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Navigating the Nonsense

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Trial Balloon · Ep. 189: Navigating the Nonsense

Vilsack Compares Trump to Bernie Madoff

July 17, 2016 · 12:45 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Potential Democratic vice presidential pick Tom Vilsack compared Donald Trump to one of the most notorious fraudsters in U.S. history, NBC News reports.

Said Vilsack: “Donald Trump is sort of to politics what Bernie Madoff was to investment. He is selling something that people don’t fully understand and appreciate what it actually means.”

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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.

Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.