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Investigative reporter NYT. Helping cover President Trump-without fear or favor. I write about people and power.

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1Jul 26, '23WSJ: X, formerly Twitter, presses major companies to advertise on its site, telling them to spend money on X or lose ability to control their brand identity on the new X129×2.7M3.1k970193
2Jun 20, '23THREAD: As a NYT reporter, I've been investigating Trump family international deals since 2016. India, Indonesia, Philippines, Turkey, Panama. I have never seen anything like the O126×2.7M8.8k4k914
3Oct 20, '24Musk is simultaneously in fights with the FAA, DOJ, FCC, FTC, Interior, EEOC, NLRB, EPA, etc. Now Musk has nudged Trump to put him in charge of an effort to curb government rules. 31.6×666k3.9k2.2k706
4Jan 3, '19As of Thursday, DOD will be run by a former senior Boeing executive. EPA is run by a former coal lobbyist. HHS is run by a former pharmaceutical lobbyist. And Interior will be run 18.5×038k21k557
5Apr 11, '20JUST POSTED:As the death toll continues to rise in the US, The NYT takes a deep look at the weeks of inaction by President Trump despite growing alarm by some of his top health &am7.2×013k7.7k1.3k
6Sep 5, '20JUST POSTED: Deep look at how Trump's campaign accounts were turned into Trump litigation fund used to punish ex aides who criticized him, to keep his tax returns secret, even to d6.0×010k7.7k491
7Jan 4, '17Trump sets agenda every morning with exaggerated/false/destabilizing Tweets, and then we all write about them, letting him own the day. Why?5.1×011k5.2k0
8Jun 3, '19The NYT heard way back in Oct 2017 that State Depart. officials had raised ethics concerns abt a pending trip by DOT Sec. Elaine Chao to China. After we asked abt the trip, it was 4.7×010k5.2k200
9Jan 22, '17View post on X4.5×08.5k5.8k1
10Mar 17, '17Ivanka at meeting with German Chancellor. Why?4.5×09.1k4.5k0
11Jun 2, '19JUST POSTED: State Department staff in Beijing was alarmed: a TRUMP cabinet member was headed to China & planning meetings with Chinese officials that involved her family-which4.4×08k5.6k193
12Mar 19, '20JUST POSTED: Months before President Trump downplayed concerns that coronavirus would spread widely in the US, his own agencies had conducted a chilling exercise anticipating a res4.4×07.8k5.4k440
13Apr 14, '201) Nothing President Trump today undermines even a single fact in the stories we published over the weekend. The truth remains that the nation's top health advisers concluded as of4.3×013k3.4k283
14Sep 16, '19JUST POSTED: DOT Secretary Elaine Chao Investigated by House Panel for Possible Conflicts. Investigators are examining her actions related to her family's shipping company, which h4.1×09.7k4k74
15Mar 31, '20Trump sounding different today. Scale of death appears to have changed his tone, at least.4.0×04.5k51339
16Dec 27, '18Pause for a moment and listen to the real sound here of natural gas being burned into the frozen night air. So much drilling they ran out of pipeline. So they just burn it. And Tru3.9×07.3k5.5k119
17Aug 7, '171) While Trump tweets about seemingly irrelevant stuff, his team is fundamentally reshaping US health, safety, environmental rules.3.9×07.6k4.9k0
18Oct 10, '20JUST POSTED: As president-elect, Trump pledged to step back from the Trump Organization & recuse himself from his private company’s operation. As president, he built a system o3.9×08.4k4.5k327
19Jun 16, '17Trump Era Moment: EPA's Scott Pruitt, with 45 CEOs of largest oil and gas companies in the USA for private briefing. Profits, to Trump Hotel3.7×05.1k5.6k2
20Nov 20, '16Photos of Trump with Real Estate Partners from India are disappearing from view. No worries. We grabbed them.3.3×05k5.1k0
21May 9, '17Trump has now fired, in dramatic fashion, 1) Acting attorney general 2) FBI director 3) US Attorney SD of NY.3.3×06.3k4.3k1
22Apr 6, '18Signs around Capitol Hill poking fun at Scott Pruitt this morning, with little pieces of paper you can tear off that have the EPA Office of Public Affairs office telephone number. 3.2×07.8k3.5k15
24Sep 10, '19JUST POSTED: Trump Org Had Deal With Airport That Sent Flight US Air Force Crews to His Resort in Scotland3.2×06.5k3.6k70
25Jun 1, '18This has got to be one for the record books. Oil industry joins with solar and wind industry to condemn Trump admin plan to prop up coal industry by forcing electric grid to buy co3.2×06.9k3.9k49
26Mar 26, '19EXCLUSIVE: Scientists at Interior Depart spent several years-& thousands of hours-studying impact 3 pesticides have on endangered species. Their conclusion: more than 1,200 at 3.1×04.6k4.8k107
27Aug 21, '17NEWS: Trump's Interior Depart has ordered National Academy of Sciences to halt study of health risks/harm caused by mountaintop coal mining3.0×03k4.7k0
29Mar 21, '20Trump keeps saying again today from the White House that nobody every thought this could happen. That is false. His own administration knew it could happen and likely would. And th2.8×07k3k128
31Apr 11, '20JUST POSTED: A Readers Guide to the "Red Dawn" Emails. These are now vital historical documents. Primary source documents that researchers will turn to for decades to come. Read th2.8×05.5k3.1k492
32Aug 21, '17Aug 14, 1932, NYT story. Pointing to us. Today. Here and now.2.6×05.7k3.1k1
33Mar 19, '20This is really shocking. We live in a nation of such wealth. And we have effectively run out of such a basic protective device at a moment of such need. CDC is offering advice on h2.4×05k2.7k182
34Nov 15, '16It is already happening: Trump Family Sees President of United States--as a Marketing Opportunity.2.4×03k3.1k0
35Apr 16, '17Trump administration is secretly granting waivers to former lobbyists so they can ignore White House ethics rules2.3×03k3.7k0
36Jun 3, '19THREAD: DOT officials sent hundreds of emails and spent months planning a trip to China for ELAINE CHAO. They even designed a logo for the luggage Elaine Chao took a particular int2.3×04.3k2.8k130
37Dec 14, '16Major News: Fed Gov Tells Congress Trump Will Be in Violation of His Lease on DC Hotel as Soon as He is Sworn In. A real conflict now.2.3×03.7k3.4k0
38Apr 15, '17As a reporter who writes abt ethics & lobbyists, not having WhiteHouse​ logs is a very big deal. A major rollback.2.3×04.7k3k0
41Oct 26, '19THREAD: Let's start with this smoking-gun memo-obtained by The New York Times. Treasury at direct order of Sec. Mnuchin took what staff at IRS warned would be seen as a overtly pol2.2×04.2k2.7k213
42Dec 26, '18THE NEW YORK TIMES WILL PUBLISH A 12-PAGE SPECIAL SECTION ON THURSDAY DEVOTED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN THE TRUMP ERA. Here is the web package. with @SteveEder @JohnBranchNYT Give2.2×04.9k2.5k175
43Apr 2, '18JUST POSTED: Pruitt Had a $50-a-Day Condo Linked to Lobbyists. Their Client’s Project Got Approved.2.2×03.9k3k15
44Aug 11, '171) Over 1,900 items have been removed from EPA's website. Environmental Defense Fund FOIAed them. Here they are, reborn, in four links2.2×04.3k3k0
45Mar 1, '20Port of Los Angeles is projecting a 25% drop in container volumes this month, as the economic impact of the coronavirus spreads across shipping operations and foreign supply chain.2.2×05k2.2k151
46Jan 23, '21EXTRAORDINARY STORY by @ktbenner on how Trump and a little-known Justice Dept. lawyer secretly plotted with Trump to OUST the Acting Attorney General just before his term ended as 2.1×04.7k2.2k159
47Jun 15, '18Scott Pruitt wanted to go to Rose Bowl. Tickets sold-out. So what did he do? Got one of his top political aides to call a well-connected energy industry PR executive to score four 2.1×03.6k2.6k14
48May 21, '17Wait a minute.... doesn't this sound like the Clinton Foundation and foreign government donations?2.1×04.8k2.5k0
49Mar 20, '20At least FOUR US Senators or their spouses sold large amounts of stock before the market tanked. Story updated with others. @npfandos2.1×04.4k2.4k71
50Jan 4, '21UPDATE TO THIS STORY: Georgia State Election Board member (only Dem on five member board) SUNDAY NIGHT asked Georgia Sec of State to open investigation into possible civil or crimi2.1×05.9k1.8k69
51Jan 12, '21JUST POSTED: Blowback re President Trump's role in Capitol riots now engulfed his family company. Not just PGA Tournament. Banks cutting off business, including one that is liquida2.1×05.2k1.7k128
54Jul 1, '18STICK WITH US FOR THIS THREAD: We know Scott Pruitt doesn't like to email (avoids creating a "paper trail") Turns out he DOES (or did) snail mail. Guess who he writes to? Oil &1.9×03.6k2.5k85
55Dec 17, '20POLITICO: Emails show unvarnished truth. The massive scale of the outbreak in U.S. was intentional, at least according to one top Trump appointee advising HHS ‘We want them infecte1.9×03.3k2k151
57Dec 7, '20Arizona Capitol Times: The Arizona Legislature will be closed all next week after at least 15 current or future Republican legislators may have been directly exposed to COVID-19 by1.9×04.3k1.4k40
58Oct 29, '20JUST POSTED: Fed prosecutors had evidence pointing to corruption by allies of President Erdogan of Turkey. But then something extraordinary happened:Attorney General Barr pushed to1.9×03.5k2.1k128
59May 7, '18JUST POSTED: The Secret EPA Files, 10,073 pages of emails as Pruitt dances with oil/gas/coal/chemical/homebuilders/automakers/farm groups/conservative anti regulatory types, all wh1.9×03k2.7k46
60Dec 6, '16Anyone who didn't like this tweet: I called it as I saw it. Commercialization of WhiteHouse. Ivanka's firm apologized AFTER I raised it.1.8×04.7k1.8k0
61Feb 18, '18JUST POSTED: Don Trump Jr is flying in Trump Force One (the family's Boeing 757) right now on his way to India to help selling $1 billion worth of luxury skyscraper homes. NYT take1.8×02.9k2.4k0
62Jan 4, '20JUST POSTED: The WHITE HOUSE escalates campaign to keep critical emails related to President Trump's freeze on Ukraine military aid a secret. Not just redacting documents. Entirely1.8×03.4k2.3k54
63Jan 28, '20JUST POSTED: President Trump's meddling in investigations of a Turkish state-owned bank and a Chinese cellphone company are drawing new scrutiny. With @arappeport1.8×03.8k2.1k57
64Mar 27, '17Covert coordination between WhiteHouse & House GOP chair of Russian hacking investigation. Impossible to see how Nunes can remain in charge1.7×03.5k2.3k0
65Dec 31, '19JUST POSTED: Senate Dems escalate push for testimony by top White House officials, in aftermath of NYT report on role top White House aides played along with Trump in blocking mili1.7×05.1k1.6k19
66Jun 6, '18NEWS: Just told by senior EPA person that Sarah Greenwalt, senior counsel to Pruitt, has also resigned. Asking EPA public affairs for confirmation. Comes after another aide Millian1.7×04k1.8k9
67Aug 9, '18“CHAIN MIGRATION must end now!” he wrote on Twitter in November. “Some people come in, and they bring their whole family with them" Then this...1.6×03.7k1.9k17
68Apr 12, '18JUST POSTED: New Allegations re Abusive Spending by Pruitt, including demands for luxury hotels, and trips that little clear government purpose so he could visit his Oklahoma home.1.6×03k2.1k15
69Jul 5, '18Not a single story we wrote about Scott Pruitt and his tenure at the EPA-by me or my colleagues at The NYT-was personal. It was about transparency, accountability, & governance1.6×05.3k1.1k16
70Jan 22, '17Team of scholars/Supreme Court litigators/former White House lawyers intends to sue Pres Trump Monday re emoluments1.6×02.8k2.1k0
71Aug 23, '17Interior IG confirms it's investigating Sec Ryan Zinke's apparent (failed) effort to pressure Sen Murkowski to vote yes on Obamacare repeal1.6×03.6k1.9k0
72Dec 14, '17New York Times obtained 400 pages of Michael Dourson's emails-many with chemical industry players-that continued even after he learned he was to be nominated for EPA job. He pulled1.5×04k1.7k0
73Jun 21, '18This is a very big deal. Also explains why Pruitt cancelled data collection effort on methane emmissions after he took over EPA, and since moved to kill Obama-era EPA rule mandatin1.5×02.5k2.2k56
74Nov 15, '20John Bolton today re Trump voter fraud claims: "Their basic argument is this was a conspiracy so vast & so successful that there's no evidence of it. Now if that's true, I real1.5×04.8k99458
75Jan 11, '21NEW: In statement to the NYT, Coca-Cola says it is suspending "political giving in light of the unlawful and violent events in our nation’s capital last week. These events will lon1.5×05.2k84932
77Aug 18, '20The Russian government undertook an extensive campaign to try to sabotage the 2016 election to help Mr. Trump become president and some members of Mr. Trump’s circle of advisers we1.4×03k1.5k78
78Mar 30, '21Trump's effort to silence a former campaign aide named Jessica Denson & punish after she claimed sex discrimination/harassment by his campaign is effectively voided today as fe1.3×03.7k1.2k44
79Apr 13, '18BREAKING: GOP CHAIRMAN of House Oversight Trey Gowdy expands investigation into Scott Pruitt and Nino Perrotta, the head of EPA security detail, a troubling sign for Pruitt. Plans 1.3×03.1k1.5k12
80Jul 3, '17Federal court blocks Pruitt effort with oil and gas patrons to block Clean Air rule in first major court victory for enviros re Trump/Pruitt1.3×03.1k1.5k0
81Jun 3, '19THREAD: Over in China, Elaine Chao's family has contracts to build half a dozen giant ships at a Chinese government owned shipyard in Shanghai. Here is one of those ship. So how ab1.3×02.5k1.6k77
82Dec 23, '16Unfortunately u can't condemn Clinton Foundation and then as POTUS have family members soliciting $$ for family charities. Conflict.1.3×03.2k1.4k0
83Apr 18, '19Again and again and again and again, Mueller report is confirming the accuracy (in great detail) of stories by The NYT and WashPost, as reporters helped inform the public of the ev1.3×04k99419
86Mar 3, '21NEWS: DOT inspector general asked DOJ in December to consider a criminal investigation into what it said was Elaine Chao’s misuse of her office to help promote her family’s shippin1.2×02.7k1.2k63
89Nov 24, '19New Documents Reveal Details of Pompeo’s Role in Ukraine Affair and also the deliberately misleading response State Department sent members of Congress as to why respected American1.1×02.8k1.2k24
90Dec 26, '18Hello NYT readers. If you subscribe to The NYT in print, look for this tomorrow. If you are just an online reader, please go buy the paper. This is worth seeing/reading in print. T1.1×03.2k91943
91Dec 23, '18Trump administration is getting very nervous...1.1×02.6k94827
92Jan 4, '21JUST POSTED: Did President Trump's call to Georgia's Sec of State violate the law? Several prominent lawyers think it might have. But unclear it will result in any charges. A look 1.0×02.8k74246
95Oct 6, '20For my followers who are annoyed that I keep tweeting the same story about decline in coal industry. I am sorry. Bringing eyeballs to long-form enterprise in the midst of daily Tru1.0×03k79079
96Jun 5, '25As a reminder. I don't really do Twitter anymore. Cause I write about Elon. You can find my work and what I am tracking at @ericlipton.nytimes.com on Bluesky.1.0×21k99149
97Apr 12, '20This is what you call official confirmation.... From a top administration official that the central premise of our piece published in Sunday's print New York Times was entirely acc1.0×02.5k1.1k36
99Nov 4, '19Appeals Court: “We conclude only that presidential immunity does not bar the enforcement of a state grand jury subpoena directing a third party to produce non‐privileged material, 1.0×03.1k7925
100Dec 7, '19Imagine if the assailant was from Iran, how different the reaction from the White House would have been. Not saying it is necessarily any nation's fault, the action of an individua0.9×02.7k6248

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