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☆ The Fed's interest-rate cut put Trump even more at odds with the central bank
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

On Wednesday, the Federal Open Market Committee announced an interest-rate cut of 50 basis points, the first cut Americans have received in over four years. AdvertisementHe's argued in the past that the Fed would only cut rates close to the election to aid Democrats, which he reiterated leading up to the central bank's announcement. Trump sought to use his presidential power to appoint members to the Fed board who supported his unorthodox views of the central bank. Trump has flip-flopped his views on his most important appointment to the Fed: Powell. Trump's tepid support of Powell underlines just how mercurial he can be when it comes to the central bank.

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☆ Mark Meadows denies saying 'we killed Herman Cain' after the infamous maskless indoor Trump rally in Tulsa
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Cassidy Hutchinson writes in her new book that Mark Meadows declared "we killed Herman Cain." But a Meadows spokesman says he was "expressing exasperation" about the media blaming Trump. AdvertisementAdvertisementWhen former President Donald Trump infamously held a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the summer of 2020, Herman Cain was in the audience. But this isn't the first time that the phrase "we killed Herman Cain" seemingly originated from top brass in the Trump White House. According to Jonathan Karl's book on the Trump White House, "Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show," an unnamed senior Trump official told a reporter that "we killed Herman Cain," and that many other Trump White House staffers blamed themselves for Cain's death.

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Washington CNN —In her new book “Enough,” former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson paints the closing days of the Trump White House as even more chaotic and lawless than she previously disclosed in her shocking televised testimony last summer. “We killed Herman Cain,” Meadows told Hutchinson and asked for his wife’s phone number. Unlike White House communications director Alyssa Farah, who resigned on December 3, 2020, or deputy White House press secretary Sarah Matthews, who left on January 6, 2021, Hutchinson remained. In the summer of 2017, Trump’s first year in office, Hutchinson was an intern in Sen. Ted Cruz’s office. It turns out, Hutchinson writes, that she coordinated with Farah, who is now a CNN political commentator, telling her everything she knew.

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☆ Hugh Hewitt told Miami Mayor Francis Suarez 'to get smart' after he appeared to become the latest candidate to commit a foreign policy blunder
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

GOP presidential hopeful Francis Suarez appeared not to know what a Uyghur is. The Miami Mayor later told Insider that he did know what a Uyghur is, he was just confused by a radio host's pronunciation. Hewitt asked Suarez, the mayor of Miami. "I didn't recognize the pronunciation my friend Hugh Hewitt used," Suarez said. You really need to know about the Uyghurs, Mayor.

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☆ Vivek Ramaswamy Is ‘a Hint of the Future’: Our Writers on His Candidacy - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( New York Times Opinion | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

He thinks he’s running to be Donald Trump’s vice president; he’s probably actually running to be the next Pete Buttigieg, a second-tier cabinet official with a strong TV presence and a somewhat thankless portfolio. David French As an eloquent and passionate defender of Trump, quite seriously. As a potential Trump vice president, moderately seriously. Michelle Goldberg He’s running a serious campaign to build a right-wing media brand. What matters most about him as a presidential candidate?

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☆ Opinion | Tim Scott Faces Long Odds
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Scott is obviously not the first Black person to vie for the Republican presidential nomination. That distinction goes to Frederick Douglass, who received one vote at the 1888 Republican convention. Alan Keyes ran for the Republican nomination in 1996, 2000 and 2008; Herman Cain ran and withdrew in 2011; and Ben Carson ran in 2016. Tim Scott, however, would be the first Black Republican officeholder to run for the party’s presidential nomination, should he move past the exploratory phase. Even then, there were few Black people elected to national office, with a total of eight serving between 1914 and 1965.

The Cuban restaurant Versailles has been a fixture in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood for the last 50 years. Courtesy VersaillesIt's also drawn celebrities, including Beyoncé and Jay-Z, and has been a destination for international tourists looking to eat a Cuban meal or just hang out outside la ventanita, sipping a Cuban coffee, nibbling a guava pastry and absorbing the surrounding culture. Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain drinks a Cuban coffee with Felipe Valls Sr. during a campaign visit to Versailles in 2011. “This is kind of their ground zero, the epicenter of the Cuban American community. On its website, Versailles calls itself “the world’s most famous Cuban restaurant.”

☆ Newt Gingrich is a self-avowed fiscal conservative and deficit hawk. But his 2012 presidential campaign committee remains millions in debt.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Gingrich's latest 2012 presidential campaign filing shows a debt of $4.63 million. No presidential campaign from any election cycle owes creditors more money, per federal records. But Gingrich's 2012 presidential campaign committee, almost a decade past its expiration date, is still swimming in a sea of red. No presidential campaign from any election cycle owes creditors more money. A financial filing from Newt 2012, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's 2012 presidential committee, which remains deep in debt to dozens of creditors.

☆ Mitt Romney officially ends his 2012 presidential campaign by transferring $92,000 in leftover cash to his Senate coffers
▼ + stars: | 2020-09-02 | by ( Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Dozens of zombie congressional campaign committees together are sitting on nearly $200 million, NBCLX reported. More than half of the Romney presidential committee's remaining $92,000 was transferred to his US Senate committee, which reported about $325,000 cash on hand as of June 30. Asked why it took so long for Romney's campaign to shut down, a former Romney campaign official said it's a "several years' long process to shut down a presidential campaign committee." Obama terminated his 2012 presidential campaign committee more than two years ago, on July 15, 2018. Santorum's 2012 presidential committee owes about $450,000, while his 2016 presidential committee remains about $520,000 in arrears.

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