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☆ Crypto and meme stock boosters aren’t doing ‘Trump trades’ — they’re just doing trades
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-17 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —The bitcoin bulls and meme stock traders are fired up about the prospect of another Donald Trump White House. At the same time, shares of Trump Media were bouncing back from Tuesday’s mysterious 10% drop and resuming their meme-stock-esque tendency to rise without any fundamental reason to do so. What do the two assets, a digital currency and a media stock, have in common? Crypto traders are amped because of the Republican nominee’s apparent 180 on the asset class he once dismissed as a scam. Bottom line: Both bitcoin and Trump Media could become even more volatile over the next few weeks as more traders pile in.

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☆ Trump's bitcoin strategy was shared behind closed doors with CEOs who raised $25 million. Here's what he told them.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +15 min

Bitcoin 2024 attendee wears "Make Bitcoin Great Again" baseball cap. Trump said on Saturday that his campaign has raised $25 million from the crypto industry since it began accepting cryptocurrency donations in May. "Make Bitcoin Great Again" hats displayed for sale at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tennessee, US, on Saturday, July 27, 2024. "The rules will be written by people who love your industry, not hate your industry," Trump declared that afternoon in the main auditorium as he warmed up the crowd. As Riot's Les put it, "I think the core message that we communicated to President Trump was, 'This is your industry leadership group.

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CNN —Former Donald Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro was released from a Miami federal prison Wednesday after completing his four-month sentence for defying a subpoena from the January 6 congressional committee. Trump adviser Steve Bannon started serving his four-month sentence earlier this month at a federal prison in Connecticut. Navarro, who is in his 70s, worked as a law library clerk during his time in the prison camp, his prison consultant Sam Mangel told CNN. “It gave him a chance to write.”Mangel said Navarro was liked and respected by his fellow inmates while in the prison. While Navarro was unsuccessful in an emergency appeal to delay his prison sentence, he is now appealing his conviction on the merits.

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☆ Trump's trade and tax policies are the new hot-button topic dividing economists and market experts
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Filip De Mott | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Experts hold drastically different views, creating a new hot-button topic that will continue to be debated up until the election in November. The camp staunchly opposed to Trump's policiesThe base argument against Trump's fiscal platform is that tariffs are, by nature, inflationary. AdvertisementIn a recent op-ed for the Financial Times, he cited the "benign" impact Trump's first-term tariffs had on the US economy. Looking ahead to a new term, Yardeni thinks Trump's most extreme pursuits will likely be watered down by Congress. AdvertisementRepublican donor Kyle Bass — who serves as the chief investment officer of Hayman Capital Management — has taken a different tact in his support of Trump's fiscal agenda.

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CNN —Steve Bannon, a former Donald Trump White House strategist, is set to report to a federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, on Monday to begin a four-month sentence for defying a congressional subpoena. ‘More powerful in prison’The MAGA media firebrand was keeping a busy schedule in the days before his prison sentence. “I’m going to be more powerful in prison than I am now,” Bannon said last week. Those in custody at Danbury can send emails without attachments, but they pass through a monitored system, on a delay. For now, though, Bannon is poised to go through an intake process on Monday that’s familiar to inmates at Danbury.

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☆ 64% of men say this is their No. 1 dating red flag, according to recent survey
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-25 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

According to a recent survey by Change Research, the biggest dating red flag for men is when someone identifies as a communist. More than half, 55%, of women said identifying as a communist is a red flag, but other sociopolitical stances were more problematic. Being a "MAGA Republican" was the biggest red flag, with 76% of women saying this was not a desirable trait. The survey results demonstrate a broader trend of men and women having increasingly divergent political views. In 2021, 44% of women identified as liberal, while only 25% of men did, according to the Survey for American Life.

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☆ Ivanka Trump spent 2.5 years distancing herself from dad Donald. Now she's back as a socialite — and partying with Kim Kardashian.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Ivanka Trump has spent the past two and half years publicly distancing from her father Donald Trump. But Mitra Ahouraian, an entertainment attorney with high-profile clients, said she wasn't surprised to see Ivanka Trump and Kardashian together. Ivanka was a Manhattan socialite before entering politics changed her reputationBefore her stint in politics, Ivanka Trump was an active Manhattan socialite, frequently appearing at red-carpet events and supporting various charitable causes. Ivanka Trump and Kim Kardashian have known each other for yearsAs for Kardashian's embrace of Ivanka Trump, their relationship goes back years. But after the birthday party showing this weekend, it's clear Ivanka Trump is visibly back in Kim Kardashian's circle, and has re-entered the role of Ivanka Trump, the socialite.

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Ali Alexander said he believed White House wanted him to lead rallygoers to Capitol "Stop The Steal" organizer Ali Alexander believed the White House wanted him to lead attendees of Trump's Jan. 6 rally to the Capitol, the report said. Alex Jones, who has claimed the White House told him to lead the march, texted Wren at 12:27 p.m. Finally one of the staffers told Trump they thought he should focus on his speech. Trump told Jan. 6 demonstrators at the Capitol in a Twitter video that he loved them but that they should go home. The information was expected to be available as soon as Thursday — the day the House Jan. 6 committee is set to issue its final report on the riot.

☆ Cassidy Hutchinson knew she was going to be 'nuked' for turning on Trump. She did it anyway.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Alex-Seitz-Wald-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Alex Seitz-Wald | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

“I was scared,” she told committee investigators last September in sworn testimony. “I almost felt like at points Donald Trump was looking over my shoulder.”“I was scared. “I want to make this clear to you: Stefan never told me to lie," she told the committee. Her Trumpworld lawyer, Passantino, was not happy, she said, and began frantically calling his colleagues to do damage control. “I’m about to be f------ nuked,” she said she told a committee staffer as she left that third meeting.

☆ Rep. Matt Gaetz sought a preemptive pardon from Trump over an investigation into whether he sex-trafficked a 17-year-old, WaPo reports
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Washington Post reported Gaetz sought a preemptive presidential pardon in a sex trafficking investigation. Sources told WaPo that Johnny McEntee, a White House official, testified he received the request from Gaetz. A spokesperson for Gaetz told Insider the congressman never directly asked Trump for a pardon. McEntee also testified Gaetz said he asked White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows for a pardon. "As for himself, President Trump addressed this malicious rumor more than a year ago stating, 'Congressman Matt Gaetz has never asked me for a pardon.'

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