Gram Slattery

White House National Security Reporter for @Reuters. Spent two years on the campaign trail and seven in South America 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇦🇷 Signal: gslattery.05

[Erin Banco @ErinBanco]

SCOOP: Kurt Olsen, who has led the admin’s election security effort and probed voting machines from Puerto Rico, is now working for DOJ as a prosecutor in Miami. W/@AGoudsward

[Erin Banco @ErinBanco]

SCOOP: The CIA has stopped contributing to some ODNI intelligence assessments, including those related to the Iran war, as a result of a year-long feud between the agencies over turf and mission.

[Amberin Zaman @amberinzaman]

Scoop from @ragipsoylu Trump tells Erdogan he plans to visit Turkey for Nato summit https://t.co/NlrozuarWM

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

Bloomberg News exclusive:

Vladimir Putin has been told by senior Russian officials that the war in Ukraine is becoming unaffordable, the most serious sign of internal division in Moscow since the full-scale invasion began

https://t.co/gpk6OChdlC

[Phil Stewart @phildstewart]

SCOOP! The commander of U.S. Southern Command, Gen. Donovan, met senior Cuban military leaders at the perimeter of Guatanamo Bay today. Story coming...

[Gram Slattery @G_Slattery]

New:

Russia is covertly planning to transport Russian-Armenians into Armenia en masse to swing that nation’s June election, per intel sources

Part of a broader plan to scuttle Trump’s Caucasus peace efforts

w @BalmforthTom @LucyPapa96 @humeyra_pamuk

https://t.co/1T2RW0sRiG

[Gram Slattery @G_Slattery]

Interesting Brazil news 🇧🇷

US designates two Brazilian criminal organizations as FTOs right after Flavio Bolsonaro meets Trump

Lula had lobbied against this move, fearing it would have the practical effect of inhibiting US-Brazil commerce

[CNN Brasil @CNNBrasil]

EUA classificam PCC e Comando Vermelho como terroristas

https://t.co/i9qKHGfUF9

[Alex Ward @alexbward]

Couldn't agree more.

Today we had a U.S. official tell media outlets tentative deal agreed to, but Trump needed days to think it over.

Then Bessent wouldn't confirm, only said "“We perhaps have the makings of a deal."

And then Iranian officials said text not finalized.

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

🚨🚨ארה״ב ואיראן הגיעו להסכם על מזכר הבנות ל-60 יום להארכת הפסקת האש והשקת משא ומתן על תוכנית הגרעין של איראן, אך הנשיא טראמפ טרם נתן לו את אישורו הסופי, כך אמרו לי שני בכירים אמריקנים ומקור אזורי שמעורב בתיווך.
🚨🚨"הנשיא העביר מסר למתווכות שהוא רוצה כמה ימים כדי לחשוב על זה לפני שיקבל החלטה סופית", אמר בכיר אמריקני

[Erin Banco @ErinBanco]

SCOOP: Trump’s election-security czar Kurt Olsen sought to ban voting machines used in more than half of U.S. states by asking whether the Commerce Department could declare their components national-security risks

[John Hudson @John_Hudson]

The US fired more than 200 THAAD interceptors in defense of Israel — roughly half of the Pentagon’s total inventory — along with more than 100 SM-3 and SM-6 interceptors. By contrast, Israel fired fewer than 100 of its Arrow and around 90 David Sling interceptors

[Robbie Gramer @RobbieGramer]

Inside the unraveling of U.S. diplomacy under Trump

https://t.co/GKeyuDH0KG

[Nick Schifrin @nickschifrin]

From Reuters team @Journotopia @humeyra_pamuk @johnshiffman @G_Slattery @IrishJReuters @kellyJapan @andrea_shalal:
"At a moment when a uniquely unpredictable U.S. president is rattling markets and capitals with dramatic pronouncements, governments around the world are scrambling for clarity, only to discover that their usual points of contact – at U.S. embassies or inside Washington – are missing, mute or out of the loop."
https://t.co/pL60JunERT

[Gram Slattery @G_Slattery]

Story here:

https://t.co/6bRAegrL1f

[Gram Slattery @G_Slattery]

Scoop:

The Trump admin is planning to tell NATO allies this week that it will shrink the pool of military capabilities the US would have available to assist European nations in a major crisis, like an invasion of a NATO member, sources said

w @JonathanLanday @andrew_r_gray

[Erin Banco @ErinBanco]

NEW: Sen. Padilla and co-signers on election security task force call for Kurt Olsen's removal from post

https://t.co/XJzvZElvz5

[Gram Slattery @G_Slattery]

Scoop, via @humeyra_pamuk @JonathanLanday:

Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau instructed senior State Department officials to facilitate and approve a visa for a fugitive former Polish cabinet minister, allowing him to flee to the US from Hungary, sources said

[Gram Slattery @G_Slattery]

Scoop, via @alexjcornwell:

The U.S. is considering asking Israel to give some tax money it is withholding from the Palestinian Authority to Donald Trump's Board of Peace to fund the U.S. president's post-war plan for Gaza, sources familiar with the matter said

[Gram Slattery @G_Slattery]

He just published an impactful national security scoop, and is finally enjoying the evening. Have an extremely angry comms person who had previously declined to comment call up and dispute the entire premise of the article