New York Times: “Mr. Priebus bristles at the perception that he occupies a diminished perch in the West Wing pecking order compared with previous chiefs. But for the moment, Mr. Bannon remains the president’s dominant adviser, despite Mr. Trump’s anger that he was not fully briefed on details of the executive order he signed giving his chief strategist a seat on the National Security Council, a greater source of frustration to the president than the fallout from the travel ban.”
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Criminal Court Is the New Mar-a-Lago
The Dispatch: “According to someone close to Trump’s legal team, the requests from Capitol Hill and elsewhere to visit Trump at his trial aren’t slowing down. Politicians are calling up…
Trump Brushes Off Nikki Haley Primary Voters
Donald Trump brushed off the idea of losing voters who went for Nikki Haley in the primaries, The Hill reports. Said Trump: “Well, she got very few voters relatively… I…
Disaster Relief Backers Force a House Vote
“Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) has 218 signatures on a discharge petition to get his disaster tax relief bill to the House floor,” Punchbowl News reports. “That’s enough backing to force…
Bob Menendez’s Wife Diagnosed with Breast Cancer
“Nadine Menendez, who is currently under indictment for bribery and extortion charges alongside her husband, has been diagnosed with breast cancer and will require a mastectomy,” Politico reports. Save to…
House Republicans Risk Losing Control of the Floor
“The House was in session at the Capitol on Thursday, but thanks to the latest procession of Republicans reporting for duty in front of a Manhattan criminal courthouse to show…
A Debate Hedge?
Jonathan Last: “You don’t want to hear this, but what if Biden is a disaster? What if he can’t string five words together and gets lost and confused? What if,…
Larry Hogan Now Says He Supports Abortion Rights
“Larry Hogan, the former two-term Republican governor of Maryland who this week won his party’s nomination for the state’s open Senate seat, said in an interview on Thursday that he…
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If you’re looking for a speaker for your next event, I’ll be doing a limited number of paid speaking engagements between now and the November election. Get in touch if…
Matt Gaetz Makes Proud Boys Reference
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who is attending Donald Trump’s “hush money” criminal trial in New York today, made a not-so-veiled reference to the Proud Boys in a social media post…
Biden-Harris Campaign Accepts VP Debate Invite
The Biden-Harris campaign said Thursday that it has accepted an invitation from CBS News to participate in a vice presidential debate in July or August, Axios reports. The campaign accepted…
Top Democrats Give Rob Menendez an Assist
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and other top House Democrats are holding a fundraiser on Thursday for Rep. Rob Menendez Jr. (D-NJ), Axios reports. The son of indicted Sen….
Dow Jones Industrial Average Tops 40000
“The Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed 40000 for the first time, a milestone that appeared implausible little more than two years ago when the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates…
Putin and Xi Condemn the U.S.
“Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday pledged to deepen the countries’ already close strategic ties and condemned what they claimed was aggressive behavior from the…
Consumer Financial Watchdog Survives Supreme Court
“The Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge that could have dismantled the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, ruling that Congress had authority to insulate the agency’s funding stream from political interference,”…
House Reschedules to Allow Lawmakers to Attend Trial
The House Oversight Committee pushed back their Merrick Garland contempt markup to 8 p.m. tomorrow so Republican lawmakers have time to attend Donald Trump’s trial in New York City, CNN…
Trump May Have Violated Gag Order Again
New York Times: “Outside in the hallway, before entering the courtroom, Trump seemed to potentially violate the gag order that forbids him from talking about prosecutors in the case, other…
Michael Cohen Back on the Stand
“The eagerly anticipated cross-examination of Michael Cohen resumed Thursday morning in the criminal trial of Donald Trump, a crucial opportunity for the defense to poke holes in his testimony and…
Quote of the Day
“If Taylor Swift ran for president and would listen to great advisers, I’d consider supporting her.” — Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio, quoted by the Financial Times. Save to Favorites
Presidential Race Is Essentially Tied Nationally
A new Fox News poll finds Donald Trump barely hanging onto a national lead over Joe Biden among registered voters, 49% to 48%. However, Trump tops Biden by 3 percentage…
A Massive Tax Battle Looms
“Presidencies are unpredictable — no one can be sure what challenges Joe Biden or Donald Trump would face in a second term. But there is one that’s 100% certain: A…