Deputy national investigations editor at the @washingtonpost.
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Jan 10, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Inside the Capitol siege: How barricaded lawmakers and aides sounded urgent pleas for help as police lost control
By @karoun, @CarolLeonnig@pkcapitol@byaaroncdavis wapo.st/3nBXwa4?tid=ss…
There are so many stunningly terrifying moments in this piece. The McConnell aides huddled in an office, hearing rioters running outside the room screaming “Where’s Nancy? Where’s Nancy?” washingtonpost.com/politics/insid…
Mar 15, 2019 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Today, @PostKranish@marycjordan@thamburger and I took a close look at the Chairman’s Global Dinner, the glitzy kick-off to Donald Trump’s 2017 inaugural. (1/7) wapo.st/2Jdn7XR
We focused on this event cause it brought together a few odd features of Trump’s inauguration—over the top spending ($8k/head) and a concentration of foreign guests. Trump was not even scheduled to attend at first—it was Tom Barrack’s show. (2/7) wapo.st/2Jdn7XR
Nov 30, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
With Flynn's sentencing next week, it's time to reflect on another Cohen-Sater production, this one with a possible tie to the former National Security Adviser. (1/5)
In Jan 2017, Sater arranged for Cohen to meet in New York with a Ukrainian lawmaker who gave Cohen a secret peace proposal for Ukraine, which just happened to include a path for Russia to gain longterm control of Crimea (and get sanctions lifted). (2/5)
