Dan Eggen
@DanEggenWPost
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Washington Post Political Enterprise Editor. RTs ≠ endorsements.
Washington DC
Joined October 2010
Trump notes captured by @jabinbotsford: .“They want to impeach me over acts that they did”.“Dems have no achomlishments [sic]”.
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Flashback:."I don’t think we should pass bills that we haven’t read and don’t know what they cost" - Rep. Paul Ryan.
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“Hatch. said that Kavanaugh had told him that he was not present at the party in question — which prompted some to wonder how Kavanaugh could make such a claim given that Ford had never specified the exact date or location of the gathering.”
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“Trump has spoken privately about his fears over risks to his own life. ‘He’s never been interested in going,’ the official said of Trump visiting troops in a combat zone. ‘He’s afraid of those situations. He’s afraid people want to kill him.’”
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1- 36 is not really "almost" 40.2- 36 is the worst in 70 years .2- WaPo poll correctly predicted Clinton would win national popular vote
The ABC/Washington Post Poll, even though almost 40% is not bad at this time, was just about the most inaccurate poll around election time!.
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An amazing document. We now know that not one sentence of this is true.
After week of great reporting, worth new look at 1st Trump statement issued Saturday and drafted by WH aides on Air Force 1:
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1) denies something no one reported 2) confirms what everyone DID report 3) and confirms info was from Israel
BREAKING: Trump tells Netanyahu he never mentioned the word Israel in his meeting with the Russian Foreign minister.
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Reminder: There have been just four documented cases of voter fraud in the 2016 election. Three were Trump voters.
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“He cursed in the East Room. He called the House speaker a ‘horrible person.’ He lorded his power over a room full of deferential Republicans. He mocked a former GOP presidential nominee and his 2016 Democratic rival. He played the victim again and again.”
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Many older Americans think the coronavirus crisis is overblown. So they’re holding onto cruise reservations, attending concerts and Zumba classes in spite of please to social distance. “I’m a hand shaker,” one retiree said.
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Steve King on his support for European far-right white nationalist groups: “If they were in America pushing the platform that they push, they would be Republicans.”.
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Kavanaugh grew frustrated when it came to questions that dug into his private life, particularly his drinking habits and his sexual proclivities. He declined to answer some questions altogether, saying they were too personal" .
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tfw when POTUS publicly confirms two of your paper's scoops 👏👏👏
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"[T]he president has told supporters he wants to raise $2 billion for the library — a far greater sum than has been raised for past presidential libraries — and thinks he can collect it in small-dollar donations from his grass-roots supporters"
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SIREN .BREAKING: Trump reveals Puerto Rico is "out in the ocean" and you "can't just drive your truck there".
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Before Trump was elected, officials at his company feared a competing hotel if the FBI moved its headquarters. Now Trump is trying to get money in the coronavirus relief bill to keep the FBI building where it is - and keep away any competitors.
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SCOOP: CPAC urged to probe two more sexual misconduct claims against chair Matt Schlapp, by @iarnsdorf @bethreinhard
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Some records taken by Trump are so sensitive they may not be described in public.
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The exhausting hours, subsistence pay and abusive supervisors at factories making Ivanka Trump goods
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Trump signed extension of visa program 1 day before Kushner family pitched it to Chinese investors.
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Today in Trump.-Frederick Douglass alive & doing "amazing job".-Iran "on notice" for ?.-Mexico threatened w/US invasion.-Aussies "the worst".
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A 🧵 on the @washingtonpost's groundbreaking coverage of Trump's mishandling of documents by @JaxAlemany @jdawsey1 @thamburger @AshleyRParker @DevlinBarrett @mattzap that helped lead us to where we are today:.
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What happened to waiting two days for "all the facts"?
The United States condemns the terror attack in Barcelona, Spain, and will do whatever is necessary to help. Be tough & strong, we love you!.
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Live footage from the State Department in wake of Trump Taiwan call
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“The Washington Post contacted all 53 Republican U.S. senators for comments on the president’s efforts to overturn the election results. Fewer than 10 senators’ offices responded. Of those, most declined to comment. ”
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The Post’s own @DavidNakamura appears to be the first journalist to ever ask Kim Jong Un a question.
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Trump team claimed in 2021 that boxes at Mar-a-Lago were only news clippings, vastly misrepresenting the scale and variety of documents later recovered, by @JaxAlemany @jdawsey1 @PostRoz.
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Trump thought adviser and noted Russia expert Fiona Hill was a clerk - and then Hill was berated for Trump’s mistake.
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NEW: The four times Trump signed tax returns for his foundation that contained incorrect information via @fahrenthold
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Trump’s rate of false or misleading claims has now reached 30 per day - over 3 times the previous pace.
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Nearly half of "millennials" (age 18-34 in 2015) are not white, which makes this photo particularly striking.
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Trump's Truth Social is "only the 2,479th most popular website in the United States, according to Similarweb — viewed less often than the animal-news blog The Dodo, an AARP games webpage and. a website for photos of celebrities’ feet."
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This plant makes furnaces, not air conditioners.
Look forward to going to Indiana tomorrow in order to be with the great workers of Carrier. They will sell many air conditioners!.
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"This person added that WH officials would not be returning Gaetz’s phone calls, text messages, 'smoke signals or his kneelings in the snow.'".
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Trump claimed this morning he only went into the bunker for a “tour.” In fact, Secret Service moved him and family into the secure space Friday after protesters breached temporary fences near the White House, via @CarolLeonnig
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The former president’s current legal team includes a Florida insurance lawyer who’s never had a federal case, a past general counsel for parking garage company, and a former host at far-right One America News.
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Losing w/14 days left, Trump camp:.1-hawks hotels.2-stops big fundraising for GOP.3-wants fistfight w/Biden.4-restarts war w/Megyn Kelly
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Ivanka Trump’s biz “relies exclusively on foreign factories in countries such as Bangladesh, Indonesia and China. ”
.@IvankaTrump: "I believe with my heart and soul, and my father does and this administration does, that no one can best the American worker"
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If only there was some part of government with subpoena power who could find out what happened on behalf of the American people.
.@SpeakerRyan: "Im not going to prejudge the circumstances surrounding this."
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Wow. The potential impact of today's bill is much wider than realized - could lead gutting of EMPLOYER plans. That's half the country
Half the country gets insurance from employers. Most don't about the bill's loophole. Neither do many lawmakers
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I have been blessed over the years to work with and alongside @PhilipRucker @AshleyRParker @Fahrenthold and @peterbakernyt . They are among the top journalists working in the United States and deserve our gratitude and support.
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Grand jury used in probe of classified documents taken to Mar-a-Lago .
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(Thread) .Herewith I offer a short and incomplete history of February 2018 in Trumpworld .
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Many dismissing Trump ditching press pool as no big deal were howling in outrage over Clinton leaving the pool behind during Pneumoniagate.
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The president of the US joins with the Russian leader in laughs over a free press
"These are the ones that insulted you?" Putin asked Trump, gesturing at the journalists being ushered out of the room. Chuckles all around
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"We just gave a check for a hundred million dollars to Flint," Trump said. The $ is from law signed by Obama in Dec (h/t @GlennKesslerWP ).
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Nikki Haley claims in a new book that John Kelly and Rex Tillerson tried to recruit her to ‘save the country’ by undermining President Trump, via @agearan.
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“It was not very difficult,” Nolan said of the time Trump applied to Wharton in 1966, adding: “I certainly was not struck by any sense that I’m sitting before a genius. Certainly not a super genius.”
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“The embassy in Baghdad did not receive an alert commensurate to the threat Trump described. When the U.S. government has specific information about threats to embassies, warnings or alerts are often sent to embassy personnel to be vigilant.”
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“The guy who’d threatened to sue us for misusing his image wasn’t the one in the photo. He’d misidentified himself. All of which just proves the story we ran: Hipsters look so much alike that they can’t even tell themselves apart from each other.”
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"There are lines that go back 6 blocks. I tell you that because you won't read about it." Here's why you won't:
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Two day free shipping on leaks for Prime Members!
A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post,this time against A.G. Jeff Sessions.These illegal leaks, like Comey's, must stop!.
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Trump’s claim about Obama wiretapping him is indefensible. So his aides aren’t even defending it, by @AaronBlake
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I am not trying to get "top level security clearance" for my children. This was a typically false news story.
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Ryan flack: "That never happened". @adamentous: It's on tape. Ryan flack: Oh it was just a joke.
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Fun fact: Pence's new lawyer, Richard Cullen, worked with James Comey and is godfather to 1 of his daughters
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GOP staffer: “This is like Reservoir Dogs. Everyone ends up dead on the floor.”
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After two years of anti-NATO rants, Trump still apparently has no idea how it's funded.
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Crooked Hillary Clinton and her team "were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information." Not fit!.
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Some Trump records taken to Mar-a-Lago clearly marked as classified, including documents at 'top secret' level.
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An analysis of book challenges from across the nation shows the majority were filed by just 11 people
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And a registered Republican who ran the FBI for 12 years, including through aftermath of 9/11
Mueller was a decorated Marine officer, commanded a rifle platoon in Vietnam, Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient. Is he a “bad” person?
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"He never stopped ripping things up": Inside Trump's relentless document destruction habits.
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NEW: Trump touts authoritarian vision for second term: ‘I am your justice’. Deep dive into an agenda with some ideas experts have called impractical, reckless, self-defeating, potentially illegal and even dangerous. By @iarnsdorf @JStein_WaPo:.
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"Incredibly frustrated": Inside the GOP effort to save Kavanaugh amid assault allegation, by @seungminkim @jdawsey1
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Reminder, Spicer claimed last night it was all Rosenstein's doing: “It was all him. No one from the White House.”
New: Trump told Rosenstein to write a memo on Comey when they met at the White House Monday.
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“He’s a billionaire who acts like a thousandaire," one expert said on Trump's shoddy foundation practices.
NEW: @realdonaldtrump's Fdn, totally reliant on other people's $, lacks state certification to raise $ from others.
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Things GOP may strip from reqd health ins benefits incl extravagances like ambulances, ER, hospitalization, RX, lab svcs, babies & ped care
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National Archives had to retrieve missing Trump White House documents from Mar-a-Lago .
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‘Real low energy’: Critics pile on after Trump cancels visit to U.S. military cemetery outside Paris, by @DavidNakamura @seungminkim @jameskmcauley.
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@washingtonpost "No other president has ever done something like this” Trump said of giving $25k to Gold Star family; he never did.
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"Online talk about him has plunged to a five-year low. He’s banned or ignored on pretty much every major social media venue. And in the last week, Trump’s website. attracted fewer estimated visitors than. Petfinder and the recipe site Delish."
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15 boxes: Inside the long, strange trip of Trump's classified records.
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Calls to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. are offensive and unconstitutional.
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As polls looking better for him Trump: revives birtherism, falsely accuses Clinton of starting it, hints at her assassination.
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A reminder of this factoid: more people work at Arby's than in the entire coal industry
Whenever Trump heard pro-Paris advocates say era of coal is over (as Gary Cohn did abroad), he dug in on exit plan
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WH keeps saying "only 109" people effected by travel ban. The real number? About 90,000, by @GlennKesslerWP
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This seems to misunderstand the problem
Prior to the election it was well known that I have interests in properties all over the world.Only the crooked media makes this a big deal!.
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He switched to backing Jeb after Walker dropped out and didn't switch to you until April 2016
In all fairness to Anthony Scaramucci, he wanted to endorse me 1st, before the Republican Primaries started, but didn't think I was running!.
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As Trump’s motorcade approached the jail, it passed through a predominantly Black neighborhood, where people gathered on the sidewalks and front stoops to watch. Many recorded on their phones, while others shouted profanities or made an obscene gesture.
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"Trump’s senior advisers intervened, explaining to the president that he needed to be more precise about just which vote counts he wanted halted. He did not want all of the states to stop counting votes. because that would lead to a Biden victory."
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One out of every 4 dollars spent by Trump campaign was on legal bills
President Trump’s reelection committee spent more than $1 million on legal bills last quarter
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Tell Saudi Arabia and others that we want (demand!) free oil for the next ten years or we will not protect their private Boeing 747s.Pay up!.
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Tucker Carlson said he hates Trump ‘passionately’, Fox lawsuit documents show.
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to import foreign oil no less
Trump, who announced a new America First policy, has awarded the first major US infrastructure project (Keystone XL) to a Canadian company.
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Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve”
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“I’ve been in the building every day, sanitizing doors and measuring out space in classrooms. We still haven’t received our order of Plexiglas barriers, so we’re cutting up shower curtains and trying to make do with that.”
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She said she voted twice because she feared her Trump vote would be switched to Clinton. So phantom vote fraud fear results in real fraud.
Trump supporter Terri Lynn Rote charged with voting twice in Iowa:
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Chilling from Putin critic, one day before he was slain: "The whole system is built for one man to maintain his power."
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Trump keeps boasting about passing a cognitive test -- but it doesn't mean what he thinks it does, by @AshleyRParker @thewanreport.
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