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POLITICO Playbook: Donors fret Trump’s grip on GOP as they descend on Palm Beach By Tara Palmeri, Eugene Daniels, Ryan Lizza POLITICO April 8, 2021 The Republican Party’s biggest donors are descending on DONALD TRUMP’S turf, Palm Beach, this weekend to huddle over the future of the party. But don’t take the location as a sign that these donors will be pledging allegiance to Trump at the RNC’s spring retreat, like the grassroots did at CPAC in Orlando last month. The program will focus on how to grow the party after Trump’s 2020 defeat. And a big part…
G.O.P. Group Warns of ‘Defector’ List if Donors Uncheck Recurring Box By Shane Goldmacher New York Times April 8, 2021 The political arm of House Republicans is deploying a prechecked box to enroll donors into repeating monthly donations — and using ominous language to warn them of the consequences if they opt out: “If you UNCHECK this box, we will have to tell Trump you’re a DEFECTOR.” The language appears to be an effort by the National Republican Congressional Committee to increase its volume of recurring donations, which are highly lucrative, while invoking former President Donald J. Trump’s…
‘Damn it … I’m sick and tired of ordinary people being fleeced’: Biden defends corporate tax hike By Ben Leonard POLITICO April 8, 2021 President Joe Biden on Wednesday defended raising the corporate tax rate to help pay for his infrastructure plan, saying he’s “sick and tired of ordinary people being fleeced.” Biden slammed former President Donald Trump’s corporate tax rate cuts, which he said mostly benefited the ultra-wealthy. “I didn’t hear anybody hollering in this recovery, so-called, before I became president, this k-shaped recovery. … Where is the outrage there?” Biden said in a White House speech.…
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Biden to unveil long-awaited executive action on guns By Anita Kumar POLITICO April 7, 2021 President Joe Biden is expected to unveil a long-awaited package of executive actions to curb gun violence Thursday at the White House, according to four people familiar with the plan. The announcement comes nearly three months into Biden’s term, a delay that had frustrated activists who wanted the president to fulfill a campaign pledge to take action on gun violence on his first day in office. That frustration only grew after a slate of mass shootings in Colorado, Georgia and California. Biden will…
Corporate America isn’t welcoming former Trump Cabinet officials with open arms, headhunters say By Tory Newmyer Washington Post April 7, 2021 Before she joined the Trump administration as transportation secretary, Elaine Chao earned millions of dollars over the past decade by serving on the boards of big public companies such as Dole Foods, Protective Life and Wells Fargo, according to corporate filings. She offered sterling credentials to businesses eager to keep current with the Republican leadership: A former banking executive, she became the first Asian American woman to serve in a Cabinet when President George W. Bush tapped…
Crowdsource the Truth April 7, 2021 The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled on Laura Loomer’s social media lawsuit, albeit indirectly. Laura and her attorney Larry Klayman join me to discuss the details of this monumental opinion which you just might have missed.
‘Less is more’: Greg Norman to scale back $400m business empire Yahoo News April 7, 2021 Greg Norman has revealed his plans to scale back his $400 million business empire and move home to Australia. The Aussie golf legend has 13 businesses in course design, apparel, hospitality and real estate, but wants to reduce his portfolio by more than half over the next five years. “I’m skinning down,” Norman told the ‘Four Courses’ podcast this week. The 66-year-old has sold two of the properties he owns with wife Kirsten Kutner in recent weeks, with a desire to eventually…
Freedom Watch TV April 7, 2021
Exclusive look inside the US supersonic presidential jet By Maureen O’Hare CNN April 6, 2021 (CNN) — The news broke last September that a California start-up was working with the US Air Force on developing a supersonic plane which could be used as Air Force One. Exosonic was handed a contract by the Presidential and Executive Airlift Directorate (PE) after impressing the military with its concept for a low-boom supersonic Mach 1.8 twinjet. Now CNN Travel has had an exclusive look inside the cabin interior of the executive transport plane designed to carry the US Executive Branch’s distinguished…