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☆ 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.

Persons: Christie, ”, Trump, Alec Baldwin, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner —, you’ll, —, Kushner, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, doesn’t bode, “ idolizing ” Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, Biden, John McCain, pander, filleting, Marco Rubio, he’s, Alan Steinberg, Bush, ” Steinberg Organizations: Trump, State, New York Times, Republican, “ Locations: State of New Jersey, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, Europe

☆ 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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☆ Chris Christie just made the GOP primary pettier with his deep beef against the Kushners
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Sarah Gray | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The Chris Christie beef with the Kushner family runs deep. Chris Christie and the Kushner family was once again center stage on Tuesday in what is shaping up to be a pretty petty presidential primary season. "Jared Kushner and Ivanka Kushner walk out of the White House and months later get $2 billion from the Saudis. But his beef with the Kushner family goes back much further than this campaign cycle. Jared Kushner went on to work for four years at the White House as a senior adviser to his father-in-law.

Persons: Chris Christie, Kushner, Christie, Jared Kushner, Alex Thompson, —, Donald Trump —, Trump, Joe Biden, Trump —, Trump's, Ivanka Trump, Ivanka Kushner, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Jared, Jared's, Charles Kushner, savaging Sen, Marco Rubio, Mike Pence, PBS's Margaret Hoover, Mr, Charles Kushner's, Margaret —, Biden Organizations: Service, New, New Jersey Gov, Trump, White, Saudi Crown, Public Investment Fund, Kushner's Affinity Partners, New York Times, Federal, Commission, GOP Locations: New Hampshire, New Jersey, United States

☆ Politics has reached the point where Trump wants to know if Chris Christie has a problem with 'SIZE'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Trump wants to know if Chris Christie has a problem with "SIZE." Christie, a onetime Trump ally turned sworn rival, announced his 2024 campaign on Tuesday. Trump then uploaded a video edited to make it look like Christie was at a buffet. Their latest clash has seen Trump unveil a new strategy — making cryptic references to Christie and "SIZE." "How many times did Chris Christie use the word SMALL?

Persons: Trump, Chris Christie, Christie, —, Donald Trump, Ivanka, Jared Kushner, hyping Organizations: Service, GOP, Trump, New Locations: New Jersey

☆ Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund just reshaped professional golf with the PGA Tour-LIV merger. That's just the start
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The Saudi Public Investment Fund is a government-controlled fund that has $650 billion in assets under management, according to its most recent filing. A state-owned investment fund like the PIF is not unique. Critics of LIV Golf accused the Saudis of backing the new tour as a form of “sportswashing” its reputation. For example it’s not clear exactly how much it invested to start up LIV Golf. CNN has not been able to confirm that report, but what is known is that LIV Golf tournaments have been held on Trump Organization properties.

Persons: petro, LIV Golf, LIV, Yasir Al, Rumayyan, Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, ”, Elon Musk, Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s, Kushner, Mohammed bin Salman, Bin Salman, Jamal Khashoggi, – CNN’s Coy Wire, Jack Bantock, Steve Almasy Organizations: New, New York CNN, Saudi, Saudi Public Investment Fund, Sovereign Wealth Fund, PGA, Soccer, Saudi Aramco, Newcastle United, Saudi Pro League, CNBC, Electronic Arts, EA, Activision Blizzard, Ticketmaster, Carnival Corp, Twitter, Washington Post, CNN, Trump Organization, US State Department, Congress Locations: New York, Europe, Saudi, English, Al, Saudi Arabia, al Qaeda

CNN —Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie filed to run for president on Tuesday ahead of announcing his second bid for the White House and kicking off another clash with former President Donald Trump, the GOP frontrunner and a former Christie ally. Both would eventually drop out – Christie after he finished sixth in the New Hampshire primary – and endorse Trump. “We keep losing and losing and losing,” Christie said at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership conference late last year. “No way.”Christie was first elected New Jersey governor in 2009, unseating Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine.

Persons: Chris Christie, Donald Trump, Christie, Chris Sununu, Mike Pence, Republicans –, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Asa Hutchinson, South Carolina Sen, Tim Scott, Pence, Doug Burgum, Joe Biden, ”, Barack Obama, demurred, Florida Sen, Marco Rubio, – Christie, Trump, Covid, “, ” Christie, Jon Corzine, Trump’s, Jared Kushner, George Washington Organizations: CNN, Former New Jersey Gov, White, GOP, Republicans, Trump, Florida Gov, South Carolina Gov, Arkansas Gov, North Dakota Gov, PAC, Republican Jewish, Capitol, New, Democratic, FEC Locations: New Hampshire, Arkansas, South Carolina, Florida, New Jersey

☆ Trump critic Chris Christie to announce White House bid next week
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Joseph Ax | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

[1/2] U.S. Republican presidential candidate and New Jersey governor Chris Christie speaks during the Heritage Action for America presidential candidate forum in Greenville, South Carolina on September 18, 2015. Christie has played the role of attack dog before: in a memorable debate appearance shortly before he ended his 2016 campaign, Christie mocked U.S. Three days after Trump's surprise victory, Christie was fired as the head of Trump's White House transition team. Since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters, Christie has jabbed at Trump on numerous occasions. Christie was also a candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination but was beaten by eventual nominee Mitt Romney.

Persons: Chris Christie, Chris Keane PRINCETON, Donald Trump's, Christie, Axios, Trump's, Trump, Bill Palatucci, Marco Rubio, Ron DeSantis, Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, Chris Sununu, Joe Biden, Washington, Charles Kushner, Jared Kushner, Jean Carroll, Mitt Romney, Susan Heavey, Joseph Ax, Nathan Layne, Katharine Jackson, Andrew Heavens, Chizu Nomiyama, Daniel Wallis Organizations: U.S, Republican, New, America, REUTERS, Former New Jersey, Trump, Reuters, Saint Anselm College, New Jersey Republican, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Democratic, Capitol, Republicans, Thomson Locations: New Jersey, Greenville , South Carolina, Chris Keane PRINCETON , New Jersey, New Hampshire, Florida, U.S, New York City

☆ Factbox: Who is Chris Christie, Republican 2024 presidential hopeful?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Joseph Ax | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

May 31 (Reuters) - Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who backed Donald Trump's successful 2016 presidential campaign but has since become a vocal critic, will launch his campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on June 6, a person familiar with the matter said. Christie ousted Democratic Governor Jon Corzine in the 2009 gubernatorial election. With his brash, unapologetic approach - critics called him a bully - Christie made headlines taking on public sector unions and other political opponents. In 2012, Christie earned widespread praise for his handling of Superstorm Sandy, which devastated the Jersey Shore. Christie swept to a second term in 2013 in a state where Democratic voters significantly outnumber Republicans, vaulting him toward the top of the list of potential future Republican presidential contenders.

Persons: Chris Christie, Donald Trump's, Christie, Charles Kushner, Kushner's, Jared, Kushner, Jon Corzine, Sandy, Barack Obama, Obama, Christie's, George Washington, Trump, Democrat Joe Biden, Joseph Ax Organizations: Former New Jersey, Democratic, George, ABC, Democrat, U.S . Capitol, Republican Party, Thomson Locations: Newark , New Jersey, New Jersey, Jersey Shore, Fort Lee , New Jersey, New Hampshire

☆ Former NJ governor Chris Christie to launch bid for president -source
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Joseph Ax | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Christie, 60, enters the race as a decided underdog, six years after his 2016 presidential campaign failed to gain traction amid a crowded field that included Trump. In March, Christie told Axios he would not vote for Trump in 2024 even if the former president was the Republican nominee. He has played the role of attack dog before: in a memorable presidential debate appearance shortly before he ended his 2016 campaign, Christie mocked U.S. He and Trump exchanged plenty of barbs during the early stages of the 2016 campaign. Christie was also a candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination but was beaten by eventual nominee Mitt Romney.

Persons: Chris Christie, Donald Trump's, Christie, Axios, Trump's, Trump, Mike Pence, Ron DeSantis, Marco Rubio, Washington, Charles Kushner, Jared Kushner, Jean Carroll, Mitt Romney, Susan Heavey, Joseph Ax, Nathan Layne, Katharine Jackson, Andrew Heavens Organizations: PRINCETON, Former New Jersey, Trump, Reuters, Saint Anselm College, Republican, Democratic, U.S, Capitol, Republicans, Thomson Locations: New Jersey, New Hampshire, Florida, New York City

☆ Robin Wagner, Visionary Set Designer of Broadway Hits, Dies at 89
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Robin Wagner, the inventive Tony Award-winning set designer of more than 50 Broadway shows, including the 1978 musical “On the Twentieth Century,” in which a locomotive appeared to be racing toward the audience with the actress Imogene Coca strapped to the front of it, died on Monday at his home in New York City. His daughter Christie Wagner Lee confirmed the death but said she did not yet know the specific cause. She did not say in what borough he lived. Mr. Wagner designed sets on Broadway, Off Broadway and for regional theater, for operas and ballets, and, in 1975, for the Rolling Stones’ Tour of the Americas. His stage for those concerts was shaped like a six-pointed lotus flower that was raked upward to the back in a delicate curve.

Persons: Robin Wagner, Coca, Christie Wagner Lee, Wagner, Clive Barnes, ”, Christ, ” “ Young, Tony Kushner’s Organizations: Broadway, Americas, The New York Times Locations: New York City, The, America

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