Is America Ready for President Avenatti?

[View this email in your browser]( [Advertisement]( [Powered by LiveIntent]( [Ad Choices]( [images-hive-logo (1).jpg]( Is America Ready for President Avenatti? Good morning! It was another boisterous day in the Hive newsroom, dear reader, as Abigail Tracy [read the tea leaves]( regarding Nikki Haley’s sudden departure. Gabriel Sherman unearthed the story behind [Hope Hicks’s decampment to the West Coast](. And Bess Levin enumerated Boy Wonder Jared Kushner’s many instances of [pure, unadulterated genius](. But who wants to talk about yesterday’s news, anyway? Today, Tina Nguyen pulls back the curtain on the conservative establishment’s toxic relationship with women. William D. Cohan divines Wall Street’s great Elon Musk dilemma. And Emily Jane Fox interviews Michael Avenatti about his unusually self-aware proto-presidential campaign. We hope that you’re enjoying what you’re reading. Have a great day! [101018-t-Tinas-GOP-Sexism-Piece]( [“Conservative Women Don’t Feel Victimized”: How the Kavanaugh Nomination Underscored the Right’s Inability to Cope with #MeToo]( By [Tina Nguyen]( [The rules of being a conservative woman in politics require you to never consider yourself the victim of sexual assault. Victimhood, according to this principle, is a liberal complex.]( [“Tesla Is Having Difficulties Paying Their Bills”: Is Wall Street Ready to Punish Elon Musk for His Shenanigans?]( By [William D. Cohan]( [One influential investor is now using the V-word: Valeant.]( [“I Wasn’t Focused on Walking Little Old Ladies Across the Street”: Michael Avenatti Admits He Wouldn’t Be a Perfect President]( By [Vanity Fair]( [Addressing Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit, the superlawyer concedes that he might not be a saint, but he’s just following his calling of being Trump’s kryptonite. “You’re not going to beat Donald Trump through a message of universal love,” he said. “This guy will eat you alive.”]( [“My Job Isn’t to Build Another Netflix”: John Stankey Is Bundling HBO to Win the Streaming Wars]( By [Joe Pompeo]( [The WarnerMedia boss is betting that HBO will entice consumers to sign up for a brand-new streaming service. But Stankey also made it clear that in the current era of mega scale, HBO on it’s own isn’t enough.]( [From the Archive: Zuck Edition]( By [Max Chafkin]( [Three years ago, Mark Zuckerberg took top billing on Vanity Fair’s New Establishment list; today, Facebook is reeling from a damning series of data leaks and foreign interference campaigns. In this classic profile of Zuck at his peak, revisit the moment the Facebook founder made a multi-billion dollar bet on Oculus Rift—before it all went sideways.]( [Advertisement]( [Powered by LiveIntent]( [Ad Choices]( [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]( Copyright © Condé Nast 2018. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.