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Trump Seeks Competing Advice

November 16, 2016 at 10:10 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Washington Post: “These seven men, as well as Trump’s adult children and a few others, will make up an unusual power grid in a capital city used to a hierarchical structure. Trump is presiding over concentric spheres of influence, designed to give him direct access to a constellation of counselors and opinions.”

“Such an approach also risks bringing confrontation or even paralysis as feuding factions work to further their own goals, edge out adversaries or distract Trump — as happened more than once during his presidential campaign.”

“As president, his associates said, Trump will seek rather than shun competing advice. His presidency will be governance as a series of ongoing conversations.”

Filed Under: Trump Transition Tagged With: Donald Trump

Trump Will Show Off His Gold-Plated Home

November 16, 2016 at 1:48 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Fox News announced that it will air a new one-hour special in which Donald Trump gives a tour of his famously ostentatious residence and shows off his material possessions for viewers, the Daily Beast reports.

Filed Under: Trump Transition Tagged With: Donald Trump

With Resignation Trump Can Now Reshape Wall Street

November 15, 2016 at 6:51 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Mary Jo White, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, on Monday announced that she would step down two years before the end of her term, clearing the way for President-elect Donald Trump to reshape the way Wall Street is regulated,” the Washington Post reports.

“The resignation creates a massive opportunity for Trump early in his term to make changes to investor protections and other Wall Street regulations, part of what is widely expected to be a broad effort by the new administration to scale back what Republicans consider cumbersome federal rules that slow economic growth.”

Filed Under: Financial Markets Tagged With: Donald Trump, Mary Jo White


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Trump Hasn’t Decided on Investigating Clinton

November 13, 2016 at 7:25 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Donald Trump told 60 Minutes that he hasn’t decided yet on whether he’ll appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton.

Said Trump: “I’m going to think about it.”

However, he that Clinton “did some bad things,” but that ultimately the Clintons are “good people. I don’t want to hurt them, I don’t want to hurt them. They’re, they’re good people. I don’t want to hurt them.

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign, Clinton Legacy Tagged With: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton

Trump Affirms He’ll Appoint Pro-Life Justices

November 13, 2016 at 7:13 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President-elect Donald Trump 60 Minutes that his role of appointing a Supreme Court justice is “very important” — and that he plans to appoint pro-life justices.

Said Trump: “I’m pro-life. The judges will be pro-life.”

Asked specifically whether he wants the Supreme Court to repeal the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, he said: “If it ever were overturned, it would go back to the states.”

Asked if that meant some women would be unable to receive abortions, assuming their home states ban them, he added: “Yeah, well, they’ll perhaps have to go, they’ll have to go to another state.”

The full transcript of his interview is now available.

Filed Under: Judiciary Tagged With: Donald Trump

Insider Says Trump Pushed Christie Out

November 13, 2016 at 10:33 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President-elect Donald Trump is so disgusted with Chris Christie’s handling of the Bridgegate scandal that he’s kicking the New Jersey Gov. out of his inner circle,” the New York Post reports.

Said one source close to the transition team: “Trump thought it was shameful that Christie didn’t take the fall for [convicted aide] Bridget Kelly. Trump is really angry that Christie is sending a soccer mom to jail. He believes 100 percent that Christie was behind it all.”

Filed Under: Trump Transition Tagged With: Chris Christie, Donald Trump

Trump Faces a Wide Web of Business Conflicts

November 13, 2016 at 10:11 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Bloomberg: “With his stunning election victory on Tuesday night, Trump now confronts more potential conflicts of interest than any other president in U.S. history. How — or even whether — the billionaire navigates this minefield could have sweeping implications at home and abroad.”

“How Trump, the first billionaire to become president, will handle these investments and other conflicts will face intense scrutiny, with little precedence to guide him or the public. No laws exist that will require him to distance himself from the Trump Organization. While he will be required to continue to file asset disclosures, presidents are otherwise mostly exempt from the 1978 Ethics in Government Act — an exception derived from the belief that such rules could keep commanders-in-chief from making tough decisions.”

Filed Under: Trump Transition Tagged With: Donald Trump

Trump Seeks to Delay Trump University Trial

November 13, 2016 at 10:02 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Lawyers for President-elect Donald Trump are formally requesting the postponement of a trial scheduled to begin later this month in a federal class-action fraud suit over his Trump University real estate seminar program,” Politico reports.

“Attorneys for Trump said the looming jury trial should not divert him from the ‘critical and all- consuming’ work of preparing for the presidency.”

Filed Under: Trump Transition Tagged With: Donald Trump

Kremlin Sees Better Relations with United States

November 13, 2016 at 9:39 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The Kremlin said on that President-elect Donald Trump’s foreign policy approach was “phenomenally close” to that of President Vladimir Putin, giving Russia hope that tattered U.S.-Russia relations could gradually be improved, Reuters reports.

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign, Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin

Even Trump’s Inner Circle Not Sure How He’ll Govern

November 12, 2016 at 1:37 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Gabriel Sherman: “If you’re one of the millions of Americans wrestling with the question of how Donald Trump will govern as president, consider this: His inner circle doesn’t know either.”

“Since Tuesday’s stunning election result, I’ve spoken with Trump advisers and GOP officials in Washington about the state of Trump’s transition planning to get a sense of what kind of place the Trump White House will be. What they describe is a candidate who is still something of a mystery, even to them.“

Said one: “It is basically a blank slate that needs to be filled in.”

Filed Under: Trump Transition Tagged With: Donald Trump

Trump In Bind Over Whether to ‘Lock Her Up’

November 11, 2016 at 5:37 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Los Angeles Times: “After having pledged to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton, Trump faces a dilemma: He can either drop the matter and risk angering his supporters, or charge ahead with a criminal inquiry targeting his vanquished political foe, something never before done in U.S. history.”

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton

Trump’s Most Important and Telling Choice

November 11, 2016 at 1:51 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: Members, Trump Transition Tagged With: Donald Trump, Reince Priebus, Stephen Bannon

How Trump Can Get His First Legislative Win

November 10, 2016 at 7:16 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Playbook: “Remember we all said that a tax and infrastructure deal would’ve been a slam dunk for a President Hillary Clinton in the first days of her White House? Well, it’s not a bad idea for Trump, either. Trump, Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will be, roughly, in the same ideological space in reforming the tax code. Trump is a former donor to and acquaintance of Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the future Democratic leader who has worked with Ryan on tax reform. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) wants an infrastructure package — and has already said so. The infrastructure package actually spooks Republicans more than it spooks Democrats. This wouldn’t be easy, but could be a win in Trump’s first 100 days.”

Filed Under: Transportation Tagged With: Donald Trump

Ryan and Trump Work to Get On Same Page

November 10, 2016 at 7:07 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Playbook: “It’s no secret that Trump and Ryan haven’t exactly gotten along, but they’re inching closer together now. They spoke by phone twice immediately after the election, and the lunch today will be another sign that they’re readying to work together. Ryan, frankly, can use Trump’s help as he readies for an internal election for House speaker. Ryan has to run in a closed-party election next week, and again on the House floor in January. If the incoming president is seen as being supportive of Ryan’s speakership, it’s far less likely anyone will run against him. Ryan’s allies already feel like Trump is — and should be — on board. Ryan and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy know how to move things on the Hill — a useful tool, since Donald Trump has never been elected to anything. Ever. And he’s president of the United States.”

“Trump has a lot of big plans. A wall with Mexico. Repealing Obamacare. Tax reform. Regulatory reform. Most of this stuff is going to take legislation, and 218 votes in the House of Representatives. It’s probably smart for Trump and Pence to get on the same page with Ryan on their priorities.”

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: Donald Trump, Paul Ryan

Trump Still Faces Trial

November 9, 2016 at 5:12 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Within a few weeks of winning the White House, President-elect Donald Trump could face another group of U.S. citizens, a federal jury in California, courtesy of a lawsuit by former students of his now-defunct Trump University who claim they were defrauded by a series of real-estate seminars,” Reuters reports.

“A hearing in federal court in San Diego is set for Thursday, and the trial is scheduled to begin on Nov. 28, barring any delays or if Trump decides to settle the case.”

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: Donald Trump

Trump Won Because of Facebook

November 9, 2016 at 3:58 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Max Read: “Trump, like Obama before him, was able to connect with voters outside the more stifling confines of political-party organizing. Trump, a longtime Democrat with liberal social positions, rose to the nomination because he could express a political position — essentially, white welfare-state ethno-nationalism — that the party would once have choked off for threatening its delicate coalition of business interests and white workers.”

“Facebook connected those supporters to each other and to the candidate, gave them platforms far beyond what even the largest Establishment media organizations might have imagined, and allowed them to effectively self-organize outside the party structure. Who needs a GOTV database when you have millions of voters worked into a frenzy by nine months of sharing impassioned lies on Facebook, encouraging each other to participate?”

“Even better, Facebook allowed Trump to directly combat the hugely negative media coverage directed at him, simply by giving his campaign and its supporters another host of channels to distribute counterprogramming. This, precisely, is why more good journalism would have been unlikely to change anyone’s mind: The Post and the Times no longer have a monopoly on information about a candidate.”

Nieman Lab: “Our democracy has a lot of problems, but there are few things that could impact it for the better more than Facebook starting to care — really care — about the truthfulness of the news that its users share and take in.”

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: Donald Trump

Did Trump Win a Mandate?

November 9, 2016 at 1:34 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Jonathan Chait: “Last night, Paul Ryan, jubilant with the prospect that his long dream of dismantling the state may be finally at hand, called the election ‘a repudiation of the status quo of failed liberal progressive policies.’ This morning, going further, he insisted Trump ‘just earned a mandate.’ The rule of law entitles Ryan and his party to exercise the power they have won. But Ryan is seeking something more — the deference of a party that is seen as embodying the will of the people. He is not entitled to that.”

Trump’s election cannot be called a decision by the voters to repudiate the liberal status quo because, for one thing, it was not a decision by the voters at all. The voters supported Clinton over Trump. The decision was made by the Electoral College, which as a matter of opinion can be called archaic, and as a matter of objective fact can be called anti-democratic. Again, the rules are the rules. But it remains the case that Ryan and his party have power not because of the will of the voters but despite it.”

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: Donald Trump, Paul Ryan

There Were Plenty of Signs

November 9, 2016 at 8:35 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

I’ve moved a piece I wrote for members last March outside the paywall: How Donald Trump Broke Political Science.

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: Donald Trump

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