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David Enrich Profile picture
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Jun 2, 2019 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
The @Trump Organization planned a luxury high-rise in a Uruguayan city known as the money-laundering capital of South America.

People involved say it might never be finished. by @JesseDrucker @manuelaandreoni nytimes.com/2019/06/02/bus…
The @realDonaldTrump project is years behind schedule and has been beset by legal problems and unexplained cash shortages. We tracked down a list of buyers of condos in the planned oceanfront tower. Some have links to Panamanian shell companies.
The juxtaposition between how @EricTrump describes the project's status and how buyers of units in the building describe it is...jarring.

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Mar 15
News: Journalists at Voice of America were just informed that they’ve been put on administrative leave. Two people there told me this went to all fulltime employees.

“From what we can tell, VOA is effectively shut down from this moment.” Image
This comes hours after Trump signed an executive order calling for the dismantling of several government agencies, including the one that runs Voice of America. nytimes.com/2025/03/15/us/…
Some Voice of America journalists learned they were being put on leave just as they were about to go on air.

Here’s the backstory on how VOA was already engaged in what employees viewed as self-censorship when it came to questioning Trump admin policies. nytimes.com/2025/02/28/bus…
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Mar 11
MURDER THE TRUTH is finally out in the world!

The book reveals how a group of lawyers, activists, judges and politicians have waged a years-long and increasingly successful campaign against press freedoms and the First Amendment.

A brief thread. harpercollins.com/products/murde…
The goal is to reverse SCOTUS's 1964 decision in NYT v. Sullivan. That precedent – which stemmed from a full-page ad in the NYT – allows the media (and public) to write about/criticize public figures without fear that inadvertent factual errors will lead to ruinous litigation. Image
Without Sullivan, it would be much harder for journalists – especially independent ones, regardless of their ideology – to report fearlessly on the rich and powerful.

Which helps explain why so many powerful figures want to overturn Sullivan. harpercollins.com/products/murde…
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Feb 21
Iowa pollster Ann Selzer files an absolutely blistering response to Trump’s lawsuit against her and the Des Moines Register, calling it a flagrant attempt to circumvent the First Amendment. thefire.org/sites/default/…Image
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The backstory here is that Trump and his allies are using an aggressive and unproven legal strategy against news outlets, claiming that they are violating laws against things like false advertising. nytimes.com/2025/02/07/bus…
And this is part of a broader assault on press freedoms by not only Trumpists but also big businesses, oligarchs etc – a pattern at the heart of "Murder the Truth," which comes out in...18 days.

Preordering the book helps it build crucial momentum.
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Sep 25, 2024
I’m very excited to share some details about my next book – Murder the Truth: Threats, Intimidation, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful. Coming in March 2025 from @MarinerBooks @HarperCollins and available for preorder now! harpercollins.com/products/murde…
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The book tells the story of the conservative lawyers, activists and judges trying to overturn SCOTUS's landmark decision in NYT v. Sullivan – and how oligarchs, companies, politicians and others are already weaponizing US libel laws to silence critics and avoid media scrutiny.
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I’ve written about this trend for @nytimes (see below) and will write more in the future. The stakes are really high for journalism and democracy. Please help spread the word!
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nytimes.com/2024/04/10/bus…

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Apr 10, 2024
NEW from me: The inside story of how the prominent media-fighting law firm Clare Locke was torn apart. nytimes.com/2024/04/10/bus…
Clare Locke — run by the husband-and-wife team of Tom Clare and Libby Locke —  helped popularize efforts to attack the media and delegitimize unfavorable articles. It’s the country’s top defamation firm.

Despite its high profile, Clare Locke has received little outside scrutiny. Image
My reporting found that friction inside the firm was building for years, beginning in 2015 when Locke’s then-husband sent a surprising mass email. Colleagues chafed at Locke's management, among other things.

But things really boiled over with the landmark Dominion v. Fox case.
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Aug 21, 2023
Major new @nytimes investigation: Close calls involving US airlines are occurring far more frequently than has been made public, with multiple dangerous incidents happening every week on average this year. @melbournecoal @emilysteel nytimes.com/interactive/20…
We obtained a trove of internal @FAANews records that detail dozens of near misses and other significant incidents, involving all major US airlines, that have not been publicly disclosed. This is on top of a spate of headline-grabbing close calls earlier this year.

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@FAANews We analyzed FAA data – some of it public, some obtained via FOIA – that shows that virtually all US air traffic control facilities are understaffed. Staffing shortages have played a key role in a number of previously unreported close calls this year. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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