The nature of kingship in William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth follows the events that occur during Macbeth’s unlawful rise to the throne......The themes of greed, arrogance and excessive political ambition are still, very relevant to the world today. Shakespeare got it right - his story of Macbeth still applies to today's world....
Christopher Ruddy..."Nobody in Trump’s orbit stirs up headlines quite like Christopher Ruddy, chief executive of the right-leaning media outlet Newsmax and a longtime friend of the president....Ruddy made the explosive assertion on PBS “NewsHour” that Trump was pondering whether to fire Robert S. Mueller III, the former FBI director tapped by the Department of Justice to oversee the probe into Russian election meddling.....leading some to speculate that he was testing the waters for Trump, as The Washington Post reported..... He also criticized the White House press office’s response, saying “it’s amateur hour over there."
"He is quoted almost weekly in The Post, the New York Times and other outlets, and makes regular rounds on cable news....
Ruddy, 52, grew up on Long Island, attended St. John’s University and received his master’s in public policy from the London School of Economics. His journalistic career kicked off in the early 1990s, when he made a name for himself covering the Clinton White House for the New York Post. His reporting and subsequent book about the murder of Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster won him star status among conservative commentators.
He founded Newsmax in 1998, catering mostly to right-leaning baby boomers through the outlet’s website and a series of newsletters that quickly gained scores of subscribers, as he told Bloomberg in a 2014 profile. He met Trump shortly after. Both lived part-time in Palm Beach, Fla., and would bump into each other intermittently, Ruddy said. Their friendship grew in the mid-2000s after Ruddy joined Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
Since its founding, Ruddy’s Newsmax empire has steadily expanded. By 2014, it ranked as the most trafficked conservative news site on the Internet, topping 11 million visitors per month, as Bloomberg reported at the time. That year, Newsmax opened a new headquarters in Boca Raton, right down the road from Trump. Ruddy, then on the verge of launching NewsmaxTV, told Bloomberg that he was making a play to upend the conservative media landscape by shaving off Fox News viewers.
By 2017, Breitbart News had surpassed Newsmax as the Web’s leading conservative site, with more than 17 million visitors in January to Newsmax’s 7 million, as The Post reported. On top of that, it was Stephen K. Bannon, a former Breitbart chairman, and other Breitbart staffers who won seats in Trump’s White House, not Ruddy.
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