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...In today’s newsletter we’re talking about: Donald Trump’s legal sagas The Maga machine’s preparation for a second term Why it’s no longer “the economy, stupid” Yesterday was a mixed bag for Donald Trump...
...Donald Trump remains very popular within the party he remade as president....
...Displaying a breezy confidence, Donald Jr dismissed one of these documents as merely a “‘cover your butt’ letter”....
...“The bad news is if the election were held today, he’d lose,” says Paul Begala, a Democratic strategist who advised former president Bill Clinton....
...It was precisely what Joe Biden was warned against in 2021 when he decided to uphold Donald Trump’s Doha deal and pull out of Afghanistan....
...candidate like RFK Jr or Cornel West....
...Congress finally passed bills to fund the government, third-party presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr picked a running mate and Donald Trump introduced a $60 Bible to help fund his campaign....
...After talking to lots of clever people there, I came away feeling I’d overlooked the biggest risk to American democracy: that one or more third parties could win enough votes to throw the election to Donald...
...And yet Robert Kennedy Jr is running against Biden, to the dismay, I might say, of the rest of the Kennedy family. So those connections continue....
...Donald Trump is much less sympathetic to the EU than George Bush Jr certainly....
...Its Wilkie D Ferguson Jr federal courthouse was built only in 2007 and designed to resemble a cruise ship. It is a place where Trump is widely adored — not reviled....
...An array of police personnel and sniffer dogs were sweeping the area around the Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr federal courthouse on Monday even as authorities said no credible threats had been identified....
...Cyrus Vance, Jr The man who succeeded the legendary Robert Morgenthau as Manhattan district attorney and launched the Trump investigation in 2018....
...Peltz likes to say that he’d rather be rich than be right....
...Finally, I’d like to thank David Hindley for expertly steering the Week Ahead guide for the last fortnight....
...Hitchcock in 2023 would be all over streaming, however much film snobs might shudder, and he’d be making expansive, full-fat cinema....
...Also absent were key members of the president’s family, including his younger daughter, Tiffany, who got married at Mar-a-Lago just two days earlier; his son, Donald Jr, who was reportedly on a hunting trip...
...Jenkins had worked with Robert Kennedy Jr to co-produce a film called Medical Racism: The New Apartheid, which warned black people against vaccines....
...In addition to raising the former president’s three older children, Donald Jr, Ivanka and Eric, she was an author, designer and executive who ran one of her husband’s Atlantic City casinos, the Trump Castle...
...Pelosi, the only daughter of Maryland congressman Thomas D’Alesandro Jr, grew up in Baltimore’s Little Italy, where she was first exposed to the kind of bare-knuckle, ruthlessly effective politics that would...
...“I’d dated a lot of different women by then, but I’d never gotten seriously involved with any of them....
...In July of this year, Donald Allan, Jr. replaced Loree as CEO, and his cost-cutting measures affected the racial equity programmes Mimi had worked on over the past two years....
...“Everyone’s got skeletons, so I’d rather have him as a Republican, versus a Democrat.”...
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Elon Musk says he’d let Donald Trump back on Twitter. Elon MuskI would reverse the ban. Okay. I’m not I don’t own Twitter yet. So this is not like a thing that will definitely happen....
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