“George Nader, who was a key witness in the Russia investigation and informally advised President Trump’s team on foreign policy, was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison by a federal judge in Virginia, stemming from his convictions on child sex charges,” CNN reports.
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“President Donald Trump has repeatedly maintained that he had no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes,” the Miami Herald reports. “But in July 2006, just as Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal sex…
“President Donald Trump’s tariffs cost the average American household $1,000 last year, according to new research from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation,” ABC News reports. “The cost is set to go…
“Elon Musk lobbed new attacks on former Trump adviser and current podcaster Steve Bannon over the weekend, reigniting an old feud that began months ago to highlight Bannon’s close ties…
“The Trump administration is planning this week to repeal the Obama-era scientific finding that serves as the legal basis for federal greenhouse-gas regulation, in the most far-reaching rollback of U.S….
“The Trump administration continues to press congressional Republicans to add a provision to their voter requirements bill that would either ban mail-in-voting with limited exceptions or limit the way voting-by-mail…
“Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is facing bipartisan calls to resign after he appeared in a recent batch of files linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,” Politico reports. Save to…
“Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie are challenging the Justice Department for redacting the names of six men in the publicly released materials related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey…
New York Magazine: “The House Oversight Committee’s scheduled closed-door deposition of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell went as expected Monday, with the onetime British socialite refusing to answer any questions…
“Ford has refused to fire the factory worker who heckled President Donald Trump last month,” the Daily Beast reports. “Thomas ‘TJ’ Sabula was suspended after calling Trump a ‘pedophile protector,’…
“A federal judge is expected to soon rule on whether President Donald Trump’s planned $400 million White House ballroom project can proceed, zeroing in on whether the administration’s plan to…
“The federal government will not have to restore funding to the $16 billion Gateway rail tunnel project between New York City and New Jersey before 5 p.m. on Thursday, a…
“Israel’s government is deepening a push by far-right ministers to expand its authority and settlements in the West Bank, giving it broad new powers in a territory that would make…
Lawmakers have the opportunity beginning today to review the full unredacted files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, so CNN has ranked the 13 most questionable redactions. According to The Hill,…
Bloomberg: “Iran extended the prison sentence of a Nobel peace laureate and detained several prominent reformist figures, escalating a crackdown on dissents weeks after security forces killed thousands of people…
“Keir Starmer’s cabinet members voiced their support for the prime minister on Monday, buying him time to shore up his beleaguered premiership after the Labour Party’s leader in Scotland urged…
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said lower U.S. jobs numbers can be expected in the months ahead as population growth slows, Bloomberg reports. The January report is due to…
Dr. Mehmet Oz responded to a recent surge in measles cases, urging Americans in a CNN interview to “take the vaccine, please.” Said Oz: “We have a solution for a…
For months, Democrats have gamed out all the wild ways Donald Trump might try to sabotage the midterm elections — ICE agents at polling places and even talk of canceling…
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Melania is having trouble staying on the field at the Super Bowl weekend box office, where it fell off a steep 67 percent, leading to a likely 10th-place finish with…
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.
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