Donald Trump details Melania's key role in the campaign and how Barron could be crucial to 2024 victory

• Donald Trump gave a no-question-off-limits interview at his Mar-a-Lago home

• He talked about his family and why he believes his campaign is still on track

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By ROB CRILLY, CHIEF U.S. POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM IN PALM BEACH, FLORIDA

UPDATED: 12:38 EDT, 3 September 20241/2

Ask Donald Trump, a man known for putting his family at the heart of his political and his business worlds, whether we will see more of former First Lady Melania on the campaign trail and his eyes light up.

For a moment.

'Well, I would like to. It's not a question of that. It's a nasty world for me,' he said, six weeks after an assassin's bullet ripped through his ear.

'It's not nasty for Democrats like it is for me.And I would like to have my family not have to go out there and go in front of some of the things that you know happen.'

Melania, he said, cares deeply about the country.

'She'll do whatever necessary. But my kids haven't been treated properly,' he said. 'She hasn't been treated properly.'

Visiting Mar-a-Lago out of season feels like sneaking behind the curtain of Trump World. The club is closed until Halloween while members are summering in the less humid air of Europe or California. Half the lawns have been ripped up and reseeded. An outbuilding is having its terracotta tiles replaced.

But the living room is a hive of activity, the center of Donald Trump's business and political worlds. Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and a key player in his administration and 2020 election campaign, emerges from the tea room after a business meeting. Corey Lewandowski, who joined the campaign recently as a senior figure, hovers nearby, eyes on his phone.

And Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization, comes and goes with the air of a man who spent part of his childhood growing up around the antique Spanish tiles, arches and heraldic reliefs of the club.

Trump sat down with DailyMail.com last Wednesday, part of a strategy of keeping up media pressure on his opponent Kamala Harris who by then had gone 38 days as the Democratic candidate without holding an interview.

It seemed to be a strategy that was working for her. Her fundraising hit record levels and she moved ahead of Trump in national polls, all without risking any awkward questions.

Trump and his team had expected a honeymoon when Democrats ditched 81-year-old Biden and he insisted he was happy with the way his campaign was going.

'You know, they had no bounce on their convention. You saw the numbers,' he said, referring to polls showing Harris did not seemed to have picked up support after a week with the media focused on Democrats in Chicago.

'And the reason is, she won't talk to anybody. So it's either because she can't explain how she changed every single policy she had, or she's incompetent.'

He was still buzzing from Robert J. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard's endorsements, and swatted away questions about how he would recover from falling behind in the polls.'It's been a great month,' he said. 'I don't understand that question.'

Trump does not usually do interviews in the Mar-a-Lago living room. Its gold leaf ceiling, modeled on the 'Thousand-Wing Ceiling' of the Accademia in Venice, is a glittering distraction with its shimmering sunbursts.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13793273/donald-trump-melania-barron-mar-lago-influencer-campaign.html

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The walls are adorned with vast silk needlework panels from a Venetian Palace, all acquired by the home's original owner Marjorie Merriweather Post, who left it to the nation as a 'Winter White House.'

That is what it became when Trump took office in 2017, hosting world leaders and running his administration in between rounds of golf during weekends away from Washington.

These days Trump is too busy for a full 18 holes. Instead, with the campaign in full swing, he said he had just managed to hit a few balls at his West Palm Beach golf club (about a 10-minute drive away) before sitting down with DailyMail.com.

In the meantime, he has been experimenting with a new audience, engaging with YouTubers and other kinds of online 'influencers,' thanks to his own, in-house expert on Gen Z: 18-year-old son Barron.

'He knows so much about it,' said, his eyes brimming with paternal pride. 'Adin Ross, you know, I mean, I do some people that I wasn't so familiar with, different generation. He knows every one of them. And we've had tremendous success.'

The livestream with Ross was filmed at Mar-a-Lago and had more than 580,000 live viewers at its peak, making it the third most concurrently viewed stream on the Kick platform this year. Trump cut a relaxed figure as he picked out a playlist in a Tesla Cyber Truck, and even danced with Ross at the end.

He also showed a different side of himself when he appeared on Barron Trump's favorite podcast, This Past Weekend with Theo Von, at one point discussing the finer points of alcohol and illegal narcotics.

'Is cocaine a stronger up?' the former president asked.

He lags his rival among younger voters, according to the latest J.L.

Partners/DailyMail.com poll. It found that 32 percent of 18 to 29-year-olds plan to vote for Trump, compared with 48 percent for Harris (although Trump holds a two-point lead overall.'

But Barron is helping try to bridge that gap by using platforms that were new to Trump, who stumbled over the specifics as he tried to describe them. 'We did three unusual .. I don't know what you'd call them, but it's a platform with three people that I don't know, but three people that Barron knows very well,' he said.

'He actually calls all of them like friends of his, because it's a different generation. They don't grow up watching television the same way as we did. They grow up looking at the Internet or watching a computer, right?'

Like his protective mother, Barron has appeared with his father sparingly.

Melania has picked her moments carefully. She received a thunderous reception at the party convention in Milwaukee and issued a public statement in the wake of the attempt on her husband's life,calling on people to remember that love was worth more than political differences.

As far as Trump is concerned it is one thing for him to take the bullets and the brickbats, another for his family to be in the firing line.

'My kids gave up so much, and all they did is get accused of Russia, Russia, Russia and all these hoaxes, you know, misinformation, disinformation,' he said.

'I don't want them to be hurt by the horrible things that Democrats are willing to do.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13793273/donald-trump-melania-barron-mar-lago-influencer-campaign.html

Donald Trump reflects on the impact the shooting has had on his life and his campaign and, reveals how friends have asked whether he's getting help for PTSD

• Donald Trump sat down with DailyMail.com at his Mar-a-Lago home Wednesday

• He discussed the aftermath of a gunman's attempt on his life during a rally

By ROB CRILLY, CHIEF U.S. POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT IN PALM BEACH, FLORIDA UPDATED: 3 September 2024

Six weeks after an assassin's bullet tore through his ear,Donald Trump said the attack had left no mental scars and he had not felt the need for any counseling.

'A couple of people have asked me that, and I have had no impact,' he told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview. 'It's just amazing.'

He went on to describe in spiritual terms how the moment had crystallized in his mind the importance of his political mission.

Trump was in full flow at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July when a gunshot echoed through the crowd. He raised his hand to his bloody ear in disbelief, before ducking to the ground where he was quickly shielded by a cocoon of Secret Service agents.

A week later he resumed his trademark rallies, indoors at first and then outdoors again two weeks ago with the protection of a bulletproof screen.

Trump, 78, said he had suffered no flashbacks or bad dreams of the sort associated with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and had felt no need for counseling.'But I have not had any, I must tell you, I don't think about it a lot,' he said. 'I don't want to think about it a lot, but I've had … no it's had no impact. It healed up.'

Trump talked about everything from his family to policy and the state of the campaign during the interview in the opulent living room of his Mar-a-Lago home, which serves as his political headquarters.

And he talked frankly about the moment that could have ended his life and what it means for his 2024 run.

Trump had looked invincible in the aftermath. He followed it up with a Lazarus-like appearance at his party's convention in Milwaukee, where attendees talked about miracles, divine intervention and the religious symbolism of the date, July 13 (when the Holy Mother revealed the third secret of Fatima in 1917.)

But his solid lead in the polls evaporated when Joe Biden bowed to pressure from his party and stepped aside to allow his vice president, Kamala Harris, to become the Democratic nominee.

Even so, Trump said he could not shrug off the idea that something divine happened when he turned his headto look at a chart of border data just at the right moment to all but avoid a shooter's bullet.

'And you know what I'd love to think, I would love to think it's God, and it's God doing it because he wants to save America,'he said. 'He sees what's happening. God sees what's happening in America.

'We're going bad as a country. Even with religion, we're going bad.

'You look at the charts, and I would like to say that it is God that saved me.

It wasn't just just luck, but the reason would be that he saved me, because I can save this country. I hope that's right.'

He spoke to DailyMail.com during a day at home, in between campaign stops around the country. Nothing was off limits.

He said he was happy with the state of his campaign, days after winning the endorsement of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who ended his run as an independent.

And he laid out his position on abortion and plans to resume federal executions.

(Former President Donald Trump discussed the after effects of a bullet slicing through his ear, but said he had shrugged off friends' concerns that he should have counselling)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13797467/donald-trump-counseling-shooting-interview.html

German Elites Call For "Firewall" To Prevent Conservative Governance After AfD Election Win

BY TYLER DURDEN TUESDAY, SEP 03, 2024 - 07:45 AM1/2

The coalition system of government common to European nations is supposedly designed to prevent the formation of authoritarian regimes by diluting power among a greater number of parties. But, as the last decade has shown, it has only allowed for increasing socialist control in the EU under progressive and globalist politicians. Most parties do not represent the will of the public but they collude to form bureaucratic cartels that gatekeep conservatives out of the process.

The majority of Europeans do not support open immigration from the third world, they do not support oppressive carbon controls and they do not support the expansion of wars with eastern nations like Russia. These are all policies which EU progressives are trying to force on the public anyway. That's called tyranny.

Far from stopping authoritarianism, coalition parties have normalized leftist oligarchy. But the people of Europe (and the UK) are not staying quiet any longer.

In Germany, the conservative AfD party (labeled right wing extremists by German Intel) have won their biggest victory since the party was launched in 2013. The movement has secured an election win in the state of Thuringia by a wide margin and a very close second in Saxony. The AfD is largely supported by younger voters (18-24) who are tired of the German socialist status quo of high taxes, high inflation and rising crime.

The outcome has stunned German leftists who are now worried that future state elections and the national election in 2025 will have a similar result.

Elections in all the German states are hugely important. Not only are they some of the most powerful subnational bodies in Europe, they also have influence at the federal level through the Bundesrat – Germany’s upper house.

The AFD's founding was in direct response to Germany and the EU's mass immigration policies, inviting millions of third-world migrants and Islamic fundamentalists into the west without any vetting process.

Progressive and globalist leaders across Europe continue to pretend as if the concerns over immigration are held by a fringe minority, then act shocked when parties like the AfD win elections.Olaf Scholz, the German Chancellor and lawmaker for the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), asserts that conservatives cannot be allowed to hold power in Germany regardless of voter decisions. He stated this week:

“Our country cannot and must not get used to this…The AfD is damaging Germany. It is weakening the economy, dividing society and ruining our country’s reputation…”

The Chancellor failed to explain how the AfD could be "weakening the economy" when the economy has been under socialist control for decades.Mr. Scholz urged other parties to block the AfD from governingby maintaining a so-called "firewall" against it.

"All democratic parties are now called upon to form stable governments without right-wing extremists," he said, calling the results "bitter" and "worrying".

The establishment media is now engaged in a vicious propaganda war against the AfD, with numerous outlets comparing them directly to "Nazis" despite the fact that the Nazis were far-left, not far-right.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/german-elites-call-firewall-prevent-conservative-governance-after-afd-election-win

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Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini were both open proponents of Marxism and sought to apply Marxist ideals within their National Socialist governments. As Hitler noted in a January 27, 1934, interview with Hanns Johst in Frankforter Volksblatt:

“National Socialism derives from each of the two camps the pure idea that characterizes it, national resolution from bourgeois tradition; vital, creative socialism from the teachings of Marxism…”

Fascism has very little in common with conservative movements. Defense of national borders and cultural identity are not intrinsically fascist ideals. The political left would like everyone to believe otherwise.

Scholz's call for a coalition "firewall" in Thuringia, Saxony and other states as a means to prevent the AfD from governing is the same tactic used by Emmanuel Macron in France to shut out Marine Le Pen's conservative National Front party despite their numerous election victories. Macron pressed "moderate" progressives to align with full-bore communists as a means to overrule French voters and keep conservatives out of the process once again.

While this strategy is technically legal, it is an affront to the democratic process that leftists claim to hold so sacred. The champions of "democracy" are enraged that the majority isn't voting their way and so they have decided to usurp the election process entirely.

Under these conditions, conflict is inevitable.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/german-elites-call-firewall-prevent-conservative-governance-after-afd-election-win

Scholz is negating that many Germans voted for this party, so he is ready to eliminate the votes of citizens because he knows he is truly hated by the majority of Germany. Blaming it on AfD is to try to divert he’s been a Nazi leader in action, and pushing Germany to war. Most Germans have no problem with Russians either. He doesn’t like that. He will lose, because of this political deception and misuse of power.

Volkswagen Considers First-Ever Germany Factory Closures As Economic Troubles Mount

BY TYLER DURDEN TUESDAY, SEP 03, 2024 - 06:55 AM

News broke Monday that Volkswagen is considering plant closures in Germany.The auto giant faces falling profits due to slowing sales in China and other major markets. This development comes as Europe's largest economy teeters on the verge of recession after reporting a slight contraction in second-quarter growth. Earlier this summer, VW's Audi revealed a billion-dollar investment in Mexico, as the company's future manufacturing could be overseas in the Americas.

Several financial outlets are reporting VW's potential factory closure plan, including Bloomberg, which said, "VW is considering unprecedented factory closures in Germany in a bid for deeper cutbacks, delivering another blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government."

"The economic environment has become even tougher and new players are pushing into Europe," VW CEO Oliver Blume wrote in a statement, adding,"Germany as a business location is falling further behind in terms of competitiveness."

Bloomberg noted,"Any shutdowns would mark the first closures in Germany during the company's 87-year history, setting VW up for a clash with powerful unions."

Financial Times quoted Daniela Cavallo, chair of the council that represents VW's workers, who wrote in a note to workers that VW brand chief executiveThomas Schäfer "admitted" on Monday that cost savings programs had failed by several billions of euros, pushing VW into the red.

"As a result, the executive board is now questioning German plants, the VW in-house collective wage agreements and the job security programme running until the end of 2029," said Cavallo.

Cavalla called the plans "an attack on our employment, workplaces, and collective bargaining agreements."

VW deliveries in China were down 20% amid a broader decline in petrol-powered vehicles in the second quarter. A spokesperson told Reuters in June,

"We do not expect an easy year."

Meanwhile, VW's Audi plant in Brussels has come under scrutiny this summer after the carmaker announced a one billion euro ($1.08 billion) investment in electric vehicle projects in the Mexican state of Puebla. There are mounting risks Audi could start moving EV production to Mexico.

Besides sputtering VW sales and the largest economy in the EU at risk of recession, the country's political environment has also become more chaotic.

Populist Alternative for Germany, or AfD, has become the first far-right party to win a state election in Germany since 1945.

Rising populism is driven by a national government run by weak liberals that have overseen an economy withhigh inflation, disastrous immigration, and growing skepticism for military aid for Ukraine. These are all new pressures Chancellor Olaf Scholz's center-left government.

In markets, VW shares trading in Germany recently slipped below Covid lows, touching levels not seen since 2011.

Maybe the West sabotaging Russia's Nord Stream pipeline that hooked Germany on cheap NatGas wasn't such a great idea as Europe's top economic powerhouse becomes less competitive. This only suggests increasing deindustrial risks, loss of jobs, and more socio-economic discontent across the bloc.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/volkswagen-considers-first-ever-germany-factory-closures-economic-troubles-mount

(this article makes me very happy, Scholz and Macronprovoked this war with Russia, and Ukraine, they lied to the people, they stole their money, they downgraded expensive nuclear power power plants for green shit energy, Scholz gave the go ahead to blow up the pipeline-very possibly, the leaders hate Trump, Germany causes problems everywhere, and aligned with NATO, that want's a war everywhere, Scholz and the others deserve everything they get. And they are still giving billions to Ukraine to money launder for him and others.)

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The FBI has known this for many years, do they stop them from coming in. Even Chinese are at the FBI that find out to be spies.

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That's odd I was talking to a friend that's been a therapist for 25 years and he says exactly the same thing last week. They almost never get over it.

Elton John says he’s recuperating from ‘severe’ infection that left him with ‘limited vision in one eye’

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN

Updated: 4:17 PM EDT, Tue September 3, 2024

Source: CNN

Rock and roll legend Elton John is in healing mode.

The “Rocket Man” singer shared on his Instagram page on Tuesday that he’s been “dealing with a severe eye infection that has unfortunately left me with only limited vision in one eye.”

“I am healing, but it’s an extremely slow process and it will take some time before sight returns to the impacted eye,” John wrote, before thanking the “excellent team of doctors and nurses and my family” for taking such good care of him over the last few weeks.

“I have been quietly spending the summer recuperating at home,” he wrote, adding that he is “feeling positive about the progress I have made in my healing and recovery thus far.”

John did not elaborate on the nature of the infection. CNN has reached out to a representative for John for comment.

While John officially retired from touring in 2023 after decades of performing live, he is still sharing his life with the world through an upcoming Disney+ documentary titled “Elton John: Never Too Late.”

“Never Too Late” will feature a new song from the Grammy-winner, according to a news release, and is billed as an “emotionally charged, intimate and uplifting full-circle journey” that follows John as he looks back on his 50-year career.

The film will also chronicle the preparation ahead of his final concert in North America at Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium, as he recounts “the extraordinary highs and heartbreaking lows of his early years and how he overcame adversity, abuse and addiction to become the icon he is today.”

Disney+ previously released the “Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium” special, which earned John an Emmy and cemented his status as an EGOT-winner.

“Elton John: Never Too Late” will be available to stream on Disney+ on December 13.

https://lite.cnn.com/2024/09/03/entertainment/elton-john-eye-infection/index.html

September 02, 2024 | Press Release

Attor¬ney Gen¬er¬al Ken Pax¬ton Warns Bexar and Har¬ris Coun¬ties Against Unlaw¬ful Attempts to Send Vot¬er Reg¬is¬tra¬tion Appli-ca¬tions to Unver¬i¬fied Recipients

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a letter to the Bexar and Harris counties commissioners courtswarning that their proposed plans to mail voter registration forms to individuals regardless of the eligibility of the recipients would violate the law.

On September 3, 2024, the Bexar County Commissioners Court will consider using taxpayer funds to pay a third-party vendor to print and distribute voter registration forms to unregistered individuals residing in the county. A similar plan has been under consideration by the Harris County Commissioners Court.The distribution of forms to unverified recipients could induce ineligible people—such as felons and noncitizens—to commit a crime by attempting to register to vote. Further, Texas counties have no statutory authority to print and mail state voter registration forms, making the proposal fundamentally illegal.

If the Bexar County Commissioners Court votes to adopt the measure at its meeting tomorrow, Attorney General Paxton will sue to enforce Texas law. Attorney General Paxton will take similar action against Harris County should it choose to follow suit.

“It is unlawful and reckless for counties to use taxpayer dollars to indiscriminately send voter registration forms with no consideration of the recipients’ eligibility and without any statutory authority to do so,” said Attorney General Paxton. “These counties’ attempts to do so after the Biden-Harris Administration has allowed millions of illegal aliens to enter the country are especially troubling.”

The letters further warned: “It is more important than ever that we maintain the integrity of our voter rolls and ensure only eligible voters decide our elections.

Your proposal does the opposite by indiscriminately inviting county residents to register to vote regardless of their eligibility. I urge you to abandon this proposal. If you do not, I will see you in court.”

To read the letter to Bexar County, click here.

To read the letter to Harris County, click here.

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-warns-bexar-and-harris-counties-against-unlawful-attempts-send-voter

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Texas AG Paxton targets voter registration in state’s biggest Latino counties

Saul Elbein Tue, September 3, 2024 at 12:13 PM EDT·7 min read Long Article, 1st page ony

Texas AG Paxton targets voter registration in state’s biggest Latino counties

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton threatened two of the state’s most populous — and Democratic-leaning — urban counties with lawsuits over their plans to register voters by mail.

Paxton wrote letters Monday to Harris and Bexar counties, claiming their mailing of voter registration forms would either “confuse” noncitizens about their eligibility to vote, or “induce” them to fraudulently register.

“Either way, it is illegal, and if you move forward with this proposal, I will use all available legal means to stop you,” Paxton wrote.

The attorney general pointed to his 2020 suit against a similar effort to send out vote-by-mail applications to all registered voters in Harris County — a move he credited the following year for former President Trump’s victory in Texas, which was the GOP’s narrowest in a generation.

Paxton’s letters targeted proposals by both counties to mail voter registration forms to eligible — but unregistered — voters, which he conflated in his letters with noncitizens.

“I urge you to abandon this course of action,” Paxton wrote to the Harris County commissioners. “If you do not, I will see you in court.”

The correspondence comes in the wake of repeated Republican moves against voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts in Texas’s Democratic-leaning urban counties — a campaign that comes amid a tightening 2024 race and a broad trend of Democratic gains in the state.

Polling last week found that both Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) — who is challenging Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for his seat in the Senate — and Vice President Harris (D) trailed their Republican opponents by 9 points, according to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ.

But other late-August polls have found Harris within 3 to 5 points behind Trump, and Texas elections have been narrowing for decades.

In 2020, Trump took Texas with a 5.6 percentage point spread — the closest since former Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) took the state by 5 in his losing bid to unseat former President Clinton.

That’s a significant decrease from 2016, when Trump won the Lone Star State by 9 percentage points, and a collapse in the lead seen during the election of former President George W. Bush, who won the state by an excess of 20 percentage points.

The two counties Paxton targeted are either plurality or majority Latino — nearly a fifth of all Texas Latinos live in Harris County alone — and both went to President Biden in 2020 by wide margins.

In 2020, Biden won Harris County, the state’s most populous, by 14 percentage points, or more than twice the statewide spread between the candidates. That year, the Democratic challenger’s lead in Bexar was even more striking: The president won the county by 18 percentage points, or more than three times Trump’s statewide margin of victory.

That trend has also corresponded with a rhetorical and legal GOP campaign against noncitizen voting — an alleged threat that Paxton argued Monday had made the two counties’ voter registration efforts “particularly troubling this election cycle.”

Noncitizen voting is a phenomenon whose frequency is effectively zero, the libertarian Cato Institute found.

To understand why, the Brennan Center for Justice posed a thought experiment: Imagine the case of an undocumented migrant in the U.S. — living in fear that notice from the government will get them deported, and potentially cause them to leave behind their family.

“Would you risk everything — your freedom, your life in the United States, your ability to be near your family — just to cast a single ballot?”

Many Republicans’ answer to this question appears to be “yes, they would.”

Leading Republicans over the past month, from Paxton and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to the head of the Republican National Committee (RNC) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), have warned of the largely illusory threat of undocumented immigrant voting.

Start with Texas. Over the last two weeks, Paxton’s office searched the homes and offices of Democratic campaigners — and one candidate — in South Texas, while the office of the attorney general has announced investigations into alleged attempts by civil society groups to register noncitizens in North Texas to vote — claims that county-level Republican officials have debunked.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-ag-paxton-targets-voter-161324534.html

Journalist Olivia Nuzzi punished by Bloomberg for article about Biden health cover up

By GERMANIA RODRIGUEZ POLEO, CHIEF U.S. EDT, 3 September 2024

Journalist Olivia Nuzzi had the rollout of her new show killed by Bloomberg after she published an article on Joe Biden's declining condition, according to a bombshell report.

The New York Magazine reporter was the target of an online campaign after she wrote about efforts by Democrats to conceal Biden's deteriorating condition in a July article titled, The Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Biden.

Semafor reports that Bloomberg had planned a splashy rollout for Nuzzi's show, Working Capital, but abruptly cancelled them after the article came out and some Democrats demanded her firing.

Nuzzi's critics called her a racist, sharing tweets from the Obama administration where Nuzzi mocked those who questioned whether the former president was really born in the US.

Nuzzi confirmed Semafor's reporting, telling the outlet she was not surprised, but nevertheless disappointed by Bloomberg's decision.

'When I write something that agitates the right, I am accused of being a liberal activist. When I write something that agitates the left, I am accused of being a conservative activist,'Nuzzi said.

'The difference is that mainstream media organizations tend to ignore bad-faith campaigns against reporters led by the right.'

The Bloomberg show, which sees Nuzzi interviewing political and business leaders, was quietly released last month and is available online. A Bloomberg News spokesperson declined to comment when reached by DailyMail.com on Tuesday.

In her New York Magazine piece, Nuzzi claimed top Democrats were stumped as to how and why the fast-declining 81 year-old Biden was being allowed to continue his re-election bid.Nuzzi said she had heard questions being posed by high-ranking Democrats on the east and west coasts about whether Biden is a puppet whose stringsare being pulled by another group of secretive Democrats.

According to anonymous sources close to the president who spoke to her for the piece, the president is forgetting the names of old friends and is easily manipulated by close confidants like his wife and top aides.Nuzzi was told that Biden is being shielded by ever-growing layers of bureaucracythat have made it harder and harder for people to reach him - often on important official matters.

Many are speculating the red tape is being used as a means to try and prevent people from learning the truth about Biden's health and wellbeing.

Nuzzi's article was published shortly after Biden's disastrous debateperformance and as many Democrats were calling on the president to step down from the presidential ticket.

Biden eventually decided to bow out of the race, leaving VP Kamala Harris to run in his place against Donald Trump in November.

Good for her, at least there is some honesty in the business

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13808303/olivia-nuzzi-bloomberg-article-joe-biden-health.html

Cable TV's collapse deepens: 'It is becoming increasingly clear that there is no longer any floor'

Peter Kafka, Chief Correspondent covering media and technology Sep 3, 2024, 3:10 PM UTC

The NFL season, which is about to kick off, should bring the pay-TV industry more subscribers. But not enough to slow a yearslong decline.

•The pay-TV industry lost 1.6 million subscribers in Q2 2024

• While that's very bad, it's not a record.

•But there doesn't seem to be any reason for those losses to stop

Good news for the pay-TV industry, which suffered its worst quarter ever at the beginning of the year: The next three months were not quite as bad. Pay-TV distributors — that's conventional cable guys like Comcast, satellite TV outfits like DirecTV, and digital alternatives like YouTube TV — lost 1.6 million subscribers in the second quarter of 2024, according to analysts at MoffettNathanson.

That's very bad! But not as bad as other Q2s, like in 2023, when the industry lost 1.7 million subscribers, or in 2022, when it lost 1.8 million subs.And in other good news for the TV industry… well, that's about it.

Those 1.6 million subscribers lost in the second quarter account for 6.9% of the industry's base, and there's no reason to think the slide is going to slow down at all, analysts Craig Moffett and Michael Nathanson write: "It is becoming increasingly clear that there is no longer any floor."

As we've discussed here before, a few years ago there was a thought that digital pay-TV distributors like YouTube TV and Hulu Live would replace losses at conventional distributors, but that's no longer true.

And those digital distributors are increasingly seeing "seasonality" in their business — consumers sign up for them in the fall to watch the NFL, and churn them out at the beginning of the year. That's why YouTube TV lost subscribers for the first time in Q1, and only added 50,000 subscribers in Q2.

The service added 300,000 subscribers in the same quarter last year.

And speaking of sports, Moffett and Nathanson spend a lot of time talking about Venu, the sports streamer that was supposed to have launched last month but has been held up indefinitely by a federal judge.

The companies behind Venu — Comcast, Disney, and Fox — have been arguing that their bundle of channels was going to appeal to people who didn't pay for cable TV. But it seems very likely that many of their customers would be existing cable TV subscribers who are trading down from a more expensive package of channels to Venu's "skinny" package. Which means that even if Venu eventually launches, it won't help the cable TV industry stem its losses.

But Moffett and Nathanson now doubt the Venu owners are going to end up fighting the lawsuit that has tabled their launch. That's because, like my colleague James Faris, they think the suit could end up blowing up the industry's long-standing practice of "bundling" channels together —which means that a cable TV distributor that wants to sell Disney's ESPN also has to sell Disney-owned channels like Disney or ABC in the same package.

And if that happened, things would totally collapse for the industry.

A Venu rep declined to comment. Last week, ESPN boss Jimmy Pitaro defended the Venu package to a group of reporters and pledged that his company would keep fighting its suit. But that will only be true up until the day it isn't.

https://archive.is/3gf6J#selection-1485.0-2195.113

>>21527985

I'm saving that….kek

>>21527976

There's never any friendly crowds, when the are shouting Fuck Joe Bidan, the SS is doing the right thing for you old man.

The dementia is strong in that one.

>>21528237

Yeah, why would a racist play a black mans song at his Rallies? He colonnized the song….KEK

>>21528185

kek

>>21527798

excellent

3 Sep, 2024 20:43

Zelensky purges Ukrainian ministers

The Ukrainian leader’s top diplomat is reportedly on the chopping block after a wave of firings and resignations

(Geez this is like his tenth time purging ministers and government leaders, maybe he should purge himself)

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has initiated an apparent purge of senior officials, sacking the deputy head of his office on Tuesday and accepting resignation letters from three ministers, as well as the country’s deputy prime minister.

Zelensky’s deputy head of office, Rostislav Shurma, was fired on Tuesday, according to a decree posted on the office’s website. No reason was given for his dismissal.

Writing on Facebook shortly afterwards,the speaker of Ukraine’s parliament, Ruslan Stefanchuk, said that Vice Prime Minister for European Integration Olga Stefanishina, Minister for Strategic Industries Aleksandr Kamyshin, Minister of Justice Denis Maliuski, and Minister of Environmental Protection Ruslan Strilets had all handed in resignation letters.

Zelensky is also considering firing Foreign Minister Dmitry (Big Fat Crybaby) Kuleba and multiple other officials, Ukrainian media reported, citing anonymous sources.

Since the conflict with Russia began in 2022, Zelensky has periodically purged senior military and political officials. The former commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, Valery Zaluzhny, was fired earlier this year after Ukraine lost – according to Russia – roughly 160,000 men in last summer’s disastrous counteroffensive.

Last September, Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov was sacked over his alleged role in major corruption scandals that was believed to have hindered the offensive.

In a more recent round of firings, Zelensky sacked several senior officials described by the Washington Post as “reformists…who appeared especially close to Washington.”

Typically, these purges have been preceded by harsh losses on the battlefield. In the weeks leading up to Tuesday’s firings, Ukraine’s cross-border offensive into Russia’s Kursk Region ground to a halt with the loss of more than 9,300 troops and nearly 750 armored vehicles, according to the latest figures from the Russian Defense Ministry.

With Ukraine’s most battle-hardened troops diverted to shore up the flagging Kursk offensive, Russian forces have made rapid gains in Donbass, with the key logistics hub of Pokrovsk now within reach of Moscow’s troops.

According to a report by the Financial Times last week, Zelensky’s own soldiers, lawmakers, and military analysts blame him for the rapidly deteriorating situation in Donbass.

https://www.rt.com/russia/603471-zelensky-fires-ministers-purge/

>>21528299

If they could reduce his nasal tone, I might be able, but he hurts my eardrums. He has actually gotten more polite to Trump lately.

>>21528292

So he's Q, that's it

>>21528287

that's so nice and true. there is no where anons and autists have not gone.

I know this sounds selfish and impatient, but I just want one Motherfucker that destroyed out country get arrested and judges at Gitmo and hanged, just one fucking one, just so I can maintain hope.

>>21528352

sad sack, take a day or more off. sunshine and air will help

>>21528384

I love Doocey, he's always driving her out, since she never answers questions for anyone.

>>21528384

the journalist never used to look up, but when Peter asks a question, they do and they almost smile, one guy did and he duck his head down asap