In the first year of a new term after a historic election, a Democratic president's aides, sick of the constant scandal from NY's governor, asks him to not run for re-election. That's right, it was Obama and David Paterson nytimes.com/2009/09/20/nyr…
Paterson resisted. But eventually he relented, opening up the way for Cuomo to run for governor and Schneiderman for AG. nytimes.com/2009/09/20/nyr…
When Trump was president, the situation was reversed in the sense that Republicans could not stand getting asked about his tweets/investigations/impeachments/ but most never said he should go. This may be sustainable with Cuomo if Biden never cares and if no new stories
Biden just came off a huge week and has other big-ticket legislative items. Cuomo, who declared himself not part of the political club, is head of the NGA, whose Dem members will get asked about this.
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Most presidents give their successors a grace period before they start re-emerging publicly. Trump is planning to deliver a cpac speech tomorrow that will criticize President Biden's 5 weeks in office and make clear he still has a grip on the GOP nytimes.com/2021/02/27/us/…
Aides say Trump is happy without his Twitter feed. Yet he's a politician with only a handful of moves, and one has been trying to inject himself into news of the day for decades. So he's commented on Limbaugh and Tiger Woods. nytimes.com/2021/02/27/us/…
"Mr. Trump’s false claims of voter fraud have already gotten a boost at the gathering; a panel titled 'How Judges & Media Refused to Look at the Evidence' was conducted on Friday." nytimes.com/2021/02/27/us/…
McConnell, who voted to acquit, is excoriating Trump for a "disgraceful dereliction of duty." "There's no question - none - that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day."
McConnell says the issue is not only Trump’s language, his endorsement of Giuliani’s “trial by combat,” but also the sense Trump created of “looming catastrophe.”
“This was an intensifying crescendo of conspiracy theories” by a president who seemed determined to overturn the will of the voters or “torch” institutions on the way out, McConnell says.
His blood oxygen levels fell significantly. And he was told by aides that he should go to the hospital while he could still walk out instead of being carried out by the USSS if he got sicker nytimes.com/2021/02/11/us/…
The effort to obtain Regeneron for Trump and the former first lady began on Oct. 1, with a call from deputy WH counsel Pat Philbin to FDA head Hahn. Philbin did not identify the patients, and Melania Trump turned down the treatment nytimes.com/2021/02/11/us/…
This is clever but this isn’t now getting into the White House works, even during the Trump administration. Folks at White House have firm theories about who waved the group in that Friday night and Powell again 2 days later, when she got in but was blocked from seeing Trump.
Powell had been at the campaign offices and at the White House in the days leading up to this meeting. It wasn’t just some pop-up meeting.
Some left that meeting on Friday close to tears because it was so intense and because Trump was clearly still thinking about hiring her, well into Saturday morning. Byrne is, in that clip, treating it like it was comedy performance art.
New - Trump team files brief with the House, arguing lack of constitutionality and the Trump speech was protected by first amendment. Also argues the House articles were improperly drafted.
More details coming shortly.
"It is denied that President Trump incited the crowd to engage in destructive behavior. It is denied that the phrase ‘if you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country anymore’ had anything to do with the action at the Capitol as it was clearly...” 1/2