The Convert: Chamath Says He Was Wrong About Trump

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Chamath Palihapitiya, the billionaire venture capitalist and co-host of the “All-In” podcast, went on CNBC Tuesday and offered one of the more complete Trump reversals of the moment. “You’re 100% right on Trump. He’s fantastic,” Palihapitiya told “Squawk Box” host Joe Kernen. “Unbelievable person, very smart on top of it, open-minded… great president, so far.” This was not the language of grudging acceptance. It was admiration, plainly stated. Palihapitiya said he had once opposed Trump because he believed a portrait of the president constructed by the press. He now thinks that portrait was false. “The reality is that most of

Trump Ditches Toll Booth — Says Gulf Cash Coming Instead.

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President Trump changed course Tuesday. He dropped his plan for a 20% toll on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz. In its place, he wants Gulf states to invest directly in America. He explained the shift on Truth Social. The talks with Middle East leaders, he wrote, had been “highly productive.” The investments to come, he said, would be “MASSIVE” — good for the US, and good for the Gulf states too. Trump credited recent American airstrikes on Iran for a surge in oil exports. Crude is moving, he said, “like never before.” The Strait itself is open to

Lindsey Graham Didn’t Get Rich. He Got It Right.

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Lindsey Graham never got rich. That’s an important thing worth knowing about him. He died Saturday night with a net worth of just under $1.5 million. That put him 294th out of 535 voting members of Congress — closer to the bottom than the top, after 31 years in Washington and a run leading his party’s foreign policy. Compare that to Senator Jim Justice of West Virginia, worth more than $664 million. Both men drew the same Senate salary. One came home with a fortune. The other came home with a townhouse and some bond funds. That tells you something

Behind the Warning: What Israel Told Washington — and Why

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Israel has told the United States that Iran is working on a new plot to kill President Trump. That’s the headline from a Wall Street Journal report Thursday, and it landed at a moment when the war with Tehran is already at a boil. The intelligence, according to people familiar with it, points to a plan American officials hadn’t been tracking before Israel flagged it. CNN adds texture: two sources say Washington has been picking up a “steady drumbeat” of related intelligence for weeks, and the Israeli warning itself came in earlier this week. The threat, notably, has not yet

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