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CNN
09-07-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Hear audio from 2024 fundraiser where Trump said he threatened to bomb Moscow and Beijing
CNN's Kaitlan Collins speaks with the authors of a new book that reveals President Donald Trump told a private gathering of donors in 2024 that he once sought to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin from attacking Ukraine and to deter Chinese President Xi Jinping from attacking Taiwan by threatening to 'bomb the sh*t' out of Moscow and Beijing in retaliation.
Yahoo
06-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Bill Belichick's Age-Gap Romance With Jordon Hudson Is Turning Into a 'PR Nightmare' at His New Job
Jordon Hudson can't seem to stay out of the headlines even though she's not the one who was hired by University of North Carolina (UNC) to coach their football team. That job is reserved for her boyfriend, former NFL coach Bill Belichick, who just happens to be 48 years older than her. The 24-year-old beauty queen seems to have a knack for drawing controversy and is now being described as a 'public relations nightmare' for the 73-year-old coach. More from SheKnows Mila Kunis & Ashton Kutcher's Romantic Getaway Sends a Message After Public Backlash The backlash at UNC is being felt across the board as the school is being pressured to let Belichick go by alumni donors and faculty members. The Daily Mail obtained emails via a public records request, and the messages are quite pointed. One donor wrote angrily, 'What a total embarrassment to UNC. I am withdrawing all my donations and future donations.' Another email from faculty member Christopher McLaughlin, a professor of Public Law and Government, to UNC Athletics Director Bubba Cunningham, argued about the unwanted attention Hudson was drawing to the program. 'When you agreed to pay a king's ransom to hire Bill Belichick, did you also know that you [were] hiring Jordon Hudson to serve as the primary face of [UNC] athletics? Normally, I would say the University should not concern itself with its employees' personal lives,' McLaughlin wrote. 'But when a prominent employee injects his significant other into the University's affairs, it becomes the University's concern. The staff member went on to describe Hudson as 'an embarrassment' while begging the school's athletic director to 'please end this circus before the season begins.' Hudson also became a hot topic in April when she interrupted Belichick's CBS Sunday Morning interview with Tony Dokoupil. 'We're not talking about this,' she said from off-camera when the reporter asked her boyfriend about their romantic origin story. Their ties are both personal and professional because Hudson is listed as the Chief Operating Officer of Belichick Productions and CEO & Founder of Trouble Cub Enterprises, per LinkedIn, and not everyone likes that. 'I think it's ironic that a man who really controlled everything — and I mean everything — now is being controlled by some other person,' said Upton Bell, a former general manager of the Patriots, told The New York Times on May 20. 'You can't just point at the woman here and say, 'She is being controlling. That only happens if you let yourself be controlled.' UNC's first football game of the season is Sept. 1, and Hudson is expected to be rooting for Belichick from the of SheKnows Amber Heard's Entire Dating History: Johnny Depp, Elon Musk, & More 11 of Prince William & Kate Middleton's Biggest Relationship Controversies 13 Celebrities Who Secretly Welcomed Children During Affairs
Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Rep. Jasmine Crockett Says Dems Already Backing ‘Safest White Boy' for President in 2028: ‘One Specific Candidate'
Democrats are eying the 'safest white boy' ahead of the 2028 election, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett told 'Urban View' hosts Clay Cane and Reecie Colbert in a clip from a town hall shared online Friday. She didn't name names, but suggested the party already has 'one specific candidate' in mind. In the clip shared by Cane, the group is speaking about potential candidates when Crockett offers her insight. 'It is, it is this fear that the people within the party, within the primary system, will have about voting for a woman because every time we voted for a woman, we've lost,' she explained. 'So far. And I think that that's a natural fear because we just want to win. So there's a lot of people that are like, you know what? Like, let's go find the safest white boy we can find. I mean, I'm just saying,' she added. 'No, for real. And to be clear, when we talk about them, I can tell you that there is one specific candidate,' Crockett continued. 'I had a donor on the phone with me telling me that all the donors are lining up behind that candidate. So I can tell, and I tell you, it's not a black person nor a woman, okay?' The party — or 'they' as she put it — 'When I say 'they,' it's the same donors that most likely had their opinions about Joe Biden and moved … So like, that would be the 'they' that I would talk about,' she said. 'Trump, who is a misogynist. Trump, who is going to ramp up the misogynists in the first place because that's what he does. He is disrespectful,' she added. 'Like, right now, he still doesn't know how to deal with me because if you punch me, I'm punching back, okay? So, like, here's the deal. Here's the deal. Now, I know he think he's running again, but that ain't happening. I don't care what all is going on in in this country, and I don't care how many things we won't say we are absolutely going to do. I am telling y'all with all confidence he is not running for a third term. That is not a thing.' The clip is part of a town hall that will be released on May 15. The post Rep. Jasmine Crockett Says Dems Already Backing 'Safest White Boy' for President in 2028: 'One Specific Candidate' | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
