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Bonus Quote of the Day

September 30, 2019 at 1:01 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“We won the Mueller probe. We’re going to win this one. Here we go! I tell you what. If Mueller was a war this is a skirmish.”

— Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow, quoted by Politico.

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Jay Sekulow

Cohen Testified Trump Lawyer Told Him to Lie

May 20, 2019 at 5:12 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Michael Cohen “told a House panel during closed-door hearings earlier this year that he had been instructed by Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow to falsely claim in a 2017 statement to Congress that negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow ended in January 2016,” the Washington Post reports.

“House Democrats are now scrutinizing whether Sekulow or other Trump attorneys played a role in shaping Cohen’s 2017 testimony to Congress. Cohen has said he made the false statement to help hide the fact that Trump had potentially hundreds of millions of dollars at stake in a possible Russian project while he was running for president.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Jay Sekulow, Michael Cohen

Quote of the Day

August 5, 2018 at 11:14 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“I had bad information at that time and made a mistake in my statement… Over time facts develop.”

— Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow, on ABC News, admitting he was wrong when he once claimed President Trump was not involved in drafting his son’s false statement on the infamous Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer.

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Jay Sekulow


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Trump Lawyer Promises Fight If Trump Subpoenaed

August 5, 2018 at 10:50 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow told ABC News that the president’s legal team’s inclination at this point is not to have the president meet with special counsel Robert Mueller.

“If Mueller were to try to compel the president’s testimony, there would be a legal fight over the constitutionality of requiring such an act of a sitting president.”

Said Sekulow: “A subpoena for live testimony has never been tested in court as to the president of the United States.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Jay Sekulow

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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.

Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.

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