Experts are issuing stern warnings about business support for Trump – it could
backfire badly and endanger democracy
From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, a growing number of billionaires, tech
titans and venture capitalists are backing Donald Trump’s campaign for
president, among them Stephen Schwarzman, chairman of Blackstone, the world’s
largest private-equity fund, Steve Wynn, the casino tycoon, Bill Ackman, the
hedge fund manager, and Marc Andreessen, a leading venture capitalist.
But many business school professors and historians are issuing stern warnings
about this business support for Trump, saying that backing him could backfire
badly for business and endanger America’s democracy. These professors caution
that corporate America – along with everyone else – should be hugely concerned
about a candidate who has talked of being a dictator on day one, terminating the
constitution, and weaponizing the justice department to exact revenge against
his critics.
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The Democratic contender tells it like it is about Donald Trump
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AI images posted to Truth Social bore the watermark of a tiny Texas non-profit
looking to bankroll X users
When Donald Trump shared a slew of AI-generated images this week that falsely
depicted Taylor Swift and her fans endorsing his campaign for president, the
former US president was amplifying the work of a murky non-profit with
aspirations to bankroll rightwing media influencers and a history of spreading
misinformation.
Several of the images Trump posted on his Truth Social platform, which showed
digitally rendered young women in “Swifties for Trump” T-shirts, were the
products of the John Milton Freedom Foundation. Launched last year, the
Texas-based non-profit organization frames itself as a press freedom group with
the goal of “empowering independent journalists” and “fortifying the bedrock of
democracy”.
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Donald Trump’s bizarre conversation with Elon Musk leaves Kamala Harris’s party
feeling confident
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Apparently size does matter
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It started poorly with a 45-minute delay and rolling technical issues – and was
discussed on other platforms
* US politics – live
Elon Musk has been trying to entice Donald Trump back to X ever since he bought
the site (formerly Twitter) in 2022. Until now, Trump has been content to rely
on his own social network, Truth Social, to get the word out to his fans and
followers, even after his one-time permanent Twitter/X ban was lifted.
But as the US election nears, and Musk’s support of Trump becomes more vocal,
Trump has returned, making a flurry of posts on X over the course of Monday and
ending with a live conversation with Musk over a meandering three hours.
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Musk blames cyber-attack as conversation is delayed, resembling glitchy launch
of Ron DeSantis’s campaign
As a high-profile conversation between Donald Trump and Elon Musk was about to
begin, users of X, formerly Twitter, were confronted with the message: “This
Space is not available.”
Spaces, X’s livestreaming audio feature, was the chosen forum for the dialogue,
but it wasn’t working. Clicking on the link to the broadcast, hosted by Trump’s
dormant @RealDonaldTrump account, froze the site and rendered it unusable.
Tweeters said they couldn’t dial in; some said their browsers had crashed.
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