Daniel Dale: “Trying to pick the most notable lies from Donald Trump’s presidency is like trying to pick the most notable pieces of junk from the town dump.”
“There’s just so much ugly garbage to sift through before you can make a decision.”


Daniel Dale: “Trying to pick the most notable lies from Donald Trump’s presidency is like trying to pick the most notable pieces of junk from the town dump.”
“There’s just so much ugly garbage to sift through before you can make a decision.”
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) walked back his agreement to debate Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) on C-SPAN’s “Ceasefire” program, The Hill reports. Said Johnson: “I’ll debate Hakeem Jeffries anywhere, anytime…
President Trump’s memo authorizing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to redirect unspent federal funds is another classic Trump move — legally dubious but politically shrewd. Under the Constitution, only Congress controls…
President Trump attacked former President Biden and former Special Counsel Jack Smith in an Oval Office screed. Said Trump: “I think it was the worst weaponization of a political opponent…
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) said that she’d been handed a copy of an unreleased government report on the John F. Kennedy assassination — but from the Russian government, The…
“We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let’s see who shows up for that. I bet you you’ll see Hamas supporters, I bet you’ll see antifa…
Mother Jones: “The oldest appears to be Joe Maligno, who public records suggest is 35. In the chat, he spoke about gas chambers and used a racial slur toward Chinese…
Associated Press: “News outlets were nearly unanimous in rejecting new rules imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that would leave journalists vulnerable to expulsion if they sought to report on…
“Federal immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras, a judge said Thursday after seeing tear gas and other aggressive steps used against protesters,” the…
A Financial Times investigation “has found that Donald Trump and his family’s crypto businesses reaped more than $1 billion in pre-tax profits over the past year, in part due to…
New York Times: “As the only Democrat running for the Senate in a state that President Trump won in 2024, Mr. Ossoff risks alienating some voters by sticking with his…
“The Justice Department is expected to present a possible criminal case and seek a grand jury indictment against former national security adviser John Bolton as soon as Thursday afternoon at…
“The U.S. military’s elite Special Operations aviation unit appears to have flown in Caribbean waters less than 90 miles from the coast of Venezuela in recent days,” the Washington Post…
The White House’s “chaos” video from Chicago “is littered with outdated footage highlighting drug busts, arrests and deportation raids in other states, including Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska,” AFP…
CNN: “A growing number of affected employees — both furloughed workers and essential staffers who must continue showing up to work with no pay — have been chronicling their shutdown…
Americans who say the U.S. is less healthy under the leadership of President Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. now outnumber believers 2-to-1, per the latest Axios-Ipsos poll….
“President Trump is expected to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday,” Axios reports. “The two will discuss what weapons should be supplied to Ukraine,…
National Journal: “Republican incumbents on average outpaced their Democratic counterparts. The 16 Patriots, those the National Republican Congressional Committee considers the most vulnerable, raised an average of $763,000 and had…
“A posthumous memoir by Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre offers an expanded account about her longstanding claims to have been sexually trafficked by the late financier to billionaires, politicians…
House Democrats’ internal discussions about the government shutdown are centering on warnings of increasing health-care premiums and the Nov. 1 start of open enrollment under the Affordable Care Act, Bloomberg…
“Top Democrats in Pennsylvania are maneuvering to run against Sen. John Fetterman in a 2028 primary contest, threatening to tear the party apart in the biggest battleground state in the…
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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.
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