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reporter book: “Donald Trump v the United States”

Washington D.C.
Joined November 2008
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    Mar 21

    NEW: The horrific and terrifying story of how police tried to "HOLD THE LINE" on the Capitol steps as they did hand to hand combat w/Trump supporters. It's based on new police radio traffic synchronized w/footage from the scene. w/

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    Oct 23

    “I’m so many formers,” Eric Adams says, “I’m trying to figure out the current.” The city is, too. It will not be boring. Our profile on NYC's hizzoner-in-waiting:

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    Oct 21

    Gaetz asked AG Garland today whether DoJ could trust the impartiality of former congressional staffers who now work in the Public Integrity Section. Two prosecutors from that section are working on the Gaetz child sex trafficking case. w ⁦⁩

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  4. Oct 21

    NEW on Matt Gaetz investigation: DOJ has added two top prosecutors from Washington to the sex trafficking investigation of Gaetz, a sign of the complex and high-stakes nature of the inquiry into one of Trump’s closest congressional allies. w/

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    Oct 15

    Of interest to leak-investigation followers: Justice Department has closed its investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of classified information in this April 2017 New York Times story, a spokesman confirmed today. Here’s that story: 1/

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  6. Retweeted
    Oct 14

    NEW: F.B.I. Official Fired Under Trump Wins Back His Pension

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    Oct 11

    I wonder who filed that unattributed FOIA request 🤔

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  8. Oct 11

    Other issues: There’s question about whether former 2nd lady Karen Pence wrongly took gold-toned place card holders from Singapore w/out paying for them. State’s accounting shows she should have paid. Pence family lawyer Richard Cullen says State is wrong

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  9. Oct 11

    NEW: Trump State Dept political appointees have been accused of walking off in final days of admin with gift bags (and gifts w/ Trump and Melania’s insignias) that had been created with government $ to give foreign leaders at 2020 G7 Summit that was canceled because of pandemic.

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  10. Oct 11

    NEW: The exchange of gifts between the Trump White House and foreign governments was a mess. Among many issues: Saudis gave Trump WH white tiger and cheetah furs that Office of Law Enforcement has now discovered were fakes that had been dyed.

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  11. Oct 5

    --------> Significant Intel story from

    SCOOP: CIA top secret cable warns about troubling numbers of informants being arrested, killed or turned against the United States. New from and myself:
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  12. Oct 5

    Fritz Scheller, the lawyer for Joel Greenberg -- the Florida man cooperating with the feds against Rep. Matt Gaetz and others -- has asked a federal judge to delay his sentencing for another five months, until March 2022. Important section of the motion here:

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    Oct 3

    Vietnamese Americans who came to the U.S. as refugees saw images of Afghans fleeing home and knew they had to help. “It is the same pain that we went through,” one said.

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  14. Oct 2

    On Jan. 4th as Trump pressured Pence to help him remain in power the professor was the only adviser to Trump in the Oval Office. In 18 months Eastman had completed the rise from Fox News guest to top Trump adviser at one of the most critical junctures of his presidency.

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  15. Oct 2

    In the aftermath of the 2020 election, as aides and lawyers refused to go along with Trump, the professor was thrust into riding shotgun with Trump and became the architect of his plans to remain in power. As Eastman tried to help Trump’s team a Trump aide gave him covid.

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  16. Oct 2

    Like many Trump stories, it starts on Fox News where Trump first saw the professor rail against the Mueller investigation in 2019. Within months, Trump had him making a case to AG Barr about how Trump could use his powers as president.

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  17. Oct 2

    To understand how a little known law school professor went from obscurity to the most important adviser in Trump's ear as he pushed the country into a constitutional crisis we looked at how he rose to prominence in Trump's orbit.

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    Sep 22

    "It was just the latest attempt by an American president in the two decades since the Sept. 11 attacks to massage the language of warfare to mask a sometimes inconvenient reality: that America is still engaged in armed conflict throughout the world."

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  19. Sep 16

    This is was the reaction to our story — which was about Durham wanting to charge a lawyer who works at firm that repped Clinton campaign with lying to the FBI — from a top former DOJ/Mueller prosecutor who oversaw lying to FBI case of Mike Flynn, which Barr had dismissed.

    Apparently it’s once again a crime to lie to the FBI.
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  20. Sep 15

    w/

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  21. Sep 15

    NEW: Prosecutor John Durham has told a cyber lawyer -- who works for the firm that repped Clinton campaign -- that he wants to indict him on suspicion of lying about who he repped when he told F.B.I. in '16 about potential ties b/w Trump and Russia.

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