“A former nominee for director of the so-called blank-check company that plans to merge with former President Donald Trump’s social media start-up is suing, claiming he was frozen out of the deal,” the New York Times reports.
“Brian Shevland, the former nominee, is seeking monetary damages over what his suit calls a ‘brazen act of fraud.'”
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“Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is living for free in a military home typically reserved for the U.S. Coast Guard’s top admiral,” the Washington Post reports. “The highly…
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are set to meet today in one of the most remote corners of American soil — Alaska — and the stakes couldn’t be higher. What…
The Economist: “The puzzle of Mr Trump’s admiration for Mr Putin may have been better addressed by psychologists. Certainly Mr Putin, the seasoned KGB operative, has known how to play…
Brian Stelter: “No matter what happens at President Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin today, Trump will have Sean Hannity there right afterward to help him spin it positively.”…
The Economist: “When Donald Trump meets Vladimir Putin in Alaska it will be the seventh time the two have talked in person. This time is different, though. Since their last…
“President Donald Trump called Norway’s finance minister last month to discuss tariffs, he also told him he wanted the Nobel Peace Prize,” Reuters reports. From a local newspaper report: “Out…
“D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb has sued President Donald Trump over his executive actions asserting control over the D.C. police department and attempting to install an emergency police commissioner, one…
“Fuck that, that’s not going to happen.” — Hunter Biden, in an interview with Channel 5, after Melania Trump threatened a lawsuit if he didn’t apologize for saying Jeffrey Epstein…
“The West Wing has created a scorecard that rates 553 companies and trade associations on how hard they worked to support and promote President Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill,’” Axios…
Washington Post: “If this meeting is just to set the table for another meeting, that raises the question: Why go through all the heartburn and scare European allies with a…
“We’re not walking out of there with a deal.” — A White House official, quoted by Politico, downplaying expectations for today’s summit between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin….
“Republican Matt DePerno, a lawyer who’s facing criminal charges linked to an alleged plot to examine voting equipment after the 2020 election, formed a fundraising committee Wednesday to run for…
From the Wall Street Journal editorial board: “Inflation is a broad-based, persistent increase in the general price level. Tariffs in that sense aren’t inflationary unless the Fed accommodates them with…
A new Emerson College poll of Texas’ Senate GOP primary shows Sen. John Cornyn leading Attorney General Ken Paxton by 1 percentage point, 30% to 29%, breaking a spell of…
Quinta Jurecic: “During the interregnum between his terms, MAGA’s would-be philosophers built out the intellectual architecture for a presidential takeover of the Justice Department. Once Trump was back in office,…
“President Trump said on Thursday that a next step for nationwide immigration enforcement would be identifying undocumented immigrants during traffic stops,” Axios reports. “The suggestion comes after Trump temporarily took…
The White House is inviting Indiana Republicans to D.C. later this month as President Trump tries to push them to flip a House seat through redistricting, Punchbowl News reports. Save…
“President Donald Trump’s deployment of federal law enforcement and National Guard troops has produced Humvees on the National Mall and roving bands of agents in tourist areas as part of…
Steve Bannon called for Republicans to go to “maximalist” political war against Democrats and institutions and expand their Texas redistricting effort to flip nine or 10 seats. Save to Favorites
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.