Donald Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll has been hailed as an “icon” at a media party in Manhattan, hosted by Rolling Stone editor-in-chief Noah Shachtman and MSNBC and Vanity Fair journalist Molly Jong-Fast.
Also in attendance at the ‘Flower Shop’ bar in the Lower East Side were MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell, Studio 360 host Kurt Andersen, former Saturday Night Live producer Marci Klein, Puck columnist Tara Palmeri, New York Times opinion columnist Lydia Polgreen, and Washington Post staff writer Sarah Ellison, according to Page Six.
“She looked like a hero. It’s great to see women winning the day,” said one unnamed eyewitness quoted by the New York Post. Another speculated the advice columnist “could buy the bar” after a New York court awarded her $83 million because Trump denied raping her in a luxury department store sometime in the 1990s.
Carroll has also said she will use the money to buy “premium dog food” and cause Trump “pain,” possibly by campaigning with Joe Biden for the 2024 election. She has cultivated a close relationship with journalists since commencing her lawsuits against the former president, which were funded by Democrat mega-donor Reid Hoffman.
Shortly after the most recent verdict in her favor, she appeared on MSNBC and offered to take host Rachel Maddow shoe shopping and buy her a penthouse. Trump does not have to pay Carroll until he exhausts his options to appeal.
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Donald Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll has been hailed as an “icon” at a media party in Manhattan, hosted by Rolling Stone editor-in-chief Noah Shachtman and MSNBC and Vanity Fair journalist Molly Jong-Fast.
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The Democrat SuperPAC backing President Biden’s re-election bid is reserving television air time it claims will be the largest political ad buy in U.S. history. Future Forward plans to reserve $250 million worth of advertising through a variety of mediums across the country.
Future Forward says the bulk of its ad buy — $140 million — will be committed to television, while the remaining $110 million will be spread across digital and streaming services. The spending represents a significant uptick from the group’s expenditure during Biden’s 2020 campaign, in which the Democrat-aligned SuperPAC spent $151 million.
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The SuperPAC plans to target critical battlegrounds, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, with a barrage of ads from August to Election Day. Future Forward’s campaigns are expected to spotlight topics such as Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and various Latino concerns in Arizona, Nevada, and Pennsylvania.
President Biden’s 2024 campaign committee and the PrioritiesUSA SuperPAC have already rolled out a strategy centered around a significant use of social media to mainly target the presumptive Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump. The SuperPAC and Biden campaign’s aggressive spending is likely in response to recent polls showing Trump leading the Democrat incumbent in most swing states.
Pollsindicate that concerns about the 81-year-old Biden’s advanced age, his handling of inflation, increasing global instability, and the ongoing border crisis are fueling voter uncertainty toward his re-election.
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The Democrat SuperPAC backing President Biden's re-election bid is reserving television air time it claims will be the largest political ad buy in U.S. history. Future Forward plans to reserve $250 million worth of advertising through a variety of mediums across the country.
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E. Jean Carroll’s post-trial publicity tour is undercutting her testimony that former President Donald Trump’s comments on social media and in the press drew undue attention to her, causing reputational damage. Appearing on CBS Mornings, Carroll told the panel of hosts that instead of the the spotlight being on her, she — and the media — are the ones drawing attention to Trump and giving him “power.” Separately, on Good Morning America, she said she’d like to use the money to cause Donald Trump “pain.”
“We’re the ones who clothe him in all this power,” Carroll said, referencing the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale The Emperor’s New Clothes. She added: “He has none himself, it’s his followers. It’s his hangers-on. In the court, they were strutting back and forth, handing him messages.”
After making the admission, Carroll suddenly looked at her lawyer Roberta Kaplan — seated next to her for the interview — and asked, “Right Robbie?” before breaking the line of thought entirely.
During Carroll’s second defamation trial against former President Trump, her legal team relied heavily on the argument that the former President’s posts to his massive social media audience brought negative attention to Carroll, hurting her professional and social standing. They called on Northwestern University marking and communications professor Ashlee Humphreys to bolster their claim as an ‘expert witness’ on reputational damage and repair. Upon cross-examination, however, Prof. Humphreys admitted she had no real-life experience in the field of reputational management.
When asked about former President Trump’s campaign to return to the White House and if she’s spoken with his opponent, President Joe Biden, Carroll said she had not. The CBS panel then asked her if she could join Biden in campaigning against Trump, with Carroll responding: “I’d do anything I can.”
In another Sunday appearance on Good Morning America with George Stephanopoulos, Carroll said she is considering using some of the $83.3 million judgment against Trump to “cause him pain.”
She told the host: “I’d like to give the money to something Donald Trump hates. If it will cause him pain for me to give money to certain things, that’s my intent.”
Last week, a New York City jury ordered former President Trump to pay Carroll nearly $90 million in damages.
“The elation was so great on Friday, it filled me up. It was almost painful.”
E. Jean Carroll and her attorney Roberta Kaplan share their reaction to the jury ordering former Pres. Trump to pay Carroll $83.3 million in damages. https://t.co/467d4oa1Gupic.twitter.com/CFmyXbIfFI
E. Jean Carroll's post-trial publicity tour is undercutting her testimony that former President Donald Trump's comments on social media and in the press drew undue attention to her, causing reputational damage. Appearing on CBS Mornings, Carroll told the panel of hosts that instead of the the spotlight being on her, she — and the media — are the ones drawing attention to Trump and giving him "power." Separately, on Good Morning America, she said she'd like to use the money to cause Donald Trump "pain."
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‘Never Trump conservative’ turned New York Times columnist David French has admitted to being not “just wrong” but “completely, embarrassingly wrong” about Donald Trump and the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement.
While making clear that he is not coming around to the notion of putting America First, French explains in a new New York Times column that just before Trump burst onto the political scene, “The winds were shifting. I could sense it, but I didn’t fully understand it. Not until Trump made it all plain.”
French, who has now spent the best part of a decade bemoaning the 45th President, now acknowledges the “bond” between Donald Trump and most Republican voters and concludes:
“I don’t regret my arguments against Trump. I’d make them again, and I will continue making them. I do ask myself how I missed the sheer extent of Republican anger. And I’m deeply, deeply grieved by the thought that I did anything in my life before Trump to contribute to that unrighteous rage.”
‘Never Trump conservative’ turned New York Times columnist David French has admitted to being not “just wrong” but “completely, embarrassingly wrong” about Donald Trump and the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement.
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MSNBC host and Russia hoaxer Rachel Maddow has claimed President Trump’s return to the White House would represent “the end of politics,” comparing the 45th President to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, implicitly suggesting the nation of Hungary has “no politics.”
Billing herself as an expert in authoritarianism, Maddow proffered, “On the Viktor Orban thing… that’s really what [Trump] is offering.”
She continued: “What he’s offering is….’If you pick me, that’ll be the end of politics, and you won’t have to deal with politics anymore. You won’t have to deal with contested elections, you won’t have to deal with contests or divisions when it comes to power. You’ll have a strongman leader and I’ll just do what I want, and won’t that be a lot simpler?'”
Former Biden spokesman Jen Psaki nodded her head in agreement throughout Maddow’s rant, flexing their shared geopolitical ignorance.
Hungary contests elections regularly, with “politics” and political debate as fierce as anywhere else in the world.
Under Orban — who has previously lost an election, departing office without resistance — the country regularly holds referendum-like “national consultations” on major issues, to discover whether the public backs government policies against LGBTQ content aimed at children, mass migration, and so on. Hungary is also a NATO ally and European Union member-state.
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.@maddow: "This is the special sauce. Donald Trump is not leading the Republican Party and leading the Republican field because of his youthful vigor… What he's offering is strongman leadership, the end of politics, the end of elections." pic.twitter.com/dzht9VNz8D
MSNBC host and Russia hoaxer Rachel Maddow has claimed President Trump's return to the White House would represent "the end of politics," comparing the 45th President to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, implicitly suggesting the nation of Hungary has "no politics."
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Maddow, supposedly so concerned about “the end of politics,” has openly suggested that Joe Biden’s Justice Department should use the political prosecutions it has been piling on Trump to force him out of the presidential race
Maddow, supposedly so concerned about “the end of politics,” has openly suggested that Joe Biden’s Justice Department should use the political prosecutions it has been piling on Trump to force him out of the presidential race show more
Sports Illustrated (SI) laid off its entire staff and the iconic sports brand could be headed to the graveyard after years of woke journalism and a recent artificial intelligence scandal.
The details: According to a letter to staff sent on Friday morning, Arena Group will lay off its SI staff, noting some employees would be terminated immediately and others would work through the next 90 days.
“Go woke, go broke”:In recent years, SI has allowed progressive narratives to creep into its journalism. For example:
Transgender: The 2021 and 2023 SI Swimsuit edition featured a transgender biological male [pictured above] on its cover.
Obesity: In recent years, SI featured obese women in runway shows and their swimsuit editions to promote ‘body positivity’ which is contradictory to a brand that’s supposed to be about athletics.
Gender pay gap: The brand wrote articles about closing the ‘gender pay gap’ in sports, a movement that ignores the reality that men’s sports bring in more revenue.
The AI scandal: Last year SI was caught using artificial intelligence-generated articles and posting them under the names of fake journalists. Making matters worse, SI tried to deny it.
Back up: The SI brand is owned by a company called Authentic Brands Group (ABG). ABG licenses SI to a company called the Arena Group for $15 million per year in exchange for the rights to publish in print and online.
Rent’s due: Arena Group missed a $3.75 million payment to ABG earlier this month.
What happens next? It’s too early to tell whether ABG will find a new licensee, work out a deal with Authentic Brands, or shutter the brand entirely.
Sports Illustrated (SI) laid off its entire staff and the iconic sports brand could be headed to the graveyard after years of woke journalism and a recent artificial intelligence scandal.
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Rolling Stone magazine has published a ‘listicle‘ of the “awful things” they allege former President Donald Trump will do should he win a second term in the White House on November 5th, 2024. The left-wing publication details a list of policies detailed in Trump’s Agenda47 campaign platform and ideas he’s pushed on the campaign trail — most of which have received widespread support among the electorate. However, according to Rolling Stone, the agenda former President Trump has laid out for a second term is emblematic of an “authoritarian agenda.” The actions they say he’ll take include:
He will indict Biden and his other political enemies;
He will round up, intern, and deport undocumented immigrants;
He will round up the homeless and send the National Guard into cities to fight crime;
He will bring back the death penalty in a big way;
He will make stuff more expensive by taxing all imported goods;
He will reevaluate America’s participation in NATO;
He will roll back all of Biden’s climate progress and reinvest in fossil fuels;
He will construct “freedom cities” filled with flying cars;
He will try to overhaul the education system in the MAGA image;
He will torch the First Amendment by going after non-MAGA media;
He will legally delegitimize trans-Americans;
He will pardon the Jan. 6 rioters;
He will gut the federal government and take unprecedented control of what’s left.
Many of the “authoritarian” actions Rolling Stone says Trump will take poll favorably among voters. Nearly two-thirds of voters say they want mass deportations of illegal immigrants. An additional 64 percent supports temporarily militarizing the U.S.’s southern border.
The Biden government has preserved many of the tariffs former President Trump enacted during his first term — actions which Rolling Stone claims are a tax on “all imported goods”. Other agenda items the magazine claims Trump plans to enact are exaggerations. For instance, Trump hasn’t said he’ll invade Mexico — though he has said he’d authorize strikes against drug cartels and designate them as terrorist organizations.
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Rolling Stone magazine has published a 'listicle' of the "awful things" they allege former President Donald Trump will do should he win a second term in the White House on November 5th, 2024. The left-wing publication details a list of policies detailed in Trump's Agenda47 campaign platform and ideas he's pushed on the campaign trail — most of which have received widespread support among the electorate. However, according to Rolling Stone, the agenda former President Trump has laid out for a second term is emblematic of an "authoritarian agenda." The actions they say he'll take include:
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CNN’s new chief executive, Sir Mark Thompson, is considering ways to make people pay to watch news clips on their cell phones as people increasingly turn away from cable news.
Sir Mark said he did not think anyone had yet “cracked the code” on how moving to a subscription model “truly translates to a great news experience,” but noted younger consumers generally get their news from their smartphones relatively early in the day.
They should be willing to pay for that, he said, provided his network “can figure out a way of [making] sure it’s a high quality, differentiated product” on offer.
Sir Mark cautioned he was “not even sure that subscription is the right pathway for CNN.” Still, he said he “do[es] think we need to start experimenting and exploring in the broader sense direct-to-consumer relationships and potentially direct-to-consumer paying relationships.”
The British CNN chief is a former President and CEO of The New York Times and, before that, Director-General and CEO of the state-owned BBC and Channel 4 in his home country.
He will be hoping any new subscription model he adopts does not go the way of the CNN+ streaming service, which tanked within a month of being launched in 2022.
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CNN’s new chief executive, Sir Mark Thompson, is considering ways to make people pay to watch news clips on their cell phones as people increasingly turn away from cable news.
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On Wednesday, the New York Times opinion page admitted the political reality for ex-South Carolina Governor Nimrata ‘Nikki’ Haley: she lacks a realistic path to victory for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
“But even if Ms. Haley does well in New Hampshire, it won’t matter,” Damon Linker writes, adding: “That’s because Ms. Haley is starkly out of step with the evolution of her party over the past decade.”
Former President Donald Trump’s appeal among non-college-educated voters poses an insurmountable hurdle for Haley, according to the Linker, a senior lecturer in the department of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. These voters have “grown weary of candidates emphasizing cuts to entitlements and taxes on the wealthy while also favoring liberal rates of immigration, free-trade agreements that resulted in manufacturing jobs being shipped abroad.”
Haley’s vocal support for raising the retirement age, slashing social security, and cutting other entitlements has been a persistent point of criticism against the former South Carolina Governor on the campaign trail. Her embrace of U.S. interventionism abroad, especially in Ukraine, has also proven to be out of step with much of the Republican electorate — though not with Democrat mega-donors.
Haley finished third place in Monday’s Iowa Republican Caucus, gaining only eight Republican convention delegates to former President Donald Trump’s twenty delegates. The former President won the Caucus by a historic margin with 51 percent of the vote to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s 21.2 percent and Haley’s 19.1 percent.
“New Hampshire is overwhelmingly likely to end up as the high-water mark for her campaign,” the Times says of the Haley campaign, noting that Republicans will still prefer Trump as “they’d rather go into the general election with someone they feel they can trust.”
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On Wednesday, the New York Times opinion page admitted the political reality for ex-South Carolina Governor Nimrata 'Nikki' Haley: she lacks a realistic path to victory for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
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DID YOU KNOW: Before Monday’s Iowa vote, the late Senator Bob Dole (R-NC) held the record for margin of victory in the state — winning the 1988 Caucus by 12
DID YOU KNOW: Before Monday’s Iowa vote, the late Senator Bob Dole (R-NC) held the record for margin of victory in the state — winning the 1988 Caucus by 12 show more
One of the world’s largest commercial news publishers, Reach, owner of the far-left Daily Mirror, the right-leaning Daily Express, and over 100 local newspapers, has parted ways with senior staff and cut around 800 jobs within the space of one year.
The Daily Mirror‘s first female editor, Alison Phillips, reportedly left by mutual agreement, following group editor-in-chief, Lloyd Embley, who abruptly left last summer. Phillips was a 26-year veteran of the left-leaning tabloid. The moves fueled concerns that the pre-Christmas job cuts may continue this year, further plunging the group into crisis.
“Everyone is reeling,” one longtime staffer told The Guardian. “Everyone is saying the same thing. We are done. There is no real faith in the direction and support for the title. There is a lot of despondency. I have been here a long time and I have never seen staff morale so low.”
In addition to The Daily Mirror and the Daily Express, Reach owns the Daily Star, the Daily Record, the Manchester Evening News, the Liverpool Echo, and over 100 other local newspapers and websites across the United Kingdom.
Although it is the sixth biggest online operation in the UK after Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and the BBC — and the UK’s largest newspaper group — Reach’s digital revenues dropped by £21 million (~$26.7 million) in 2023 to just £127.8 million (~$162.6 million). Reach’s market valuation, which was a whopping £1.3 billion (~$1.65 billion) in mid-2021, has plummeted to just £220m (~$280 million) in less than three years.
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One of the world's largest commercial news publishers, Reach, owner of the far-left Daily Mirror, the right-leaning Daily Express, and over 100 local newspapers, has parted ways with senior staff and cut around 800 jobs within the space of one year.
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