An Embattled Pam Bondi Watches Soccer With Trump From attending UFC fights and the Super Bowl to doing a lap at the Daytona 500 and posing with champions at the White House, Donald Trump has put sports front and center in his second term. The president’s trip to the FIFA Club World Cup final in New Jersey on Sunday, writes Dan Adler, speaks to how the president has “courted sports audiences as a signal of his cultural acceptance.”
Trump took in the match alongside FIFA president Gianni Infantino, and their relationship is one to watch ahead of next year’s World Cup, which will play out in the US, Canada, and Mexico. Also on hand: embattled AG Pam Bondi, Sean Duffy, Kristi Noem, Rupert Murdoch, Tom Brady, and Melania Trump.
Speaking of Bondi, Bess Levin unpacks the latest developments in the tensions between those in MAGA world who can’t believe that Jeffrey Epstein’s client list was a figment of their collective imagination and those who have happily agreed to embrace the president’s inexplicable amnesia around the conspiracy he himself stoked and promoted.
And in her final dispatch from Sun Valley, Idaho, Natalie Korach spots a beaming David Zaslav wearing a Superman hat, with his studio’s blockbuster having landed in theaters on Friday. Once the annual Allen & Company conference wrapped up on Saturday, the normally sleepy scene at the one-runway airport became one involving a carefully coordinated sequence of private jets ferrying the moguls away.
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