Author: Freedom Watch

Corporate America isn’t welcoming former Trump Cabinet officials with open arms, headhunters say By Tory Newmyer Washington Post April 7, 2021 Before she joined the Trump administration as transportation secretary, Elaine Chao earned millions of dollars over the past decade by serving on the boards of big public companies such as Dole Foods, Protective Life and Wells Fargo, according to corporate filings. She offered sterling credentials to businesses eager to keep current with the Republican leadership: A former banking executive, she became the first Asian American woman to serve in a Cabinet when President George W. Bush tapped…

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‘Less is more’: Greg Norman to scale back $400m business empire Yahoo News April 7, 2021 Greg Norman has revealed his plans to scale back his $400 million business empire and move home to Australia. The Aussie golf legend has 13 businesses in course design, apparel, hospitality and real estate, but wants to reduce his portfolio by more than half over the next five years. “I’m skinning down,” Norman told the ‘Four Courses’ podcast this week. The 66-year-old has sold two of the properties he owns with wife Kirsten Kutner in recent weeks, with a desire to eventually…

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Exclusive look inside the US supersonic presidential jet By Maureen O’Hare CNN April 6, 2021 (CNN) — The news broke last September that a California start-up was working with the US Air Force on developing a supersonic plane which could be used as Air Force One. Exosonic was handed a contract by the Presidential and Executive Airlift Directorate (PE) after impressing the military with its concept for a low-boom supersonic Mach 1.8 twinjet. Now CNN Travel has had an exclusive look inside the cabin interior of the executive transport plane designed to carry the US Executive Branch’s distinguished…

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Hunter Biden says he has no ‘recollection’ of encounter with ex-stripper whose child he fathered By Tyler Olson Fox News April 6, 2021 In his forthcoming memoir “Beautiful Things,” Hunter Biden writes he “has no recollection” of an encounter with an ex-stripper from Arkansas who gave birth to their child in 2018. The recovering addict and the son of President Biden in the book details his struggles with drugs, particularly in the wake of the death of his older brother Beau in 2015. Fox News obtained a copy in advance of its publication. During what Hunter describes as…

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Justice Clarence Thomas Takes Aim At Tech And Its Power ‘To Cut Off Speech’ NPR.org April 6, 2021 The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a lower court ruling that former President Donald Trump violated the First Amendment rights of critics he blocked on Twitter. Lawyers for those Trump blocked on Twitter argued that the former president’s Twitter account functioned as an official source of information about the government, leading a federal appeals court to rule that Trump’s blocking amounted to illegally silencing their viewpoints. Continue Reading…..

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Why aren’t we calling the Capitol attack an act of treason? By Lois Beckett the Guardian April 5, 2021 During Donald Trump’s presidency, UC Davis law professor Carlton Larson spent a lot of time on the phone telling journalists: “It’s not treason.” Trump’s behavior towards Russia: not treason. All the FBI investigations Trump labeled as treason: also not treason. Then came the 6 January attack on the Capitol by hundreds of Trump supporters. That was treason according to the founding fathers, Larson wrote in an op-ed the next day. But in the three months since 6 January, however,…

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CBS News April 5, 2021 President Biden’s son Hunter is dealing head-on with decisions that put him front and center of the 2020 presidential campaign in his new memoir, “Beautiful Things.” The book is a revealing look at his long battle with addiction, and how he has handled personal tragedies. He spoke with “CBS This Morning” co-host Anthony Mason about whether his business dealings ever crossed a line — including work for a Ukrainian company that became a big issue in President Trump’s first impeachment, and whether he regrets putting his father’s political future at risk. Continue Reading…..

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