Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
NBC News Plans Primetime William Barr Special; Former Attorney General Says He Told Donald Trump That Election Fraud Claims Were “Bulls—“
deadline.comAs former Attorney General William Barr is poised to become the latest Trump administration insider with a tell-all book, NBC News has landed an exclusive interview with plans for a one-hour special on Sunday.Barr told Lester Holt that, in a December, 2020 meeting, he said to Trump that his claims of election fraud were “bulls—.”Barr said that he told Trump that “it was wrong to be shoveling it out the way his team was.
And he started asking me about different theories. And I had the answers. I was able to tell him, ‘This is wrong because of this.’”Details of Barr’s book, One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of An Attorney General, were revealed in stories last week from outlets that obtained copies.
The NBC interview is timed maximize publicity around the book, but this is not Barr’s first interview after he left the administration.
He shared details with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl for his book, Betrayal, published last year, but he did not do a TV sit down.The NBC News special will air on Sunday at 9 PM ET, with excerpts on NBC Nightly News on Thursday.Barr’s comments come as the House’s January 6th Committee, which is investigating the attack on the Capitol, said in a court filing that it “has a good-faith basis for concluding that the President and members of his Campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States,” as he pushed claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him and pressed Vice President Mike Pence to reject electors who would affirm Joe Biden’s election win.Responding to Barr, Trump told NBC News that Barr was “lazy” and a “coward.” The former president also responded to the January 6th Committee, saying that the “actual conspiracy to defraud the United States was the Democrats
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