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The Smoking Gun In Trump’s Attempted Coup

January 3, 2022 at 12:50 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Will Bunch: “While America was preoccupied last week with getting home from the holidays or lining up around the block for COVID-19 testing, there was a bombshell development in the investigation to learn just how far Donald Trump was prepared to go in turning the Capitol Hill chaos of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection into a coup to end U.S. democracy.”

“Thanks to a somewhat surprising source — the disgraced former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik, a Team Trump insider — we now know the name of a document with the potential to become a ‘smoking gun.’ Just its title suggests Trump was planning an unprecedented abuse of presidential power — to use the Big Lie of nonexistent 2020 election fraud to undo the results of a free and fair vote.”

Filed Under: Trump Legacy

Hedge Fund CEO Steps Down Ahead of Senate Bid

January 3, 2022 at 12:47 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Bridgewater Associates CEO David McCormick told staff he would be stepping down to consider running for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Filed Under: 2022 Campaign Tagged With: PA-Sen

Larry Hogan Stumps for Trump’s Enemy List

January 3, 2022 at 12:32 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“When Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler — a Trump impeachment backer whom the former president is aggressively targeting for defeat in 2022 — threw a fundraiser last month, she was accompanied by a fellow Republican who’d trekked from the other side of the country: Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan,” Politico reports.

“The foray was part of a broader effort Hogan is launching to bolster the ever-growing list of Republicans former President Donald Trump is trying to oust in this year’s midterm elections. Hogan has hosted fundraisers for Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, and he is looking at helping others, including Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, another impeachment supporter facing a Trump-endorsed Republican challenger.”

Filed Under: 2022 Campaign


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The Pandemic Is Reducing Faith In Political Insititutions

January 3, 2022 at 12:30 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Don Moynihan: “The longer the pandemic goes on, the more trust will decline in institutions that have to make visible, salient decisions amidst changing circumstances, information and trade-offs while serving a population with wildly varying preferences.”

“This somewhat depressing insight may or may not seem obvious to you, but it wasn’t apparent to me until recently. The emergence of Omicron, which will propel us into a third year of the pandemic, and growing liberal dissatisfaction with the Biden administration helped crystalize this realization. My thinking on this is based on fitting what we know about certain biases (motivated reasoning, negativity bias, hindsight bias) on the dynamics and longevity of the pandemic.”

Filed Under: Health Care

New York Attorney General Subpoenas Ivanka and Don Jr.

January 3, 2022 at 11:43 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Attorney General Leticia James subpoenaed Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr for testimony as part of civil investigation into Trump Organization’s finances, CNN reports.

ABC News reports the Trump children are planning to “file motions to quash the subpoenas.”

Filed Under: Trump Legacy

Officials Who Resigned Over Jan. 6 Won’t Talk About It

January 3, 2022 at 11:26 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“One year after the Jan. 6 riot, the voices of those who broke with Trump over that day have mostly been muted, moved on, or, in certain instances, come to embrace Trump all over again,” Politico reports.

“Politico contacted eighteen Trump administration officials who stepped down as a result of Jan. 6 or whose resignation seemed timed to it. Only one agreed to speak on the record about their decision that day.”

Filed Under: Trump Legacy

Schumer Calls for Vote on Changing Senate Rules

January 3, 2022 at 11:23 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) told colleagues Monday that the chamber would vote no later than the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on changing Senate rules if Republicans continue to block voting-rights legislation,” the Washington Post reports.

“The announcement of the planned action by Jan. 17 represented Schumer’s strongest endorsement yet of trying to muscle through legislation that has been stymied because of Senate rules requiring a 60-vote threshold.”

John Harwood: Why Democrats haven’t given up on Joe Manchin and voting rights.

Filed Under: Senate

Omicron Wave Could Derail Votes In Congress

January 3, 2022 at 11:08 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Politico: “We have to wonder with the Omicron variant of Covid surging — and such tight margins in both chambers — whether Capitol Hill’s operations can continue uninterrupted during this latest wave.”

Filed Under: House of Representatives, Senate

Why the President’s Party Usually Has a Bad Midterm

January 3, 2022 at 11:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

FiveThirtyEight: “Political science has offered a number of explanations for what’s going on under the hood, all of which may contribute at least in part to the presidential party’s midterm curse.”

“These can largely be grouped into three categories: a midterm ‘reversion to the mean’ after presidential elections, a ‘surge and decline’ in voter turnout that changes the electorate from presidential years to midterm years and a broader ‘presidential penalty’ where the party in the White House gets punished regardless of how the country is doing.”

Filed Under: Political History

Drone Attack on U.S. Base Foiled

January 3, 2022 at 10:56 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Two armed drones were shot down on Monday as they approached an Iraqi military base hosting US forces near Baghdad’s international airport, the Jerusalem Post reports.

The words “Soleimani’s revenge” were written on the wing of one of the drones, indicating that the attempted attack was connected to the two-year anniversary of the Iranian general’s assassination.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs

Bolsonaro Hospitalized In Brazil

January 3, 2022 at 10:54 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was taken to a Sao Paulo hospital for tests early Monday after experiencing abdominal discomfort, the AP reports.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs

Biden’s Year of Hoping Dangerously

January 3, 2022 at 10:30 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Susan Glasser: “But the national mood is sour, and understandably so. Sanity, competence, and civility have not exactly returned to Washington; normalcy is not just around the corner. Biden, it is now clear, promised what he couldn’t deliver in a nation divided against itself. He trafficked in hope that was arguably as misleading in its own way as Trump’s lies. More than four hundred thousand Americans have died of covid since Trump left office—many of them because they refused to get a free, lifesaving vaccine.”

“More than two-thirds of Republicans to this day refuse to accept that Biden is the legitimately elected President, preferring Trump’s Big Lie to the uncomfortable truth of his defeat. There is no restoration possible in such a country.”

Filed Under: White House

Quote of the Day

January 3, 2022 at 10:22 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“I serve with colleagues who I can’t even stand to be on the elevator with — their unapologetic embrace of the lies that led to violent extremism makes me sick.”

— Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), writing in the Boston Globe.

Filed Under: House of Representatives

Kremlin Insider May Have Secrets of 2016 Hack

January 3, 2022 at 10:04 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“In the days before Christmas, U.S. officials in Boston unveiled insider trading charges against a Russian tech tycoon they had been pursuing for months. They accused Vladislav Klyushin, who’d been extradited from Switzerland on Dec. 18, of illegally making tens of millions of dollars trading on hacked corporate-earnings information,” Bloomberg reports.

“Yet as authorities laid out their securities fraud case, a striking portrait of the detainee emerged: Klyushin was not only an accused insider trader, but a Kremlin insider. He ran an information technology company that works with the Russian government’s top echelons. Just 18 months earlier, Klyushin received a medal of honor from Russian President Vladimir Putin. The U.S. had, in its custody, the highest-level Kremlin insider handed to U.S. law enforcement in recent memory.”

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs

Five Rudys from the Abyss

January 3, 2022 at 10:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Philip Rotner: “Substitute Rudy Giuliani—or Sidney Powell or Jim Jordan or any other Trump cultist—for just five people who held state or federal office at the time of the 2020 election and think about what might have happened.”

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign, Democracy

Trump Endorses Hungary’s Viktor Orbán

January 3, 2022 at 9:23 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former President Donald Trump gave Hungary’s Viktor Orbán his “Complete support and Endorsement.”

Meanwhile, from the New York Times: “After long indulging him, leaders in the European Union now widely consider one of their own, Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, an existential threat to a bloc that holds itself up as a model of human rights and the rule of law.”

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs

The Media Must Help Save American Democracy

January 3, 2022 at 9:13 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Margaret Sullivan: “In the year since the Jan. 6 insurrection, mainstream journalists have done a lot of things right. They’ve published major investigations, pointed out politicians’ lies and, in many cases, finally learned how to clearly communicate the facts of what happened leading up to that horrendous riot at the U.S. Capitol — and what is happening now as pro-Trump Republicans steadily chip away at the very checks and balances that saved American democracy last year.”

“Much of this work has been impressive. And yet, something crucial is missing. For the most part, news organizations are not making democracy-under-siege a central focus of the work they present to the public.”

Filed Under: Media Buzz

The GOP’s Image Has Recovered Since January 6 Attack

January 3, 2022 at 9:09 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Morning Consult poll finds that 34% of voters say the Republican Party is headed in the right direction, up 10 points from immediately after Jan. 6 and slightly higher than before the attack on the Capitol.

Meanwhile, 68% percent of Democrats say Jan. 6 had a “major impact” on their worldview, but only 35% of independents and 24% of Republicans agree.

Filed Under: Republicans

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Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

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