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Dexter Filkins Talks To Me About His New Yorker Article On Jared Kushner! (opens the original)
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A People Pleaser, A Large Ego and Space Dreams (opens the original)
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Hey Everyone,Delighted to chat this week with my friend Jacob Weisberg, whose new book, Profiles in Cowardice (a riff on JFK’s Profiles in Courage) asks: why did so many powerful Americans fold under pressure during Trump’s second administration?In his book, Jacob profiles eight institutional leaders who, he argues, failed to stand up to Trump’s unconstitutional power-grabs. They are: Brad Karp, former chair of Paul, Weiss (the law)St
Umar Kremlev’s Troubling Back Story (opens the original)
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Hey Everyone, If you want to know why Don Jr. was forced to pay back Umar Kremlev , the Russian “friend of Putin” who paid for two afterparties for Don Jrs’ wedding to Bettina Anderson, you need to watch my live interview with Mikhail Zygar, the Russian journalist and author with the inside track. Here is a link to Mikhail’s fabulous post on Kremlev, which is what spurred me to invite him to do an interview on Thursday. (It was after this, apparently, that Don Jr paid the money back to Kremlev).
Bill Cohan on Leon Black, Jeffrey Epstein And the Improbable Story About Tax Advice Worth $170 Million (opens the original)
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Regular readers know I talk a lot about Leon Black, the billionaire financier who paid Jeffrey Epstein $170 million for “tax advice”. This week, the journalist and author Bill Cohan published Money to Burn , a biography of Black and his firm, Apollo Global Management, so of course I asked Bill to talk about what he’d uncovered with me. The book is a sprawling business bio, but the main topic of our conversation was Black’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, which he gets to in the last third. Ha
What Is Usha Vance Really Thinking? (opens the original)
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The conundrum that is America’s Second Lady Usha Vance keeps cropping up at dinner parties? Who is she really? Is she in heaven or is she in hell? Is she complicit in her situation or appalled by it? First Lady chronicler, Kate Brower just published an excellent Vanity Fair profile on the Second Lady and agreed to go live with me. A Yale liberal in a MAGA world We started with the basic contradictions: Usha Vance voted for Hillary Clinton and was a registered Democrat until 2022. Yet she is now
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