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1) Most politicians get into politics to make many, trade stocks, get famous, get on TV, become lobbyists, etc.

They rub shoulders with donors and power brokers and care mostly about their own advancement.

Very few care about policy.

Ron DeSantis is one of the few… 2) The governor is infamous in political circles for not offering the typical quid pro cuos to other politicians. He doesn’t schmooze with donors and prefers to go home to his family than drink with legislators and lobbyists.

For this he is maligned…

LEAK

1) Sources close to the Trump campaign believe the 77-year-old former president suffered a series of mini-strokes during a rambling address before the Republican Jewish Coalition...
2) Trump’s speech, which has been slurry and garbled in recent months, became complete incoherent at points during his address, symptoms that persisted after the event, multiple sources confirm…

LEAK

1) The Trump campaign continues to struggle to conceal the symptoms of his worsening health. The former president has become disoriented and slurry at a number of campaign events, including yesterday in California, due to fluid build-up from congestive heart failure… 2) Witnesses at 4 recent events have reported seeing Trump take medication given to him by staff backstage. A number of staffers are known to carry small pill casings similar to the one pictured. The medication in question is said to be nitroglycerin, for chest pain...

LEAK

1) Prior to announcing her candidacy, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley phoned Donald Trump to inform him of her decision in January of this year.
During that call, the two spoke about running on a ticket together… 2) Trump and Haley discussed how the possible 2024 field, with Haley providing the Trump Team with opposition research on Sen. Tim Scott and his relationships and promising to target Gov. DeSantis while avoiding criticism of the former president…

LEAK

1) The Trump campaign is working to prevent the release of a major report about Mr. Trump’s past mistresses. According to the reporting, Trump urged two of of his mistresses to get abortions, and that he would go on to compensate them for the procedures... 2) It is believed the details about the payments and procedures were then covered by nondisclosure agreements signed between the mistresses and Trump…

LEAK

1) A pervasive panic about Iowa has set in across Trump World. Internal numbers have shown the former president stuck at around 35%. Alex Latcham, Trump’s early state director, has pleaded for more money for Iowa, only to be told resources are tied up with legal expenses… 2) With money running low, Team Trump have started speaking regularly with staffers from the Tim Scott campaign, in the hopes of creating a soft alliance with the senator in Iowa. With his numbers falling, Scott’s staff is eager to pivot towards securing him the VP nomination…

LEAK

1) Mark Meadows has entered into a cooperation agreement with the Special Counsel’s office and will be a witness for the federal government against former president Donald Trump in both of his coming trials in D.C. and Florida... 2) Meadows, in his capacity as Donald Trump’s third and final chief of staff, was a direct witness to the former president’s actions related to and orchestration of the events leading up to the January 6th attack on the Capitol...

LEAK

1) The Trump campaign has ramped up pressure on RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel to commit to fully funding Trump’s legal bills and those of his co-conspirators. As the campaign careens towards bankruptcy, Trump’s staff have demanded that funds be diverted from key races... 2) Trump has demanded that money be diverted from candidates his team has deemed insufficiently supportive of his 2020 election claims. Staff have provided a list of GOP candidates that they recommend cutting funding to in order to finance the Trump legal team and his allies...

LEAK

1) Sources close to the Trump campaign have reported that the former president has demanded that his Florida congressional endorsers are not to repost news events featuring Gov. Ron DeSantis’ preparations for Hurricane Idalia… 2) Trump has also forbidden his supporters in the Florida delegation from appearing at any briefings with DeSantis and emergency response staff. The former president was said that it was “about loyalty” to him and disregarded the threat posed by the storm…

LEAK

1) Sources close to the Trump campaign suggest that the former president and his wife Melania have "lived separately" since leaving the White House.

The two have not shared a bedroom or living space in years, and Mrs. Trump has been staying in New York for months... 2) It is believed that the marriage is just a formality at this point and that Mrs. Trump has moved on from her ailing husband. With the former president embroiled in legal scandals, the former First Lady is said to be "starting over"...

REPORT

1) Ramaswamy was considering an Ohio senate bid when his good friend and Trump son-in-law, Jared Kushner, approached him with a better offer…

https://twitter.com/realsaavedra/status/1693651131346321798

2) Over dinner, Kushner proposed a “stalking horse” bid for president by Ramaswamy in exchange for a cabinet posting. Ramaswamy was instructed to target Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose ideas and accomplishments were cribbed by the CEO for his book, Woke, Inc…

LEAK:

1) I can report that Trump’s decision to skip all the debates is not due to his lead in the polls, but rather is dictated by his worsening health. Sources close to the campaign believe Trump was diagnosed with congestive heart issues shortly after leaving office… 2) The campaign has been experimenting with a surrogate strategy that will have notable Trump supporters do the in-person campaigning while the former president spends much of the next year at home and in court, while having far fewer and shorter rallies…