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Jim VandeHei

@JimVandeHei

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CEO/Co-Founder of Axios; Chairman/Co-Founder Axios HQ; Co-Founder Politico; Pre-order new book - Just the Good Stuff:

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@JimVandeHei
Jim VandeHei
7 years
To family/friends who support Trump: what he said last night about reporters was despicable, extremely deceptive, dangerous...
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4 years
🚨 Senior White House official: "I’ve never been more ashamed. I’m really honestly disgusted. I’m sick to my stomach. And they’re all celebrating it. They’re very very proud of themselves."
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@JimVandeHei
Jim VandeHei
5 years
🚨 Exclusive look @ Christie unleashed: Trump surrounded by “amateurs , grifters, weaklings, convicted and unconvicted felons”
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Jim VandeHei
3 years
🚨 scoop - McConnell leans toward convicting Trump in an impeachment trial - one of the most shocking and damning votes in the history of American politics
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Jim VandeHei
4 years
🚨 🚨 More than 100 million people viewed part or all of the “Axios on HBO” interview between @realdonaldtrump and @jonathanvswan @axios on all platforms. We offer this same interview opportunity to @joebiden and hope he accepts.
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6 years
Astonishing. The story moved markets, set off a media frenzy, suggested worst possible outcome. This is called a massive correction, or retraction, not clarification.
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Jim VandeHei
5 months
🚨🚨 Trump’s loyalty-first cabinet. EXCLUSIVE details: 1. Melania wants @tuckercarlson for VP. 2. Stephen Miller 4 Attorney General. 3. Tucker pushing Steve Bannon as Chief of Staff. 4. JD Vance up for a big gig, on VP short list…
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6 years
Either the White House spokespeople or the president's chief of staff is lying. It's a stunning display of incompetence that five days after the initial story broke, they still can't get their stories straight.
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Jim VandeHei
3 years
🚨 via @jonathanvswan Senior White House and Trump campaign officials are complaining bitterly about poor internal communication, blaming colleagues, pondering what jobs they might try to get next year, and lashing out at their new enemy: Fox News.
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Jim VandeHei
3 years
🚨 🚨 scoop: McConnell, if he keeps the Senate majority, plans to prevent Joe Biden from stacking his Cabinet with liberals and force him to go with centrist options, like Lael Brainard 4 Treasury, Tony Blinken for State, sources tell ⁦ @mikeallen
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Jim VandeHei
4 years
🚨 It feels like August of ‘16 all over again. Polls show Trump losing big. Pundits proclaim he can't win. Reporters sneer at Trump voters on Twitter, cable. Why it matters: There are several signs that should give the Trump-is-toast self-assured pause.
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Jim VandeHei
3 years
🚨 President Trump is pinning his hopes — and presidency — on a wild, relentless war against reality and truth, falsely claiming several states are stealing the election by adhering to their laws, rules, and long precedents.
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7 months
🚨🚨EXCLUSIVE - Former President Bush warns of "ugly" war and temptation to buckle or seek peace. "My view is: One side is guilty. And it's not Israel."
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Jim VandeHei
3 years
🚨 🚨 Top officials tell ⁦ @jonathanvswan ⁩ officials Trump is spending too much time with people they consider crackpots or conspiracy theorists and flirting with blatant abuses of power.
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Jim VandeHei
3 years
@ratemyskyperoom I refuse to succumb to your peer pressure. Next show: I will wear a shirt cut from those curtains with a flag made of those curtains flapping in the dark wind behind me and dare you to downgrade me to a zero…game on 😃
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Jim VandeHei
6 years
This is one of the reasons America hates the media. Our entire industry lit itself on fire because a troubled Trump hanger-on made an ass of himself — live.
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1 year
🚨🚨Some White House officials say it's difficult to schedule public or private events with the president in the morning, in the evening, or on weekends: The vast majority of Biden’s public events happen on weekdays, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
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4 years
🚨 🚨 Democrats privately fear that going too hard on Judge Amy Coney Barrett in her confirmation hearings could wind up backfiring if senators are perceived as being nasty to an accomplished woman.
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2 years
🚨 🚨 scoops -> President Biden’s advisers are discussing a possible visit to Saudi Arabia this spring to help repair relations and convince the Kingdom to pump more oil, Axios has learned.
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7 months
🚨🚨Scoop: Biden don't-let-him-trip strategy - new shoes, balancing exercises, shorter stairs
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Jim VandeHei
3 years
🚨 The post-Trump Republican Party has been gutted in almost every way imaginable
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4 years
🚨 🚨 scoop: Trump plans to declare premature victory if he appears "ahead" on election night, 3 sources tell @jonathanvswan
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Jim VandeHei
3 years
🚨 🚨 Trump thinks everyone around him is weak, stupid or disloyal — and increasingly seeks comfort only in people who egg him on to overturn the election results. We cannot stress enough how unnerved officials r by the conversations unfolding inside WH.
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🚨🚨scoop -> DNC covered Biden legal bills in special counsel probe ** Why it matters: The payments are at odds with the Biden campaign's recent attacks on Donald Trump for spending his campaign funds on legal fees.
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Jim VandeHei
6 years
Exclusive: President Trump's top trade adviser, Peter Navarro, recommended appointing Stefan Halper, an academic and suspected FBI informant on the Trump campaign, to a senior role in the Trump administration, Axios has learned.
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Jim VandeHei
3 years
@alexi You will always be part of the @axios family. @alexi admited her mistakes, repented (years ago and again of late) and showed during her four years with us she was a strong woman with a big heart. She was a great colleague who often stood up 4 others. Sad outcome @TeenVogue .
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3 years
🚨 🚨 Charles Koch, in first TV interview in years, tells Axios on HBO he"screwed up by being partisan" and hits GOP officials for going more radical than promised
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Jim VandeHei
3 years
🚨 Top Republicans want to bury President Trump, for good. But they are divided whether to do it with one quick kill via impeachment, or let him slowly fade away.
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Jim VandeHei
6 years
Exclusive poll: GOP turns on FBI bigtime. Never underestimate Trump’s power to reshape GOP views. He did it on Russia. Then Mueller. Now the FBI. Not long ago: the GOP loathed Russia, loved Mueller, celebrated the FBI...
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Jim VandeHei
6 months
🚨🚨Top WH officials privately concede things have never been worse politically since the 80-year-old took office.Biden’s dual horror shows threaten his re-election campaign
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Jim VandeHei
6 years
🚨 via @jonathanvswan - President Trump no longer doubts the basic intelligence assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 election — he just seems incapable of taking it seriously, and tells staff that is simply what nations do.
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Jim VandeHei
7 years
Ya can't make it up: Spicer warns of legal action because @mikeallen asks him about story...
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Jim VandeHei
3 months
🚨🚨Scoop: Biden “obsessed” with @morningjoe . Staff plot 7 am appearances to reach POTUS…Biden calls Joe for advice, to vent, and aides are in regular contact with his panel…lots of great ⁦ @AlexThomp ⁩ details…
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Jim VandeHei
2 years
🚨 🚨 Squad politics backfire: The push to defund the police, rename schools and tear down statues has created a significant obstacle to Democrats keeping control of the House, the Senate and the party’s overall image.
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Jim VandeHei
6 years
New: This strategy is working better than you think. Trump portrayed Hillary Clinton as an enemy of the state, and she lost. He turned the media into an enemy of the state w GOP. And he's trying to make the FBI look like an enemy of the state.
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Jim VandeHei
3 years
Scoop: Biden announcing COVID task force on Monday
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3 years
🚨 It is an ironic, poetic ending to the raucous reign of Donald J. Trump: Enabled — and enabling — Republicans put the final knives in their beloved, besieged, beaten president.
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Jim VandeHei
7 years
...is just plain wrong. I worked w/ reporters like Daniel Pearl who died a gruesome death seeking truth; scores die yearly exposing facts...
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Jim VandeHei
7 years
Read this list of things Trump said that simply aren't true. "Trump spreads fake news while calling real news fake"
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Jim VandeHei
6 years
🚨 🚨 Can you imagine joking about John McCain dying and then accusing your boss of leaking in front of the President of the United States. Kelly Sadler did BOTH. And still has a job. Stranger than fiction.
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3 years
🚨 President Trump is considering a made-for-TV grand finale: a White House departure on Marine One and final Air Force One flight to Florida for a political rally opposite Joe Biden's inauguration, sources familiar with the discussions tell Axios.
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🚨🚨Exclusive: Biden adviser Susan Rice referred to HHS Sec. Becerra as a "bitch-ass" and privately called him an "idiot," according to multiple sources. •During one meeting when Biden was tearing into Becerra, Rice passed DHS Sec. Mayorkas a note that read: "Don't save him,"…
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3 years
🚨 A growing number of Democrats are ringing the alarm that their party sounds — and acts — too judgmental, too sensitive, too "woke" to large swaths of America.
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2 years
🚨 @jonathanvswan PART 2 Trump's revenge — Rep. Jim Jordan, his close ally, “'Fire everyone you're allowed to fire. And [then] fire a few people you're not supposed to, so that they have to sue you and you send the message.' That's the way to do it."
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Jim VandeHei
4 years
Lots of Democrats are in full panic that Bernie Sanders will win the nomination and get clobbered in the general election — and bring the party down, too. But the evidence, particularly the polling, doesn't back those doomsday warnings.
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3 months
🚨🚨 Even in an era of ousted speakers and wild, daily internal disarray, Tuesday night's back-to-back defeats for House Republicans were epic.
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Jim VandeHei
3 years
🚨 There is no bigger crisis for media, politics and society than the growing number of people who do not believe facts and verifiable figures. If we do not collectively solve this, we are all screwed.
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Jim VandeHei
3 years
There are no heroes here — courage brimmed only at the precipice. But a few people who watched the system breach, in the end, did not allow it to break. Only in time will we learn the reward or consequences of their actions.
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4 years
🚨 🚨 Joe Biden is the luckiest, least scrutinized frontrunner. ->Biden has answered < half as many questions from media as Trump — 365 compared with 753
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7 years
...There are great Americans deeply concerned about a changing nation. God forbid one buys Trump's mad rant and takes action...
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7 years
...But to say reporters erase America's heritage, don't love America, turn off cameras to hide truth, are to blame for racial tension...
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4 years
🚨 🧠 🚨 scoop: House GOP will argue Trump's "state of mind" will save him From impeachment
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Jim VandeHei
4 years
🚨 Trump’s GOP relies almost exclusively on a shrinking demographic (white men), living in shrinking areas (small, rural towns), creating a reliance on people with shrinking incomes (white workers without college degrees) to survive.
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6 years
🚨 Brutal poll: Democrats' Senate dream slips away
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Jim VandeHei
5 years
🚨 new — Democrats load "subpoena cannon" with 85+ Trump targets - expect fight to reach Supreme Court and lead to impeachment
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Jim VandeHei
3 years
🚨 🚨 Scoop: Pentagon halts Biden transition briefings - Axios
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Jim VandeHei
6 years
Wow: Sean Parker, former president of Facebook, tells @axios Mark Zuckerberg, others knowingly hooked/harmed minds
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Jim VandeHei
6 years
We have had many of the same conversations with the same sources Wolff used. We won't betray them, or put on the record what was off. But, we can say that the following lines from the book ring unambiguously true:
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7 years
...Claim bias. Fine. Claim elitism. Fine. Claim the press hyperventilates/bloviates. Fine...
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6 years
Exclusive: Bannon says "I'm sorry"
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3 years
🚨 🚨 episode 4 via @jonathanvswan Attorney General Bill Barr tells Trump his election claims are “bullshit”
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Jim VandeHei
6 years
three ways to get Trump to do something, all of which we're seeing this week (with his tariffs announcement as well): - Tell him it’s never been done before. -Tell him the lawyers would never allow it. -Tell him the establishment would go crazy.
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5 months
🚨🚨NEW -> Biden's reluctance to acknowledge his physical limitations at age 81 is causing some tension on his team, as senior aides and First Lady Jill Biden push him to rest more and be vigilant about his health going into 2024.
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6 years
🚨 🚨 😞 Trump effect: SEVENTY TWO PERCENT OF ALL POLLED think news outlets report fake news
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2 years
🚨 🚨 Exclusive: Law enforcement agencies are investigating social-media threats to burn down or storm the Supreme Court building and murder justices and their clerks, as well as attacks targeting places of worship and abortion clinics.
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🚨🚨Exclusive from new book: Biden defends deadly Afghanistan withdrawal — doesn't think anyone made a mistake
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Jim VandeHei
2 years
🚨 Congrats to all ⁦ @axios ⁩ employees, past and present: You built the foundation of something very meaningful & generational. The next chapter will be even bigger and better. Blessed to work w/ the Best.
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4 years
🚨 🚨 🖊 It's easy to dog the media. But stop for a second and reflect on everything we know thanks to the media — and often the media alone.
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2 years
🚨 Exclusive must read: Inside Trump '25: A radical plan for Trump’s second term - ⁦ @jonathanvswan ⁩ meticulously details a planned purge of anyone deemed disloyal to Trump…deep into jobs most people don’t know exist…
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3 years
Biden prepared to chuck filibuster in historic push to re-engineer America, quickly
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7 months
🚨🚨New @Axios : Top US officials worried about FIVE war threats; most dangerous moment in 78 years, Bob Gates say; every threat could spiral into bigger one. New column with ⁦ @mikeallen
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🚨🚨Biden's Hunter trigger: In private, no issue is more likely to anger or sadden Biden than Hunter, according to people close to the president who have seen his moods shift when there's bad news re:Hunter…strained Biden/Attorney General bond…much more
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6 years
Scoop, in case you missed: Mueller's hit list includes memos, texts, docs for bannon, lewandowski, hicks...
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Jim VandeHei
3 months
🚨🚨 Biden aides believe report will include embarrassing details — possibly with photos — on how Biden stored documents
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Jim VandeHei
5 years
🚨 🚨 Scoop airing 2 nite on “Axios on HBO”: Democrats to probe Trump for abusing power to punish CNN, Washington Post and using “ the instruments of state power to punish the press.” .
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7 years
Bannon plots Fox competitor, global expansion
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3 years
🚨 Scoop: Snapchat will permanently ban Trump's account
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6 years
Scoop: Gary Cohn accused commerce secretary, top trade advisor of lying to @realDonaldTrump
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3 years
🚨 Off the rails via @jonathanvswan - "Sometimes you need a little crazy,"
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Jim VandeHei
2 years
🚨 We often celebrate those who break things, invent things or build things with bravado. But I have learned more studying two men of uncommon modesty: @mikeallen and the late Fred Rogers, a.k.a. Mister Rogers.
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Jim VandeHei
7 years
Fact: This is the year of "Never Before" but: never before has a POTUS pressured the FBI/Justice so publicly, so many times, so many ways
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2 years
🚨 🚨 Scoop: Biden considers delaying Title 42 repeal. Why it matters: Biden is looking to buy time to avoid a massive influx of migrants that would add to already-historic border numbers. Some Democratic incumbents worry topic puts races at risk
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Jim VandeHei
6 years
Exclusive: Trump lawyer claims the "President cannot obstruct justice"
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Jim VandeHei
7 years
This is an astonishing list by @mikeallen : The Great Divider
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Jim VandeHei
6 years
Newt + Fox + Facebook + McCain/Palin + algorithms + Trump/Twitter = batshit crazy politics today
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5 years
🚨 Scoop: Trump allies raising $2M to target, discredit specific reporters & editors...claim “friendly media outlets” will publicize what they dig up
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