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TRUMP BOOKS 12:43 P.M. The 5 Craziest Revelations From Cassidy Hutchinson’s Book About the Trump White House By Matt Stieb, Intelligencer staff writer https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/09/the-5-craziest-details-from-cassidy-hutchinsons-trump-book.html Former Trump White House staffer Cassidy Hutchinson has already revealed some of the more insane details from her time in former president Trump’s inner circle. In June 2022, Hutchinson, who was an aide to chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified before the House January 6 committee that Donald Trump had wanted to lead rioters to the Capitol before Secret Service denied him. But now she’s got a book out, Enough, that features many more allegations of absurdity from the most chaotic White House in history. Here are some of the most eye-opening. Mark Meadows admitted that Trump helped kill Herman Cain In June 2020, as COVID-19 cases spiked in the heartland, Trump held an indoor rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in an attempt to right the reelecti...

Elon Musk’s Anti-Semitic, Apartheid-Loving Grandfather The Atlantic by Joshua Benton / September 20, 2023 at 09:21PM//keep unread//hide https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/joshua-haldeman-elon-musk-grandfather-apartheid-antisemitism/675396/ In Walter Isaacson’s new biography, Elon Musk, a mere page and a half is devoted to introducing Musk’s grandfather, a Canadian chiropractor named Joshua N. Haldeman. Isaacson describes him as a source of Musk’s great affection for danger—“a daredevil adventurer with strongly held opinions” and “quirky conservative populist views” who did rope tricks at rodeos and rode freight trains like a hobo. “He knew that real adventures involve risk,” Isaacson quotes Musk as having said. “Risk energized him.” But in 1950, Haldeman’s “quirky” politics led him to make an unusual and dramatic choice: to leave Canada for South Africa. Haldeman had built a comfortable life for himself in Regina, Saskatchewan’s capital. His chiropractic practice w...

EARLY AND OFTEN UPDATED 10:12 A.M. The Case(s) Against Donald Trump It’s hard to keep track, so we made a guide. By Nia Prater, Intelligencer staff writer, who covers New York politics https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/what-are-the-legal-cases-against-donald-trump.html?utm_source=flipboard.com&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images Donald Trump is under three separate indictments and is currently awaiting a fourth as the 2024 election draws near. In addition to the charges levied against him by special counsel Jack Smith and Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis is expected soon to reveal whether she will charge Trump over election interference in Georgia. And, if that weren’t enough, the former president is facing several civil suits including one led by New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, who is alleging that Trump committed business fraud. Here’s what...

How Donald Trump tried to undo his loss in Georgia in 2020 (Natalie Vineberg/Washington Post illustration) By Amy Gardner, Kati Perry and Adriana Usero Aug. 14 at 6:00 a.m. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/interactive/2023/trump-georgia-election-investigation/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f002 2020 Two days after Election Day in 2020, President Donald Trump’s eldest son traveled to the Georgia Republican Party headquarters in Atlanta to deliver a message. The presidential race was still too close to call in the state and in the country. Georgia Republicans were scrambling to prepare for two runoff elections that would determine control of the U.S. Senate. But Donald Trump Jr. urged them to focus on another task: helping his father win the state by proving that widespread fraud had tainted the results. If you do not support my dad 100 percent, we have a problem, Donald Trump Jr. told the group, a Trump campaign staffer familiar with the meeting testified to the Hou...

How America Got Mean 500+The Atlantic by David Brooks / August 14, 2023 at 04:42AM//keep unread//hide Is this article about Health? YES NO Illustrations by Ricardo Tomás Over the past eight years or so, I’ve been obsessed with two questions. The first is: Why have Americans become so sad? The rising rates of depression have been well publicized, as have the rising deaths of despair from drugs, alcohol, and suicide. But other statistics are similarly troubling. The percentage of people who say they don’t have close friends has increased fourfold since 1990. The share of Americans ages 25 to 54 who weren’t married or living with a romantic partner went up to 38 percent in 2019, from 29 percent in 1990. A record-high 25 percent of 40-year-old Americans have never married. More than half of all Americans say that no one knows them well. The percentage of high-school students who report “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness” shot up from 26 percent in 2009 to 44 percent in 2021...