
Kenneth P. Vogel
@kenvogel





Quite an opening scene in the new Josh Dawsey Tyler Pager Isaac Arnsdorf book. Trump muses to courtiers at Mar-a-Lago about how the assassination attempt helped him: “If that didn’t happen…I think I would’ve won, but it might have been a little bit closer” amazon.com/2024-Trump-Ret…


The full quote is very Trumpy: “If that didn’t happen, that day in Butler didn’t happen, would the result have been—I think I would’ve won, but it might have been a little bit closer. Do you think? I don’t know. I would have preferred that it didn’t happen, obviously, but I

Kenneth P. Vogel That is entirely honest and accurate really. Rather candid from a politician.

How Musk might circumvent party donation limits: His advisers have discussed using a super PAC to organize initial support for America Party before it is formally established, per Reid J. Epstein Teddy Schleifer. Ballot access is another matter, they note. nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/…

Hunter Biden wanted the Democratic Party to pay his legal bills. Lawyers ultimately decided the DNC could not justify doing so, according to the new book by Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager & Isaac Arnsdorf. wsj.com/politics/elect…





In just the past few months, Trump's social media company, Trump Media & Technology Group, has raised $2.5B in cash to invest in Bitcoin and is working to bring crypto-related exchange traded funds, or E.T.F.s, to market, Matthew Goldstein reports. nytimes.com/2025/07/09/bus…


This is like a Zohran Kwame Mamdani campaign ad: Eric Adams asked his choice for campaign manager to sit for private interviews with 2 billionaires (Bill Ackman & Daniel S. Loeb) whose support Mayor Eric Adams is seeking for his independent mayoral campaign. nytimes.com/2025/07/09/nyr…