Donald Trump “has raised more than $9.4 million since being processed and taking a mugshot in Fulton County, Georgia last week—bringing the Trump campaign’s fundraising numbers for the month of August to more than $20 million,” Fox News reports.


Donald Trump “has raised more than $9.4 million since being processed and taking a mugshot in Fulton County, Georgia last week—bringing the Trump campaign’s fundraising numbers for the month of August to more than $20 million,” Fox News reports.
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“China is reaching out to other nations as the U.S. layers on more tariffs in what appears to be an attempt to form a united front to compel Washington to…
“U.S. stocks tumbled about 4 percent in early afternoon trading on Thursday as investors assessed the worsening trade war with China, and President Trump clarified that he had raised tariffs…
“There is now sand — a lot of it — in the gears of global commerce, and it won’t be going away in the foreseeable future,” Axios reports. “President Trump…
“The Trump administration is planning to pursue a legal arrangement that would put Columbia University into a consent decree, an extraordinary step that could significantly escalate the pressure on the…
“Speaker Mike Johnson muscled a revised budget blueprint needed to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda through the House on Thursday, beating back a conservative rebellion that had threatened to sink…
“Chinese officials acknowledged in a secret December meeting that Beijing was behind a widespread series of alarming cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure, underscoring how hostilities between the two superpowers are continuing…
“You have been watching the greatest economic master strategy from an American president in history.” — Trump adviser Stephen Miller, on X. Save to Favorites
Eurointelligence: “What happened is that the bond markets had become dysfunctional as investors suffered heavy losses from the crash in equity markets, and needed to liquidate positions by selling bonds….
“The European Union will pause its retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports for 90 days, the bloc announced Thursday, a day after President Trump abruptly backed down on his punishing global…
“A dizzying escalation of tariffs has unraveled a trade relationship between the United States and China forged over decades, jeopardizing the fate of two superpowers and threatening to drag down…
“The U.S. stock market, fresh off its third-best day in modern history, is sinking back into reality: Although President Donald Trump paused most of his ‘reciprocal’ tariffs, his other massive…
“President Trump is wielding tariffs to try to close the massive U.S. trade deficit in goods, which he sees as a sign of economic weakness,” the Wall Street Journal reports….
Jonathan Martin: “As markets swooned along with Trump’s approval rating on the economy, the response from many congressional Republicans hasn’t just been deference but detachment, like they’re doing color commentary…
Paul Krugman: “Anyone sounding the all-clear on tariffs, or Trump economic policy in general, should be kept away from sharp objects and banned from operating heavy machinery. We’re in a…
Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball: “History suggested Democrats would be favored to flip the House in 2026 as soon as Donald Trump clinched the presidency in 2024.” “Little that’s happened over…
“The Trump administration has tightly restricted the number of people who have access to President Donald Trump’s highly classified daily intelligence report,” CNN reports. “Administration officials planned from the earliest…
“President Donald Trump is targeting two former first-term appointees over their criticism of his actions, stripping their security clearances and opening federal probes of their tenures,” Politico reports. “The directives…
JPMorgan says President Trump’s pause of tariffs on most countries makes “the prospect of a recession is a closer call. However, we still think a contraction in real activity later…
“What a day, but more great days coming!!!” — Donald Trump, on Truth Social at 12:45 a.m. this morning. Save to Favorites
Felix Salmon: “We’ve never lived in a world of anything remotely close to 125 percent tariffs on one of our largest trading partners which means the effects of such things…
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.
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