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New York Times reporter. Co-author of "REGIME CHANGE: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump" —

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1Jan 16, '21Ok this one is pretty good20.1×0158k17k1k
2Nov 15, '20Yes I have seen the meme. Please, for the love of God, stop texting it to me.17.6×0147k9.5k1.1k
3Oct 5, '23I'm not sure I've ever seen a company owner destroy a product's basic functionality as quickly as Musk has done with Twitter. I find it borderline useless as a fast news service th9.2×3.1M22k3.6k185
4Apr 2, '21When @SpeakerBoehner was recording his audiobook I was told by sources that during these wine-soaked sessions he would deviate from the book’s text and insert random violent attack7.9×043k8.5k2.3k
5Jul 6, '20Lotta folks who make a living banging on about how “big government sucks” got themselves some sweet PPP money.7.5×049k11k156
6Jul 19, '20I think I’ve watched every television interview Donald Trump has done since announcing his candidacy in 2015. Chris Wallace just did the best one, and by some distance.6.2×049k5k147
7Jan 24, '21This is outstanding interviewing, well-prepared, never takes eye off the ball. @PamelaBrownCNN6.2×045k5.3k917
8Aug 4, '20When I interviewed POTUS, I said the mail-in voting materials people receive are applications, not ballots. That’s overwhelmingly the case, but not universally so. Eg, California &5.9×044k2.8k160
9Oct 4, '20There’s a long history of White Houses lying about the president’s health — JFK, FDR, etc. The distinction here is the incompetence.5.7×042k5.7k128
10Aug 13, '20One of my reporting projects has been to get to the bottom of the strategy with the Post Office. The president just says it out loud, though.5.6×033k9.4k423
11Jul 13, '24❤️🇺🇸5.5×1.9M15k328158
12Mar 25, '19The Trump campaign is sending this memo to TV producers:5.3×012k7.4k445
13May 1, '22Do I really sound like this?5.0×040k2.5k797
14Nov 5, '20Hard to overstate how angry Trump's advisers are at Fox right now. Just incandescent.4.8×035k2.5k159
15Sep 6, '23A mini masterclass of keeping eyes on the ball and refusing to be spun.4.7×1.6M13k1.5k499
16Nov 22, '20The publicly-stated position of President Trump's legal team is that the reason Trump lost Georgia is because Georgia's Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has been bribed by a Venezuelan f4.7×024k5.2k725
17Jan 11, '21Per a senior Dem aide: "Schumer is exploring using the authority granted to the two Senate leaders in 2004 to reconvene the Senate in times of emergency, to allow for a potential t4.7×034k4.7k126
18Jan 22, '21My wife just kindly informed me that I am fat enough and have a sufficiently high BMI to qualify for the COVID vaccine. 🙄4.6×039k1.1k97
19Nov 9, '20Trump campaign aides manning the “voter fraud hotline” describe mostly fielding prank calls from lefty teenagers and dealing with some disturbing unsolicited adult images.4.5×032k3.1k214
20Dec 8, '20Scoop: President Trump's lawyer Jenna Ellis has informed associates she has coronavirus, multiple sources tell Axios, stirring West Wing fears after she attended a senior staff Chr4.4×018k4.5k154
21Aug 26, '19I stand by every word in the story. He said this in at least two meetings during the first year and a bit of the presidency, and one of the conversations was memorialized.4.4×028k6.1k90
22Jun 18, '23Top Pence aide Marc Short says on Fox News Sunday: "One of the most unseemly parts of the end of our administration was the pardons that Donald Trump gave to cocaine traffickers, t4.1×1.4M11k2.8k170
23Aug 25, '19Scoop: Trump suggested nuking hurricanes to stop them from hitting U.S.3.6×09.1k4.3k274
24Nov 1, '20President Trump has told confidants he'll declare victory on Tuesday night if it looks like he's "ahead," according to three sources familiar with his private comments.3.5×010k3.9k360
25Dec 19, '20I’ve been covering Donald Trump for a while. I can’t recall hearing more intense concern from senior officials who are actually Trump people. The Sidney Powell / Michael Flynn idea3.4×016k5.4k438
26Nov 6, '20First prominent adviser to break with POTUS —> @GovChristie tells Trump to stop inflaming and show evidence of "stolen" election3.3×022k2.9k158
27Jul 13, '24Thanks for all the kind notes, everyone. Was a very emotional day. Proud to be an American.3.3×1.1M13k43678
28Jan 12, '21New: In a tense AM call w Kevin McCarthy, President Trump today privately — and falsely — blamed "Antifa people" for storming the Capitol... McCarthy told him the riot “was MAGA” a3.3×016k4.9k441
29Jan 23, '20Outside @LindseyGrahamSC’s office right now:3.1×018k4.1k36
30Sep 24, '20Christopher Wray: FBI has not seen evidence of national voter fraud effort by mail3.1×015k5.9k177
31Dec 28, '20We are now watching people who call themselves conservatives argue that vice presidents should have unilateral power to decide presidential elections.3.1×018k4.3k174
32Nov 5, '20Trumpworld very anxious right now about the prospect of Fox calling Pa. tonight.2.9×022k1.9k68
33Jul 18, '24Rupert Murdoch, who worked as hard as anyone to talk Trump out of picking Vance, is sitting in a suite at the convention arena watching Vance’s speech. Sitting next to Murdoch in t2.9×970k8.5k1.6k377
34Nov 4, '20Either that, or our reporting was 100% correct2.8×023k1.7k84
35Aug 23, '20According to two sources in the Monday meeting, Peter Navarro had aggressively confronted FDA officials, saying, "You are all Deep State and you need to get on Trump Time." Navarro2.7×010k5.4k217
36Dec 18, '20SCOOP w @mikeallen : Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller ordered a Pentagon-wide halt to cooperation with the transition of President-elect Biden, shocking officials across the D2.7×08.8k4.6k246
37Nov 4, '20WH and Trump campaign sources furious at Fox right now over Arizona call2.7×020k1.7k57
38Oct 8, '20Is there some unspoken rule in US debates whereby the moderator can’t do an Andrew Neil and sharply interrupt the politicians the second they start asking themselves a completely d2.7×020k2.4k39
39Apr 7, '20"In late January, President Trump's economic adviser Peter Navarro warned his White House colleagues the novel coronavirus could take more than half a million American lives and co2.6×010k6.1k413
40Oct 8, '20not sure I've ever seen a politician explicitly say I'm not telling you what I think about an important issue until after you vote for me.2.6×012k2.8k61
41Nov 12, '20Start your stopwatch for the POTUS explosion2.6×020k2.2k84
42Jan 1, '21When you try to sue the Vice President but can’t successfully operate Microsoft Word.2.5×018k2.2k121
43Oct 6, '20I truly don't understand this, and nor do a number of people who advise the president. It's like he's trying to lose.2.5×015k2.5k76
44Oct 3, '20The last 24 hours is more evidence why Maggie Haberman is the best reporter covering the Trump White House.2.4×017k1.1k74
45Aug 13, '21This deleted tweet from a senior Biden State Department official captures the private feelings of many others.2.2×013k3.3k241
46Oct 4, '20This is literally, objectively, what is being asked of us.2.1×016k2.5k55
47Oct 20, '20Not sure why the White House is giving 60 Minutes millions of dollars worth of free pre-air promotions but YOLO I guess.2.1×017k1.4k32
48Apr 5, '20NEW: Inside the White House Situation Room yesterday, economic adviser Peter Navarro got into a heated dispute with infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci over the efficacy of2.1×07.5k4.1k308
49Dec 12, '20I asked White House about Proud Boys leader being there today. Response from spokesman Judd Deere: “He was on a public WH Christmas tour. He did not have a meeting with the Preside2.1×011k1.9k114
50Feb 26, '21John Boehner has been going off script while recording the audio version of his new memoir, using expletives and asides not in the book — such as grumbling, “Oh, and Ted Cruz, go f2.1×013k2.2k239
51Feb 29, '20Close your eyes and imagine the reaction from Republican leaders and the pro-Trump pundits if it was Obama, rather than Trump, who cut the deal with the Taliban that released 5,0002.1×011k3.6k86
52Nov 4, '20Rick Santorum just now on CNN: “I was very distressed by what I just heard the president say.”2.0×015k1.2k70
53Mar 29, '20"A plane from Shanghai arrived at JFK in New York Sunday morning carrying an extraordinary load: 12 million gloves, 130,000 N-95 masks, 1.7 million surgical masks, 50,000 gowns, 131.9×09.7k3.4k154
54May 8, '19SCOOP: Republican-led Senate Intel Committee subpoenas Donald Trump Jr. over Russia matters. First congressional subpoena - we know of - for one of President Trump's children1.9×09.2k3.2k36
55Mar 18, '21I’ve worked with @alexi for four years. I know her well and can say this unequivocally: The idea she is racist is absurd. Where the hell are we as an industry if we cannot accept a1.9×012k1.2k148
56Jul 31, '20Literally no part of this is true and it’s irresponsible to repeat it.1.9×013k2.4k44
57Aug 30, '20Leaked McGahn memo reveals alarms about Kushner's top-secret security clearance1.8×08.7k3.8k176
58Jun 4, '20But dwell on this for a moment. She aligns herself with an opinion that Trump is literally a threat to the Constitution and deliberately divides Americans. But still struggling wit1.8×012k2.3k36
59Sep 22, '22The Hannity interview is a reminder that the most hazardous interviews are rarely the “how dare you sir!” combative ones and often the ones when the subject feels loose and unthrea1.7×014k1.2k106
60Mar 9, '21It’s only fair1.7×015k56721
61Jul 7, '21New: Tucker Carlson was talking to U.S.-based Kremlin intermediaries about setting up an interview with Putin shortly before he accused the NSA of spying on him. U.S. gov't officia1.7×06.8k2.4k286
62Oct 6, '20Some non-politics content:1.7×015k2269
63Sep 18, '20lol1.7×012k1.5k30
64Jan 17, '21The President of the United States took a meeting with this man two days ago.1.6×09.3k1.8k440
65Mar 31, '21Suddenly got a lot of dust in my eyes1.6×013k1.2k108
66Oct 3, '20Multiple sources in the White House and on the campaign have reached out since Meadows' statement, and said they're utterly perplexed about what's going on.1.6×08.5k2.6k205
67Jan 6, '20The incompetence of this defies description.1.5×09.4k2.2k43
68Oct 15, '20“Content obtained without authorization” is a hilarious standard that seemingly nobody at Twitter has spent any time thinking through.1.5×09.7k2k71
69May 24, '20The young woman who died has a family1.5×011k1.2k22
70Nov 21, '19Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, helped arrange meetings and calls in Europe for Rep. Devin Nunes in 2018, Parnas’ lawyer Ed MacMahon told @woodruffbets.1.5×06k3k71
71Dec 24, '20As we reported yesterday morning .. President Trump was unaware until very recently of the role Pence plays on Jan 6. A Lincoln Project ad that ran in the DC market - called “Pence1.4×08.7k1.8k138
72Jun 13, '22This story is raising a lot of eyebrows in Republican circles … via @mediaite1.4×06.9k1.9k136
73Jun 6, '21This restaurant is a complete disgrace and does not represent my people.1.4×012k35463
74Oct 2, '20Unclear when we would have learned about any of this .. @JenniferJJacobs first reported it not the White House1.4×09.6k1.7k40
75Jun 14, '19A source close to McGahn responds: “Anyone who believes Trump wasn’t telling Don to get rid of Mueller using these conflicts is just stupid or believes in the tooth fairy.”1.4×07.3k2.4k24
76Dec 22, '20Giuliani can say all of this but I’ve spent the past four days on the phone to Trump aides and the consensus is that the president is listening to Sidney Powell more than just abou1.3×07.7k1.9k115
77Oct 9, '20Two sources close to Senate leadership said President Trump is desperate, has zero leverage to push them to support a bill crafted by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and congressional R1.3×06.5k2.2k92
78Sep 14, '21Gen. Milley’s next hearing on the Hill will be interesting. It’s about time he addresses these questions on the record.1.3×09.7k1.1k22
79Nov 6, '20Nobody I have spoken to on the campaign or in the White House believes that Trump would ever publicly acknowledge a loss, even long after the election is certified.1.3×08.3k1.2k67
80Dec 22, '20New: A source who spoke to Trump said the president was complaining about Pence and brought up a Lincoln Project ad that claims that Pence is "backing away" from Trump. This ad has1.3×07.8k1.4k87
81Jan 24, '21This is not how primaries work, Daily Mail.1.2×09.9k74644
82Oct 6, '20A Trump campaign adviser said this of the president's decision to own pulling out of the talks: "You have to try to be this politically inept. What is going on in the White House? 1.2×06.7k1.9k51
83Apr 7, '20It’s striking how many messages I have received from readers who genuinely believe I invented the SitRoom scene from Saturday, “made up” the sources and “made up” the memos we publ1.2×08.1k1.2k40
84Jan 15, '21“martial law if necessary”1.2×06.9k1.6k108
85Nov 12, '20This government statement about the election being secure should be unremarkable. But the reality is every person who had a hand in writing it will almost certainly face the wrath 1.2×07.7k1.5k80
86Feb 5, '21A little jarring to hear a network admit it’s about to lie to you.1.2×07.8k1.4k144
87Jan 4, '22Scoop: The Jan. 6 select committee is preparing to ask Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity for his voluntary cooperation with its investigation of the assault on the U.S. Capitol.1.1×06.4k1.3k65
88Nov 23, '20Scoop - Blackstone CEO and top Trump ally Stephen Schwarzman says Biden won, time to move on .. most meaningful signal so far from Trump’s inner circle. @HansNichols1.1×07.2k1.2k45
89Oct 28, '20It’s an embarrassment.1.1×07.3k1.2k35
90Sep 12, '20To the unidentified person who mailed us gourmet pies, addressed to our infant daughter: thank you!1.0×09.2k29716
91Oct 11, '20For months, I've been trying to book interviews with top Trump administration health officials, including Dr. Hahn and Dr. Redfield, and the interview requests keep getting rejecte1.0×06.6k1.6k17
92Oct 4, '20Reminder that Trump allies were claiming this was BS. Now the doctor admits it was true.1.0×07k1.4k23
93Oct 4, '20On Friday morning — when he was “real concerned,” had a fever and his blood oxygen level had dropped rapidly — the official line out of the White House was that the president had “1.0×06.8k1.3k41
94Jan 8, '21I’ve spent 48 hours talking to senior White House & administration officials. Yet to speak to anybody willing to defend Trump’s actions on Jan 6 on background let alone on the 1.0×07.3k81842
95Jan 16, '20I almost never weigh in on this type of nonsense because I think it's dumb for reporters to take the bait. Politicians want these clips to go viral. But Manu is one of the better a1.0×06.4k1.1k32
96Mar 4, '22CNN has done, and continues to do, essential reporting from the ground in Ukraine. Their presence there is extraordinary and shows the network at its best.1.0×07.7k50422
97Oct 25, '20Mood:0.9×08k816
98Feb 1, '21We are releasing one final bonus story tomorrow morning to cap Axios’ “Off the rails” series. It’s the most detailed Oval Office scene we have reported during the Trump presidency.0.9×06.8k65780
99Oct 25, '20Very skillful interviewing @jaketapper0.8×07.4k25710
100Aug 27, '19I’m Australian, mate.0.8×06.5k3538

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