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A Glimpse Into Trump’s Unorthodox Mind

August 26, 2019 at 4:44 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Washington Post: “For many minutes on Monday, President Trump stood on foreign soil at the close of the Group of Seven summit here and trashed his predecessor. He bragged about his personal properties from the presidential podium, suggesting he will hold the next year’s G-7 gathering at his Doral golf course in Florida, which has ‘incredible’ conference rooms and ‘magnificent’ bungalows.”

“And he defended both Vladi­mir Putin and Kim Jong Un, suggesting the Russian strongman deserved an invite to future G-7 summits and that the North Korean dictator was an honorable man who would not let Trump down.”

“The U.S. president’s news conference here was presaged by an aide saying Trump would answer anything if the first two questions stayed on topic. Trump seemed more interested when the questions went off topic — and for 68 minutes in a seaside auditorium, he offered a lens into his un­or­tho­dox mind, a range of false or dubious statements and the myriad ways he has changed the presidency in 31 months.”

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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan 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.

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Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

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