1/ In August 2020, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, made an extraordinary request to President Trump’s ambassador, Ronald Johnson. A previously undisclosed report tells what happened next, according to a new ProPublica investigation. 🧵 ⬇️ 2/ Salvadoran officials taped a conversation between an embassy contractor and a reporter. The contractor, who worked closely with U.S. and Salvadoran law enforcement, provided information about top Bukele aides negotiating a secret pact with MS-13 gang leaders, sources said.

I’ve been reporting on health insurance denials for more than a year. Last fall, I stumbled across a lawsuit that, with interviews, revealed one insurers’ playbook of secret lists, special deals and lowball payments. 👇 In September, a Louisiana jury awarded $421M to a hospital specializing in breast restorations for women with cancer-related mastectomies. Blue Cross, jurors found, committed fraud. documentcloud.org/documents/2589…

In 2018, Robert “Skeeter” Salim found out he had cancer under his tongue. His insurance wouldn’t approve payment for the proton therapy his doctor recommended. But Blue Cross didn’t know who Salim was. @propublica 🧵 Salim had been named one of the top trial lawyers in the country. From his office in tiny Natchitoches, LA, he’d taken on big pharma companies and won hundreds of millions of dollars of judgements.

1/10 I have the utmost respect for our military. I’ve ridden with incredibly self-possessed young soldiers under fire and talked with four stars in the Pentagon with an unsurpassed loyalty to this country’s national security needs. 2/10 But I’d be remiss to fail to note the troubling series of stories in recent weeks which have documented high ranking military leaders dodging accountability and concealing truth while hammering the rank and file.