I am immensely proud for the world to see what 75+ @washingtonpost journalists have been working to produce over the last 5 months. “THE ATTACK: Before, During and After” explores the causes, cost and aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
wapo.st/theattack RED FLAGS: Law enforcement officials failed to heed mounting warnings about Jan. 6 violence as Trump propelled his supporters to Washington
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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… Barricaded in a room with his colleagues, a McConnell adviser began calling and texting former top officials at the Justice Department for help.

Speaking in a whisper, he told one the situation was dire: If backup did not arrive soon, people could die.

EXCLUSIVE: Louis DeJoy’s rise as GOP fundraiser was powered by contributions from company workers who were later reimbursed, former employees say

By @byaaroncdavis @AmyEGardner @jonswaine
washingtonpost.com/investigations… Two employees familiar with New Breed’s financial and payroll systems said DeJoy would instruct that bonus payments to staffers be boosted to help defray the cost of their contributions, an arrangement that would be unlawful.

"Nobody was wearing a mask. The partying continued all the way to San Diego."

https://twitter.com/PostRoz/status/1255230835361550350

Here are some more highlights of our deep look into how cruise lines handled the escalating pandemic.

Since January, a team of Post reporters led by @partlowj @fahrenthold @oconnellpostbiz @nickmiroff having been examining how much Trump’s private company has relied on undocumented workers, even as he has been railing against illegal immigration. @partlowj @Fahrenthold @OConnellPostbiz @NickMiroff So far, we have interviewed 43 immigrants without legal status who were employed at Trump properties. They include waiters, maids and greenskeepers, as well as a caretaker at a hunting lodge that his two adult sons own in Upstate New York.

It’s worth taking a moment to reflect on how much the public learned about Russian interference, contacts between Russians and Trump associates and the president’s actions in office because of rigorous independent reporting. Here are some highlights of @washingtonpost coverage. Let’s begin in April 2016, when Trump was closing in on the GOP nomination. @stevenmufson and @thamburger scrutinized the record of Paul Manafort, who they wrote had “parlayed political relationships...into an array of intricate financial transactions with billionaire oligarchs.”

The Post has been documenting how Trump, his company and his family have relied on immigrant workers without legal status -- people he describes as criminal invaders. Our latest piece focuses on Juan Quintero, the caretaker for a Trump son hunting retreat:
washingtonpost.com/politics/the-p… Quintero was so trusted by the Trumps that he had not one but two jobs working for the family.

As @realDonaldTrump heads to El Paso to renew his calls for a border wall, here’s a look at the deeply reported examination by @partlowj @nickmiroff @fahrenthold of a pipeline that provided illegal workers for Trump’s Bedminster golf club for 17 years: wapo.st/2MT5DhF?tid=ss… The Post spoke to 16 men and women from Costa Rica and other Latin American countries who said they were employed at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, some as far back as 2002.

BREAKING via @OConnellPostBiz @eliseviebeck @TracyJan: Trump’s company plans to expand check of employees’ legal status following report that it hired undocumented workers for years wapo.st/2FXfNgq?tid=ss… The move is the first acknowledgment by the president’s private business that it has failed to fully check the work status of all its employees, despite Trump’s claims during the 2016 campaign that he used E-Verify across his properties.

Incredible reporting by @partlowj @Fahrenthold provides the best look yet at how Trump's private business has relied on the labor of undocumented workers -- even as he railed they were stealing jobs from Americans.

wapo.st/2G3tTfG?tid=ss… Trump delivered one of those campaign speeches at his club in Westchester, vowing to U.S. citizens, "we’re going to protect your job because, let me tell you, our jobs are being stripped from our country like we’re babies.”

I’m going to highlight some of the revelatory details unearthed by @thamburger @bethreinhard @justinwmmoyer in their deep exploration of the Saudi influence machine:
wapo.st/2R5KYrA?tid=ss… Saudi spending on U.S. lobbying and consulting, which had dropped from $14.3 million in 2015 to $7.7 million in 2016, surged to $27.3 million last year, according to public records.

Photo of Maria Butina having lunch in March with a Russian diplomat suspected of being intelligence officer. (A menu board in the photo matches one featured in a photo of La Piquette, a French restaurant in Cleveland Park.)

washingtonpost.com/local/public-s… Here's the memo seized from Erickson's home referring to FSB job offer:

Some back story about our piece on the politically connected Russians who were in Washington during Trump’s inauguration, helmed by @craigtimberg @PostRoz @arothwp @CarolLeonnig

wapo.st/2mXKKW6?tid=ss… It started with a tip about Alexey Repik, a wealthy Russian pharmaceutical executive, who attended the inauguration with his wife Polina.
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