Netflix End State, Hunter Goes Rogue, Shari’s BET Math

Happy Friday and welcome back to The Daily Courant, your pocket guide to Puck’s latest reporting.

Today, we start with Tara Palmeri’s insider analysis of Hunter Biden’s dueling P.R. strategies, pitting a restrained White House against a bare-knuckle outside comms apparatus. Plus, notes on Jeff Roe’s voyage into DeSantisworld.

Then, below the fold: Matt Belloni envisions a stable economic future for streaming. Tara chronicles the crumbling of Trump’s small-dollar fundraising machine. On The Powers That Be, Teddy Schleifer unpacks his scoop about Reid Hoffman’s bellicose G.O.P. donation strategy, while Ben Landy and Tina Nguyen evaluate the indictment hoopla’s affect on Trump’s candidacy. And on The Town, analytics whizz Julia Alexander joins Matt to discuss Paramount prospective sale of BET.

TARA PALMERI

As the president’s son prepares a scorched-earth campaign to hit back at House G.O.P. investigators, some White House aides worry that Hunter has gone rogue. Plus the latest inside chatter regarding Jeff Roe’s conflicts as he muscles his way into DeSantis world.

MATTHEW BELLONI

New Disney+ and Netflix numbers point to a split between existing and new subscribers, and a familiar, potentially stable future for streaming.

TARA PALMERI

A lackluster pre-indictment-gate small-dollar haul highlights an unlikely vulnerability vexing the Trump campaign: the easy money is no longer there.

PETER HAMBY, TEDDY SCHLEIFER, BEN LANDY, and TINA NGUYEN

Teddy Schleiffer joins Peter to discuss Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman’s controversial interest in taking out Trump in the primary. Then Ben Landy and Tina Nguyen evaluate the helium that Trump’s potential indictment has offered his candidacy.