Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is expected to launch his presidential bid on Twitter Spaces, alongside Elon Musk, after a series of awkward, in-person encounters along the campaign trail thus far.
DeSantis is expected to announce his run at 6pm EST on Twitter on Wednesday, while the Governor’s donors attend an elite, private retreat at the Four Seasons Hotel in Miami.
The news comes shortly after Musk announced Linda Yaccarino, a World Economic Forum executive, as Twitter’s new Chief Executive Officer. Yaccarino has made public her desire to see speech limited on social media, a fact that has upset Twitter users who believed Musk was turning the platform into a free speech hub.
The announcement alongside Musk will surely raise questions about the platform’s bias during the 2024 election cycle. A high number of newly created bot accounts have been pushing Ron DeSantis messaging for months, with observers noting they even tweet the same things.
— Steak for Breakfast (@SteakforPodcast) May 17, 2023
One Trump advisor told the Pulse: “Announcing on Twitter is perfect for Ron DeSantis. This way he doesn’t have to interact with people and the media can’t ask him any questions.”
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is expected to launch his presidential bid on Twitter Spaces, alongside Elon Musk, after a series of awkward, in-person encounters along the campaign trail thus far.
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Apple and Broadcom have announced a multibillion-dollar agreement over 5G and wireless components to be made in Fort Collins, Colorado. The deal comes after former President Donald Trump negotiated the re-domiciling of Broadcom from Singapore to the United States in 2017, as well as convincing Apple themselves to invest in the years during, and since, his presidency.
“All of Apple’s products depend on technology engineered and built here in the United States, and we’ll continue to deepen our investments in the US. economy because we have an unshakable belief in America’s future,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a press release Tuesday.
In 2017, Broadcom’s CEO Hock Tan told lavished praise on Trump, telling reporters: “America is again the best place to lead a business with a global footprint. Thanks to you Mr. President, business conditions have steadily improved.” The company announced its intention to re-domicile in the United States shortly after.
Trump pledged in 2016 that he would “get Apple to build a big plant in the United States, or many big plants in the United States.” Cook soon announced $350 billion for new facilities creating 20,000 jobs, which later increased to $430 billion due to the economic growth of the Trump years.
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Apple and Broadcom have announced a multibillion-dollar agreement over 5G and wireless components to be made in Fort Collins, Colorado. The deal comes after former President Donald Trump negotiated the re-domiciling of Broadcom from Singapore to the United States in 2017, as well as convincing Apple themselves to invest in the years during, and since, his presidency.
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Legacy media outlets appear to be panicking as Donald Trump’s policy platform for 2024 comes into sharper focus, with it now being evident that the gloves will come off if he gets a second chance to “drain the swamp”.
In a brace of stories by former Bloomberg reporter Sophia Cai, corporate-owned news site Axios bemoaned Trump’s “new strong-man agenda” for 2024.
Cai, whose employer claims to be above pushing opinions on readers, complained that Trump’s “grievance-driven campaign” was “fueling a tear-it-all-down agenda” – and warned it could give the former president “control of virtually every facet of life in America.”
Some of the Agenda47 “strong man” policies she cited were:
Trump’s pledge to fire the “Radical Marxist Prosecutors Destroying America”.
Trump’s pledge to pass a law “prohibiting child sexual mutilation in all 50 states” and launch an investigation into whether “Big Pharma and the big hospital networks… have [d]eliberately covered up horrific long-term side-effects of ‘sex transitions’ to get rich at the expense of vulnerable patients.”
Trump’s pledge to repeal Biden’s “extremist agenda to destroy America’s suburbs” by pressuring them to construct “giant multi-family apartment complexes” in their midst – a policy designed to forcibly alter communities’ electoral and ethnic make-up, many suspect.
Trump’s pledge to introduce “baby bonuses” to support young parents, similar to those in conservative-led Hungary and Poland, to launch “a new baby boom” and obviate the alleged need for mass migration.
Trump’s pledge to “designate cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations” and use the military to “inflict maximum damage on cartel leadership and operations”.
Axios seemed particularly exercised about Trump’s desire “to give the president the authority to hire and fire federal workers at will” in order to “attack what he calls the ‘deep state.'”
Why it would be a problem for the people’s foremost elected representative be able to dispense with an entrenched bureaucracy of unelected officials thwarting voters’ wishes was left unclear.
New data released Tuesday shows Americans believe the media to be “truly the enemy of the people,” according to Rasmussen, who asked likely voters if they agreed with Trump’s 2019 tweet verbiage.
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Legacy media outlets appear to be panicking as Donald Trump's policy platform for 2024 comes into sharper focus, with it now being evident that the gloves will come off if he gets a second chance to "drain the swamp".
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President Biden’s policy requiring 67 percent of all new vehicles sold in the United States by 2032 to be electric vehicles (EVs) will only continue to benefit the Chinese monopoly over the market.
China has become the largest electric vehicle battery producer in the world by “figuring out how to make battery components efficiently and at lower costs,” explains the New York Times.
China is, moreover, the world leader in the manufacturing of EVs by some distance. By 2030, China will manufacture more than double the number of EVs than all other nations combined.
Most of the raw materials that support the batteries are refined by the Chinese Communist Party, such as lithium, manganese, cobalt, graphite, and nickel, compared to the United States, which has “little processing capacity” for raw materials.
The most important component in an EV is the cathode – a battery’s positive terminal which is responsible for costs and range – and yet the United States manufactures one percent of them.
To meet Biden’s strategic goals, therefore, the United States must depend more on the Chinese for its EV supply.
As Scott Kennedy argues, senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), “[t]here is no way anybody is going to become successful in electric vehicles without having some type of cooperation with China, either directly or indirectly.”
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President Biden's policy requiring 67 percent of all new vehicles sold in the United States by 2032 to be electric vehicles (EVs) will only continue to benefit the Chinese monopoly over the market.
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Nikki Haley’s campaign has attempted to land a blow of FloridaGovernor Ron DeSantis just days before he is due to officially enter the race for the Republican nomination. Haley, the neoconservative former UN Ambassador said in a memo released to POLITICO: “Ron DeSantis is like Trump, drama and all – but without any of the charm.”
Haley’s campaign manager argued in the memo, “DeSantis is echoing Trump on everything from policy to his body language and hand gestures,” but argues: “[t]he glaring difference between the two is DeSantis’ inability to interact directly with voters. The last several months have been filled with brutal headlines about his lack of basic people skills.”
“Ron DeSantis is like Trump, drama and all – but without any of the charm.”
– Nikki Haley for President
DeSantis, expected to announce his candidacy as early as tomorrow, is polling second, behind a distant Donald Trump. DeSantis removed the “FL” addendum from his Twitter handle yesterday. who has a 38-point lead. Nikki Haley is polling at around four percent.
You can read the full memo here, or using the source link, below.
A majority of likely U.S. voters – 59 percent – believe the media are ‘truly the enemy of the people,’ according to a recent survey by Rasmussen Reports. The quote is taken from a 2019 Donald Trump tweet.
The press is doing everything within their power to fight the magnificence of the phrase, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! They can’t stand the fact that this Administration has done more than virtually any other Administration in its first 2yrs. They are truly the ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!
The majority includes 35 percent who “strongly agree” with the statement and another 24 percent who “somewhat agree.”
A whopping 77 percent of Republicans agree with the statement, with 49 percent strongly agreeing. Only 20 percent disagree.
Almost half of Democrats – 44 percent – agree with the statement, with 24 percent strongly agreeing.
Trust in Media.
Rasmussen Reports also asked the 1,002 likely voters: “Do you trust the political news you are getting?”
The majority of American voters – 52 percent – answered “[n]o” to the question.
Almost two-thirds of Republicans are untrusting of the media – 65 percent. Democrats, too, are varied, with 35 percent answering “[n]o” and another 21 percent answering “[n]ot sure.”
Only 30 percent of the electorate answered “Yes,” with less than a quarter of Republicans – 22 percent – trusting the media and less than half of Democrats – 44 percent.
Coverage Bias.
Lastly, Rasmussen Reports asked: “Does the media coverage of politics generally tend to favor Democrats or Republicans.”
The majority of Americans – 52 percent – believe that the media’s coverage favors the Democrats, with 66 percent of Republicans and even 39 percent of Democrats concurring.
Neither Democrats nor Republicans believe that media coverage favors the GOP: only 21 percent of Democrats and 23 percent of Republicans thought otherwise.
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A majority of likely U.S. voters – 59 percent – believe the media are 'truly the enemy of the people,' according to a recent survey by Rasmussen Reports. The quote is taken from a 2019 Donald Trump tweet.
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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump both spent around 250 days away from the White House during their first terms; however, unlike Trump, Biden has spent nearly a month alone staying at the homes of his donors, reportsThe Washington Post.
Biden has spent large amounts of time as president at private properties “receiving favors from wealthy allies,” argues Phillip Bump.
At the end of 2022, he spent time at the home of Bill and Connie Neville, who donated $10,000 during Biden’s 2020 campaign as well as other Democrats such as Kirsten Gillibrand, Tommy Tuberville, Chuck Schumer, Mike Crapo, and Joe Manchin.
Biden also stayed at billionaire David Rubenstein’s $30 million Martha’s Vineyard compound twice during his presidency, including last Thanksgiving.
Last year, Biden vacationed at another $20 million South Carolina estate owned by Maria Allwin, who has previously donated to Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Kamala Harris. Allwin even donated $5,800 to the virulent anti-Trumper Liz Cheney, who was competing against Trump’s preferred nominee for the Wyoming House of Representatives, Harriet Hageman.
The vast majority of Trump’s vacation time, on the other hand, was spent at his own properties, playing golf or dining with club members, where “[h]is interactions with Mar-a-Lago customers in that facility’s dining room became the stuff of presidential legend,” states Bump.
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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump both spent around 250 days away from the White House during their first terms; however, unlike Trump, Biden has spent nearly a month alone staying at the homes of his donors, reportsThe Washington Post.
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The Ford Motor Company is remonstrating against people highlighting their ‘Very Gay Raptor’ campaign, with the firm insisting “[t]he video is a year old,” as some kind of excuse for what customers see as another “woke” incursion into corporate America.
“[The video] was created and used by the Ford team in Europe for a specific purpose – to make something positive out of a negative online comment that a color of our new Ranger Raptor pickup was ‘very gay,’” the spokesman told Reuters, which felt the need to dedicate a “fact-check” to the subject.
The video, in fact, just turned 11 months old, and the vehicle was featured in at least seven videos.
The Ford Motor Company is remonstrating against people highlighting their 'Very Gay Raptor' campaign, with the firm insisting “[t]he video is a year old," as some kind of excuse for what customers see as another "woke" incursion into corporate America.
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Writer E. Jean Carroll has filed yet another claim against former President Donald Trump, seeking $10 million more in compensatory damages for remarks made during a recent CNN town hall.
Trump, currently on the hook for $5m to Carroll, called the whack job a “whack job” during his interview with CNN and said that her accusations were “fake” and a “made-up story.”
Carroll’s #MeToo attorney, Robert Kaplan, filed the lawsuit on Monday, May 22, announcing that Carroll would be seeking “very substantial punitive damages award” for Trump’s comments.
Trump’s comments “show the depth of his malice toward Carroll, since it is hard to imagine defamatory conduct that could possibly be more motivated by hatred, ill will or spite,” Kaplan added.
Carroll, whose allegations against Trump are notably similar to a subplot of a Law and Order episode that aired in late 2012 and who has previously written about having sex with the former President seven years before her allegations were made public, toldThe New York Times regarding his rebuttal of the allegations: “It’s just stupid, it’s just disgusting, vile, foul, it wounds people.”
The political persecution of Donald Trump will also continue today as he is due to appear in court by video for his second hearing in the Melvin Bragg criminal case.
UPDATE: TRUMP ISSUES STATEMENT.
Donald Trump posted to his Truth social channel on Tuesday morning: “I don’t know E. Jean Carroll, I never met her or touched her (except on a celebrity line with her African American husband who she disgustingly called the “Ape,”), I wouldn’t want to know or touch her, I never abused her or raped her or took her to a dressing room 25 years ago in a crowded department store where the doors are LOCKED, she has no idea when, or did anything else to her, except deny her Fake, Made Up Story, that she wrote in a book. IT NEVER HAPPENED, IS A TOTAL SCAM, UNFAIR TRIAL!”
The former President went on: “The Carroll case is part of the Democrats playbook to tarnish my name and person, much like the now fully debunked Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, the 51 Intelligence Agents, FBI/Twitter Files, and so much more. It is being funded and tried by Democrat operatives, although this was denied by them, and when they got caught in the lie, the Clinton appointed judge would not let us use it in trial. Time will prove him to be highly partisan & very unfair. Where’s the dress she said she had?”
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Writer E. Jean Carroll has filed yet another claim against former President Donald Trump, seeking $10 million more in compensatory damages for remarks made during a recent CNN town hall.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has ditched Florida – specifically, removing the “FL” part of his social media username “RonDeSantisFL”. His account is now simply “RonDeSantis”.
It’s not clear why the Governor’s social media team felt they needed to remove the reference to his tenure as the governor of the Sunshine State, not least because the Florida legislature just passed controversial legislation changes so that he could technically remain Governor in name only while mounting a run for the White House.
DeSantis is expected to declare his official candidacy in the next few days, though he has been “shadow-campaigning” since January 2022, before he was even re-elected to the governor’s mansion in Tallahassee.
The removal of his Florida moniker on Twitter has already rankled locals, who believed they were electing him for a full second term. While he’s out campaigning during primary season, the state will be run by Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nunez, who has referred to former President Donald Trump as a KKK supporter and “con-man.”
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has ditched Florida – specifically, removing the "FL" part of his social media username "RonDeSantisFL". His account is now simply "RonDeSantis".
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