President Trump has already discussed the idea of preemptively pardoning an array of Trump advisers, policymakers, and others who the president believes will likely be criminally investigated once Democrats are back in power, Zeteo reports.
Clintons Fight to Avoid Testifying in the Epstein Inquiry
“A quiet, monthslong battle between Representative James Comer of Kentucky, the Republican chairman of the Oversight Committee, and Bill and Hillary Clinton over the panel’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation could come to a head this week,” the New York Times reports.
“Mr. Comer has threatened to begin contempt of Congress proceedings against them if they fail to appear in person for depositions.”
“The threat is the starkest example yet of the attempt by House Republicans to shift the focus of the Epstein affair away from President Trump and his administration and onto prominent Democrats who once associated with the convicted sex offender and his longtime companion, Ghislaine Maxwell.”
Ilhan Omar Says Her Son Was Stopped by ICE
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said federal immigration agents pulled over her son on Saturday and asked him to prove his citizenship, CBS News reports.
The congresswoman said her son “always carries” his passport with him.
Chasing Chi
Just published: Chasing Chi: The FBI’s Groundbreaking Pursuit of China’s Most Prolific Spy Family by James E. Gaylord
“It began as furtive tip, grew to fevered investigation, and climaxed with midnight airport arrests to prevent US military secrets from being lost forever.”
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Trump’s Attacks on Opponents Spur Surge of Threats
“President Donald Trump’s heated rhetoric against his perceived political enemies has resulted in a blizzard of threats against at least 22 officials on both sides of the aisle in recent weeks,” according to an NBC News tally.
“Among those who’ve been targeted with threats after being mentioned in social media posts by the president are numerous Democrats, including Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan — but even more Republicans, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and over a dozen Indiana state lawmakers.”
Hundreds Quarantined as Measles Spreads
Measles outbreaks are growing along the Utah-Arizona border and in South Carolina, where hundreds are in quarantine, the AP reports.
Big Majority Satisfied with Their Health Insurance
“An overwhelming majority of U.S. adults are satisfied with their health insurance coverage overall, including most older Americans and those on Medicare and Medicaid,” according to a new NBC News Decision Desk Poll.
“But there is an undercurrent of frustration in the findings, too, with nearly one-quarter of respondents saying they’d been denied coverage or faced a delay from their insurance in the last two years.”
Trump Remains Deeply Unpopular
President Trump’s approval rating remains steadily underwater among adults as he nears the end of his first year back in the White House, and he has lost some ground among his “Make America Great Again” base, according to a new NBC News Decision Desk Poll.
Why Democrats Lost in 2024
New Republic: “Democrats need to move right to win back voters in 2026 and 2028—that’s the conventional wisdom from a slew of Democratic think tanks and Beltway strategists. To make their case, they’ve released reports and polling trying to prove that voters are more moderate on many social and cultural issues—like trans athletes in school sports and immigration—than the party’s far-left activists.”
“But an exhaustive new report makes a convincing counterargument. More importantly, it provides a road map for Democratic candidates that doesn’t require throwing vulnerable members of their coalition under the bus.”
History Is Against Republicans in the Midterms
Charles Franklin: “In the House, the president’s party has lost seats in all but four midterms since 1862, and one of those, 1902, was a year the House expanded so the Republican gains fell short of Democratic gains that year. After 1934 it wasn’t until 1998 that the president’s party gained seats, then the rare event repeated in 2002. Not since.”
“This regularity over 160 years is hard to attribute to the circumstances of the moment. Likewise the hope that ‘this year will be different’ has been a forlorn one. The size of the seat loss, on the other hand, has varied considerably and is correlated with presidential approval (Clinton in 1998 and Bush in 2002 were unusually popular, as was Roosevelt in 1934) and the state of the economy. Popular presidents lose fewer seats, unpopular ones more. Good times go with smaller losses, bad times with greater losses.”
Americans Overwhelmingly Say Politicians Are Corrupt
A new Searchlight Institute poll finds many Americans think politicians are corrupt, and most think government serves the interests of the wealthy and businesses over those of the average person.
Trump and Republicans Blamed for Higher Prices
A new Navigator Research poll finds overwhelming majorities continue to say the costs of groceries, housing, utilities, and health care are on the rise.
The share of Americans believing health care costs are rising has increased by 10-points in less than a year.
Key takeaway: President Trump and Republicans in Congress are blamed the most for costs rising by a 21-point margin, though independents say both parties are equally to blame.
Quote of the Day
“It’s not a glass ceiling, it’s a marble ceiling.”
— Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), in an interview with USA Today, on a woman becoming president.
How Trump’s Redistricting in Texas Could Backfire
CNN: “Democrats beat Trump’s 2024 results in five US House districts with special elections this year by at least 13 points. Over-performance at that level next year would flip three of the five new Texas seats to the Democratic column, though it’s unlikely that performance will be replicated in every district around the country, and recent polling suggests that Democrats currently have a more modest national advantage.”
Trump Library Could Have a ‘Fake News Wing’
“Eric Trump sounded triumphant after Florida officials recently approved giving away a prized piece of Miami real estate for his father’s presidential library,” the Washington Post reports.
Said Trump: “I got the library approved yesterday… we just got the greatest site in Florida and I’m going to be building that.”
“Then, speaking on another program, Trump said he would take the host’s suggestion to create a ‘fake news wing’ — paid for with money from lawsuit settlements with ABC, CBS and other sources. It would run clips from ‘60 Minutes’ and other programs that he said were evidence of the media organizations’ animus against his father.”
Zelensky Attempts to Rewrite Trump’s Peace Plan
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, with the help of his European allies, has carefully crafted a response to President Trump’s peace plan that essentially boils down to: Yes, but…,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Zelensky is prepared to hold elections, but would need a cease-fire. He says Russia can maintain some involvement in Europe’s largest nuclear plant, which it currently occupies, but Ukraine and the U.S. should be in control. The size of Ukraine’s military can be capped, he concedes, but at its current size.”
“The approach has enabled Zelensky to get on board with Trump’s vision of peace—but not at the expense of political credibility at home.”
Financial Times: Ukraine offers to drop NATO membership demands.
What James Carville Got Wrong
James Carville lamented in a video that he and the Democratic Party have made some faulty assumptions about young people, the New York Post reports.
Said Carville: “Anybody that’s been around in politics as long as I have, you make monumental mistakes — strategic mistakes. Maybe the biggest one I made is I wrote a book saying the Democrats were destined to win for 40 more years because, look — we had the under-30s, we had non-White voters, and that was a growing coalition that would win elections.”
He added: “It’s what I call ‘political Presbyterianism,’ that elections are ordained and you can just put something in a fucking computer and it’ll spit out the percent you’re going to get. It turned out that that was a really, really stupid assumption.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene Heads Back to ‘The View’
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is continuing her media tour with a return to “The View,” the New York Post reports.
The ABC daytime talk show announced Friday that Greene is scheduled to appear Jan. 7, just two days after Greene leaves Congress.
Financial Times: The chutzpah of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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