Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon dispatch of Puck’s latest reporting.
First up today, Teddy Schleifer unloads a trifecta of S.B.F. scoops ahead of the trial of the century: Bankman-Fried’s private relationship with Mitch McConnell; new details surrounding that Ron DeSantis brunch; and Caroline Ellison’s head-spinning G.O.P. donations.
Plus, below the fold: Julia Alexander digs into David Zaslav’s hard calculus regarding Max’s sports offerings. Tina Nguyen deciphers DeSantis’s pre-debate jitters and spotlights Trump’s abortion playbook. And on The Powers That Be, Eriq Gardner joins Peter Hamby to discuss the bizarre lawsuit involving Ava DuVernay and Netflix, while Ben Landy and Bill Cohan dig into Bob Iger’s remaining options for ABC and ESPN.
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