Start your Inauguration Day with some of Amanda Gorman’s beautiful words. She’ll read her new piece at the Capitol ceremony.
“For while we have our eyes on the future,
History has its eyes on us.”
Julie Bykowicz
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Julie Bykowicz
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Business and Enterprise editor, @BaltimoreBanner. Previously: Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Bloomberg News, Baltimore Sun
- “Still unclear is why these men dropped $50,000 into DeSantis’ campaign account a day before he was endorsed by Trump.”BREAKING: We found more photos of Ron DeSantis on election night with the two arrested Giuliani associates. This time, they're hugging. Florida’s governor has shrugged off past donor controversies. This time, there were photos. Now it’s not going away. tampabay.com/florida-politi…
GIF - Wayne LaPierre in his CPAC speech disparages "elites" and "the privileged" and "the powerful" and Washington in general. His compensation from the NRA tops $5 million annually, tax documents show.
- Replying to @bykowiczSome people thought Jared Kushner was on top of the post-election legal effort. Kushner thought others were on top of it. Turns out no one was, and David Bossie — who is not an attorney — is playing the lead role.
- SO grateful to the pharmacist in Michigan who noticed my dad’s age and signed him up for a vaccination the next day.
- NEW: American Media told the public last year that Saudi operatives had nothing to do with its production of a slick, pro-Saudi magazine. Then it turned around and told the Justice Department the opposite. My story with @lalpert1 wsj.com/articles/natio… via @WSJ
- Ethics then: “I basically sold everything,” former Transportation secretary Ray LaHood said. “The ethics police told me to do it, so I did it.” Ethics now: wsj.com/articles/trans…
- A key question that has emerged: Exactly who (or what entity) paid Stormy Daniels to keep quiet a month before the election?BREAKING: We just filed a complaint with the @FEC & @TheJusticeDept alleging @realDonaldTrump's $130,000 hush money to Stormy Daniels is a violation of federal campaign finance law commoncause.org/press/press-re…
- NEW: The Trump campaign isn’t disclosing its true vendors, Campaign Legal Center says in a complaint to FEC. Instead, the campaign has paid more than $170 million to Parscale-linked entities that the CLC says are essentially laundering the money.
- Soon after the senator's stock trades came under fire, her husband made a $1M donation to a pro-Trump super PAC.Sen. Kelly Loeffler's husband, and New York Stock Exchange chairman Jeffrey Sprecher gave $1 million to Trump super PAC America First Action at then end of last month docquery.fec.gov/pdf/231/202005…
- GUILTY: A jury has convicted the former Ohio House speaker and state GOP chairman in a major money-in-politics case. FirstEnergy Corp. earlier admitted secretly funneling $60 million through political nonprofits in return for a $1.3 billion bailout.
- Government lawyer: “I am doing my absolute best to figure out what’s going on.”Here is a transcript from today's census case hearing teleconference drive.google.com/file/d/1M3Y6vj…
- Four years after Trump shut him out, the famed OFFICIAL VOICE of presidential inaugural parades is back. Charlie Brotman, 93, will announce President Biden’s brief live parade. He’s done this since 1957, with the exception of 2016.
