DIRS.INFO The most relevant business & tech news

☆ Here are Cases of Trump Rivals Who Were Subject to Investigation
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Michael S. Schmidt | Matthew Cullen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +20 min

After Mr. Trump fired Mr. Comey, Mr. McCabe opened a two-pronged investigation into whether Mr. Trump was a counterintelligence threat and was obstructing justice. Mr. Trump said he wanted to “get the I.R.S.” on Mr. McCabe and for him to be fired. Working with Mr. McCabe, Mr. Strzok opened the two-pronged investigation into whether Mr. Trump was a counterintelligence threat and was obstructing justice. What Trump wanted doneMr. Trump called Mr. Strzok a traitor and said he should be criminally investigated for his handling of the Russia investigation. What news organizations did that Trump did not likeJournalists from all three organizations covered the Trump presidency and the Russia investigation aggressively and used material that Mr. Trump felt had been leaked to hurt him.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Marco Rubio, James B, Hillary Clinton, Robert S, Mueller III, James Comey, Comey, Clinton, Mr, “, Andrew G, McCabe, F.B.I, Comey’s, ”, Prosecutors, McCabe’s, Jeff Sessions, —, Peter Strzok, Strzok, Michael T, Flynn, Flynn’s, John F, Kerry Obama's, Kerry, Barack Obama, William P, Barr, Hilary Clinton, Sessions, Trump’s, John Durham, Michael D, Cohen Trump's, fixer, Cohen, Michael Cohen, Witch Hunt, John R, Bolton, Biden, John Bolton, Hillary, pardoning, subpoenaing Mr, White, Omarosa Manigault Newman, Manigault Newman, lowlife, ” Donald J, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Melania Trump, Wolkoff Organizations: Trump Rivals, America, Republican, CNN, Justice Department, Department, Trump, Mr, White, Federal, Biden Justice Department, Publicly, Prosecutors, Justice, U.S, Trump Justice Department, Clinton Foundation, FBI, DNC, of Prisons, News, Washington Post, The New York Times, Fake News, Bolton, White House, House Locations: Florida, Russia, Washington, Virginia, Clinton, Iran, Manhattan, New York, Maryland

☆ Presidential debate: The Biden-Trump face-off is anything but a rerun
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( Steve Contorno | Jeff Zeleny | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —The historic rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump is anything but a rerun, with their first presidential debate next week set to showcase a vastly different set of issues driving their bitter duel for the White House. It feels like an upside-down lifetime ago since the pair last appeared together on a debate stage. “That’s the thing you’re going to see coming out in this debate: What was the world like under Trump?” Waltz said on CNN. Trump suggested Biden would be “pumped up” for the debate, before insinuating, without any evidence, that the president uses cocaine. Yet this showdown is without parallel as the 45th and 46th presidents seek to define their rival in what is the earliest general election debate in memory.

Persons: Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Trump, Biden, “, Roe, Wade, Mike Waltz, ” Trump, ” Waltz, ”, it’s Trump, “ Trump, Brian Bartlett, Mitt Romney’s, ” Biden, Joe, Jill Biden, Biden’s favorability, Trump –, Brett O’Donnell, ” O’Donnell, Betsy Klein, Kate Sullivan Organizations: CNN, White, Biden, Trump, Democrats, Florida Republican, ”, Trump White House, Copa, ABC, Secret Service, Republican Locations: Atlanta, Wisconsin, Ukraine, Florida, year’s State, Green Bay , Wisconsin

☆ Trump hush-money judge expands gag order to ban attacks on judge's daughter
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewDonald Trump's New York hush-money judge on Monday expanded his gag order to bar statements about the judge's daughter. Merchan's gag order was made public just four hours later. AdvertisementA gag with loopholesIt barred Trump from making statements about witnesses, jurors, case prosecutors, and court staff. A day after the gag, on March 27, Trump amped up his Truth Social attacks on Merchan's daughter, this time mentioning her by name. Trump falsely claimed that the daughter had a profile picture on her X account depicting Trump behind bars.

Persons: —, Donald Trump's, Trump, Juan Merchan, Prosecutors, Trump's, Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen, Daniels, gagging Trump, Loren Merchan, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Hakeem Jeffries, Gavin Newsom, Attorney Alvin Bragg Organizations: Service, Business, New, Prosecutors, Trump, California Gov, Super Liberal Democrat, Merchan, Attorney Locations: York, Chicago, Manhattan

☆ Manhattan DA and Trump's hush-money defense intensify war over his attacks on judge's daughter
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The defense, meanwhile, accused the judge's daughter of having a financial stake in the case. AdvertisementDonald Trump's defense lawyers and his Manhattan hush-money prosecutors intensified their war over his gag order on Monday, with prosecutors calling the GOP frontrunner's ongoing attacks on the judge's daughter "reprehensible" and "dangerous." In seeking to expand the gag order, prosecutors are trying "to further restrict President Trump's constitutionally protected speech," the defense wrote. Merchan has yet to say if he will weigh revising or clarifying the gag order. The judge's daughter did not immediately return a request for comment.

Persons: Manhattan's DA, —, Donald Trump's, Trump, Attorney Alvin Bragg, Juan Merchan, Loren Merchan, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Matthew Colangelo, Susan Necheles, Todd Blanche, Trump's, Merchan Organizations: Service, GOP, Manhattan, Attorney, New, Trump, District, Authentic, Inc, Trump's Locations: Chicago

☆ Defense asks hush-money judge to let Trump continue verbally attacking the judge's daughter
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Trump and Manhattan prosecutors are arguing over the scope of this week's hush-money gag order. AdvertisementLawyers for Donald Trump made an extraordinary request in his hush-money case on Friday: they want state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan to affirm that Tuesday's gag order lets Trump continue verbally attacking the judge's progressive daughter. Their motion, if allowed, would ask the judge to "direct that defendant immediately desist from attacks on family members." The next step in this battle over Trump's hush-money gag order is now in Merchan's court, so to speak. Alternately, he could expand or clarify the gag order to protect family members, and deny further motions on the topic.

Persons: Trump, —, Donald Trump, Juan Merchan, Merchan, Loren Merchan, Joshua Steinglass, Steinglass, Susan Necheles, Todd Blanche, Attorney Alvin Bragg, Bragg, Trump's, Biden, Harris, Hakeem Jeffries, Gavin Newsom, — he'll Organizations: Trump, Prosecutors, Service, Social, Democratic, Attorney, California Gov Locations: Manhattan, Chicago

☆ Trump is using a loophole in his new gag order to rage against his hush-money judge's progressive daughter
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Laura Italiano | Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trump wasted little time exploiting that loophole Wednesday when he used his Truth Social account to take aim at both state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan and the judge's progressive daughter, Loren Merchan. AdvertisementOn Tuesday morning, Trump "truthed" that the judge is a "certified Trump Hater" whose daughter is a "senior executive at a Super Liberal Democrat firm." AdvertisementBREAKING: Judge Merchan’s daughter, Loren Merchan, just BLOCKED ME on X and locked her account after I exposed her profile picture that has President Trump behind bars. The hush-money gag order also bars Trump from making statements about "the District Attorney's staff" or relatives of those staff members. A spokeswoman for Bragg declined to comment on Trump's attacks on the judge and his daughter.

Persons: —, Donald Trump, Trump, Juan Merchan, Loren Merchan, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Adam, Shifty, Schiff, Biden, Harris, Hakeem Jeffries, Gavin Newsom, Laura Loomer, Loren Merchan's X, Merchan’s, Trump’s, Loren, soPrzWFRs8, qn8fy6cAVb, Alvin Bragg, Bragg's, Bragg Organizations: Service, Business, Democratic, Trump, Radical, California Gov, Super Liberal Democrat, Attorney's Locations: New York, Chicago

And there is precedent for the committee declaring a candidate the presumptive nominee before winning the 1,215 requisite delegates to clinch the nomination. In May 2016, then-RNC Chairman Reince Priebus declared Trump the presumptive nominee before he had the appropriate share of delegates wrapped up. Despite losing both the Iowa and New Hampshire contests to Trump, Haley has argued that her performance — outlasting all the other Trump rivals — shows the strength of her candidacy. Neither the Haley campaign nor the Trump campaign returned messages seeking comment on Thursday. “I’ve heard a lot of elected officials in the Republican Party, including the RNC chair, say, ‘We need to rally around a candidate.’ That this is going to be our candidate.

Persons: Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, “, Trump, Ronna McDaniel, Haley, McDaniel, Bill Palatucci, Chris Christie, ” Palatucci, ”, Joe Biden, Reince Priebus, Haley —, —, MAGA, ” Trump, “ You’ve, ” Petrizzo, Biden, “ I’ve, ___ Beaumont, Zeke Miller, ___ Meg Kinnard Organizations: COLUMBIA, Republican National Committee, United Nations, Trump, GOP, Associated Press, Team Trump, ”, The Dispatch, New, New Jersey Republican National, RNC, Republican Party, Democratic, —, Capitol Hill Locations: United States, New Hampshire, Las Vegas, New Jersey, Iowa, South Carolina, Des Moines , Iowa, Washington

☆ CNN Poll: Trump’s lead over Haley widens to double digits in New Hampshire
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Jennifer Agiesta | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —The race for the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary appears to be former President Donald Trump’s to lose, according to a new CNN poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire following Trump’s 30-point win in Iowa’s caucuses last week. Trump holds 50% support among likely Republican primary voters in the Granite State, while his closest competitor, former South Carolina Gov. Likely Republican and Democratic primary voters were identified through survey questions about their intention to vote. Results among 1,210 likely Republican primary voters have an error margin of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points. Results among 838 likely Democratic primary voters have an error margin of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, Trump, Nikki Haley, Haley, Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, “, Joe Biden, Biden, ” Biden, Dean Phillips, Marianne Williamson, Phillips, Biden hasn’t Organizations: CNN, New Hampshire Republican, University of New, Republican, South Carolina Gov, Trump, Florida Gov, GOP, Democratic, Biden, Democratic National, Minnesota, CNN New, University of New Hampshire Survey Locations: University of New Hampshire, Granite State, New Hampshire, Trump, Mexico, Russia, Ukraine, CNN New Hampshire, Hampshire

Former President Donald Trump says he’s so far ahead that it would only help his competitors if he participated. STRIKING POLITICSThe Republican debate is playing out as thousands of U.S. auto workers strike in swing-state Michigan. While shutdowns are not popular with most voters, Republican presidential contenders typically align themselves with the party’s hardline conservatives, who hold the most power in Republican primary elections. The issue is especially critical for DeSantis and Scott, who have struggled since delivering underwhelming performances in the first debate. That's because some Republican candidates see it as one of Trump's biggest political weaknesses.

Persons: Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, Ron DeSantis, Joe Biden, Sen, Tim Scott, Ronald Reagan, “, ‘, you’re, Scott, Trump, autoworkers, Biden, Kevin McCarthy, That's, DeSantis, Mike Pence, ’, HALEY, Nikki Haley, Haley, it's, Roe, Wade, Pence, — Organizations: Republican, Trump, Trump . Florida Gov, Democratic, Republican Party, GOP, United Auto Workers, Capitol, Biden, Republicans, THE, United, electability Locations: SIMI VALLEY, Calif, Trump's, U.S, Michigan, Iowa, Detroit, Ukraine, United Nations, Florida

The Nevada GOP says it will only recognize — and award delegates to presidential candidates — based on the results of the caucus. “This process will hurt the Republican Party and our candidates in 2024,” the leaders added. “The Nevada Republican Party will give average voters the impression they don’t care about them or their votes.”Nevada GOP Chairman Michael McDonald didn't return multiple phone calls and text messages. Trump's ties to the Nevada GOP are especially deep, with the organization led by longstanding allies, including McDonald and DeGraffenreid. David Gibbs, president of the Nevada Republican Club, said he's not concerned about criticism that the process could favor Trump.

Persons: Donald Trump's, Trump, it's, they're, Ron DeSantis, “ Trump, ”, Ken Cuccinelli, DeSantis, Michael McDonald didn't, Jim DeGraffenreid, Donald Trump, ” DeGraffenreid, That's, McDonald, Alida Benson, Vivek Ramaswamy, Nikki Haley’s, South Carolina Sen, Tim Scott, Mike Pence, they’ll, “, Andrew Romeo, Cuccinelli, David Gibbs, he's, ___ Price, Jill Colvin, Meg Kinnard Organizations: GOP, Trump, Nevada Republicans, The Associated Press, Florida Gov, The, The Nevada GOP, Homeland Security, Nevada Republican Club, Republican, Nevada GOP, Republican Party, Nevada Republican Party, ”, ” Nevada GOP, AP, Democrat, Committeeman, Former South Carolina Gov, South Carolina, ’, Associated Press, S.C Locations: RENO, Nev, Nevada, Florida, The Nevada, ” Nevada, Michigan, Idaho, Iowa, New Hampshire, New York, Columbia

☆ Trump is not invincible in Republican race – but still lacks a single strong challenger
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

The state of the Republican race is this: Trump is not yet unbeatable but the conditions in which he could be beaten are still far from materializing. The New Hampshire poll may boost an impression that Haley is on the rise and with DeSantis ebbing, she could emerge as the strongest anti-Trump challenger. Trump appears to be eying a general election audience that punished Republicans in the midterms over the issue. But DeSantis has jumped at the chance to try to harm Trump with evangelical voters who are very important in the Iowa caucuses. In Iowa, New Hampshire and elsewhere, the race for the Republican nomination is beginning to accelerate.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, “, Joe Biden’s, Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, Nikki Haley, Chris Christie, Ron DeSantis, Haley, Ramaswamy, Christie, CNN’s John King, Biden, Ronald Reagan, DeSantis ebbing, Fredreka Schouten, Steve Contorno, he’s, DeSantis, ” Trump, –, ” DeSantis Organizations: CNN, Republican, Granite State, Trump, South Carolina Gov, Florida Gov, Biden, Ronald Reagan Presidential, The New, GOP, Republicans, “, NBC, Court, ABC News Locations: New Hampshire, Iowa, materializing, Granite, New Jersey, Granite State, California, Wisconsin, The, The New Hampshire, Lago, South Carolina , Florida, Florida, Iowa , New Hampshire

☆ Trump Rivals’ Debate Mission: Break Through With Voters
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Eliza Collins | Alex Leary | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contact Dow Jones Reprints at 1-800-843-0008 or visit www.djreprints.com. https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-rivals-search-for-ways-to-break-through-with-voters-cb53b685

Persons: Dow Jones, cb53b685

☆ Trump Rivals Search for Ways to Break Through With Voters
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Eliza Collins | Alex Leary | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: Dow Jones, cb53b685

☆ Trump Rivals Are Drawing Millions From His 2020 Donors
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Jack Gillum | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contact Dow Jones Reprints at 1-800-843-0008 or visit www.djreprints.com. https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-trump-donors-are-opening-wallets-for-desantis-gop-rivals-ab756102

Persons: Dow Jones Organizations: gop

☆ Factbox: Details from New York prosecutor's Trump hush-money indictment
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Daniels said she and Trump had a sexual encounter in 2006, the year after he married Melania Knauss, his third wife. Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to federal campaign-finance charges related to the payments and said he acted at Trump's direction. Pecker made the payment after discussing it with Cohen and Trump, according to the charges, with the understanding that Trump would pay him back. Trump and Cohen discussed repayment in a conversation captured in an audio recording in September 2016 and made plans to do so. Around that time, Pecker connected Cohen with a lawyer for Daniels, who said she had an affair with Trump as well.

☆ Trump rivals are delaying declaring their candidacies because he's doing a good job of tripping himself up, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Trump's 2024 GOP rivals are holding off on campaign announcements, Politico reported. a Republican strategist said. a Republican strategist told the publication. Trump has made a number of political missteps since announcing his 2024 candidacy, including having dinner with white nationalist Nick Fuentes. Trump is so far the only Republican to declare his 2024 candidacy ahead of the primaries in March.

Search resuls for: "Trump Rivals"

16 mentions found