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A Visit to the Clinton Library

April 29, 2019 at 2:27 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Walter Shapiro: “What is lacking throughout the Clinton Library is context. No one should be surprised that the impeachment saga is as airbrushed as an old-time Hugh Hefner-approved Playboy centerfold. Monica Lewinsky is mentioned in a single sentence—and Clinton is portrayed as morally, as well as legally, blameless. As the signage puts it, ‘After the Republicans won Congress in 1994, the fight for power culminated in two government shutdowns and an impeachment battle, bringing partisan opposition to a new high and attempting to deny the very legitimacy of the President’s election.'”

“To give Clinton a break, honesty about sex has never been his strong suit. But the true missing figure in Little Rock, whose shadow dominated the Clinton years, is Ronald Reagan.”

White House Reviewing Stephen Moore’s Writings

April 29, 2019 at 2:06 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The White House is reviewing past writings by Stephen Moore, the conservative commentator whom President Trump plans to nominate to the Federal Reserve Board, amid criticism that many of the opinion columns he penned denigrated women,” the New York Times reports.

Ex-Envoy Says Trump Authorized North Korea Payment

April 29, 2019 at 1:45 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Joseph Yun, the former State Department Special Representative for North Korea, confirmed Monday that he signed an agreement to pay North Korea $2 million for the release of American student Otto Warmbier in 2017,” CNN reports.

Said Yun: “As soon as North Korea side told me that this bill for $2 million would have to be paid … I contacted my boss then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. He got back to me very quickly thereafter to say yes, go ahead and sign.”

Trump has flatly denied any money was paid for the release of Warmbier.


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Most Say Good Economy Hasn’t Helped Them

April 29, 2019 at 1:43 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Monmouth poll finds just 12% of Americans say that their family has benefited a great deal from recent growth in the U.S. economy and another 31% say they have received some benefit from the economic upturn.

A majority, though, say they have been helped either not much (27%) or not at all (27%) from the nation’s macroeconomic growth.

On the Trail with Pete Buttigieg

April 29, 2019 at 1:34 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Vogue: “As we pass the remains of the Studebaker factories, I ask him what he’d say to those who argue that yet another white male candidate isn’t what Democrats need in this year of all years.”

Said Buttigieg: “I’m sensitive to that. In the end, I think we just bring whatever identity we have to the table. Mine is of a young, gay, first-generation white veteran mayor.”

Harris Hires Top Media Adviser

April 29, 2019 at 1:26 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Kamala Harris has hired Jim Margolis, one of the Democratic Party’s most accomplished admakers, as her media adviser,” Politico reports.

“Margolis is a veteran of former President Barack Obama’s campaigns in 2008 and 2012, and served in a key role in Hillary Clinton’s White House bid in 2016.”

Wall Street Democrats Can’t Settle on a Candidate

April 29, 2019 at 12:54 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Magazine: “The candidates who had long cultivated relationships with Wall Street — such as Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand — were struggling to gain traction and had grown more hostile to finance as their party had, too. Biden, leading in early polls, had a comforting history in the Obama White House and a reputation as an Establishment Democrat but had never, until a few months ago, maintained any meaningful relationship with Wall Street, hadn’t even announced his candidacy yet, and struck many bankers as a dubious bet to beat Trump.”

“Nearly everyone else in the field, the financiers felt, was being pulled leftward by Bernie… and Elizabeth Warren (less crazy, Democrats on Wall Street think, and way more competent).”

Said one banker: “She would torture them.”

Indonesian Election Workers Die from Overwork

April 29, 2019 at 12:25 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The Guardian: “Ten days after Indonesia held the world’s biggest single-day elections, officials say more than 270 election staff have died, mostly of fatigue-related illneses caused by long hours of work counting millions of ballot papers by hand.”

“The 17 April elections were the first time the country of 260 million people combined the presidential vote with national and regional parliamentary ones, with an aim to cut costs.”

Trump Sees Supreme Court as His Ally

April 29, 2019 at 12:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Washington Post: “Trump’s confidence in the high court seems borne of the fact that he’s nominated two of the five conservative justices that make up the court’s majority — Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh. The president said this week he was pleased with Kavanaugh’s questioning in the census case, an adviser said. The president and the first lady are friendly with Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Ginni Thomas, having shared dinner at the White House… Trump has referred to Supreme Court justices as Democrats and Republicans, current and former aides say, and has bragged that he thinks he may get one or two more chances to remake the court.

“Trump has told White House aides that he would take the battle over his tax returns to the high court, where he believes he would win.”

The President Committed Crimes

April 29, 2019 at 11:41 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Benjamin Wittes: “There is no way around it. Attorney General William Barr’s efforts to clear President Donald Trump, both in his original letter and in his press conference the morning of the report’s release, are wholly unconvincing when you actually spend time with the document itself.”

“Mueller does not accuse the president of crimes. He doesn’t have to. But the facts he recounts describe criminal behavior. They describe criminal behavior even if we allow the president’s—and the attorney general’s—argument that facially valid exercises of presidential authority cannot be obstructions of justice. They do this because they describe obstructive activity that does not involve facially valid exercises of presidential power at all.”

Gingrich Sees Kamala Harris as Most Likely Nominee

April 29, 2019 at 11:19 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Newt Gingrich told CBS News that Sen. Kamala Harris is “most likely” to be nominated by Democrats to challenge President Trump in the 2020 presidential race.

Said Gingrich: “She’s very articulate and I think a likable person, and I think that she represents a new generation in a way that Biden and Sanders are going to work very hard to be able to match.”

But he said Pete Buttigieig may be the “most dangerous opponent” to Trump: “He’s from the Midwest, he’s a mayor of a small town, he has no particular public record, he can be like Jimmy Carter used to be, a Rorschach test of you paint on him what you want.”

Trump Goes After Biden Again

April 29, 2019 at 11:16 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump slammed Joe Biden on Twitter, ahead of the former vice president’s first campaign rally.

Said Trump: “The Media (Fake News) is pushing Sleepy Joe hard. Funny, I’m only here because of Biden & Obama. They didn’t do the job and now you have Trump, who is getting it done – big time!”

Trump’s Tariffs End or His Trade Deal Dies

April 29, 2019 at 10:40 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) writes in the Wall Street Journal that Trump administration tariffs are a significant roadblock to approving the new trade deal with Canada and Mexico.

Writes Grassley: “These levies are a tax on Americans, and they jeopardize USMCA’s prospects of passage in the Mexican Congress, Canadian Parliament and U.S. Congress. Canadian and Mexican trade officials may be more delicate in their language, but they’re diplomats. I’m not. If these tariffs aren’t lifted, USMCA is dead. There is no appetite in Congress to debate USMCA with these tariffs in place.”

Four Democrats Have Not Yet Qualified for the Debates

April 29, 2019 at 10:31 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The New York Times reports that just four official Democratic presidential candidates — Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), Mayor Wayne Messam and writer Marianne Williamson — have yet to meet the thresholds laid out by the DNC to qualify for the first presidential debates.

To be eligible, candidates must receive at least one percent support in three separate polls before the debate or receive campaign contributions from at least 65,000 unique donors.

A Guide to the Mueller Report’s Findings on ‘Collusion’

April 29, 2019 at 10:28 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Ryan Goodman offers an excellent guide to the Mueller Report’s findings on whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.

“The analysis discusses affirmative evidence and countervailing evidence in the Report, references the Special Counsel’s court filings and reliable news reports that help shed additional light on information in the Report, and identifies significant loose ends that the investigation was unable to answer.”

Trump In Dead Heat In Texas

April 29, 2019 at 10:25 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Emerson College survey in Texas finds President Trump in a dead heat with potential Democratic challengers Joe Biden and Beto O’Rourke.

Biden leads Trump 50% to 49%, while O’Rourke is tied with Trump at 50% to 50%.

In the Democratic primary race, Biden edges O’Rourke 23% to 22%, with Bernie Sanders at 17%, Pete Buttigieg at 8% and Elizabeth Warren at 7%.

Impeachment Could Be a Trap for Democrats

April 29, 2019 at 9:51 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Gerald Seib: “Everything about Mr. Trump’s history—before and since assuming the presidency—suggests he likes a clearly identifiable enemy, and he likes a fight. He is the famously self-proclaimed counter-puncher, defining himself by those with whom he is battling and distinguishing himself by the way he conducts the battle. In an impeachment fight, he could do exactly that.”

“Mr. Trump appears ready to portray himself as both a victim of his enemies, and the pursuer of them, in any impeachment battle.”

“In such a scenario, Mr. Trump would have the opportunity to offer to his base—and for the president, it’s all about that base—the ultimate proof of the ultimate conspiracy theory: That the whole investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections was, from the beginning, a pretense to bring him down.”

O’Rourke Releases $5 Trillion Climate Plan

April 29, 2019 at 9:29 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Beto O’Rourke released a sweeping, $5 trillion plan to combat what he regularly refers to as the “greatest threat” our nation faces: climate change, NBC News reports.

“O’Rourke’s four-pillar framework, detailed in a campaign memo, combines proposed executive action with legislation he pledges to introduce within his first 100 days in office and outlines further steps to take in response to climate-related disasters in the future. It amounts to the first major policy rollout for a campaign which critics have targeted for being light on specifics.”

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