizations: Department, Service, AFP, Trump, Lago . Department, Justice Locations: Miami, Cleveland , Ohio, Lago, Mar

☆ Fact Check-Clip of Donald Trump boarding Air Force One filmed in September 2020
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A clip of Donald Trump boarding Air Force One was filmed in September 2020, and not in June 2023 as claimed online. The video, filmed at night, shows former U.S. President Donald Trump walking up the steps to board the presidential plane, Air Force One, while his daughter Ivanka, her husband Jared Kushner and their children wait at the bottom of the stairs. The C-SPAN video shows Trump’s visit to Pittsburgh for a campaign rally on Sept. 22, 2020 at Pittsburgh International Airport, including boarding Air Force One afterwards. Trump can also be seen boarding Air Force One in a livestream uploaded by Right Side Broadcasting on Sept. 22, 2020 (timestamp 5.03.45s) (bit.ly/43rFZqI). The clip shows Donald Trump boarding Air Force One after a Sept. 22, 2020 rally in Pittsburgh.

Persons: Donald Trump, Ivanka, Jared Kushner, “, ”, Trump, Jared, Read Organizations: Air Force, TRUMP, SPAN, Pittsburgh International Airport, Right Side Broadcasting, New York Times, Agence France, Reuters Locations: Pittsburgh

☆ Chris Christie Is Running for the Nomination of a Party That Doesn’t Exist - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

But my enjoyment of his newfound Resistance shtick doesn’t bode well for Christie. The people he needs to win over are not liberal New York Times columnists, but voters who hate liberal New York Times columnists. The trick, for a Republican, is going to be painting Trump as a weak loser who will sabotage right-wing priorities. At times Christie tried to do this, as when he criticized Trump for his failure to build the border wall and repeal the Affordable Care Act. presidential nomination, would he be willing to accept the role of the presidential candidate of a 2024 center-right independent party?” Steinberg wrote in April.

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☆ Three Books That Make Tess Gunty Angry
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

I can’t believe I get to share a time period with all of these people. In this poem, the speaker is thunderstruck by a newfound “plague of gratitude.” The speaker says: “Not long ago I was hard to even/hug ... The poem plunged me into that first miraculous flash of hope you enjoy after a long storm of bad brain chemistry. They are facilitated by an absence of legal restrictions and the primeval excuse that if We don’t do it first, They will. My family is always shocked by how many books on neuroscience and quantum physics I’ve amassed.

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