So...something big has changed since we taped the @nprpolitics podcast yesterday afternoon (and I’m not talking about the release of the Comey memos). Welcome to the world Baby Gibson, born at 1 AM and weighing in at 7 pounds exactly.
I hope everyone is having a great Christmas, then tomorrow it’s back to work in order to Make America Great Again (which is happening faster than anyone anticipated)!
The White House is on lockdown. The photo below is the door to the briefing room. (I’m stuck inside with many of the press corps finest) There is an intense protest across the street in Lafayette Park.
It's worth noting this was sent 16 minutes after historically terrible GDP numbers came out and after the release of new unemployment data indicating first time claims are once again rising.
With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???
POTUS suggesting in today's briefing that deaths from COVID wouldn't so bad if you subtracted the "blue states." Those states are also part of America.
AP has called New Hampshire and Minnesota for Joe Biden. Those were President Trump's two reach states. He lost them narrowly in 2016 and he insisted he could turn them red. And he spent a lot of time campaigning there.
We have a LOT of work ahead of us, but I am honored that my colleagues in the White House press corps have chosen me to help lead the way for the @whca!
Congratulations to @tamarakeithNPR, elected today by members of the White House press corps to represent them on the board of the #WHCA – AND to serve as president in 2022-2023. For more on the WHCA's work – or to make a tax deductible contribution – go to whca.press
"He rigged the system on his way out," President Trump criticizing former President Clinton in 2016...for doing exactly what Trump did in the wee hours of last night, revoking his ethics executive order that banned members of his administration from lobbying for 5 years.
