A new trove of documents uncovered by the Wall Street Journal show that CIA Director William Burns met with Jeffrey Epstein at his New York townhouse in 2014, years after he had become a convicted sex offender.
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“President Trump signed an executive order imposing an additional 25% tariff on imports from India in response to the country’s continued purchases of Russian oil,” the Wall Street Journal reports….
NBC News: “According to the FBI, murder and nonnegligent manslaughter decreased an estimated 14.9%, robbery decreased an estimated 8.9% rape decreased an estimated 5.2%, and aggravated assault decreased an estimated…
“President Trump plans to announce later today that Apple Inc. is pledging an additional $100 billion investment in the United States, the company’s latest move to avoid tariffs on its…
“President Donald Trump is bending the U.S. justice system to his personal purposes in a way that is unprecedented in American history, prompting significant questions about how a system built…
Time: “On September 5, the federal government will release its first jobs report since Trump fired McEntarfer. The reaction to those numbers is likely to be colored by the recent…
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President Trump said that Vice President J.D. Vance was “most likely” to succeed him as the leader of the MAGA movement, in what appeared to be his strongest public backing…
Vice President J.D. Vance is visiting Indiana this week to speak with Gov. Mike Braun (R) and Republican legislative leaders about the possibility of redistricting the state’s congressional districts amid…
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“President Trump doubled down on his decision to dismiss the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, casting the agency that published a bleak jobs report last week as broken…
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) announced a campaign for Tennessee governor, Politico reports. Said Blackburn: “In his first six months, President Trump has made historic strides in Making America Great Again,…
“Last year, an 18-year-old Utahn was staring at the potential of years in prison, accused of having sex with a 13-year-old,” the Salt Lake Tribune reports. “Plea bargain negotiations were…
“The Trump administration has largely succeeded in pushing the president’s core supporters to back off their online obsession with billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,” according to a Washington Post analysis…
“President Trump plans to levy a stepwise series of pharmaceutical tariffs that could reach 150% within a year and a half, then rise to 250%,“ Axios reports. “It’s the highest…
Axios: “The threat of criminal charges targeting Trump enemies, such as former FBI director James Comey and former CIA director John Brennan, is no longer confined to the base’s imagination.”…
“Their relationship may surprise an untold number of Americans who consider rival party members abhorrent, but political opposites Jamie Raskin and Lauren Boebert have formed an unlikely friendship,” the Baltimore…
Edward Coristine, the 19-year-old known as “Big Balls” who played a key role in the DOGE initiative to shrink the size of government, was assaulted over the weekend in Washington,…
“In the chess game over bending the Federal Reserve to his will and sidelining Chair Jerome Powell, a significant piece just fell into President Trump’s hands,” the Wall Street Journal…
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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