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☆ Tucker Carlson once described his desire to see a 'mob' of white men 'hurt' a kid — 'I could taste it,' disturbing text shows
  + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Tucker Carlson once sent a text saying he wanted a group of white men to kill an "Antifa kid." Carlson texted a producer about the moment he felt blood lust seeing a "kid" being hurt. In the text — sent on January 7, 2021, one day after the Capitol riot — Carlson said that he found himself "rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they'd hit him harder, kill him." The text message was included — but redacted — as evidence in Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit against Fox News. The Times obtained the redacted Carlson text message from several unnamed sources who were granted anonymity to share the message.
☆ Twitter users have found a loophole to get their legacy verified blue ticks back just by writing a few key words in their bios
  + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
People have found a way to get their Twitter blue checks back for free — though it's just a temporary fix. Legacy verified Twitter users have found a temporary fix to get their blue tick back for free — just by adding in a few words to their bio. Cheryl Teh, a news editor from Insider — who lost her blue tick when Twitter CEO Elon Musk axed the legacy blue tick program on April 1 — confirmed that writing "former blue check" in her bio restored the blue tick. But Musk replaced it with a subscription-based service, where legacy verified users could keep their checkmarks by signing up for the Twitter Blue subscription program. The posthumously installed blue tick beside these celebrities' names on Twitter erroneously claims: "This account is verified because they are subscribed to Twitter Blue and verified their phone number."
☆ Trump mocked John McCain and complained that he had the 'world's longest funeral:' 'Much like his wars, it never ended'
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Trump again mocked John McCain in his new book, per an excerpt published by The New York Post. Trump claimed that McCain had "the world's longest funeral" back in 2018. Trump claimed that he, as president, granted McCain "the world's longest funeral," erroneously claiming that the mourning lasted 11 days, per The New York Post's published excerpt. Trump's claim that he gave permission for McCain's funeral also does not hold water. This was after she called Trump's daughter Ivanka and his son-in-law Jared Kushner "funeral crashers" for showing up at John McCain's memorial service.
☆ The former CEO of Reddit says laid-off tech workers should get in on AI because 'you don't need an enormous amount of technical skill' to make an AI app
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Yishan Wong, the former CEO of Reddit, has advice for tech workers: Get into AI now. "You don't need an enormous amount of technical skill," Wong told Fortune. "It feels like a hype train, but actually there's an enormous amount of value overhang," Wong told Fortune. He said he "randomly moved around" from tech job to tech job, and just worked "really hard" wherever he ended up. However, the AI industry itself does have promising inroads for tech workers.
☆ A former GOP strategist says Tucker Carlson would be a huge threat to Trump if the ex-Fox News host were to run for president in 2024
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Tucker Carlson would be a real threat to Trump if he were to run in 2024, says ex GOP strategist Rick Wilson. He'd instantly have an online fundraising juggernaut second only to Trump, and perhaps surpassing him," Wilson, who served as a strategist for former President George H.W. Wilson is now a staunch Trump critic and one of the cofounders of The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump super PAC. Even Trump's GOP would never vote for a former TV host pushing white replacement theory.' Trump and Carlson text each other often and are the closest they've ever been, The New York Times reported this week.
☆ Trump expresses shock over Tucker Carlson's ouster: 'Especially over the last year or so, he's been terrific to me'
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
"Especially over the last year or so, he's been terrific to me," Trump said of Carlson. He's a very good person and a very good man," Trump told Newsmax host Greg Kelly on Monday. Trump told Kelly he was unsure if Carlson left voluntarily, or if Fox News had fired Carlson. "But I think Tucker's been terrific," Trump said. "We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights," Carlson wrote, per Dominion's filing.
☆ Bill O'Reilly says the GOP is in trouble now that Tucker Carlson is out at Fox — and bringing his far-right viewers with him
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Cheryl Teh | Lauren Steussy | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Bill O'Reilly predicts Tucker Carlson's ouster at Fox News will cause trouble for the GOP. "Because the Republican Party, most of it, paid attention to Tucker Carlson," O'Reilly said. "Because the Republican Party, most of it, paid attention to Tucker Carlson," O'Reilly said on Monday on an episode of his show, "No Spin News." Carlson's fiefdom was focused on the Americans on the "committed right," O'Reilly said. Carlson also faces a lawsuit from his ex-producer, Abby Grossberg, who sued him and other Fox executives in March.
☆ Jeff Bezos, accidental style icon, was spotted at Coachella in a butterfly-print button-down shirt
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos showed up at Coachella in a butterfly-print button-down shirt. "Looks like a low budget Fast and Furious scene," wrote Redditor RuckOver3 in a post that was upvoted more than 34,000 times as of press time. Bezos was spotted at the festival with his partner Lauren Sanchez, Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner, and Jenner's partner, Corey Gamble, per TMZ. wrote Redditor BarfJello, in a comment that had been upvoted more than 13,000 times as of press time. "Looks like the average Coachella attendee," wrote Reddit user electricman420.
☆ A Las Vegas hotel mogul who ardently believes in UFOs says he's funneling millions into Ron DeSantis' super PAC: 'I will give him more money and go without food'
  + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
"I will give him more money and go without food," Bigelow told Time. "Trump lost his north," Bigelow told Time. In 2017, Bigelow told CBS that he believes aliens are here on Earth and "right under people's noses." In April, Trump trounced DeSantis in a 2024 primary poll, leading DeSantis 51% to 41% in a head-to-head match-up. Representatives for Bigelow, DeSantis, and the Never Back Down PAC did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment sent outside regular business hours.
☆ BTS, one of the biggest celebrity accounts on Twitter, has refused to pay Musk $8 for a blue tick
  + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
K-Pop supergroup BTS — like hundreds of other celebrities — lost its blue checkmark on Twitter. At press time, the band had not paid to restore its blue checkmark under Elon Musk's Twitter Blue. On Thursday, Musk tweeted that he's personally funding some celebrities' Twitter Blue statuses — but did not specifically say whose subscriptions he's paying for. It's unclear who's paying for the Twitter Blue subscriptions on Hybe's and BTS' official accounts. Other K-Pop groups have also refused to give Musk $8 for Twitter Blue.
☆ Bob Iger says that if Ron DeSantis wants to end his feud with Disney, they could just sit down and 'discuss all of this'
  + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Disney CEO Bob Iger says there's a way for Ron DeSantis to settle his feud with Disney: Talk it out. Iger told Time he'd be happy to sit down with DeSantis to hash out their disagreements. "I do not view this as a going-to-mattresses situation for us," Iger told Time. Ron DeSantis to end his increasingly acrimonious feud with Disney: Come to the negotiating table and hash it out. On April 3, Iger said DeSantis' attempt to strip Disney of its tax status is "anti-business" and "anti-Florida."
☆ Elon Musk says he sometimes sleeps on a couch in the library of Twitter's San Francisco headquarters
  + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Elon Musk says he has a sleeping spot in Twitter's San Francisco offices. "There's a couch there and I sleep there sometimes," Musk told the BBC. And, uh, there's a couch there, and I sleep there sometimes," Musk told the BBC during a live-streamed interview on Tuesday night. And in December, he turned some office space at the San Francisco headquarters into bedrooms. The topics covered included Twitter's content moderation, the company's mass layoffs, Musk's intention to turn Twitter's San Francisco office into a homeless shelter, and his dog Floki, who he jokingly calls Twitter's CEO.
☆ Trump's 27-minute speech in Mar-a-Lago after his arrest sounded like a man 'griping to you about his bad divorce,' Chris Christie says
  + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Christie said the speech made Trump sound like a man "'griping to you about his bad divorce." Chris Christie says former President Donald Trump's fixation on the past is getting tired and overblown. During an April 9 appearance on ABC's "This Week," Christie commented on Trump's post-arrest speech at Mar-a-Lago — a defiant, 27-minute, campaign-style address to rally the MAGA faithful. No way," Christie told Axios. Christie told Fox News on March 23 that he will "probably make a decision in the next 60 days on what to do or not to do."
☆ Steve Bannon, who has ties to an indicted Chinese billionaire, says Elon Musk's 'paymasters' are Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party
  + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Steve Bannon accused Elon Musk of having "paymasters" in Beijing. This isn't the first time Bannon has accused Musk of having links to the Chinese Communist Party. This isn't the first time Bannon has — without substantiation or evidence — accused Musk of serving the Chinese government. Elon Musk's ties with ChinaMusk has spared no effort to create business ties with China. Steve Bannon has been linked to China, tooMeanwhile, Bannon has long been associated with the indicted Chinese billionaire, Miles Guo Wengui.
☆ Gavin Newsom says Ron DeSantis will get 'thumped' if he runs against Trump: 'I'd tell him to pack up and wait a few years'
  + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Gavin Newsom has advice for Ron DeSantis: Don't run against Trump. Newsom added that DeSantis should "pack up and wait a few years," and not run in 2024. In July, DeSantis attacked Newsom after Newsom put up an ad in the Sunshine State enticing Floridians to move to California. Disney has in recent weeks outplayed DeSantis and found a loophole to keep power over the land around Walt Disney World in Orlando in perpetuity. DeSantis now says he's considering new taxes and tolls to punish Disney World for the power play.
☆ JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon refused to answer a question on whether a second Trump term would be good for the US economy
  + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Jamie Dimon did not respond to a query on whether a second Trump term could be good for the economy. "I'm not going to answer that question," Dimon told CNN's Poppy Harlow. "I'm not going to answer that question," Dimon said. "I think I could beat Trump," Dimon said at a JPMorgan Chase event, per CNBC. During the interview with CNN, Dimon told Harlow that his political philosophy remains the same: He said that his heart is Democratic, but his brain is Republican.
☆ Stormy Daniels says Trump shouldn't go to prison over a hush money payment: 'I don't think that his crimes against me are worthy of incarceration'
  + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
But she also thinks Trump shouldn't go to prison over hush money payment-related charges. "I don't think that his crimes against me are worthy of incarceration," Daniels told Piers Morgan. "I don't think that his crimes against me are worthy of incarceration. The crimes Trump was charged with are connected to an election-eve hush money payment of $130,000 made to Daniels in 2016 by Trump's former fixer and personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. The appeals court ruling was not legally connected to the charges brought by the Manhattan district attorney last week.
☆ Trump's team is way more worried about the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case and the Georgia elections investigation, Maggie Haberman says
  + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Trump and his aides are far more concerned about the Georgia elections probe and the Mar-a-Lago case. She added that his aides are privately worried about the Mar-a-Lago case, which is "clearer-cut." "Some of his aides are very worried about the documents investigation that the Justice Department has," Haberman said. She added that the Mar-a-Lago case is a "clearer-cut issue" in comparison to the other investigations. In March, the conservative lawyer and pundit George Conway told Insider that of the cases Trump faces, he's most likely to face prison time over the Mar-a-Lago documents case.
☆ A white Tennessee lawmaker survived expulsion while 2 young Black lawmakers lost their seats for protesting gun violence. She says the result 'might have to do with the color of our skin.'
  + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
A white lawmaker in Tennessee survived a vote to expel her but two Black lawmakers lost their seats. But the motion to expel Rep. Gloria Johnson failed 65-30, falling short of the two-thirds majority required to remove her. Meanwhile, two Black lawmakers — Rep. Justin Pearson and Rep. Justin Jones — were expelled with 69-26 and 72-25 votes respectively. Johnson, Pearson, and Jones have been known to protesters in Tennessee as the "Tennessee Three," per NBC News. "Two young Black lawmakers get expelled and the one white woman does not?
☆ Former Trump aide Anthony Scaramucci says Donald Trump is a 'family guy' who's just like Logan Roy — the ruthless patriarch in 'Succession'
  + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Former Trump aide Anthony Scaramucci likened his ex-boss to "Succession" patriarch Logan Roy. Scaramucci said Trump is a "family guy," and that Roy — like Trump — loves his kids. He has this love-hate relationship with his family," Scaramucci told MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle. Brian Cox, who plays Roy, told Collider that the show's creator, Jesse Armstrong, has said that Roy does love his kids. Scaramucci isn't the first person who's likened the Trump family to the Roy family in "Succession."
☆ LVMH boss Bernard Arnault's wealth soared over $200 billion, making him the third person ever after Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to reach the milestone
  + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
LVMH boss Bernard Arnault's net worth surpassed $200 billion on Tuesday. Arnault is also the first person outside the US to surpass a net worth of $200 billion. His net worth gained $2.4 billion on Tuesday, bringing the Frenchman's fortune to $201 billion, per Bloomberg's index. Shoppers in China are expected to boost the luxury goods sector this year after the country lifted COVID-zero restrictions. The 73-year-old tycoon has not announced who will succeed him as LVMH CEO.
☆ A widow is accusing an AI chatbot of being the reason why her husband killed himself
  + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
A widow in Belgium said her husband recently died by suicide after being encouraged by a chatbot. Chat logs seen by Belgian newspaper La Libre showed Chai Research's AI bot encouraging the man to end his life. The "Eliza" chatbot still tells people how to kill themselves, per Insider's tests of the chatbot on April 4. But the "Eliza" chatbot then started encouraging Pierre to end his life, per chat logs his widow shared with La Libre. When reached for comment regarding La Libre's reporting, Chai Research provided Insider with a statement that acknowledged Pierre's death.
☆ Trump went from joking about 'golden handcuffs' to being 'irritated' and 'deflated' after the indictment: WaPo
  + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
One adviser told The Post that Trump had been joking about "golden handcuffs" before the indictment. The Post spoke to an aide who said Trump was joking about "golden handcuffs" in the days before he was indicted. The New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman reported on Thursday that Trump and his team were blindsided by the indictment. Less than 24 hours before his indictment, Trump posted on Truth Social that he had gained "SUCH RESPECT" for the grand jury. In a Truth Social post after his indictment, Trump said he had been indicted by "Thugs and Radical Left Monsters."
☆ Trump says Ron DeSantis has 'no personality' and would be working at a cigar store if he hadn't endorsed him in 2018
  + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Donald Trump said Ron DeSantis may have ended up working at a cigar store without his backing in 2018. Ron DeSantis. Probably working either at a cigar store or a law firm," Trump added, per the Daily Mail. During the rally, Trump mocked DeSantis, drawing a muted response from a mostly silent audience. Representatives for DeSantis and Trump did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment sent outside regular business hours.
☆ DeSantis said he doesn't really know what Trump's 'Ron DeSanctimonious' nickname means: 'It's got a lot of vowels'
  + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
DeSantis says he "doesn't know how to spell" Trump's nickname for him, Ron DeSanctimonious. "I don't really know what it means," DeSantis told Piers Morgan. Ron DeSantis said he doesn't really know what former President Donald Trump's nickname for him, "Ron DeSanctimonious," means. "I don't really know what it means, but I kinda like it, it's long, it's got a lot of vowels. "I mean you can call me whatever you want, just as long as you also call me a winner," DeSantis told Morgan.
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