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☆ Google is the latest company to land in Donald Trump's crosshairs
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-27 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Donald Trump threatened to prosecute Google "at the maximum levels" if he's elected president. AdvertisementFormer President Donald Trump is no stranger to lashing out at companies — and now he's taking aim at Google. Trump alleged that Google "illegally used a system of only revealing and displaying bad stories about Donald J. Trump" while surfacing good stories about Harris. In the report, the group said it conducted Google searches on September 6 for the terms "donald trump presidential race 2024" and "kamala harris presidential race 2024." In addition to threats against Google, Trump has levied warnings to other companies and CEOs who crossed him.

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☆ As threats grow, funds for election security see a squeeze
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Bob Ortega | Anna-Maja Rappard | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

That’s why Maricopa County has spent over $864,000 in federal funds and more than $3 million in county funds to bolster its election security and processes over the past four years. Officials readily shared their worries with CNN, citing death threats, harassment, baseless lawsuits, onerous public-records requests and various security threats spurred by false claims about voter fraud. Amid these challenges, budgets for election security have been squeezed in several ways. Thousands of election workers across the country have reported receiving harassing, offensive or hostile communications, including since the 2022 midterms, according to the Department of Justice’s Election Threats Task Force. As recently as Tuesday, Trump threatened to prosecute and imprison election officials if he wins in November, as he cast doubt on the integrity of the upcoming election.

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☆ Mark Zuckerberg calls Donald Trump a 'badass' after the former president threatened him with prison
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called former President Donald Trump's reaction to getting shot "badass," although he declined to endorse him in an interview with Bloomberg released Friday. Just a few days ago, in a different interview with Bloomberg, Trump reiterated his beef with Zuckerberg. If you don't have TikTok, you have Facebook and Instagram, and that's, you know, that's Zuckerberg. The more notable thing he said was reiterating Meta's stance on limiting political content in people's feeds on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Speaking of aesthetics, Zuckerberg also committed to his new look by wearing a gold chain during the Bloomberg interview.

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☆ Donald Trump threatens to send Mark Zuckerberg to prison if he is elected
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-10 | by ( Mikhaila Friel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewDonald Trump doesn't want Mark Zuckerberg to forget about their long-running beef. Advertisement"Last week, the weirdo — he's a weirdo — Mark Zuckerberg came to the White House, kissed my ass all night," Trump said. "'Sir, I'd love to have dinner, sir. I'd love to have dinner. I'd love to bring my lovely wife,'" he said, mimicking the supposed conversation.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin voters are set to decide next month whether to make it unconstitutional to accept private grant money to help administer state elections, one of two Republican-backed ballot measures that Democrats say are meant to make it harder to conduct elections in the presidential battleground state. The Wisconsin measures are supported by Republicans and conservative groups and opposed by an array of government watchdog and liberal groups including the American Civil Liberties Union, Common Cause Wisconsin, Wisconsin Conservation Voters and the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin. Three courts and the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission rejected complaints challenging the legality of the grant money. It’s unclear how adoption of the amendment would change current practice, other than place requirements currently in state law into the constitution. Federal law already requires U.S. citizenship to vote in national elections and no state constitutions explicitly allow noncitizens to vote in state or local elections.

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And the DeSantis campaign made many of them, his advisers, allies and supporters have acknowledged to CNN in interviews. Republican presidential candidate and Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis, speaks during a campaign event in Hampton, New Hampshire, on January 17, 2024. Michael Reaves/Getty Images DeSantis and his wife, Casey, have three children: from left, daughters Mamie and Madison and son Mason. But that approach was rejected by the woman who would be announced as DeSantis’ campaign manager, Generra Peck. And yet, in the face of this overwhelming rejection of his pitch to Make America Florida, DeSantis refused to change gears.

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☆ Billionaire Ronald Lauder gives $1 million to GOP group supporting state candidates who questioned 2020 election results
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

A representative for the Republican State Leadership Committee did not return a request for comment. The Concord Fund, which previously spent millions of dollars on ads backing Trump's judicial nominees, gave $1.5 million to the Republican State Leadership Committee in September. The Republican State Leadership Committee is considered a tax exempt politically active group under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code. The Republican State Leadership Committee is supporting dozens of candidates running to become secretaries of state, lieutenant governors, state legislators and judges on state courts. In this year's state legislative races, the Republican State Leadership Committee has bolstered some candidates who raised doubts about the 2020 election results.

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