Trump and the Presidential Daily Brief
Delegating the morning briefing to advisors isn’t actually that unusual.
Delegating the morning briefing to advisors isn’t actually that unusual.
I’m in the New York Times’ “Room for Debate” with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Duke’s Peter Feaver.
An airline traveler wanted his fellow passengers to know that he was a supporter of the president-elect.
An irrelevant candidate is triggering a recount in three states Trump won by substantial margins.
President-Elect Donald Trump has signaled that his current wife and youngest child will continue to reside in their de-luxe apartment in the sky rather than move to the White House.
The incoming president’s business interests are a yuuuge problem.
I’m about to lose access to the primary email account I’ve had for more than a dozen years.
Americans are rioting in the streets because they don’t like the outcome of a democratic election.
The candidate I voted for got more than 200,000 votes for president than the winner. I’m okay with that.
Michael Moore’s pre-election analysis is looking shockingly prescient.
A senior congressional staffer is taking a new job that happens to coincide with her boss’ committee assignment.
Distinguishing between anti-elite populism and coded anti-Semitism is next to impossible.
Her numbers are steady; he’s reclaiming Republican voters.
Clinton is getting no special treatment by the standards of her high-powered peers.
The personal, the political, and the Foundation are so intertwined as to be one enterprise.
Has any major party nominee for president ever damaged his reputation in this manner?
Last night’s debate, sadly, lived down to my expectations.
News outlets are suddenly finding out that Trump was a cad in 2005. Film at 11.
The erstwhile Republican firebrand and current NeverTrumper shares his personal struggles.
Trump was alternately somnambulant, petulant, stalking, incoherent, and dangerous.
Some early musings on a political fantasy that’s less implausible than it was 12 hours ago.
An 11-year-old tape of the Republican nominee making misogynistic comments should surprise no one.
Damon Linker writes, “Millions of people disagree with your political views. That doesn’t make them moral monsters.”
Donald Trump is doing worse with white voters than Mitt Romney did in 2012.
It’s possible that Mike Pence won and Donald Trump still lost. It won’t matter.
The Republican nominee is threatening our fragile democracy.
America’s newspaper of records has published three pages of stolen tax documents from 1995.
Judging 2016 by historical standards hasn’t worked out well thus far.
Trump had a much lower bar than Clinton going in. Neither cleared it.
David Brooks thinks American politics “Could get ugly” before the ship gets righted.
Athletes are sitting out the Star Spangled Banner to air their grievances. Management is pushing back.
A majority of her non-government visitors coincidentally donated to her nonprofit.
Most Americans distrust Clinton. More distrust Trump.
The one with the better convention seems to have lost ground over the last two weeks.
The worst convention in history has given Trump a yuuge bounce.
While a Clinton landslide seems obvious after the dumpster fire of a Republican convention, the race is close.
I haven’t yet watched any of the 2016 Republican National Convention but the first day was a beauty.
We’re further from a public option than we were in 2009. The need for it has become more acute.