Text messages from 2016 show preparation to brief President Obama about Russia’s interference in that year’s election, not, as Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) suggested, meddling by the then-president in the federal Hillary Clinton email investigation, the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Republicans and the president himself have cited the messages as evidence that the Russian probe amounts to a wider plot to undermine him.”
Earlier, Trump had tweeted: “New FBI texts are bombshells!”
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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