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Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Donald Trump said he's being embraced by business executives -- in a stark reversal from when he first won the White House eight years ago -- as tech executives and founders flock to Florida to meet with the president-elect. read more


Monday, December 16, 2024

American officials have been in direct contact with the terrorist-designated rebel group that led the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar Assad, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday. read more


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Also, along those lines...

Trump says he'd "look at" a pardon for NYC Mayor Eric Adams
www.cbsnews.com

... President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he would "look at" a pardon for embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who has been indicted on federal corruption charges. ...

So, that's the quid pro quo for Mayor Adams kissing up to Pres-elect regarding immigrants.


Three killed in Wisconsin school shooting, including shooter, police say
www.reuters.com

... A juvenile student killed two people at a Wisconsin school before police found the suspect dead at the scene of the latest shooting to devastate a U.S. campus, authorities said on Monday.

At least six other people were wounded, according to police, who said children were among the dead and wounded in the shooting, which took place in the state capital of Madison. The injuries, police said, "range from minor to life-threatening."

Earlier, police said five people were killed in the shooting, but later said that information was incorrect. ...



More from the article...

... "We have a lot of great executives coming in, the top executives, the top bankers, they're all calling," Trump said at a press conference Monday in Florida, adding that he recently met with billionaire Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Alphabet Inc.'s Google.

The president-elect was speaking to reporters after announcing that SoftBank Group Corp. planned to invest $100 billion in the US following his meeting with Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son.

Trump has held a series of conversations with tech leaders at his Florida club Mar-a-Lago in recent weeks: a November dinner with Meta Platforms Inc.'s Mark Zuckerberg and meetings with Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple Inc.'s Tim Cook last week. Trump also said he plans to meet with the billionaire founder of Amazon.com Inc. Jeff Bezos this week.

"I had dinner with, sort of, almost all of them, and the rest are coming," Trump said, describing the outreach from the business community as "one of the big differences between the first term."

"In the first term everybody was fighting. In this term, everybody wants to be my friend," he said.

The president-elect had a mixed record with top business leaders during his first White House term. Trump dissolved two economic advisory councils only months after forming them as business leaders quit en masse following his response to a White nationalist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia. Other executives kept Trump at arm's length, fearing backlash from employees or customers. ...


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