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It’s a bad day for a marketplace backed by the Trump family, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Online marketplace PublicSquare, created as a MAGA-aligned alternative with Donald Trump Jr.’s backing, is now facing severe financial difficulties and a 99 percent collapse in its share price, according to BGNES.

“Despite initial expectations, the conservative marketplace failed to gain traction, resulting in cumulative losses of nearly $160 million from the start of its stock trading in 2023 through the end of July this year,” reports BGNES.

Trump Jr. lauded the company's debut on the New York Stock Exchange in 2023 as an “anti-woke marketplace” aimed at conservative, “patriotic and religious consumers.” But apparently the market and investors didn’t think much of politics. The business model soon unraveled, leaving the company at risk of being delisted.

This year, PublicSquare announced that it was abandoning e-commerce in favor of financial technology, including cutting 41 percent of its workforce and cancelling a streaming program.

And, typically, of many star-driven business, BGNES reports company's financial difficulties are linked to princely consultancy costs.

“Since 2024, shortly after Donald Trump won the presidential election, the West Palm Beach, Florida-based company had been paying Trump Jr. $42,000 a month in consultancy fees. Last year, the president’s son earned more than the company's then-chief executive, while in 2025 he received more than $500,000,” reports BGNES.

“Former Trump administration official Nick Ayers and a firm run by Trump Jr. ally Omeed Malik also received hundreds of thousands of dollars in consultancy fees.”

According to financial filings, the company’s net losses have “significantly exceeded revenue” — $57.6 million in 2024 and $36.6 million in 2025.

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It’s a bad day for a marketplace backed by the Trump family, according to the Wall Street Journal.

This year, PublicSquare announced that it was abandoning e-commerce in favor of financial technology, including cutting 41 percent of its workforce and cancelling a streaming program.

And, typically, of many star-driven business, BGNES reports company's financial difficulties are linked to princely consultancy costs.

“Former Trump administration official Nick Ayers and a firm run by Trump Jr. ally Omeed Malik also received hundreds of thousands of dollars in consultancy fees.”

According to financial filings, the company’s net losses have “significantly exceeded revenue” — $57.6 million in 2024 and $36.6 million in 2025.

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Powerful Miami men are on roster of secret society run by Palantir’s Peter Thiel By Shirsho Dasgupta June 24, 2026 11:25 AM Gift Article

Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, holds hundred dollar bills as he speaks during the Bitcoin 2022 Conference at the Miami Beach Convention Center on April 7, 2022. Marco Bello Getty Images A roster that was recently made public of 113 influential figures who were members of a secret society run by billionaire Peter Thiel or attended its events includes several individuals with South Florida ties. The group, named Dialog, was founded by Thiel in 2006 and annually brings together cultural figures, industry titans and U.S. government officials at retreats that are strictly off-the-record and confidential. TOP VIDEOS

The list was verified and first reported on by the San Francisco-based tech magazine WIRED. It includes, among others, Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a resident of Indian Creek’s “Billionaire Bunker,” and former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who grew up in Miami Beach. Also included are Barry Sternlicht, founder of the Miami Beach private investment firm Starwood Capital Group; and Mike Novogratz and Pete Briger, former and current top executives of Fortress Investment Group, which has a significant presence in Miami and is the primary financial backer of the Brightline rail system.

Thiel himself has owned a home in Miami Beach since 2020 and recently planted more roots in South Florida, announcing that his tech and surveillance firm, Palantir Technologies, had moved its headquarters to Miami. It is unclear which figures on the roster were actually Dialog members versus which were guests or invited attendees at its events. The Miami Herald was unable to find current contact information for Rubin.

A spokesperson for Fortress Investment declined to comment. None of the others responded. The Herald sent questions to the email listed on Dialog’s website and to a spokesperson for the Thiel Foundation ⁠— which typically handles press queries related to Thiel ⁠— but did not receive any response. Thiel has become influential in Republican politics in the last few years, bankrolling Trump-aligned candidates. He recently made headlines for hosting a series of lectures on the coming of the Antichrist and Armageddon. The announcement that Palantir ⁠— the controversial spyware and data analytics firm that contracts with the U.S. military, immigration enforcement ⁠and intelligence agencies — was moving to Miami was met with protests from some community members who say the firm is not welcome in South Florida.

President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner attends a State Dinner in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 28, 2026. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI AFP via Getty Images The roster of Dialog members and guests was initially left exposed online in the organization’s website code. It was made public by the Switzerland-based hacker-cum-activist who goes by the name “maia crimew” and was verified by WIRED.

Crimew, who is best known for publishing the U.S. “No Fly” list, told WIRED that an anonymous tipster alerted her to the list. A U.S. grand jury had indicted crimew in March 2021 on charges of hacking government systems, but prosecutors later dropped their push to extradite her from Switzerland. The Herald contacted her but did not receive any response. Forum for the world’s elite Dialog’s website describes itself as an “invite-only community of CEOs, founders, public intellectuals, government leaders, investors, artists, and more who gather for off-the-record conversations to learn from one another.” It notes that it has no ideological agenda or partisanship and does not accept donations. An invite for the society’s 2014 event in Sundance, Utah, that the Herald found in the recently released Epstein Files says it is a “bipartisan retreat discussing how to change the world.” “Dialog participants aren’t modest,” it says. “[W]e don’t want to spend our time being in a large audience listening to winded speeches. There are no speakers.

No panels. All attendees participate in break-out facilitated discussions.” It is unclear from the documents the DOJ released earlier this year whether Epstein attended any Dialog retreat or was a member. Starwood Capital Group Chairman and CEO Barry Sternlicht speaks during the 29th annual Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, on May 4, 2026. PATRICK T. FALLON AFP via Getty Images Axios, which reported on Dialog’s plans to open a campus in Washington, D.C., last year, noted that past gatherings ⁠— which have typically had around 150 participants ⁠— have been held at Dove Mountain in Arizona and in Venice, Italy.

The roster and a second cache of registration records for Dialog’s planned August 2026 summit near Dublin that was obtained and verified by WIRED shows a remarkable convergence of power, money and influence. It lays out a program of off-the-record sessions titled “Money (Does?) Buy Happiness,” “Navigating WWIII,” “Battlefield Technologies,” “How’s Your Sex Life?” and “Build-a-Cult.” Dialog’s list of registrants this year, WIRED reported, “spans hedge fund and private equity billionaires, current and former foreign officials, network television actors, best-selling authors, and religious leaders.” They include, according to WIRED, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Connecticut Congressman Jim Himes, the ranking Democrat on the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. They did not respond to the Herald’s requests for comment. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on March 3, 2026.

JIM WATSON AFP via Getty Images Ranking member Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) speaks during a House Select Intelligence Committee hearing on March 19, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Andrew Harnik Getty Images Among military and security officials who are registered as participants are U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, NATO’s supreme allied commander in Europe and head of the U.S. European Command. “Every trip and everything General Grynkewich attends is subject to rigorous legal and ethical review,” NATO spokesperson Martin O’Donnell told the Herald, though he declined to comment specifically on the leaked information from Dialog. Driscoll did not respond to the Herald’s request for comment.

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article316233241.html#storylink=cpy

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OK Magazine reports President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and senior advisor to Attorney General Pam Bondi, has officially divorced her second husband, millionaire businessman Gregg Reuben, and relocated to Palm Beach, Fla., near the president's Mar-a-Lago Club.

The split and move, reported byDaily Mail, follow her resignation as the acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey in December 2025, after a New Jersey judge ruled she could not serve unless her nomination was confirmed by the Senate.

In her post announcing her exit from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey, Habba argued that she helped make “New Jersey safer." She attributed her exit to the ruling by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, but warned critics "not [to] mistake compliance for surrender."

"You can take the girl out of New Jersey, but you cannot take New Jersey out of the girl," she posted.

However, OK Magazine reports the 41-year-old has definitely removed herself from Jersey, having “quietly divorced” Reuben, the millionaire founder of the New York City-based parking management company Centerpark, in New Jersey in February.

The marriage survived five years, but sources claimed the couple has reached an "impasse," over Reuben’s reluctance to enter the public eye and Habba’s preoccupation and involvement in the "MAGAverse,” according to OK Magazine.

"She's widely successful, a rockstar mom, and I have no doubt she'll eventually find someone who celebrates her sparkle instead of trying to dim it," sources told Daily Mail. "Until then, she's doing just fine being a boss.”

Critic E. Jean Carroll, who successfully fought Habba in court to win a significant settlement for sexual assault by Trump, said Habba “didn’t know the first thing about law.”

Following the divorce, Habba purchased a home in Palm Beach specifically to be closer to the center of Trump’s political operations—possibly a response to journalist Chris Turner, who posted in December that it was time for Habbas “to get a real job.”

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Palm Beach County is a county in the southeastern part of Florida, located in the Miami metropolitan area. It is Florida's third-most populous county after Miami-Dade County and Broward County and the 24th-most populous in the United States, with 1,492,191 residents as of the 2020 census.^[2] Its county seat and largest city is West Palm Beach, which had a population of 117,415 as of 2020.^[5] Named after one of its oldest settlements, Palm Beach, the county was established in 1909, after being split from Miami-Dade County. The county's modern-day boundaries were established in 1963.

Palm Beach County is one of the three counties that make up the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to 6.14 million people in 2020. The area has been increasing in population since the late 19th century, with the incorporation of West Palm Beach in 1894 and after Henry Flagler extended the Florida East Coast Railway and built the Royal Poinciana Hotel, The Breakers, and Whitehall. In 1928, the Okeechobee hurricane struck Palm Beach County and caused thousands of deaths. More recently, the county acquired national attention during the 2000 presidential election, when a controversial recount occurred.

In 2004, Palm Beach County was Florida's wealthiest county, with a per capita personal income of $44,518.^[6] It leads the state in agricultural productivity; agriculture is Palm Beach County's second-largest industry, after real estate development.^[7] In undeveloped (central and western) Palm Beach County there is significant tropical agricultural production, especially nurseries, truck crops (vegetables), and sugar cane.^[8] Palm Beach County has been called the "Winter Vegetable Capital" of the nation.^[9]

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Companies headquartered in Palm Beach County include Office Depot, The ADT Corporation, TBC Corporation, G4S Secure Solutions, NextEra Energy, The GEO Group, American Sugar Refining, Carrier, Globalsat Group, and Bluegreen Vacations.

There are a significant number of aerospace facilities in the county, operated by United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, Sikorsky Aircraft, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, and B/E Aerospace. Many of these companies rank among the top 100 employers for the county.^[98] The largest employer in Palm Beach County is the School District of Palm Beach County, with 27,168 employees, including more than 12,800 teachers.^[99]

Previously W. R. Grace and Company had its headquarters in unincorporated Palm Beach County, near Boca Raton, employing about 130 staff.^[100] On January 27, 2011, it announced it was closing the Boca headquarters and moving its administrative staff out of state along with some employees.^[100][101] Likewise, A360 Media, LLC, publisher of the National Enquirer, was headquartered in Boca Raton, but moved New York in 2014.^[102]

For 2010, the median income for a household in the county was $53,242, and for a family was $64,445. Males had a median income of $44,324 versus $37,337 for females. The per capita income for the county was $33,610. About 8.6% of families and 12.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 18.5% of those under age 18 and 7.7% of those aged 65 or over.^[103]

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The Florida Department of Corrections operates the Glades Correctional Institution in an unincorporated area in Palm Beach County near Belle Glade.^[111]

Palm Beach County's revenue from property taxes, sales taxes and tourist development taxes reached record levels in Fiscal Year (FY) 2018, according to the Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller, Palm Beach County's annual financial report, Checks & Balances: Your Guide to County Finances.

The County collected $1.1 billion in property tax revenue in FY 2018, an increase of 6 percent over the previous year. Sales tax collections rose to $175.8 million, marking the eighth consecutive year of growth. Revenue from Tourist Development Tax receipts was $53.8 million, up from $48.5 million in FY 2017. Meanwhile, Local Option Gas Taxes paid by motorists for gasoline decreased for the first time in five years, partially due to higher gasoline prices, which reduced the number of miles driven, according to the Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller's Checks & Balances report.^[112]

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as of 2025, the county has a slight Democratic plurality, with large Republican and independent minorities, respectively.^[127] In gubernatorial races, the county had been a stronghold for Democrats, a trend that began in 1990 and continued up until 2022, when Republican governor Ron DeSantis won the county with 51% of the vote against the backdrop of his landslide reelection.^[128][129]

After being carried by the Republican Party nominee in every election from 1948 to 1988, Palm Beach County has supported the Democratic Party nominee for the presidency since 1992. Republicans have been gaining an increasing share of the votes in Palm Beach County since 2000. That year, Al Gore defeated George W. Bush in the county by a margin of approximately 27 percent; two decades later, Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump (who is a resident of the county) by less than 13 percentage points in 2020^[126] and in 2024, Kamala Harris carried the county over Trump by less than one percentage point.