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1/ We’ve collected data on the Trump admin and here’s a bunch of ways other news orgs and the gov’t have used it: bit.ly/2lyuoWj
2/ It started in March. We posted 400 names of Trump’s temporary political appointees—or "beachhead" teams: bit.ly/2lsS0vu
3/ Using that data, @washingtonpost found at least 16 appointees were WH liaisons—acting as Trump's eyes & ears: washingtonpost.com/powerpost/whit… 
4/ @business also took our beachhead data & used it to find that nearly 75% of Trump appointees were men: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
5/ The trade pub @eenewsupdates found “mystery employees,” and figured out what they actually do, or don’t do: eenews.net/stories/106005…
6/ @HuffPost dug into Frank Wuco, a Homeland Security advisor. It found he had a history of anti-Muslim rhetoric huffingtonpost.com/entry/frank-wu…
7/ @BloombergBNA found Craig Ellis, a former Breitbart writer and labor lobbyist appointed at Labor: bna.com/trump-ally-ell…
8/ After that reporting came out, Ellis resigned to be a policy adviser at a Trump-backed nonprofit: bna.com/labor-departme…
9/ The @nytimes—in collab w/ @RobertFaturechi—used our data to uncover who was rolling back Obama-era regulations: nytimes.com/2017/07/11/bus…
10/ The NYT also used it to show how lobbyists—& their potential conflicts of interest—were populating Trump admin nytimes.com/2017/04/15/us/…
11/ We added more data to that original set. We paired fed financial disclosures w/ the names & posted 750+ them: bit.ly/2yX2UiJ
12/ We teamed up w/ the @nytimes & @AP figure out missing White House staffers & get their disclosures, too: bit.ly/2yXaXvV
13/ In April, @senwarren & @SenWhitehouse used these data sets to compile their “Drain the Swamp” report card: warren.senate.gov/files/document…
14/ Then 7 Dem sens used the data to demand more public accountability of ethics waivers & WH visitor records: warren.senate.gov/files/document…
15/ The @Whitehouse responded to one of those requests and started releasing ethics waivers in June: cbsnews.com/news/white-hou…
16/ We also partnered w/ @publici to make all of the data we compiled searchable: publicintegrity.org/2017/06/07/209…
17/ @publici—along w/ @reveal—created a social-media campaign w/ our data to ask the public for help: publicintegrity.org/2017/07/07/209…
18/ They found hefty IRS tax bills of 3 Trump appointees & found Steve Bannon misreported millions in income: revealnews.org/episodes/follo…
19/ We're collecting hundreds more financial disclosures & will release those soon. As always, we want folks to use them to make journalism.
20/ If you have questions, DM us. Or tweet at us. If you want to share something securely, here’s how: bit.ly/2yXH7av
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