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Hunter Biden Faces Contempt Action

January 22, 2020 at 1:18 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A judge ordered Hunter Biden to appear next week in an Arkansas court for a hearing on whether he should be held in contempt for failing to disclose financial information to a woman who says she bore his child, CNBC reports.

Filed Under: Celebrities Tagged With: Hunter Biden

Trump Adviser Says China Provided Info on Hunter Biden

October 10, 2019 at 10:24 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Michael Pillsbury, an informal White House adviser on China, told the Financial Times that he received information about the business activities of Hunter Biden during a visit to Beijing in the same week President Trump urged China to probe the son of Joe Biden.

Said Pillsbury: “I got a quite a bit of background on Hunter Biden from the Chinese.”

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Hunter Biden

Hunter Biden Opens Up

July 1, 2019 at 6:43 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New Yorker: “Hunter speaks in the warm, circuitous style of his father. Through weeks of conversations, he became increasingly open about his setbacks, aware that many of the stories that he told me would otherwise emerge, likely in a distorted form, in Breitbart or on ‘Hannity.’

“He wanted to protect his father from a trickle of disclosures, and to share a personal narrative that he sees no reason to hide. ‘Look, everybody faces pain,’ he said. ‘Everybody has trauma. There’s addiction in every family. I was in that darkness. I was in that tunnel—it’s a never-ending tunnel. You don’t get rid of it. You figure out how to deal with it.’”

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: Hunter Biden


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Hunter Biden Splits with Brother’s Widow

May 1, 2019 at 12:34 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Hunter Biden has split from Hallie Biden — the widow of his late brother, Beau — Page Six has exclusively learned. The breakup comes two years after we first reported that the former in-laws were dating in 2017.”

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: Hunter Biden

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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.

Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.

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