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Inside Giuliani’s Dual Roles

December 8, 2019 at 9:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Washington Post: “Giuliani’s previously unreported attempts to shape the pick for the U.S. envoy to Qatar is part of an un­or­tho­dox foreign policy portfolio he has carved out for himself while also working as a power-broker-for-hire with direct access to the president and top administration officials.”

“The dual roles he has embraced is part of what longtime colleagues say has been a transformation of the once-iconic New York mayor into a multimillionaire consultant to powerful figures overseas.”

New York Times: How Giuliani led Trump to the brink of impeachment.

Filed Under: White House

Another Bush Enters Politics

December 8, 2019 at 8:58 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Texas Tribune: “The grandson of the late President George H.W. Bush, nonprofit executive Pierce Bush, will announce his candidacy for Congress on Monday morning, according to an email written by his father, Neil Bush.”

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign

Warren Consulted for Corporations While a Professor

December 8, 2019 at 8:47 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) earned nearly $2 million working as a consultant for corporations while she was a law professor at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and other schools, the Washington Post reports.

The payments do not fit neatly with her current brand as a crusader against corporate interests.

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign

Cruz Insists Ukraine Interfered In 2016 Election

December 8, 2019 at 3:02 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) made the unfounded allegation that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 presidential election in a NBC News interview.

Said Cruz: “Of course Russia interfered in the election. But here’s the game the media is playing. Because Russia interfered, the media pretends nobody else did. Ukraine blatantly interfered in our election.”

Axios: “Cruz is one of several Republican senators who have refused to disavow the allegations that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election, despite receiving a briefing from intelligence officials that this is an alternative narrative being propagated by Russian security services.”

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign

Nunes Says It’s ‘Sickening’ Phone Records Were Obtained

December 8, 2019 at 2:59 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes (R-CA) told Fox News that it was “sickening” that Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) had obtained his phone records as part of the House’s impeachment inquiry.

Said Nunes: “I think the whole thing is just sickening, but he did it to one of my current staff members and one of my former staff members who he doesn’t like.”

Filed Under: House of Representatives Tagged With: Devin Nunes

Deepening Divide Turns Impeachment Into Partisan Brawl

December 8, 2019 at 2:57 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Almost from the moment that Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her lieutenants decided this fall to pursue the impeachment of President Trump, they made a fateful judgment: If the president intended to do nothing but stonewall and subvert their inquiry, they were not going to be the ones politely sticking to lofty traditions,” the New York Times reports.

“Mr. Trump’s lawyers have made a similarly cold calculation. After a year of defying without consequence Congress’s attempts to investigate the president’s conduct, they have no intention of taking part in what they view as an illegitimate impeachment, initially conducted without a formal House vote in a break with recent precedent.”

“The clash comes to a head on Monday with a hearing in the Judiciary Committee where Democratic lawyers plan to present the case for impeaching Mr. Trump while the White House sits out the process. That will set in motion a rapid-fire set of actions likely to produce official charges against the president by week’s end and a nearly party-line vote in the full House before Christmas to impeach him.”

Filed Under: House of Representatives, White House

Oppo: A Novel

December 8, 2019 at 12:38 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Just published: Oppo: A Novel by Tom Rosenstiel.

“A breathless and highly charged political thriller: the story of a senator who is offered the vice presidential slot by both parties’ presidential nominees and then gets ominous threats.”

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Filed Under: Political Books

The New China Scare

December 8, 2019 at 12:34 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Fareed Zakaria: “The United States risks squandering the hard-won gains from four decades of engagement with China, encouraging Beijing to adopt confrontational policies of its own, and leading the world’s two largest economies into a treacherous conflict of unknown scale and scope that will inevitably cause decades of instability and insecurity. A cold war with China is likely to be much longer and more costly than the one with the Soviet Union, with an uncertain outcome.”

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs

Behind the Scenes of Impeachment

December 8, 2019 at 12:32 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “In cramped spaces in the Rayburn and Longworth House Office Buildings, as well as the speaker’s suite, the final articles of impeachment are being incubated in the shadow of the Capitol dome. It is a frantic backstage tableau of Washington anthropology, populated by Judiciary and Intelligence Committee aides, lawmakers and counsels hunched over computer screens and yellow legal pads.”

“History can get cluttered sometimes. The rooms are littered with empty soda cans, pie leftover from Thanksgiving and boxes pulled from shelves containing files from past impeachments. There are recurrent calls for tech support, caffeine and blankets, because the rooms can get cold, like the pizza. With so much grand talk about ‘constitutional duties’ and ‘respecting the founders’ and ‘honoring oaths,’ there is also the mundane and the workaday.”

Filed Under: House of Representatives

Trump Floods Facebook with Misleading Ads

December 8, 2019 at 12:24 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The Trump campaign is flooding Facebook with anti-impeachment ads that misleadingly imply House Democrats are pushing “treason” allegations against President Trump in the ongoing impeachment inquiry, ABC News reports.

“The ads, which started running on the social media site Thursday, ask for donations and float the word ‘treason’ in two different ways. One set of ads implies Democrats are making ‘treason’ allegations against the president, while other ads could be interpreted as the campaign claiming Democrats pushing impeachment are treasonous—a loaded word the president himself has used against his critics.”

Filed Under: White House

Committee Could Hold Impeachment Vote This Week

December 8, 2019 at 9:42 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sources tell CNN a vote in the House Judiciary Committee to impeach President Trump is expected as soon as this week.

Chairman Jerry Nadler: “The Framers worst nightmare is what we are facing in this very moment. President Trump abused his power, betrayed our national security, and corrupted our elections, all for personal gain. The Constitution details only one remedy for this misconduct: impeachment.”

Filed Under: House of Representatives

Pardoned Soldiers Are Trump’s Guests at Fundraiser

December 8, 2019 at 9:18 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump, speaking during a closed-door speech to Republican Party of Florida donors at the state party’s annual Statesman’s Dinner, was in ‘rare form’ Saturday night,” the Miami Herald reports.

“The dinner, which raised $3.5 million for the state party, was met with unusual secrecy. The 1,000 attendees were required to check their cell phones into individual locked cases before they entered the unmarked ballroom at the south end of the resort. Reporters were not allowed to attend.”

“But the secrecy was key to Trump’s performance, which attendees called ‘hilarious.'”

“He also pulled an unusual move, bringing on stage Army 1st Lt. Clint Lorance and Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, who Trump pardoned last month for cases involving war crimes.”

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign

Trump’s First Instinct Is to Protect Saudis

December 8, 2019 at 9:13 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“When a Saudi Air Force officer opened fire on his classmates at a naval base in Pensacola, Fla., on Friday, he killed three, wounded eight and exposed anew the strange dynamic between President Trump and the Saudi leadership: The president’s first instinct was to tamp down any suggestion that the Saudi government needed to be held to account,” the New York Times reports.

“Mr. Trump was so quick and so eager to assure the Saudis that the relationship would continue before anyone knew how to categorize the shooting that it raised questions about how the administration would have responded if the suspect had been an Iranian, or an immigrant from Mexico.”

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs

Bloomberg Already Has One of the Biggest Campaigns

December 8, 2019 at 9:10 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Washington Post: “After two weeks in the presidential race, Mike Bloomberg now employs one of the largest campaign staff rosters, has spent more money on ads than all the top-polling Democrats combined and is simultaneously building out ground operations in 27 states.”

“Everything he is doing is so unlike what has been done for decades that it is difficult to decipher how voters will react.”

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign

Trump Says Giuliani Wants to Testify

December 8, 2019 at 9:10 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump said his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani wants to testify before congressional impeachment investigators about his most recent trip to Ukraine, Politico reports.

Said Trump: “He has not told me what he found, but I think he wants to go before Congress. I hear he has found plenty.”

Trump added that Giuliani will “make a report” of his findings to submit to Attorney General William Barr and Congress.

Filed Under: White House

Flashback Quote of the Day

December 8, 2019 at 9:08 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Go after your enemies. I mean, they’re after you. Go after your enemies. I think that Clinton probably is too nice a guy in a certain respect. I don’t think he’s going after people the way he should and I really believe his thing is to be liked and I don’t think that’s a very good position to be in right now.”

— Donald Trump, on Hardball in September 1998, advising President Bill Clinton on how to fight impeachment.

Filed Under: Political History

Dixville Notch May See Its Midnight Tradition Disappear

December 8, 2019 at 9:01 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Boston Globe: “For six decades, Americans have woken up on the morning of the New Hampshire presidential primary, turned on the news, and heard about Dixville Notch, the tiny hamlet where perhaps a dozen voters had cast paper ballots into a wooden box right at midnight, with the pomp of a long ago era.”

“Now, with the 2020 New Hampshire presidential primary less than 10 weeks away, it is increasingly likely that the Dixville Notch tradition is dead, victim of a shrinking population too small to meet the legal threshold of five residents to be a polling place.”

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign

North Korea Carries Out ‘Very Important Test’

December 8, 2019 at 9:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

North Korea says it has carried out a “very important test” at a satellite-launching site, the BBC reports.

“Analysts believe it could be a ground-based test of an engine to power a satellite launcher or an intercontinental ballistic missile.”

“It comes after Pyongyang appeared to shut the door on further US talks.”

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs

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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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