Jacob Kastrenakes

NPR spoke to the guy who owned HarrisWalz.com until yesterday. He’s made a habit of buying up political domains and sitting on them for years, waiting for a payoff:

In August 2020, anticipating Harris might run again in the future, he snapped up 15 Harris-related domain names, combined with “every sort of folksy white man I could think of who was big at the time.” Those include Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and, of course, Walz.

The former president continues down the young male conservative influencer circuit, lining up a conversation with the reported megadonor and CEO of Tesla. No details yet beyond it happening “Monday night,” but the bar for a Musk political interview is low.

At 4:30PM ET, Nvidia’s CEO will sit down with Wired’s Lauren Goode to talk generative AI. Then at 6PM ET, Huang is scheduled to chat with Mark Zuckerberg — also about AI. You can watch both conversations on YouTube.

Judge Aileen Cannon bucked precedent and found that the special counsel leading the prosecution had been illegally appointed. The ruling can be appealed, but it puts another huge blockade in the case over whether Trump improperly held onto caches of classified documents and carelessly stored them at his Florida resort.

The CEOs of Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Meta have all posted comments over the past hour wishing for Trump’s recovery and criticizing the use of violence.

The platform is promoting trending topics including “staged” and “#falseflag” — the kinds of conspiracy theories that other major social networks might moderate away.

Musk gave his endorsement to the former president following the apparent shooting at an event in Pennsylvania. Bloomberg reported yesterday that Musk had donated a “sizable amount” to a political group supporting him.