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My Pillow Guy Urges Martial Law

January 15, 2021 at 6:18 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell went to a meeting at the White House today with notes suggesting “martial law if necessary,” the Independent reports.

“The notes, captured by a photographer as Mr Lindell entered the Oval Office on Friday, come after Mr Lindell tweeted then deleted calls for the president to ‘impost martial law’ in the seven battleground states that won the election for Joe Biden.”

Philip Bump: “It’s hard to characterize how bizarre and outrageous this is. From Lindell having a platform in any media to hype his allegations to his being invited into the inner sanctum of American power to apparently argue to the president or his team that there’s a path to rejecting the legitimate election of President-elect Joe Biden? There aren’t sufficient adjectives to explore how far from normal — or reality — this is.”

Filed Under: White House

Pence Fills the Void as ‘Acting President’

January 15, 2021 at 6:05 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Frustrated by the loss of his Twitter account and forced to accept that he soon must leave office, President Trump has effectively stopped doing his job, delegating daily responsibilities to Vice President Mike Pence while hunkering down with a shrinking group of acquiescent aides and contemplating additional presidential pardons,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

“Trump had considered leaving the White House before his final day in office Wednesday, even as early as this weekend, but he has opted to depart on the morning of President-elect Joe Biden’s Inauguration Day, according to two people familiar with discussions who cautioned that, with Trump, plans are always subject to change.”

“Intrigued by the idea of upstaging Biden, the ever self-centered president has requested a major sendoff. It would begin with a throng of cheering, flag-waving staffers and supporters to see him off on the White House’s South Lawn, and continue to a more formal ceremony at Joint Base Andrews, featuring a red carpet, military band, color guard and 21-gun salute. He’ll make his final Air Force One flight to Florida, to take up residence at Mar-a-Lago, his West Palm Beach, Fla., estate.”

Filed Under: White House

Trump Foreign Policy Moves ‘Feel Like Sabotage’

January 15, 2021 at 6:02 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Days before the inauguration, President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team criticized recent Trump administration policy announcements, suggesting that a series of recent statements “begin to feel like sabotage,” the AP reports.

“In the last week, the State Department announced significant policies on Yemen, Cuba, Taiwan and Iran that senior Trump administration officials insist they have been pushing for months, if not years, but that critics label as motivated more by politics than policy.”

Filed Under: Biden Transition, Foreign Affairs

Trump’s Defense Chief Can’t Wait to Leave

January 15, 2021 at 4:32 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, who will leave office in less than a week. told reporters that he ‘cannot wait to leave this job,” CNN reports.

Filed Under: National Security

NRA Files for Bankruptcy

January 15, 2021 at 4:27 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The National Rifle Association said Friday that it has filed for bankruptcy in U.S. court as part of a larger restructuring plan aimed at removing its footprint in New York for Texas,” CNBC reports.

“The gun-rights advocacy group said it would restructure as a Texas nonprofit to exit what it said was a ‘a corrupt political and regulatory environment in New York,’ where it is currently registered.”

Filed Under: Gun Control

Biden to Deploy National Guard to Distribute Vaccine

January 15, 2021 at 4:26 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President-elect Joe Biden plans to use FEMA and the National Guard to build coronavirus vaccine clinics across the United States,” CNBC reports.

“The Biden administration will also ‘quickly jumpstart’ efforts to make the vaccines available at local pharmacies across the U.S., which should ensure that Americans have access to doses at facilities only miles from their home.”

Filed Under: Health Care

James Murdoch Blasts U.S. Media for ‘Insidious Forces’

January 15, 2021 at 3:51 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

James Murdoch has castigated the US media to the Financial Times for the “toxic politics” threatening American democracy, saying proprietors are as culpable as politicians who “know the truth but choose instead to propagate lies.”

Asked whether America’s dominant conservative news network Fox News had played a role in the riot that rocked Washington last week, James Murdoch said media groups had amplified election disinformation, leaving “a substantial portion” of the public believing “a falsehood.”

He added: “The damage is profound. The sacking of the Capitol is proof positive that what we thought was dangerous is indeed very, very much so. Those outlets that propagate lies to their audience have unleashed insidious and uncontrollable forces that will be with us for years.”

Filed Under: Media Buzz

‘Warp Speed’ Waited Months to Approve Distribution Plan

January 15, 2021 at 3:04 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Operation Warp Speed leaders waited more than two months to approve a plan to distribute and administer Covid-19 vaccines proposed by U.S. health officials, leaving states with little time to implement a mass-vaccination campaign amid a coronavirus surge,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Filed Under: Health Care

Trump and Aides Drove Family Separation at Border

January 15, 2021 at 3:02 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump and top aides in the White House aggressively pushed the get-tough policy that led migrant children to be separated from adults at the border with Mexico, according to a top Justice Department official in a new report from the department’s inspector general and other internal documents,” the New York Times reports.

“In the report, formally released on Thursday, Gene Hamilton, a top official, said the policy was put in place after complaints by the president and others at the White House involved in carrying out his immigration agenda.”

Filed Under: Immigration

McConnell Says Impeachment Is ‘Vote of Conscience’

January 15, 2021 at 2:59 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been emailing senators to tell them their decision on whether to convict President Trump during the upcoming impeachment trial will be a “vote of conscience,” Business Insider reports.

Filed Under: Senate

Ted Cruz Will Attend Biden’s Inauguration

January 15, 2021 at 2:57 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) will attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, sources tell KXAN.

“Calls for Cruz to resign mounted in the week since rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol after Cruz called on his colleagues to object to certifying the Electoral College vote.”

Filed Under: Biden Transition

Justice Department Ends Pennsylvania Election Probe

January 15, 2021 at 2:54 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The top federal prosecutor in Harrisburg announced Friday that his office has closed an investigation into nine discarded ballots found in the northeastern part of the state that President Trump had touted to support his unfounded claims of election rigging, saying in a statement that the probe had found “insufficient evidence to prove criminal intent on the part of the person who discarded the ballots,” the Washington Post reports.

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign

Biden Abandons ‘Warp Speed’ Name

January 15, 2021 at 1:27 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President-elect Joe Biden‘s overhaul of the U.S. coronavirus vaccination program will include largely abandoning President Donald Trump’s ‘Operation Warp Speed’ moniker,” Bloomberg reports.

“Biden will detail his plan later Friday, after unveiling his push for a new pandemic relief package from Congress and appointing a series of new medical advisers. None of the announcements, however, used the Warp Speed brand that Trump’s administration created.”

Filed Under: Health Care

Pelosi Warns If Lawmakers Involved In Riots

January 15, 2021 at 1:24 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned that “if in fact it is found that members of Congress were accomplices to this insurrection, if they aided and abetted the crime, there may have to be actions taken beyond the Congress in terms of prosecutions,” Politico reports.

Filed Under: House of Representatives

Pelosi Mum on When She’ll Send Impeachment to Senate

January 15, 2021 at 1:20 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) declined on Friday to reveal when the House will send its resolution of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate, leaving the country — and her caucus — guessing on the timing of the trial in the upper chamber, The Hill reports.

Filed Under: House of Representatives

Pence Calls Harris to Offer Assistance

January 15, 2021 at 1:15 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Vice President Mike Pence telephoned Vice President-elect Kamala Harris Thursday to congratulate her and offer his assistance ahead of next week’s swearing-in, the latest indication that Mr. Pence is filling the leadership role all but abdicated by President Trump,” the New York Times reports.

“The conversation, which was relayed by two officials briefed on the call, was described as gracious and pleasant. The discussion is the first time Mr. Pence and Ms. Harris have spoken since they debated each other last fall.”

Filed Under: Biden Transition

Trump Bans Any Mentions of Nixon

January 15, 2021 at 11:20 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

CNN: “Trump has been consumed by the unraveling of his presidency during his last days in office, according to people around him, which included a casual discussion among advisers recently about a possible resignation.”

“Trump shut the idea down almost immediately. And he has made clear to aides in separate conversations that mere mention of President Richard Nixon, the last president to resign, was banned.”

“He told one adviser during an expletive-laden conversation recently never to bring up the ex-president ever again. During the passing mention of resigning this week, Trump told people he couldn’t count on Vice President Mike Pence to pardon him like Gerald Ford did Nixon, anyway.”

Filed Under: Political History, White House

Rioters Intended to ‘Capture and Assassinate’ Officials

January 15, 2021 at 11:14 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Federal prosecutors offered the most chilling description yet of rioters who seized the Capitol last week, writing in a new court filing that the intention was “to capture and assassinate elected officials,” CNN reports.

“The view was included in a memo seeking to keep Jacob Anthony Chansley, who rallied people inside the Capitol using a bullhorn, in detention. According to Capitol Police information included in the filing, Chansley was notable for his headdress, face paint and carrying of a six-foot spear.”

Wrote prosecutors: “Strong evidence, including Chansley’s own words and actions at the Capitol, supports that the intent of the Capitol rioters was to capture and assassinate elected officials in the United States government.”

Filed Under: Crime

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About Political Wire

goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan 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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