Inside the ‘Titan’ Sub Recovery: A Hopeful Rescue Turned Tragic Mission

Trump’s Persecution Complex • GOP Looks to SCOTUS • Obama’s Advice [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Hive logo image]( Inside the Titan Sub Recovery: A Hopeful Rescue Turned Tragic Mission Good Tuesday morning! Donald Trump, always quick to play the victim, continues using his criminal conviction “as a prime opportunity for projection,” [writes]( Molly Jong-Fast, while Representative Byron Donalds is urging the Supreme Court to intervene in the former president’s conviction. As Bess Levin [notes](, “Saying such things is basically a prerequisite” for the Trump VP job. Elsewhere, Willem Marx [provides]( a riveting account of the Titan submersible recovery mission, “an extraordinary multinational search effort across four days, five nations, and six time zones—transfixing the world as the lives of those on board the missing sub seemed to hang in the balance.” Thanks for reading. [Inside the control room aboard the Horizon Arctic, which was mobilized for the rescue-and-recovery operation of OceanGate’s Titan.]( [Inside the Titan Sub Recovery: A Hopeful Rescue Turned Tragic Mission]( By [Willem Marx]( [When Stockton Rush and his OceanGate vessel disappeared into the ghostly depths near the Titanic, rescue teams believed they had 96 hours to save five people. Then the international effort took a grim turn.]( [Read more button](   [Trump VP Contender Byron Donalds Says Supreme Court Should Intervene on Trump’s Guilty Conviction]( By [Bess Levin]( [He unsurprisingly believes the hush money case was all about election “interference.”]( [Read more button](   [Donald Trump’s Persecution Complex]( By [Molly Jong-Fast]( [The king of projection accuses others of “unhinged” behavior and threatening democracy. Democrats need to hold a mirror up to the GOP’s choice.]( [Read more button](   [Barack Obama Says Michelle Told Malia and Sasha to Stay Far, Far Away From Politics]( By [Bess Levin]( [“It will never happen.”]( [Read more button](   Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. [Sign Up Now](   [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn](   This e-mail was sent to you by The Hive. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( Sent from Condé Nast, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 Copyright © 2024 Condé Nast