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☆ Trump is wooing oil and gas tycoons to financially support his 2024 campaign, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Former President Trump is working to ramp up his support among energy executives, WaPo reported. Support from oil and gas executives would be crucial to his 2024 reelection campaign. Harold Hamm, the billionaire founder and chairman of Continental Resources, for instance, told Trump during a phone conversation earlier this year that he should end his presidential bid, per The Financial Times. "Trump was good on energy, and I think energy policy under Trump would be fine," Eberhart, the DeSantis supporter, told The Post. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe extent of Trump's pitches to energy executives is not a shock to environmental groups, as they battled with the administration over regulations throughout his entire time in the White House.

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☆ Melania Trump didn't like going to Trump events because people 'get creepy and invasive' with her, staffer said
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A former staffer told WaPo that Melania never enjoyed following her husband to events. People can get touchy or ask her questions like what perfume she's wearing, the staffer said. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . The staffer told The Washington Post that Trump never enjoyed following her husband around while he "talks and talks and she sits there and is expected to smile." Stephanie Grisham, her former chief of staff, told the Post that Trump's top aides didn't even know what she was doing at the time.

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☆ Even Melania's top advisors don't know what she did in the White House: 'It's a mystery'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Melania Trump's former aides said it wasn't entirely clear how she spent her time in the White House. Former President Trump has said he likes the air of mystery around his wife. AdvertisementAdvertisementMelania Trump's former top aides said there was an air of mystery to how she spent her time in the White House. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe first lady, Grisham told The Post, didn't understand the appeal of smaller scale events that are historically part of a presidential spouse's public profile. AdvertisementAdvertisement"I think part of the beauty is that mystery," the former president recently told Megyn Kelly when asked about his wife.

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The rally in the Cuban American stronghold of Hialeah is aimed in part at boosting Trump's support among Hispanics in Florida, campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said. Trump's support among Hispanics, the fastest-growing ethnic and racial group in the U.S. electorate, swelled during his 2020 campaign. In a Reuters/Ipsos poll in September 38% of Hispanic respondents said they would vote for Biden, while 36% picked Trump. The Biden campaign isn't sitting on its hands. "It's a political persecution just like Venezuela and Nicaragua,' said Fabio Andrade, a Colombian-American businessman who helps organize Hispanic voters as part of a “Republican Amigos” club.

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Former President Donald Trump can appear on the primary ballot in Minnesota next year, a court ruled Wednesday, batting back a legal attempt to have him removed from voter consideration on the grounds that he is an insurrectionist constitutionally barred from holding office. "Winning the presidential nomination primary does not place the person on the general election ballot as a candidate for President of the United States," Hudson wrote. Aside from Minnesota, lawsuits have been filed in Colorado, Michigan, Arizona, New Hampshire and New Jersey to deny Trump a place on the ballot pursuant to a clause in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. But even if the Constitution indeed prevents Trump from serving, it cannot stop Minnesota Republicans from engaging in their own, internal nominating process, Hudson wrote. A judge in Colorado held a hearing on the insurrection clause case last week, and a Michigan judge is hearing arguments Thursday.

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☆ Minnesota Supreme Court won’t remove Trump from GOP primary ballot in 14th Amendment challenge
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Marshall Cohen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an attempt to block Donald Trump from the state’s GOP primary ballot next year based on the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban” but said the challengers can try again to block him from the general election ballot if the former president wins the Republican nomination. The ruling is a victory for Trump, in terms of keeping his name on Minnesota’s ballot for the 2024 GOP primary, where recent polling shows he has a commanding lead. However, the Minnesota justices didn’t go as far as Trump’s lawyers wanted, which was to shut down the case altogether and keep the former president on the ballot for both the primary and general election. “But the general election is a different matter. So, the court is essentially inviting a new challenge later, ahead of the general election.”This story has been updated with additional information.

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KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — For Sat PMs—Former President Donald Trump is expanding his support in Florida as he seeks to bury the presidential ambitions of Gov. Ron DeSantis in their shared home state. DeSantis is still a powerful governor who enacted policies long sought by conservatives and moved a traditional swing state increasingly to the right. Scott, Fine and four U.S. House members who already declared support for Trump are also scheduled to speak. Trump has refused to take a similar pledge required for candidates to participate in national GOP debates.

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☆ DeSantis' and Trump's campaign teams are now bickering about balls
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The campaign teams for Trump and DeSantis are arguing about balls as of Thursday. His spokesperson then told Trump's team to "buy a pair of balls," sparking a brief skirmish on X. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe official campaign teams for presidential hopefuls Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis are now firing shots at each other over balls. AdvertisementAdvertisementMinutes later, DeSantis' spokesperson Carly Atchison tweeted an image of a box of golf balls while urging Trump's spokespersons to "man up" and "buy a pair of balls." "So the DeSantis team finally admits that Trump has DeSantis' balls in a box.

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The recent missteps have created an unwelcome wrinkle for Trump, his campaign team and the larger Republican political apparatus. Republicans have questioned whether Biden is able to serve as commander-in-chief, pointing to his age and mental fitness. And, during a rally in South Carolina in September, Trump confused former Florida Gov. “President Trump continues to dominate in primary polls and is winning against Crooked Joe Biden in the general election,” Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement. Instead of attacking Biden directly over his age, Trump instead tries to paint Biden as “incompetent,” and “cognitively impaired,” which he argues is not solely about the president’s age.

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☆ Adam Kinzinger said onetime Trump chief of staff John Kelly 'could barely stay awake' during a White House breakfast and told GOP lawmakers he was 'barely holding it together' in the role
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Kinzinger in his new book wrote of how he witnessed the work that John Kelly was putting in as chief of staff. The former GOP lawmaker said Kelly spent a lot of time trying to restrain many of Trump's personal instincts. AdvertisementAdvertisementFormer Rep. Adam Kinzinger said former Trump White House chief of staff John Kelly was once so "exhausted" from his role that he "could barely stay awake" during a private breakfast at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. "It was 8:00 a.m. and he could barely stay awake," Kinzinger wrote. "The problem with Trump, from a chief of staff's perspective, was that he preferred to do everything informally and on his own with minimum staff engagement," Kinzinger wrote.

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☆ Hedge fund billionaire Leon Cooperman, in rare public rebuke of a Republican candidate, says Trump ‘belongs in jail’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Lisa Emmanuel | Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —Leon Cooperman, the hedge fund billionaire who has famously clashed with Sen. Elizabeth Warren over her proposed wealth tax, is cautioning voters against returning Donald Trump to the White House. “It would be terrible for the country if Donald Trump were reelected,” Cooperman told CNN in a phone interview late last week. “He’s a divisive human being who belongs in jail.”It’s rare for a Wall Street figure to make such critical comments about Trump, at least publicly. The Biden campaign did not respond to a request for comment. Given the ongoing risks, Cooperman argued the stock market is overvalued relative to corporate profits.

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Hobbs said he brought it up nonstop, even in front of others, which irked Youngkin. Should he decide to make the leap after next month's elections, a potential campaign would face significant logistical hurdles. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign, though Rexrode and others working for Youngkin's PAC have years of national political experience. Several other voters there said they were familiar with Youngkin and praised the job he’s done but said he shouldn’t run. In Virginia, Republican voters and legislators praised his performance as governor so far, but many said they want Youngkin to finish the job he signed up for.

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“There was no better friend or ally of Israel than President Donald J. Trump," Trump wrote in one. Political Cartoons View All 1211 ImagesWhile Trump and Netanyahu worked together closely while Trump was president, Trump responded with fury after Netanyahu congratulated then-President-elect Biden for winning the 2020 election while Trump was still trying to overturn the results. “There was no bigger advocate and defender of Israel than President Trump,” he said. Trump's GOP rivals nonetheless continued to attack him over his comments. To speak in a critical way about Prime Minister Netanyahu, to refer to the terrorist organization Hezbollah as very smart, I think was incomprehensible to me,” he said.

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Another conceded that Kennedy could be a real threat to Trump, particularly when it comes to vaccines. They’re less likely to answer the phone for pollsters.”Trump had initially praised Kennedy after he launched his Democratic primary bid. The Biden campaign declined to comment. Third Way, which has been leading the charge against No Labels for Democrats, has had only informal and indirect contact with the Biden campaign and the president’s top advisers. The DNC’s involvement so far has been participating in a couple of video calls Third Way has hosted with groups of state Democratic Party officials, according to Matt Bennett of Third Way.

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☆ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces independent run for president, ending Democratic primary challenge to Biden
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Aaron Pellish | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Environmental lawyer and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Monday his independent candidacy for president, officially ending his effort to defeat President Joe Biden in the Democratic primary in favor of a long-shot general election bid. Kennedy’s campaign as an independent could further complicate a general election race that’s already expected to be closely contested. A Reuters/Ipsos poll of a hypothetical three-way race between Biden, Trump and Kennedy conducted last week among likely voters found 14% of voters supported Kennedy, with 40% supporting Trump and 38% supporting Biden. We denounce his candidacy and believe it to be perilous for our country, ” Rory Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Joseph P Kennedy II and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend said in a statement. He said he supported Trump in 2016 and 2020, but said he plans to support Kennedy in 2024.

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☆ Trump allegedly revealed sensitive info about nuclear submarines, according to reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

After he left the White House, former President Donald Trump allegedly shared sensitive information about U.S. nuclear submarines with an Australian billionaire who is a member of his Mar-a-Lago club, according to a pair of reports published on Thursday. Trump shared the information with Anthony Pratt during an April 2021 conversation at the Palm Beach, Fla., golf club, according to ABC News, which first reported the development. The New York Times also confirmed the former president shared the information with Pratt, citing two people familiar with the matter. Trump shared the number of warheads that U.S. submarines typically carry and how close they can get to Russian submarines without being detected, according to both ABC and the New York Times. Trump didn't show any government documents to him during the meeting or any other time at Mar-a-Lago, sources told ABC News.

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☆ Trump’s anti-immigrant comments draw rebuke
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( Kate Sullivan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

It is a very sad thing for our country,” Trump told the right-leaning news site The National Pulse in a video interview published last week. “It’s poisoning the blood of our country. We have seen this kind of toxic rhetoric inspire real-world violence before in places like Pittsburgh and El Paso. Adolf Hitler wrote about the “contamination of the blood” or “blood poisoning” in Mein Kampf. “That’s a normal phrase that is used in everyday life – in books, television, movies, and in news articles.

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They can also rile up Trump's own party, which then incorporates the former president's vendettas and impulses into its own agenda. Though most in his party have stayed quiet, Trump's comments about Milley horrified some Republicans. On the debate stage last week, Trump’s rivals for the GOP nomination didn't address the former president's more incendiary rhetoric. Democrats, including Biden, have warned that Trump and supporters in his Make America Great Again movement are a threat to American democracy. At last week's California Republican Party convention in a hotel ballroom in Anaheim, Trump’s rhetoric reached yet another level.

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☆ Sam Bankman-Fried wanted to pay Donald Trump not to run for office. The price? $5 billion, says his biographer.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sam Bankman-Fried, the FTX founder, is in jail and faces several federal charges. He looked into whether he could pay Donald Trump not to run in 2024, Michael Lewis wrote. Michael Lewis reports that Sam Bankman-Fried considered paying Donald Trump not to run for president. Lewis said that Bankman-Fried never learned if the $5 billion number came directly from Trump. "Isn't Sam Bankman-Fried a liar who has been outed as a fraudster and someone that can't be trusted," Steven Cheung, Trump's spokesperson, wrote in a brief response to an inquiry from Insider.

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☆ Trump and family deny responsibility for fudging Trump Org numbers in previously unseen deposition video shown by New York AG at trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementLawyers from the New York Attorney General's office confronted former President Donald Trump in court Monday, showing a previously unseen deposition video where he denies responsibility for the property valuations in his own company. Moments earlier, Kevin C. Wallace, the attorney general's office lawyer presenting the opening statement, had shown a different deposition video of Weisselberg. Another lawyer from the attorney general's office asked if he was familiar with GAAP. The juxtaposition got to the heart of New York Attorney General Letitia James's lawsuit against Trump, Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Weisselberg, and executive Jeff McConney. Cohen is scheduled to testify as a witness against Trump later in the New York trial, which is set to last until December 22.

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☆ Trump is turning his $250 million fraud trial into a presidential campaign event
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Donald Trump has attacked the civil fraud case against him as political. AdvertisementAdvertisementFormer President — and 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner — Donald Trump has long complained that the legal cases against him are political. The New York Attorney General's $250 million civil fraud trial that began Monday morning, he says, is a "witch hunt." One of Trump's lawyers, Alina Habba, lambasted New York Attorney General Letitia James, an elected Democrat. The attorney general's lawsuit alleges that Trump, Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and two other Trump Organization executives are liable for fraud for misrepresenting the values of the company's property in financial statements submitted to banks for loans.

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CNN —Former President Donald Trump is making plans to appear in person for his civil fraud trial in New York on Monday, multiple sources familiar with the planning told CNN. Law enforcement and court employees have been making security preparations for Trump’s potential appearance at the courthouse in Lower Manhattan on Monday and possibly Tuesday. The former president has not yet confirmed that he will attend the trial. The civil fraud case – brought in September 2022 by New York Attorney General Letitia James against Trump, his eldest sons, their companies and several executives – will begin at 10 a.m. Monday. Last week, the judge overseeing the case dealt Trump a major blow in ruling that the former president is liable for fraud and that he overvalued his properties on his financial statements for a decade.

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Another source identified Trump Organization employee Yuscil Taveras as the unnamed computer specialist whose fees prosecutors said were paid by Trump's political group. Trump's legal spokesperson Alina Habba, who is also general counsel at Save America, did not respond to detailed questions on the payments. In July, after Save America reported its legal expenses to the Federal Election Commission, Cheung said Save America was helping people who had worked for Trump avoid "financial ruin." Asked how legal spending would affect his campaign, Trump told a SiriusXM podcast earlier this month: "Fortunately, I have a lot more money." Save America and the Trump campaign have not responded to requests for comment on the legal fee estimates.

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Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves at the crowd after speaking during a 2024 presidential campaign rally in Dubuque, Iowa, U.S. September 20, 2023. After spending roughly $1 million on anti-Trump ads in Iowa, the Republican Accountability PAC, for example, concluded in August their money wasn't making a difference. "We have stopped spending money in the primary. Continuing to spend on the primary is essentially a waste of money, said Reed Galen, co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project. Steven Cheung, a spokesperson for Trump, said "no amount of Never Trump money" could match the enthusiasm Trump is generating among grassroots voters.

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☆ UAW leader condemns Trump ahead of Michigan visit during union strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Michael Wayland | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

United Auto Workers (UAW) President, Shawn Fain addresses picketing UAW members at a General Motors Service Parts Operations plant in Belleville, Michigan, on September 26, 2023, as US President Joe Biden joined the workers. "President Trump will be in Michigan talking with union workers and ensuring American jobs are protected. "Our focus right now is 100% on getting a great agreement for our members," Fain told CNN. Former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during a rally in Warren, Michigan, U.S., October 1, 2022. But UAW members have previously attended and participated in Trump's events in Michigan.

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