CNN: “One of the contingency plans being discussed involves preparing Susan Gordon, the deputy director of national intelligence, to potentially take Haspel’s place in case Republican senators or Trump balk… Two additional sources who spoke with Republican strategists and lawmakers were also aware of general contingency planning. It’s unclear how formal these conversations are, but two of the sources said Gordon was in varying stages of being prepared.”
Save to FavoritesAllison Gill reports that someone at the Bureau of Prisons waived Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security prison in Texas. Save to…
President Trump announced he’s firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, pointing to today’s downward revisions in employment numbers. Said Trump: “I have directed my Team to fire…
Patrick Ruffini writes that iOS 26 “will move calls and texts outside of a sender’s close contacts to an unknown senders tab. Many will welcome this as a way to…
“President Trump said Friday that he’d ordered to nuclear submarines close to Russian waters in response to nuclear bluster from former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev,” Axios reports. “It’s the first…
“A radioactive wasp nest with radiation levels ten times of what is allowed under regulations was found at a facility that once produced parts for US nuclear weapons,” the BBC…
“Things seem to be at risk of unraveling in the Senate,” Punchbowl News reports. “With senators eager to skip town for the August recess, there’s little progress on a nominations…
From a statement: “The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the…
The Yale Budget Lab says the new tariff rates President Trump announced late Thursday are the highest in nearly a century and will cost the average family about $2,400 this…
“It makes me sick that she is claiming to be a victim. This is the same woman that grabbed my arm and forced me into a room to be raped…
“Mayor Eric Adams’ re-election campaign submitted faked and fraudulently obtained petition signatures in his effort to secure a spot on the November ballot as an independent candidate,” Gothamist reports. “Gothamist…
The Wall Street Journal found that right-wing podcasters discussed the Jeffrey Epstein scandal in over 3,000 episodes of 125 podcasts this year and that these discussions “grew more than eightfold…
Eric Trump’s stake in a four-month-old Bitcoin mining venture could be worth $367 million when it goes public in coming weeks, Bloomberg reports. Save to Favorites
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green (D) said he is considering a 2028 campaign for president, with a possible platform of healing the nation after the bitterly divisive era of American politics…
“Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein now serving a 20-year prison sentence for sexually exploiting and abusing teenage girls, was moved to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas,”…
Jason Leopold: “We know from news reports that Trump’s name was in the Epstein files. But what hasn’t been reported is that an FBI FOIA team redacted Trump’s name —…
In a rowdy town hall on Thursday night, Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI) was booed when he expressed support for President Trump’s trade policies, ABC News reports. Save to Favorites
President Trump instructed Republican senators to “vote the exact opposite” of Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). Said Trump: “Republicans, when in doubt, vote the exact opposite of Senator Susan Collins. Generally…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) took a tumble on the Senate floor yesterday but appeared to be fine even though she tipped over a desk. Save to Favorites
“The Trump-era special counsel who scoured the Russia investigation for wrongdoing gathered evidence that undermines a theory pushed by some Republicans that Hillary Clinton’s campaign conspired to frame Donald Trump…
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.