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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

4 years

My mother died this morning. I wasn't able to be by her bedside at her memory care facility in Houston to say goodbye, owing to the coronavirus. For those who really believe the news media relishes this state we're in, I ask you to consult what is left of your humanity.

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Robert Draper

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4 years

Mattis is still holding back, though. He's privately told friends that Trump's behavior is far worse than the reports & that the republic is on shaky footing. He knows so much more than he's currently divulging.

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2 years

Thankful for Larry Hobbs, the reporter at the Brunswick News who smelled a rat in the Arbery killing and stayed on the story until the national media caught up.

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5 years

Me: "Doc, what's the diagnosis?" Doctor: "I'm afraid you have cancer." Me: "Hmm. What's the other side of the science?" Doctor: "You don't have cancer." Me: "Wow, I feel better already."

CBC Politics

@CBCPolitics

7 years

The new U.S. ambassador to Canada says when it comes to climate change she believes in "both sides of the science"

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4 years

As I've been beside my 89-year old father from ICU to hospice this past week, the one observation I have about our health care system is that it would utterly collapse without the immigrant work force. I mean surgeons, physicians, nurses, caregivers. God bless them all.

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Fuentes just a performer? That was also said of white supremacist Matt Hale, who after I wrote about him for GQ in 2000 told his racist followers to visit me at my home in Austin, which led to GQ hiring security. Hale is now doing 40 years for soliciting the murder of a judge.

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3 years

Dominion had to resort to "hiring private investigators and pursuing Powell across state lines" before succeeding in serving papers around 9pm at her home outside Asheville NC.

Ex-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell served at NC home with $1.3B Dominion Voting lawsuit

Dominion Voting Systems said Trump’s former lawyer Sidney Powell “evaded attempts” to be served in a defamation lawsuit.

www.charlotteobserver.com

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

3 years

Private-jetting in to participate in domestic terrorism & then requesting a pardon is the ultimate "I'd like to speak to the manager"

David Begnaud

@DavidBegnaud

3 years

“I would like a pardon from the President of the United States.” Dallas area realtor Jenna Ryan is the 2nd D.C. riot participant to ask for one. She flew on a private jet to D.C. to “stop the steal.” FBI arrested her today. She says: I feel persecuted.

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Robert Draper

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4 years

The WSJ, WaPo & NYT are "siding with China" so much that China revoked their press credentials

Maggie Haberman

@maggieNYT

4 years

To recap: three major broadsheets, WSJ WaPo NYT, which have been reporting on the extensive failures of his administration in dealing with the coronavirus, are "dishonest," the president says. The OAN reporter then leads him on again, and he says, "They are siding with China."

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Robert Draper

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11 months

As a former @NatGeo writer who departed before the cuts began, let's be clear: this decision was made by individuals who do not care about either the magazine's peerless brand or journalism in general. It's truly embarrassing about what's happened to this once-great publication.

Paul Farhi

@farhip

11 months

The iconic magazine won’t have *any* staff writers and won’t be sold on newsstands starting next year under a new series of cuts by ⁦ @Disney ⁩, its owner. Latest by me:

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1 year

I can confirm that this sentiment is held by nearly every Republican House member I've interviewed, across the entire spectrum

kirstenpowers.substack.com

@KirstenPowers

1 year

Nancy Pelosi will go down as one of the most powerful and effective Speakers of the House in history. No matter how much the GOP vilifies her to rile up their base, the truth is that they wish they had a leader like her.

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Robert Draper

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3 years

Imagine losing an election by six million votes and then claiming with a straight face that you got cheated

Dave Wasserman

@Redistrict

3 years

Breaking: the U.S. just surpassed a record-shattering *156 million* votes counted... Biden 79,535,824 (51.0%) Trump 73,616,203 (47.2%) Biden's popular vote lead is up to 5.9 million (3.8%).

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5 years

When Pelosi first joined Congress in 1987, GOP had 12 congresswomen. Today: 13. This is more than just a bad look. It's a bad attitude.

Dave Wasserman

@Redistrict

5 years

Love’s defeat also ensures that Rs will lose 43% of their women in the House, from 23 to just 13. 90% of House Rs will be white men.

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Robert Draper

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3 years

President Trump took office with Republicans holding the White House, House and Senate. Four years later, it appears he'll leave it with Democrats holding all three.

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4 years

History will record that this woman weathered more indignity than any elected official in U.S. history.

The Recount

@therecount

4 years

Jim Cramer: “What deal can we have, Crazy Nancy? I’m sorry, that was the president. I have such reverence for the office. I would never use that term ...” Pelosi: “But you just did. But you just did.”

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Robert Draper

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3 years

It remains a feat that Trump succeeded in stalling the release of his taxes through two campaigns and an entire presidential term

Jim Sciutto

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3 years

Breaking: Supreme Court allows release of Trump tax returns to NY Prosecutor

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Robert Draper

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2 years

Over time, Cassidy Hutchinson realized her Trump-affiliated attorney Stefan Passantino "was there to insulate the big guy"--my story on her:

Cassidy Hutchinson: Why the Jan. 6 Committee Rushed Her Testimony (Published 2022)

Sequestered with family and security, Ms. Hutchinson, 26, has in the process developed an unlikely bond with Representative Liz Cheney, the panel’s vice chairwoman.

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Draper

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3 years

I'm reporting on this for my book and I can tell you that Sen. Johnson is not the only Republican who on Jan 6 felt safe bc they knew the rioters were on the same team

GOP Sen. Johnson says Capitol rioters didn’t scare him — but might have had they been Black Lives...

Democrats have blasted Johnson for his "blatant racism" and called on him to resign.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Robert Draper

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3 years

This is the precise margin in 2016 by which Trump's campaign manager pronounced it a "landslide, blowout, historic"--except that Trump lost the popular vote by 3 million then and Biden likely wins it by 5 million in 2020

Dave Wasserman

@Redistrict

3 years

I've seen enough. We're at a Biden 306-232 Electoral vote margin entering any recounts, and I've never seen a recount overturn leads of the magnitude Biden enjoys in AZ/GA/WI.

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6 years

The "former adviser" is Mark Penn. He hasn't spoken to Hillary in...a decade? Still, strong sourcing, @dcexaminer .

Washington Examiner

@dcexaminer

6 years

Hillary Clinton will run for president again in 2020, former adviser says

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

3 years

@jonkarl reporting that Trump's been advised a self-pardon would be an admission of guilt & open the door to lawsuits from those injured. "The attitude seems to be, `If I can't get a pardon, then nobody else should be able to get one either.'"

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1 year

Hell of a surgically skilled conspiracy ring in Arizona that steals victories from Lake & Finchem while allowing key congressional races to save the House majority for the GOP

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@Redistrict

1 year

Between #AZ01 , #AZ06 and #CA41 , Dems' dreams of holding the House majority probably died tonight.

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Almost exactly 3 years ago, Kevin McCarthy convinced the GOP to donate $2 million to struggling House candidate @NancyMace . "Sure did," Mace said in a Feb 2021 conference when McCarthy brought it up. Today, Mace was one of the 8 Republicans who voted to remove him as Speaker.

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Robert Draper

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4 years

This examination of how a president abuses intel is the apotheosis of what I wrote about in my book To Start A War. The crucial difference being, Bush never fired intel officials for telling him something he didn't want to hear.

Unwanted Truths: Inside Trump’s Battles With U.S. Intelligence Agencies (Published 2020)

Last year, intelligence officials gathered to write a classified report on Russia’s interest in the 2020 election. An investigation from the magazine uncovered what happened next.

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Draper

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6 years

Am I missing something, or does "perjury trap" mean nothing more & nothing less than "caught lying under oath?"

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Robert Draper

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4 years

Former TX Republican speaker of the House

Joe Straus

@SpeakerStraus

4 years

The lawsuit attempting to disenfranchise more than 100,000 voters in Harris County is patently wrong. #txlege

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2 years

One fact that didn't make it into my Flynn story: the notion that he pled guilty b/c the feds were coming after his son is key to the martyr myth. It's also untrue. Michael Jr was a subject but NOT a target of the investigation. His attorneys knew that, at all times.

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Robert Draper

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6 years

This is true. The innocent fail polygraphs, the guilty pass them, all the time. Junk science.

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Robert Draper

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4 years

Mattis participated in NSC & Cabinet meetings & personally briefed the president. I doubt it was the Times & MSNBC that influenced his opinions about Trump.

Matthew Gertz

@MattGertz

4 years

Lindsey Graham's take is that Jim Mattis has been suckered by the anti-Trump "liberal media," just amazing stuff.

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Robert Draper

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4 years

The upshot in TX may well be that while Democrats won big in the suburbs & did well among the small but fast-growing Asian American demographic, they're still clueless when it comes to maximizing the Latino vote, and it'll cost them the state

Forrest Wilder

@Forrest4Trees

4 years

Again, this is a 95% Hispanic county. One of the poorest in the nation. Something went terribly wrong for Democrats here.

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Robert Draper

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5 years

Trump's suggestion that Jordan be ranking member on Judiciary signals his chief concern: he wants a loud advocate when Democrats consider impeachment.

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3 years

Adding to this powerful & heartbreaking story: per a Capitol source, *several* police present on Jan 6 have turned in their weapons, fearing self-harm

Two officers who helped fight the Capitol mob died by suicide. Many more are hurting.

The families of Officers Jeffrey Smith and Howard Liebengood want their deaths recognized as “in the line of duty.”

www.washingtonpost.com

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Robert Draper

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4 years

The key part of the headline is not the number. It is the word "incalculable." Because the misery associated with the loss, which so many of us are experiencing personally, cannot be charted.

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

6 years

When Pelosi took office in 1987, GOP had 11 women House members. Three decades later, 13? That's pretty miserable.

Dave Wasserman

@Redistrict

6 years

Overlooked: at the moment, Republicans are on track to lose nearly half of their 23 women in the House; there could be just 13 in the next Congress.

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2 years

Trump on Ukraine, from deputy national security adviser Charles Kupperman: "He just let loose. `They're fucking corrupt. They fucking tried to screw me.'"

‘This Was Trump Pulling a Putin’ (Published 2022)

Amid the current crisis, Fiona Hill and other former advisers are connecting President Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine to Jan. 6. And they’re ready to talk.

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

4 years

Historians will puzzle over what service this guy provided to the taxpayers in exchange for his $183,000 salary

Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸🦅

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Robert Draper

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3 years

Nixon did it during the Charles Manson trial, calling him guilty. Defense moved for mistrial, judge denied it.

Karen Tumulty

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3 years

. @tuckercarlson is in full cry tonight about Biden's comments today, asking: "When was the last time a sitting president weighed in on a jury decision before it was made? Never!" Really?

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4 years

SCOOP: Trump will say something outrageous that gets lots of free media though it has no basis in fact

Jim VandeHei

@JimVandeHei

4 years

🚨 🚨 scoop: Trump plans to declare premature victory if he appears "ahead" on election night, 3 sources tell @jonathanvswan

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4 years

To be clear, Dobbs railing against Graham is of a piece with Trump expressing displeasure with Pompeo, Wray and others not named Ratcliffe: they're not using all the tools at their disposal to go after the president's political opponent.

Jason S. Campbell

@JasonSCampbell

4 years

Lou Dobbs is telling South Carolina residents not to vote for Lindsey Graham

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Robert Draper

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3 years

Gaetz's tactic here is common: launch a counter-narrative (rogue FBI agent was extorting him for $25M) that can't be proved or disproved but that makes him the true victim.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

3 years

Matt Gaetz vows to Tucker Carlson he didn't "travel" with a 17-year-old, but his denial seems pretty specific and carefully worded

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4 years

This is the kind of stuff that Mobutu and Kabila pulled in the Congo to stay in power.

Mark Joseph Stern

@mjs_DC

4 years

Texas Republicans have asked a federal judge to throw out 100,000 ballots in Harris County cast through curbside voting. They drew Judge Andrew Hanen, one of the most notoriously partisan Republican judges in the entire federal judiciary. This is alarming.

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Robert Draper

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3 years

The TX power grid "has collapsed in exactly the same manner as the old Soviet Union. It limped along on underinvestment and neglect until it finally broke under predictable circumstances."

What went wrong with the Texas power grid?

Millions of Texans were without heat and electricity Monday as snow, ice and frigid...

www.houstonchronicle.com

Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

3 years

As long as we're commissioning studies, the self-proclaimed energy hub of the US, Texas, has really made a mess of its power grid and a lot of people are suffering right now because of it

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Robert Draper

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5 years

Those who scoff at the term "white male privilege," take a look at this one

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@DraperRobert

3 years

This is still not at Bush's low point of 24%, but that was after 2 full terms, 2 wars and a market meltdown

Jim Acosta

@Acosta

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Pew Research Center: Trump "job approval now stands at just 29%, down 9 percentage points since August and the lowest of his presidency."

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I would read a book or watch a movie about this man's life. I pray that he died in a state of comfort.

Wilson Jerman, Longtime White House Butler, Dies at 91 (Published 2020)

Mr. Jerman started working as a cleaner for President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1957 and retired in 2012 as an elevator operator for President Barack Obama.

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Draper

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3 years

Cleta Mitchell, mentioned here as a Trump attorney, was briefed w/other conservatives in Sept by @C_C_Krebs ostensibly about cybersecurity, though their concern was 100% on whether illegal immigrants were getting ballots, per sources

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2 years

Scott's right: the mystery of the Cap Hill Jan 5 pipe bomber affects friends of mine in that neighborhood & is THE unsolved mystery of DC

Scott MacFarlane

@MacFarlaneNews

2 years

One year later One distinctive mystery remains My latest reporting ====>

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Robert Draper

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4 years

"Part of the asymmetrical nature of the behavior of the Republicans is that no matter how outrageously they behave...if Democrats respond in any way, the GOP goes straight into victim mode. @KirstenPowers on the SCOTUS gambit:

Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell and the Republican Party play victims. Don't let them.

With the Supreme Court vacancy or anything else, only the Republicans think rules, honesty and comity are for suckers. Stop engaging in both-sidesism.

www.usatoday.com

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@DraperRobert

4 years

Hi Joe. You weren't there. I was. Everyone--literally everyone--was wearing a mask. I struggled with science in high school, too.

Joe Concha

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4 years

The cause is bigger than the virus, Nov. 7 edition. Superspreader chyron given the day off.

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3 years

As my grandfather, former Watergate special prosecutor Leon Jaworski, said of Nixon's pardon, "It's not the kind of thing you would want to hang on your wall."

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

3 years

It is my Great Honor to announce that General Michael T. Flynn has been granted a Full Pardon. Congratulations to @GenFlynn and his wonderful family, I know you will now have a truly fantastic Thanksgiving!

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3 years

To be clear, McCarthy has repeated to others the account he gave to Herrera Beutler. I ran her representation by one of those people who heard the same account "verbatim"

Lisa Desjardins

@LisaDNews

3 years

NEW: There is a fast-moving attempt to reach a deal today. The idea is for the Senate to vote to allow stipuation of Herrera-Beutler's statement for the record ... and possibly a statement from McCarthy or someone else whose account varies. And then go to closing.

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1 year

Worth noting that Fanone went to the Capitol on Jan 6 of his own volition. Pretty likely that a lot of the MPD hecklers didn't make the same sacrifice. (Fanone was beaten unconscious by the mob.)

Ryan J. Reilly

@ryanjreilly

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NEW: Members of the Metropolitan Police Department's Special Operations Division heckled former Officer Mike Fanone at the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony, Fanone tells me. “They called me a piece of shit and mockingly called me a great fucking hero while clapping," he said.

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Robert Draper

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4 years

In 2004, GW Bush won 50.7% of the popular vote and 286 in the EC--totals which Biden is on track to exceed. You can ask @matthewjdowd and @Peter_Wehner : this was regarded in Bush World not as a squeaker but as a mandate.

Tom Malinowski

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You could say this was a close election, except that Biden will have won the popular vote by more than 5 million votes, plus victories in states few thought were truly winnable. This election will be remembered as a powerful statement.

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2 years

In response to queries for this article, Trump said of Hill: “She doesn’t know the first thing she’s talking about. If she didn’t have the accent she would be nothing.”

‘This Was Trump Pulling a Putin’ (Published 2022)

Amid the current crisis, Fiona Hill and other former advisers are connecting President Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine to Jan. 6. And they’re ready to talk.

www.nytimes.com

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4 years

Pretty sure the Biden campaign will be RT'ing this every day for the next 3 weeks

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3 years

McConnell managed Trump far & away better than any other Republican, and it still defeated him

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1 year

"A video clip of Hawley and the others running was played to the members. Cheney, ordinarily a stoic presence, cracked up laughing. Then she had a request. `Could you run that again?'” Inside the J6 Committee, by me & @lukebroadwater :

Inside the Jan. 6 Committee (Published 2022)

Power struggles, resignations and made-for-TV moments — the untold story of the most important congressional investigation in generations.

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

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DC was on the brink of statehood in the mid 70's, until Pat Buchanan & Phyllis Schlafy led a state-by-state campaign to defeat it on the grounds that DC hosted the most egregiously left-wing politics. At the time DC was 90% black.

Kevin M. Kruse

@KevinMKruse

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Great piece by ⁦ @pbump ⁩

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"He's with us, he's with us," the insurrectionists saying about @tedcruz is going to wind up in a campaign ad

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@DraperRobert

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From @elianayjohnson : Trump "told Kelly Loeffler before he landed in Georgia for a final rally on Monday that if she didn’t back the Electoral College challenges, he would `do a number on her” from the stage, according to a source familiar with the events.'"

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4 years

This study does NOT include the 34 densely packed & largely mask-free Trump rallies that have taken place in the month of October

Carl Quintanilla

@carlquintanilla

4 years

New @Stanford study estimates that 18 Trump rallies have led to 30,000 COVID cases and 700 deaths (via @AaronBelkin )

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"There were plenty of people in that room that were ardent supporters of President Trump...But there were also people that sat there quietly disgusted or bewildered." @tarapalmeri of @PuckNews has a good report here:

Inside the Trump-CNN Thunderdome

On CNN, it sure looked like Trump won over the crowd during his town hall interview with Kaitlan Collins. But the reality was different in the room—and in the state of New Hampshire.

puck.news

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3 years

I had a Capitol press badge and was constantly being stopped by security. That protesters could force their way in & then be allowed to wander freely & steal things warrants an investigation.

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6 years

If TV & print reporters stopped calling Gingrich he would sob himself to death

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From my story: Giuliani advised Trump against Flynn's National Guard ballot-seizing plan b/c, as he put it, "We would all end up in prison"

Michael Flynn Is Still at War (Published 2022)

The general tried to persuade Donald Trump to use the military to overturn the 2020 election. A year later, he and his followers are fighting the same battle by other means.

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Draper

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6 years

This is hardly disqualifying for Kavanaugh, even in the context of other allegations. But one would like to think that such awful adolescent male behavior would merit an apology & assurance that he'd grown from this (which is not a given).

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As I reported here, classified testimony on Russia election interference didn't leak to the press--it got leaked by House Republicans to Trump (by his own admission), who became angry at the testimony and fired DNI Maguire:

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

Probably Shifty Schiff, but others also, LEAK information to the Fake News. No matter what or who it is about, including China, these deranged lowlifes like the Russia, Russia, Russia narrative. Plays better for them. @DNI_Ratcliffe doing a great job!

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As we were putting this story to bed, ODNI put out a statement acknowledging Russia favors Trump. Coincidence I'm sure! But in also equating China & Iran w/Russia on election interference, & claiming those countries favor Biden, ODNI proved our thesis.

Unwanted Truths: Inside Trump’s Battles With U.S. Intelligence Agencies (Published 2020)

Last year, intelligence officials gathered to write a classified report on Russia’s interest in the 2020 election. An investigation from the magazine uncovered what happened next.

www.nytimes.com

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"I could sell ice to an Eskimo." My story tracing Mark Meadows and over 3 decades of deceit (free link):

How Mark Meadows Became the Least Trusted Man in Washington (Gift Article)

The untold story of the rise and fall of Trump’s former chief of staff — and his role in the prosecutions that may determine the 2024 election.

www.nytimes.com

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“I don’t give a shit anymore! I want a yes-man!” Strongman vibes from President Trump, captured by the brilliant @peterbakernyt & @sbg1 in their forthcoming book "The Divider," excerpted here:

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@DraperRobert

4 years

It's a right, actually

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

JUST VOTED. A great honor!

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Robert Draper

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2 years

Per my book's reporting, Gosar won't even tell his own senior staff what his disorder is. They acknowledge that it has worsened & speculate that this'll be his last race, after which Kelli Ward will be the frontrunner to succeed him.

Nevilledog

@nevilledog33

2 years

@brahmresnik @FOX9AdamKlepp @RepGosar Why isn't the media asking questions about his medical status? They'll spend hours upon hours questioning Fetterman, but Gosar gets a pass?

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

3 years

This is the closest, most on-point read of the new GA voting bill, and everyone should read it--especially those who are now outraged by MLB's decision to move the All-Star game:

What Georgia’s Voting Law Really Does (Published 2021)

The New York Times analyzed the state’s new 98-page voting law and identified 16 key provisions that will limit ballot access, potentially confuse voters and give more power to Republican lawmakers.

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

6 years

Journalism students: this is what it looks like when you're being spun with a power drill

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

3 years

Colin Powell was a heroic American figure tinged with tragedy owing to his Feb 2003 UN speech on Iraq's nonexistent WMD. But he was the only senior advisor to President Bush to warn him about the consequences of going into Iraq.

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

3 years

As long as we're commissioning studies, the self-proclaimed energy hub of the US, Texas, has really made a mess of its power grid and a lot of people are suffering right now because of it

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

6 years

Buried in the last graf is this Kavanaugh-classmate gem: "I don't remember anyone from Prep hanging out with public school girls, especially from Gaithersburg."

Who is Julie Swetnick, the third Kavanaugh accuser?

The 55-year-old Web developer has held multiple security clearances for work on government-related networks.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

4 years

Obama just said in his Orlando speech that a President Biden & VP Harris "will be too busy working" to write "crazy tweets"

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

Now @FoxNews is playing Obama’s no crowd, fake speech for Biden, a man he could barely endorse because he couldn’t believe he won. Also, I PREPAID many Millions of Dollars in Taxes.

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

7 months

Mace's former comms director has some thoughts

Natalie Johnson

@nataliejohnsonn

7 months

Lady, you bought a multimillion dollar home a block from the Capitol within six months of getting elected and then lied to press about living in your office. Please.

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

3 years

The out-of-state university I wanted to go to rejected me with blunt-trauma force. Went to UT already feeling like a flop. What came after was like falling on my ass into a pot of gold.

Jake Tapper

@jaketapper

3 years

With colleges sending out acceptance/rejection/waitlist letters I wanted to re-up this message. High school seniors who are disappointed: you are going to be OK. Wherever you end up, you will make friends, learn, grow, and have the time of your lives.

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

4 years

During his first year in office, 1913, President Wilson ordered screens placed in government buildings to separate black from white office workers.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

Can anyone believe that Princeton just dropped the name of Woodrow Wilson from their highly respected policy center. Now the Do Nothing Democrats want to take off the name John Wayne from an airport. Incredible stupidity!

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

3 years

Embarrassing that this tweedy gasbag who once termed Obama our 1st "affirmative action president" (elected out of "self-virtue") is now awarded space to apply his intellectual limpness to the First Lady:

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

3 years

@RepKinzinger is quoted in my @Liz_Cheney piece: “Look, this whole cancel culture of the right, it’s about people who feel threatened because they look bad when someone like Liz is strong and actually stands for what she believes. I think she'll survive."

Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱

@AdamKinzinger

3 years

Absolutely accurate story here. Also of note are comments that Liz didn’t “show enough humility” from fans of Donald Trump, who doesn’t show any.

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

3 years

This entire excerpt of Boehner's memoir reads like him ranting while pouring himself a 4th glass of Merlot. Which is to say, I've preordered a copy. via @politico

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

4 years

I've just published a book about how Bush mischaracterized intelligence in the run-up to war. Here's my story about how Trump has tried to bend the intelligence community to his will:

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

3 years

Unmentioned in this otherwise excellent Sue Gordon oped is that this president is an intel risk b/c as I reported earlier, he's loose-lipped & likes to impress rich associates with the secrets he's learned

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

3 years

The GOP's systemic miscalculation for 9 weeks running has been that Trump should be allowed to go through his stages of grief, his supporters should be allowed to get their ya-ya's out & House members should "give voice" to their outraged base...and then it'll all be fine.

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

1 year

Trump endorsement of McCarthy for Speaker had zero effect on votes

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

6 years

Need to check with my Dem friends, but somehow I don’t think Avenatti comes out of this as the party’s blue-eyed boy

Michael Avenatti

@MichaelAvenatti

6 years

What just transpired is the clearest example yet of why the old approach of the Dem party is not working. If we continue on this path, the values, principles and rights that matter most will be lost forever. We must fight fire with fire. And when they go low, we must hit harder!

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

2 years

My story on the long, strange arc of Mike Flynn:

Michael Flynn Is Still at War (Published 2022)

The general tried to persuade Donald Trump to use the military to overturn the 2020 election. A year later, he and his followers are fighting the same battle by other means.

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

3 years

I'm trying to get my Afghan driver & his young family out of the country. I know the Kabul airport is closed, but if any of you have any ideas, please DM me.

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

8 months

Paxton is being acquitted on all articles by a handy margin. His attorney spoke of the "Bush dynasty" being behind the impeachment. In the end, the new GOP dynasty prevailed in Texas: MAGA + a handful of ultraconservative wealthy donors.

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

4 years

My new book, TO START A WAR: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq, is out 7/28 ( @penguinpress ). "A painful yet gripping, essential account of a disastrous series of decisions."--Kirkus (starred review) Preorder:

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

2 years

Saying Watergate was FBI-driven is a lie. Nixon, a sitting president, orchestrated hush-money payments to felons seeking to undermine his political opponent and coached defendants to lie on the witness stand. Tapes prove this. There's no debate here.

Kat Abu

@abughazalehkat

2 years

watergate is another woke left conspiracy now i guess

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

3 years

Just a reminder that @DanScavino has been receiving a $183,000 taxpayer-funded salary to show Trump what his right-wing base is feeling. I sincerely hope Scavino's texts, emails & other communications are being archived.

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

3 years

Great reporting on RonJohn, who first claimed that the Jan 6 rioters were Antifa, then stated he wasn't worried that day b/c they *weren't* Antifa, and now says they had to be Antifa b/c he's been to Trump rallies & MAGA folks are peaceful

Reid J. Epstein

@reidepstein

3 years

NEW: With Trump booted from social media, Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin has become the GOP’s foremost amplifier of conspiracy theories and disinformation. W/ @tripgabriel

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

4 years

Which of course begs the question: where, then, does the president get his intelligence, if not from the U.S. intel community?

Ken Dilanian

@KenDilanianNBC

4 years

Trump Has Nearly Eliminated Intelligence Briefings From His Schedule Entirely

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

1 year

This by @MonaChalabi on how to understand Jeff Bezos's wealth is pure genius that has now been rightly recognized by the Pulitzer judges:

9 Ways to Imagine Jeff Bezos’ Wealth (Published 2022)

A fortune of $172 billion is almost impossible to fathom. For the magazine’s Money Issue, the artist Mona Chalabi came up with some extremely original comparisons.

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

11 months

The painful irony is that when @NatGeo was bought from Fox by Disney, there was jubilation in the office, a belief that this was a more natural fit. As it turned out, Disney had less interest in real journalism than Fox did.

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Robert Draper

@DraperRobert

6 years

This is a brilliant op-ed on anti-Semitism & the president by @JuliaIoffe , whose family came here from Russia when she was a child in hopes of escaping anti-Semitism:

Perspective | How much responsibility does Trump bear for the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh?

Political rhetoric matters, and he's had some unfortunate things to say about Jews.

www.washingtonpost.com

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