Senior Producer, Live Moments @washingtonpost Zach.PurserBrown@washpost.com
Dec 11, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This is quite a takedown of the Trump campaign's list of allegedly illegal voters from Georgia State Rep Bee Nguyen.
Full story from @myhlee here: washingtonpost.com/politics/heres…
Sep 16, 2020 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Dominic Raab has been on the charm offensive in Washington all week calling around members of congress, trying to dispel fears over the GFA. One congressional source the Foreign sec spoke to tells me he was not reassured: "It’s still shocking to me the current U.K. government..
...(or frankly the government of any western democracy) would break a treaty it negotiated and signed just under 1 year ago."
Raab is currently in a private meeting with Pelosi
Sep 10, 2020 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Somehow, I’ve been at the Post a full year today! With only an impeachment, an election and a global pandemic, it's obviously been fairly quiet. But I’ve loved every minute.
I thought I’d thread a few of the things I’ve most enjoyed working on 👇
When I wrote this at the beginning of March, 14 months of lockdown seemed laughably long. Now I’d probably take it.
I enjoyed discussing the story of Eyam on @PostReports too.
Biden's script as he appointed Harris:
My best effort with this:
1/2 "They say that…President’s decision is picking a... I’ve talked to a lot of great people through this process and had a lot of good advice. I’m calling you today because I’ve made that first Presidential decision."
Jul 29, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
British politics is the best. The House of Lords was built for this moment in history
There’s more
Jul 29, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Rep. Louie Gohmert tested positive for coronavirus on his way into the White House this morning.
And here he is in May explaining why he won't wear a mask in public
Here he is in Congress yesterday questioning AG Barr
Jul 26, 2020 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
A year and a day since THAT call to Ukraine, I thought I'd do a quick Where Are They Now?
MARIE YOVANOVITCH ❌ - Ousted from her role as Ukraine Ambassador after a smear campaign, she retired altogether in January.
Here she is describing the moment she heard Trump describe her as 'bad news' and said she would be 'going through some things'
AOC: "I am two years younger than Mr Yoho's youngest daughter. I am someone's daughter too. My father, thankfully, is not alive to see how Mr Yoho treated his daughter."
AOC excoriates Rep Ted Yoho after he called her a “f---ing b---h” on the steps of the Capitol.
AOC: " I was minding my own business, walking up the steps, and representative Yoho put his finger in my face, he called me disgusting, he called me crazy, he called me out of my mind. And he called me dangerous."
Jul 21, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
TRUMP on Ghislaine Maxwell: "I just wish her well frankly. I've met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach and I guess they (Maxwell and Epstein) lived in Palm Beach"
Maxwell is accused of grooming and abusing three teenage girls.
He also says he's not aware of the situation with Prince Andrew, which seems... surprising
Jul 21, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
TRUMP: "I have no problem (with masks), I carry it, I wear it, and you saw me wearing it a number of times"
A marked change of tone from the President on wearing a mask
The President hasn't always felt this way
TRUMP: "So, shower heads; you take a shower and the water doesn't come out. You wanna wash your hands, the water doesn't come out. So what do you do? You just stand there longer or you take a shower longer?
Because my hair, I don't know about you, but it has to be perfect."
This is a reprise of this surreal moment from December
If you're struggling to follow the complex #TrumpTaxes case the Supreme Court just ruled on, I made this with @Fahrenthold when the hearing began in May.
SCOTUS just ruled the NY prosecutor *can* see Trump's financial records
These politicians received coronavirus small business loans from the government. Here's why some people object.
My latest w/ @OConnellPostbiz
Here's Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Olkla) saying last year "I made a conscious decision after graduating high school that I would never take another dime from the federal government."
This year his fast food franchises took between $1-2 million in government bailout loans.
Jul 6, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
McENANY clashes with reporters over Trump's tweets on Nascar and the Confederate flag.
"I think you're mischaracterizing the tweet"
McENANY: "The President says he wasn't making a judgment one way or another. You're focussing on one word at the bottom of a tweet."
Jun 30, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
CDC Director Redfield paints a grim picture of US coronavirus in his opening Senate statement.
-cases increasing nationwide
-significant increases in SE & SW
-no. of jurisdictions in upward trajectory 29/55
-Hospitalizations up in 12 states
-Daily death increasing in Arizona
Fauci says he is "concerned by what we're seeing evolve right now"
Worries about the 'all or non phenomenon'
"I think we need to emphasize the responsibility that we have both as individuals and as a societal effort to end the epidemic that we all have to play a part"
Jun 8, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
MCENANY: "Mitt Romney can say three words outside on Pennsylvania Avenue..."
White House Press Secretary attacks Romney over his own record on race.
MCENANY: "The President is very much against kneeling in general, the President has made clear for years that kneeling is tied to our national anthem, that it does not respect our military men and women."
May 26, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Trump announces a price cap on insulin for eligible seniors at $35 a month.
"It's a big day for seniors, this is a tremendous saving."
Trump framing this as a vote winner:
"I hope the seniors are going to remember it, because Biden is the one who put us into the jam because they didn't know what they were doing - they were incompetent."
May 25, 2020 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
President Trump has now fired a record number of Inspectors General, an institution set up to restore public trust in the wake of Watergate.
My latest w/ @thamburger
Full story from @Reinlwapo & @thamburger here, including the revelation of a major conflict of interest at transport.
TRUMP: "I did wear...I had one on before in this back area, but I didn't want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it. But, no, where I had it I did put a mask on."
'My heart will go on' is blasting in the background of Trump's visit to Detroit today
I can report the campaign playlist is very much back
*we've already had Wild Horses
May 18, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"You mean he's under investigation because he had somebody walk his dog from the government? I don't know, I don't think it sounds like that important."
Trump reacts to reports inspector general was investigating Pompeo for Saudi arms sale and staff misuse before firing
"And maybe he's busy.
And maybe he's negotiating with Kim Jong Un, about nuclear weapons, so that he'd say; do you mind walking my dog.
Do you mind walking my dog? I'm talking to Kim Jong Un."
My best effort with this: 
