Putin’s Second Wind, The LVMH Evolution, Executive Fantasy Draft

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon potpourri of Puck’s latest reporting.

Today, we lead with Peter Hamby’s inquiry into the media fallout from Hunter Biden’s guns-and-taxes legal mess. What are the implications for POTUS now that his son’s sordid saga has gone mainstream?

Plus, below the fold: Eriq Gardner previews Elon Musk’s legal exposure after yet another tragic Tesla autopilot fatality. Lauren Sherman relays the most pressing inside chatter emerging from Men’s Fashion Week in Paris. Julia Ioffe stops by The Powers That Be to detail why Yevgeny Prigozhin’s flacid coup attempt went nowhere. And on The Town, Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw joins Matt Belloni for the First Inaugural Executive Draft, in which they name the best in the entertainment business across four elite categories.

PETER HAMBY

The president’s sad, delusional, haunted son is no longer a mere fixation for Republican house members and MAGA podcasters. Hunter Biden’s scandal has gone mainstream. Is it a legit ’24 problem?

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ERIQ GARDNER

Would an ordinary person have been misled by Musk’s hyperventilating into believing that the company’s “self-driving” cars could actually, you know, drive themselves?

LAUREN SHERMAN

News and notes on men’s fashion week: designer gossip, the LVMH of it all, Pharrell, and more.

PETER HAMBY & JULIA IOFFE

Julia joins Peter to explain the coup that wasn’t.