A member of the secretive SEAL Team 6, which executed raid to kill Osama bin Laden raid in 2011, tells CNN that the story of who shot the terrorist leader as described in last month’s Esquire magazine is false.
He says the story is “complete B-S.”
Save to Favorites“For weeks, White House officials and Republican operatives weren’t quite sure when, or if, Elon Musk would actually be leaving the government,” Wired reports. “Now, many Republicans are already looking…
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) pushed back against constituents who shouted out at her recent town hall meeting that cuts to Medicaid would cause people to die, responding: “People are not…
Stat: “A new study tried to predict the consequences if the rest of the nation were to follow suit. In five years, the researchers estimated, 7.5% more U.S. children ages…
The Independent: “Co-opting a famous phrase from the 1980 John Belushi-Dan Aykroyd classic The Blues Brothers, Donald Trump posted a cryptic meme on Wednesday night declaring that he is ‘on…
Ilya Somin: “A court’s decision affirmed a fundamental American principle: The president is no king, and he does not have the power to impose taxes in the form of tariffs…
“A divided Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way, for now, for the Trump administration to revoke the temporary legal status of more than 530,000 migrants from four countries who…
President Trump and Elon Musk are set to appear together at a 1:30 p.m. ET press conference in the Oval Office today—an event that promises to be even more combustible…
New York Times: “In March, President Trump signed an executive order calling for the federal government to share data across agencies, raising questions over whether he might compile a master…
“I think there are different ways of looking at politics. Some politicians look at voters and electorates and try to make predictions. I really do believe, even despite all of…
“The flurry of punitive measures taken against China by the Trump administration over the last few days was prompted by a belief among U.S. officials that China has failed to…
President Donald Trump on Friday said that China has “totally violated its” preliminary trade agreement with the United States, and suggested he would take action in response, CNBC reports. Said…
“The Trump administration knew that the vast majority of the 238 Venezuelan immigrants it sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador in mid-March had not been convicted of crimes…
A provocative new book set for release this fall, Backlash Presidents by political scientist Julia Azari, offers a sobering framework for understanding Donald Trump. Azari’s central thesis is striking: Most…
Politico: “The president’s aides and allies view the visa revocations as the initial step in clamping down on Chinese influence in the U.S., with a White House official suggesting it…
“Congress is a coequal branch of government empowered to make laws, control government spending and declare war. But according to Trump voters, the role of the legislative branch is to…
“More than $14 billion in clean energy investments in the U.S. have been canceled or delayed this year, according to an analysis released Thursday, as President Donald Trump’s pending megabill…
Katie Miller, who had served as a senior adviser and spokesperson for DOGE — and who is married to Trump adviser Stephen Miller — is also leaving the administration and…
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) is facing new ethics questions following the release of a report by the Office of Congressional Conduct calling for a full-scale probe into an earmark she…
“This will be his last day, but not really, because he will, always, be with us, helping all the way.” — President Trump, on Truth Social, on Elon Musk. Save…
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.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.