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1 month ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Sascha Seinfeld |Michael Wolff
Author Michael Wolff joined The Daily Beast Podcast this week fresh off the release of his new book, All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America—a veritable Oval Office “burn book” that has, well, provoked a firestorm in Trumpworld.
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2 months ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Nandika Chatterjee |Sascha Seinfeld |Yasmeen Hamadeh
White House Press Secretary and former CNN anchor are engaged in an ongoing war of words, with Leavitt taking aim at Acosta during an appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday. Acosta, a former White House correspondent, dissed Leavitt earlier this week, calling her a “kid” who is “telling a tall tale.”Although he received a lot of backlash for his comments, it seems like Leavitt had the last word.
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2 months ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Corbin Bolies |Amethyst Martinez |Sascha Seinfeld
The Associated Press announced Friday that it has sued three Trump administration officials after its reporters were blocked from covering White House events, citing violations of the First and Fifth amendments. The federal lawsuit, filed in Washington D.C.’s district court, named White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, press secretary Karoline Leavitt, and Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich as defendants, reported The Associated Press (AP).
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2 months ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Eboni Boykin-Patterson |Bradley Cooper |Sascha Seinfeld
Amy Schumer had an encounter with Bradley Cooper that still has her shaken. On Tuesday’s Tonight Show, Schumer recalled running into the Maestro actor and director recently. “He said, ‘You know, I turned 50 this year,’” Schumer told Jimmy Fallon. “And he goes, ‘You 50?’” which rubbed her the wrong way—as she just turned 43 last June. Cooper turned 50 on January 5 and reportedly celebrated by taking his 7-year-old daughter Lea to an Eagles game before running into Schumer for the awkward encounter.
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2 months ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Sascha Seinfeld |William Vaillancourt |Matt Young
Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and member of the “PayPal Mafia,” has shared his verdict on Elon Musk’s “supernova burnout” personality on The Daily Beast Podcast. Having worked together at PayPal and OpenAI, Hoffman described Musk as a modern-day Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—a volatile provocateur with radical confidence in both his global achievements and less-than-tasteful behavior.
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2 months ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Jill Filipovic |Janna Brancolini |Sascha Seinfeld
If you want to a little insight into the status of women in the new Donald Trump regime, take a look at his inauguration. The ones with the good spots were there not because of their own accomplishment or influence, but largely because of their proximity to ‘important’ men. Tech billionaires including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos were given choice seats—ahead, even, of Trump’s cabinet picks. (You might call this a shadow cabinet, but shadows usually trail behind, obscured.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
thedailybeast.com | Sascha Seinfeld |Yasmeen Hamadeh
TrumplandThis week’s podcast offers insider insight into the scene during President Trump’s second inauguration—and how we got there.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
thedailybeast.com | Leigh McManus |Sascha Seinfeld
CNN’s Abby Phillip and her colleague Scott Jennings had a tense standoff on News Night over President Donald Trump’s pardoning of around 1,500 people for convictions related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Barely a day into his second term in the White House, Trump sat down in the Oval Office and, at the stroke of a pen, signed a controversial executive order to quash convictions picked up by a whole host of questionable characters.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
thedailybeast.com | Grace Harrington |ernest owens |Tim Teeman |Sascha Seinfeld
PoliticsThe former first lady has not provided a reason for her non-attendance at Donald Trump’s second inauguration. Updated Jan. 16 2025 5:17PM EST / Published Jan. 16 2025 5:16PM EST Crowds of MAGA followers, politicos, journalists and tech bros will be descending on Washington, D.C. over the next few days for president-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration. But one name is notably absent from the guest lists: Michelle Obama.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
thedailybeast.com | Sascha Seinfeld |Mathew Murphy |Amethyst Martinez
Don Lemon isn’t holding back about his split from CNN—and his disdain for the constraints of traditional media. During a conversation with Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee and Joanna Coles on this week’s episode of The Daily Beast Podcast, the former primetime anchor said he’s found freedom—and a bigger audience—in going solo. “They don’t like us big mouth, sort of middle or left-leaning people,” Lemon said of big TV networks and their executives.
