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U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during a campaign rally on October 17, 2020 in Muskegon, Michigan.Rey Del Rio/Getty Images Former President Donald Trump on Thursday announced digital trading card NFTs featuring him. Buyers will also be entered in a sweepstakes to meet him, with winners covering their own expenses. Money from sales of the NFTs will not go to the Trump campaign, according to the website. Buyers of newly released NFTs featuring former President Donald Trump will be entered to… Source link

Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Dayton International Airport on November 7, 2022 in Vandalia, Ohio.Drew Angerer/Getty Images The far-right personality known as “Baked Alaska” tweeted that he can’t believe he’s “going to jail for an nft salesman.” “Baked Alaska,” whose real name is Anthime Gionet, participated in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot. He pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor charge that carries a sentence of up to 6 months. His sentencing hearing is in January. The far-right… Source link

Former President Donald Trump; Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. (Photo illustration: Kelli R. Grant/Yahoo News; photos: Michael Conroy/AP, Julia Nikhinson/AP) A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll finds that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis now leads former President Donald Trump by 5 percentage points in the race for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. Trump previously led DeSantis by double-digit margins among registered voters who describe themselves as Republicans or Republican-leaning independents. Meanwhile,… Source link

Kanye West, who now is legally known as Ye, is buying conservative social media company Parler, a move following Instagram and Twitter’s decisions to suspend the rapper’s accounts over a series of widely condemned antisemitic posts. In an interview during Yahoo Finance’s All Markets Summit on Monday, Former Trump adviser Gary Cohn described Ye’s recent offensive posts as “just unacceptable.” “I’ll say the same thing about Kanye West’s remarks as I said to the President of the… Source link

On Monday, Donald Trump will enter a new phase in his financial and legal challenges when jury selection begins in the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal tax fraud trial against his business. The Trump Organization might face an uphill battle on the legal merits of the case, as its former CFO, Allen Weisselberg, already pleaded guilty and is set to implicate his former employer. But the structure of the Trump Organization and its status as a holding company could make it hard to punish… Source link

Former President Donald Trump could soon return to Twitter (TWTR) now that Elon Musk has agreed to move forward with his $44 billion acquisition of the social media company. Musk has said in the past that he doesn’t agree with the lifetime ban on Trump, which Twitter enacted in early 2021 following the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill. But restoring Trump’s account could pose another challenge for the platform should incendiary tweets drive advertisers away from Twitter and toward competitors… Source link

Given “what we know about the ongoing investigations into Donald Trump,” a narrow majority of registered voters (51%) now believe he should not “be allowed to serve as president again in the future,” according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. Just 35% of voters say Trump should be allowed to serve again. The rest (14%) are unsure. The survey of 1,566 U.S. adults was conducted from Sept. 23 to 27, immediately after New York state Attorney General Letitia James filed a sweeping lawsuit… Source link

After a three-year investigation, New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a civil lawsuit against Donald Trump, three of his children and his real-estate company, claiming they “engaged in numerous acts of fraud and misrepresentation” for at least a decade. The suit claims the Trumps knowingly and consistently overstated the value of at least 23 commercial properties, for the purpose of getting lower interest rates and cheaper insurance. James wants the family and the company… Source link

As President Biden’s approval rating continues to bounce back from its summertime lows, a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll now shows him leading former President Donald Trump in a 2024 rematch by the widest margin since March. The survey of 1,634 U.S. adults was conducted from Sept. 2 to Sept. 6 — immediately after a combative primetime speech last Thursday, in which Biden blasted “Trump and the MAGA Republicans” as “extremists” who “threat[en] the very foundations of our… Source link

In his first comments since the FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago compound, Donald Trump took aim at electric vehicles in a speech over the weekend that managed to attack two of his main opponents—rising Republican star Elon Musk as well as incumbent President Joe Biden. Trump’s ambition to be the first to win back the White House since Grover Cleveland in 1893 was dealt a blow last month when law enforcement authorities seized confidential records property of the federal government unlawfully… Source link