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Trump Library Foundation Expects to Raise $50 Million This Year

President Trump is raising money far faster than his predecessors, extracting tens of millions of dollars in pledged donations from media companies he has sued.

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President Trump on Monday in Washington. The Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation expects to raise about $50 million this year.
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Heritage Foundation Board Member Resigns Over Video Defending Tucker Carlson

The member, Robert P. George, said the think tank’s president had refused to retract his video defending Tucker Carlson’s friendly interview with an openly antisemitic white supremacist.

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The Washington offices of the Heritage Foundation in May.
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Under Fire for Tucker Carlson Remarks, Think Tank Chief Pleads Ignorance

Kevin Roberts, under fire for defending Tucker Carlson’s interview with a white nationalist, said that he did not keep up with the news and that he had simply read an aide’s script.

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“I actually don’t have time to consume a lot of news,” Kevin D. Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, said to staff members last week.
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In Explaining His Gaffe, Heritage Foundation Leader Pleads Ignorance

Kevin Roberts, under fire for defending Tucker Carlson’s interview with a white nationalist, said that he did not keep up with the news and that he had simply read an aide’s script.

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“I actually don’t have time to consume a lot of news,” Kevin D. Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, said to staff members last week.
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The Decline of America’s Largest Environmental Organization

David A. Fahrenthold, an investigative reporter, describes the struggles of the Sierra Club, one of the largest environmental groups in the U.S. The group has lost about 60 percent of its supporters since 2020.
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The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart.

The environmental group gave up its singular focus on climate change for a broader agenda. The ensuing internal strife left it weakened as it takes on the Trump administration.

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The Sierra Club’s Washington offices in 2023.
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