Brian P. McKeon
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Former USG official at State, DoD, White House and Senate. Proud alum of administrations of POTUS 46 and 44, @notredame & @georgetownlaw . Usual caveats apply.
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I handled nominations for Senate Foreign Relations Comm for 12 years.
Delays happen for various reasons, but this length of delay for so many ambassadorial nominees at the same time has no precedent.
All but a handful of these nominees are career Foreign Service Officers.
The work our U.S. ambassadors do is critical for our national security. But they can’t do their work if they aren’t confirmed.
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Let us know when the paper publishes multiple stories about Trump slurring his words in speeches and falling asleep in court. Or quoting Repub voters and pols calling on him to drop out.
Agreed. I’ve never heard AG say anything like that nor anyone else at the
@nytimes
. It's just not the way it works. AG wants us to cover this president -- and every president -- as fully, fairly and aggressively as we can because that's our role. That's true regardless of whether
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Honored to be nominated by
@POTUS
and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Ready to get to work with the talented professionals
@StateDept
.
I couldn’t be more thrilled to welcome my longtime colleague and friend Brian McKeon as Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources. Brian has a distinguished career in public service and will be a tremendous resource to
@StateDept
and our greatest asset — our people.
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This reporter says she asked Sen Vance's office for the names of his constituents he claims have reported eating of pets, so she could contact them to hear their stories.
No response from Vance's office.
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Weird that Alito has two flagpoles and we have yet to see photos of even one of them flying the Stars and Stripes in the correct manner.
Another provocative flag was displayed at another Alito home, this one at his vacation house in New Jersey featuring an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, which, like the inverted U.S. flag, was carried by rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
@jodikantor
@AricToler
@JulieATate
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Ukrainians would like a word.
It's sad Israel has to live under constant threat of missile and rocket attacks like this
No other modern country has to live with this constant threat
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The networks should stop giving a platform to the VP aspirants, who are just spewing lies to impress former guy.
After Kristen Welker points out that Marco Rubio voted to certify the results of the 2020 election, Rubio proceeds to scream every conspiracy theory in the book. Bravo Senator Rubio your transition to Cult member is complete.
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Thank you
@secblinken
for the support and good wishes. Looking forward to returning to public service, and collaborating again on behalf of the American people.
I couldn’t be more thrilled to welcome my longtime colleague and friend Brian McKeon as Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources. Brian has a distinguished career in public service and will be a tremendous resource to
@StateDept
and our greatest asset — our people.
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@jmart
What is the desperation in reminding voters of Project 2025? Arguably, it is message discipline.
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@ElectProject
She doesn't remember b/c she was in high school at the time. I'd give her pass on not knowing, but she should delete or note her error.
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An apt close to this piece by
@Eugene_Robinson
.
"God gave Democrats hands so they could wring them in political anxiety. They should consider using them, for a change, to applaud."
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DOD announcement yesterday of two women general officers nominated to be combatant commanders is a big deal. Seems like more attention should be paid.
Congrats to nominees Gen. Jacqueline D. Van Ovost of the Air Force to head the Transportation Command, and of Lt. Gen. Laura J. Richardson of the Army to head the Southern Command.
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As the New Year begins, I return to private life, but still have the important role of citizen. I am grateful to many colleagues in
@StateDept
, but especially those in the
@DepSecStateMR
office, who supported my work daily (and also a few not pictured).
It has been an honor to return to government service at
@StateDept
and have the privilege to work alongside talented public servants whose dedication inspires me. After 32 years of public service, I leave knowing the future of the Department is bright.
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Lot of loose talk here and on TV about the size of the Trump bond being unprecedented.
NY AG with the facts: (1) nothing prevents Trump from seeking multiple, smaller bonds to get to the total; and (2) several prior cases involving companies involved bonds exceeding $1 billion.
News
@NewYorkStateAG
urges an appellate court to disregard Trump's claim that posting a full bond is a "practical impossibility."
The late-breaking claim is "procedurally improper" and "unreliable," the AG says.
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@mviser
And this matters to the case how? We already know that he used drugs (hint: he’s admitted it) and had a gun.
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@HCTrudo
Yea, if you say the first two contests are ‘most’ of the primary. But Biden won most of them after NH (2nd in NV).
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Six signatories, in addition to the person who initiated it. So seven it total, minus how many are fake.
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And to the legal profession.
Jonathan Turley claims that when Trump asked Georgia officials to find votes for him, he was just making a case for a recount. A disgrace to George Washington University.
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I know Justice Thomas is a busy public servant.
But every working day (the Supremes do get a long summer break) he interprets laws more complicated than the Ethics in Government Act.
His obligation to report this sale isn't a close call.
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His uncle at MIT can explain it.
Trump: Net zero. They have no idea what it means, by the way. It's net zero. What does that mean? Nobody knows. Net zero policy. What does that mean? I have no idea
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Worried that his opponent is sucking up all the media attention.
Trump just announced a “General News Conference” today at Mar-a-lago:
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This statement is not true. He's been on 60 Minutes multiple times. Did a long interview recently with
@JohnJHarwood
. Regularly takes questions from the WH press pool.
"President Biden has so actively and effectively avoided questions from independent journalists."
A free and independent press fills a vital role in a democracy. See our statement on
@nytimes
and our coverage of the president.
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Max Boot is right.
"Lloyd Austin doesn’t deserve to be the piñata of the day in Washington"
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@yashar
The story is a cry for help from inside the house. All from the "campaign leadership" (Wiles and LaCivita) telling us what we all know -- they can't control Trump.
And oh, by the way, Trump is the campaign leadership. They are just staff.
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Boy Wonder starts an investment fund the day after leaving the WH. Apparently not too successful at raising $, as 80% of the fund comes from MBS (Saudi wealth fund). Jared's firm gets $25M 'mgt fee' per year. Quite a scam.
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@joshgerstein
@UNRWA
How did he get around Raines v Byrd ((1997), which all but shut the door on standing for members of Congress)?
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Saw one like this in Northern Ireland over three decades ago. Still makes me laugh.
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Brilliant. MTG makes the case to re-elect Biden-Harris.
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@tarapalmeri
Nope. Did you read the piece?
Most of the anonymous quotes are not from the administration or campaign.
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I flew on AF1 many times. Never occurred to me to swipe a glass.
Apparently some reporters do it regularly.
(Also, nothing is free on the plane, except for guests of the POTUS. WH staff pay for their own food/drinks).
It appears that every single White House reporter is stealing stuff off of Air Force One
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If you have to explain yourself in a memo, days after a town hall meeting, you've probably already lost your audience.
Washpost CEO to his bewildered staff: “I need to improve how well I listen and how well I communicate.”
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The added benefit: we won't have multiple media stories about how Glenn Youngkin will be the next R to save the party from Trump.
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Once in awhile, the chattering class notices that Joe Biden is a pretty able politician.
Basically every pundit in America besides
@SarahLongwell25
said Joe couldn’t deal with these Republicans and here we are at the 5th big deal in 3 years. Not bad! Maybe not all hope is lost.
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@kaitlancollins
Warner undertook a well-publicized effort to explore a run for the WH before the 2008 election. He ultimately chose not to run, but he didn't make a secret of it.
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If a US senator is relying on Monica Crowley for his news, that also raises a lot of questions.
If Biden is having a medical emergency at this moment — on board Air Force One or otherwise — that raises … a lot of questions.
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Most retired generals/admirals abstain from politics, for good reasons.
@MaxBoot
is right that a few who served Trump in political appointments could and should step up to remind voters of his dangers to our country.
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@JStein_WaPo
The Reaganites can't still be under the delusion that they matter in Trump's party?
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Written the day before POTUS is doing an event that is both on a weekend AND after 4.00 pm.
Is it really possible that
@axios
and
@JimVandeHei
haven't heard of the White House Correspondents Association dinner?
🚨🚨Some White House officials say it's difficult to schedule public or private events with the president in the morning, in the evening, or on weekends: The vast majority of Biden’s public events happen on weekdays, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
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WTF?
The hate-America crew of Kushner and Grenell include a memorial to the “victims of NATO aggression" in their multi-million dollar Belgrade deal
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This makes no sense. You wouldn't have hired the Biden comms team because? Did they join in an effort to wrongly overturn an election?
This may take the gold medal in both-sides BS.
I wouldn't have hired McDaniel but I also wouldn't have hired half the Biden comms team, so I think the horse was a little out of the barn on this one already
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You would think that a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee would know this.
You would be wrong.
Tuberville said today he didn't know if Gen. Milley would "go anywhere until we get somebody confirmed" to replace him after retiring this month.
When told he had to leave by law, Tuberville said: "He has to leave? ...We'll get someone else to do the job."
via
@morgan_rimmer
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@harrylitman
As a lawyer, you know that every word matters. He is not at odds with the "entire party."
There are plenty of Democrats who continue to support the President.
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Future felons club is having a meeting later.
George Santos has arrived at Trump’s victory party in New Hampshire.
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They don't do self-reflection. They assure themselves that all White House occupants complain about their coverage, and move on.
The Times is found out and criticized for its petulant, unethical use of news columns to punish Joe Biden for not giving A.G. an interview. What does it do? Engage in self-reflection? Ha! It doubles down, whining about Biden. The Times is broken.
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I will never yearn for the return of Chuck Todd.
Easiest thing to do is just not watch the Sunday shows, which are a waste of time. If any news is made, you'll learn of it when someone writes about it.
Is Kristen Welker some sort of cynical game NBC is playing on us to make us yearn for the return of Chuck Todd?
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@jonathanvswan
@Moreplankton
@emptywheel
@NYScribe
@peterbakernyt
@nycscribe
What is the response of the campaign when you ask for medical information about Trump's wound? Not sure I've seen it reported but I may have missed it.
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That's a lot of words to say "the rules shouldn't apply to former presidents or presidential candidates."
There is not a shred of doubt that DoJ would prosecute any former or current USG employee who engaged in the behavior alleged in the indictment.
In my new
@PostOpinions
column I argue that indicting Donald Trump, an ex-president and the leading 2024 GOP contender, requires more than what these charges include.
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Thank you,
@ClimateEnvoy
. Look forward to working with you and your team.
Congrats as well to
@bpmckeon64
on his confirmation as Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources. Can't imagine a public servant better suited to help guide the
@StateDept
and its incredible workforce during such a high-stakes moment.
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Lost amid the big news of Trump yesterday: the President and First Lady announcing expanded efforts to support military families.
This is great stuff especially the enhanced access to childcare for military families.
Thank you Biden-Harris Administration for prioritizing Military families and Veteran Spouses, Caregivers, and Survivors!
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His act is tired, even for the faithful.
As Trump walked off the stage of his Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania rally, the arena was littered with empty seats. The American people are done with this loathsome piece of shit. 😂😂😂
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That's the standard for reporting at a major cable network? Reporting on what a few friends say?
Good grief.
Katy Tur says she’s getting phone calls from friends saying that the country will not elect a woman president.
@MSNBC
Fire Katy Tur
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Buried in this story: Barr authorized Durham to investigate Trump, but this fact was never made public.
"The extraordinary fact that Mr. Durham opened a criminal investigation that included scrutinizing Mr. Trump has remained secret."
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The Repubs in the AZ legislature have other ideas.
"The GOP-controlled Arizona House quickly gaveled out of session after lawmakers attempted to repeal the 1864 near-total abortion ban the state Supreme Court ruled could go into effect."
Former President Trump says Arizona’s Supreme Court went too far in ruling the state’s 160-year-old near-total abortion ban can be enforced.
Trump predicted that Arizona’s governor will “bring it back into reason.”
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Today the President takes the PDB at 9.00 am and host a reception for Eid-al-Fitr at 5.30 pm.
Hey,
@axios
, here's an idea: next time maybe do some reporting? You could, e.g., check the public schedules released by the WH, rather than cite a few anonymous WH aides.
Written the day before POTUS is doing an event that is both on a weekend AND after 4.00 pm.
Is it really possible that
@axios
and
@JimVandeHei
haven't heard of the White House Correspondents Association dinner?
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Yeah, he's not having drinks with Clooney.
He's raising nearly $30M for the campaign to defeat Trump.
(DeNiro is there, too).
2024 in a nutshell:
President Trump is campaigning in Detroit today and announcing his Black Americans for Trump coalition.
Joe Biden is hanging out in LA today with George Clooney (I guess DeNiro was busy).
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Lot of people have made the mistake that she's not a good pol b/c she ran in deep blue California.
Those people are apparently ignorant of the internecine battles in the Dem Party in the state.
She got where she is b/c she's good at this.
She's also confronting her vulnerability, hanging a lantern on her problem, and turning her weakness into strength.
Harris is mixing it up with reporters, diving headfirst into the news of the day, and punching Trump and Vance right in the face before thousands of cheers at
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LOL, Axios cleanup on aisle 2:
Axios 2 days ago: "Trump going to Hill to discuss 2025 agenda"
Axios tonight: "First, let's dispense with the idea that former President Trump's meetings with GOP lawmakers today were deep discussions about policy or election strategy."
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Fox Sports brought back the great Tom Durkin to call the Belmont today. Too bad we could barely hear him on the broadcast.
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Former Trump press secretary.
Re: Trump’s self-announced press conference today at 2 pm: He’s panicking. I’ve seen this play many times. He thinks his team is failing him & no one can speak better/“save” his campaign/defend him but him. He hates the coverage Harris is getting & thinks only he can fix it.
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Would love to know what this highly questionable assertion is based on.
"And Biden and Vice President Harris are the only Democrats that Trump could defeat."
Reminder that Biden is the only person to defeat Trump.
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The NYT wants accountability for the WH (fine) but not for itself.
Maybe its defense would have more credibility had they not eliminated the Public Editor position.
The White House's critiques of NYT coverage as described in the Politico article are completely legitimate. And yes, as I wrote here, it is publisher AG Sulzberger's fault:
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Who cares?
Confirmed by NBC News: Vivek Ramaswamy will join former President Trump in court on Tuesday in Lower Manhattan, according to a source familiar with the matter. He's expected to be with Trump the whole day
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A big loss. Bertie was a wonderful guy. A legend at the Foreign Relations Committee.
He enjoyed bragging that he was once Bill Clinton's boss (Clinton interned for the Committee while a student at Georgetown U, when it was chaired by Arkansas senator Wm Fulbright).
Bertie Bowman ran away from home at 13, started out sweeping the Capitol steps and became a trusted aide to multiple Foreign Relations chairs, including
@POTUS
. How did he do it? “I was just bold!” Here’s our profile of Bertie for
@CBSMornings
from 2019:
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Biden's not going to do a drug test but he might be tempted to take a page out of Sen. Fritz Hollings' playbook.
In the 1980s, when challenged in a debate by an opponent to take a drug test, Hollings replied that he'd only do it if his opponent took an IQ test.
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Longtime Biden staffer here. Now retired.
This is a bad take by Foer.
Klain, Donilon, Dunn, Ricchetti, O'Malley Dillon (the latter 2 only go back 12 and 4 years, respectively) all had successful careers separate from Biden. They are loyal to him, but not dependent on him.
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Great reporting but did no other reporters notice this before now?
“I am almost positive it went home with Mr. Meadows,” Hutchinson told the January 6 committee in closed-door testimony, according to transcripts released last year.
NEW: A binder containing highly classified information related to Russian election interference went missing at the end of Trump’s presidency, raising alarms among intel officials, sources tell
@jeremyherb
,
@NatashaBertrand
,
@evanperez
& me.
More:
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Tucker!
“We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights,” Carlson texted Jan. 4, 2021. “I truly can’t wait.”"
“I hate him passionately,” Carlson added.
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Most voters don't pay attention to everything the House is doing.
But a lot of them know by now that the Republican-led House is chaos defined.
Notice that we’re not seeing stories in the press about the Republicans’ strong internal polling & about how great they expect the election to be?
I suspect they’re seeing awful polling & know they’ll be in the minority (+ some just want out whether or not they’re the majority)
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About half-way through this segment, you see VP Harris suppressing a big grin b/c Walz is crushing it, and thus reaffirming her decision to put him on the ticket.
Gov. Walz at Aliquippa High School Football Practice: Politics.. what I fear most is that young people turn away from it rather than turning into it. Politics isn’t so much different than this. It’s about something bigger than themselves. It’s about setting a future goal and
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Dave Martinez is a good human.
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@DanaHoule
Timothy Crouse had a similar thesis in "Boys on the Bus" some 5 decades ago -- i.e., that most political reporters were liberals who guarded against their bias by being more critical in their reporting of Democrats.
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The Trumpers made fun of Biden in 2020, accusing him of never leaving his basement.
Trump's travel this year is mostly shuttling b/w Bedminster and MAL.
Trump holding an event on the cost of living at a golf club is truly one of the dumbest things I have seen a campaign do
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@amandalitman
Our ceremony was not the first thing on the agenda. We welcomed people at the door of the event site, told them to get go get a drink, and then about 30 minutes after arrival time, called people together for the ceremony. Lot of good feedback from friends/guests.
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Apparently
@JimVandeHei
doesn't think much of his colleagues in the WH press pool, from whom Biden takes questions regularly.
🚨🚨 Biden, Trump have one big thing beyond old age in common: They duck difficult questioning by reporters, with historic stubbornness.
-> Biden has refused interviews to White House reporters for The New York Times, The Washington Post or The Wall Street Journal. But he sat
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So your spouse is immune from scrutiny for her own work because she’s married to you?
She is a professional with her own record of achievement.
It’s not all about you.
It has been the case since as far as I can remember in business and in media that family was off limits, unless of course the family is directly involved in the business.
The code of the road was that you can attack the protagonist as much as you want, but not his wife and not
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This will give folks who clamor for an "open process" their day, and the Vice President will win in a rout against a guy who, in his 70s, is still not sure that he's a Democrat.
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It seems Joe Biden knows what he's doing.
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Good summary.
The embarasing dysfuction in the House and Trump's incoherent comments attacking Israel and praising Hezbollah are showing the GOP to be acompletely unserious party led by an erratic criminal without the slightest interest in or capacity to govern.
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@WesClarkjr
U.S. magistrate judges are not appointed by the President. They are appointed by the district judges of the judicial district.
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@RonBrownstein
The "last 4 winning Dem campaigns" were: Biden/2020, Obama/2012, Obama/2008, Clinton 1996.
So Mr. Carville is not part of this grouping.
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Have any reporters asked Team Trump how they would go about this? Seems important.
Trump says his Project 2025 plan to throw migrants into mass detention camps “will be a bloody story”
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Much of the country would be happy if you kept playing in these tournaments full-time. If you’re good at it, be you and keep playing.
Because you were pretty terrible at your job in Washington.
It is my great honor to be at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach tonight, AWARDS NIGHT, to receive THE CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY & THE SENIOR CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY. I WON BOTH! A large and golfing talented membership, a GREAT and difficult course, made the play
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RNC leaders get what they pay for, I'd guess, with unpaid interns not realizing Biden is walking with the Prime Minister of Ireland and the Speaker of the House.
Biden slowly descends the Capitol steps (as his handlers keep a watchful eye), points toward his motorcade, and shuffles back into his limo. Vigor!
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This is not complicated but WaPo tries to make it so. A short thread.
AUKUS is an agreement b/w the US and two of its closest security partners. Australia needs help developing a nuclear navy, which it does not have. The US and UK are helping them to do that. /1
Only line in this story that really matters: "Richardson asked the U.S. Navy for permission in June to work for Australia and his application was approved a month later, according to Sandra Gall, a Navy spokesperson."
The rest is smear and innuendo IMO. 🙄
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The silly season has gotten even sillier.
I traveled regularly with Pres Obama and VP Biden (I held separate jobs working for each).
This is standard stuff for POTUS and VPOTUS.
It's just a level of detail for advance that is not found anywhere else in the USG.
Scoop: A look at the template that the WH sends to staffers organizing events for POTUS.
"I staffed a simple fundraiser at a private residence, but they treated it like it was a NATO summit with his movements," a person who staffed a Biden event said.
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And the DASD for Europe recently departed.
Would be a good time for the Senate to confirm the nominee for Under Secretary of Defense, Derek Chollet, who would oversee all of this. He's still stuck in Committee, over two months since his hearing.
The Pentagon’s top official overseeing Middle East policy is stepping down this month, after almost three years in the job, per two DOD officials. Dana Stroul served on the Biden transition team and started as DASD for Middle East Policy two weeks into the administration.
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Elon and Ted Cruz don't want us to read this, so Twitter powers-that-be took it down.
NEW. Someone, presumably a staffer, left a folder full of briefing documents on TED CRUZ donors in the Senate Refectory.
A THREAD 🧵
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There is a reason John Kirby is at the WH podium.
Take two minutes to listen to this powerful response.
Question: Why is the DOD policy on abortion critical to military readiness?
Kirby: I’m really glad you asked that question…
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Juan Soto is a good human.
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