Justin Elliott

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[Robert Faturechi @RobertFaturechi]

New: A top White House aide intervened to get a $620 million Pentagon loan for a company tied to Donald Trump Jr.

“The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” said one person involved.

https://t.co/duvJ0cQ9bH

[Justin Elliott @JustinElliott]

full letter: https://t.co/iNaTF8yaTu

[Justin Elliott @JustinElliott]

House Dems' letter to DHS on Corey Lewandowski: preserve your documents

[Justin Elliott @JustinElliott]

Full letter: https://t.co/BUCoMbTi1Y

[Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @JudiciaryDems]

Kristi Noem lied under oath.

She handpicked four companies for her ad campaign, and her “special” government advisor was at the helm of it.

We just referred this false statement to the Justice Department for investigation.

[Jake Swearingen @JakeSwearingen]

Some news: I'm joining @propublica, working with @eisingerj to start up a business desk. It'll be fun, and we're hiring.

[Justin Elliott @JustinElliott]

.@SenBlumenthal has written a letter to @KristiNoem about her denial that Corey Lewandowski has a role in approving contracts at DHS.

"I demand that you amend your testimony" and "provide the basis for your apparent false statement on the record."

[Justin Elliott @JustinElliott]

New:

Kristi Noem claimed to the Senate yesterday that Corey Lewandowski has no role approving contracts at DHS.

But internal DHS records and interviews with current and former agency officials contradict her testimony:

https://t.co/BCRYI24bDu w/ @js_kaplan

[Justin Elliott @JustinElliott]

New:

Kristi Noem claimed to the Senate yesterday that Corey Lewandowski has no role approving contracts at DHS.

But internal DHS records and interviews with current and former agency officials contradict her testimony:

https://t.co/BCRYI24bDu w/ @js_kaplan

[Justin Elliott @JustinElliott]

Here’s our story that the senator is referring to: https://t.co/zcP6GLPf22

To be clear, we didn’t report that the Strategy Group got the majority of the money. The full breakdown of where the money ended up still not known.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

KENNEDY: How do square your concern with waste with the fact you spent $220 million running TV ads that feature you prominently?

NOEM: The president tasked me with getting the message out to the country and other countries where we were seeing the invasion come from

KENNEDY: You're testifying that President Trump approved them ahead of time?

NOEM: Yes sir. They were effective

KENNEDY: Well, it was effective for your name recognition. To me, it puts the president in a terribly awkward spot

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

KENNEDY: How do square your concern with waste with the fact you spent $220 million running TV ads that feature you prominently?

NOEM: The president tasked me with getting the message out to the country and other countries where we were seeing the invasion come from

KENNEDY: You're testifying that President Trump approved them ahead of time?

NOEM: Yes sir. They were effective

KENNEDY: Well, it was effective for your name recognition. To me, it puts the president in a terribly awkward spot

[Brett Murphy @BrettMmurphy]

1/ As the Trump administration destroyed USAID this year, Marco Rubio and his aides said over and over: 1. Lifesaving operations would continue around the world and 2. Nobody had died because of the cuts

[Justin Elliott @JustinElliott]

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[Justin Elliott @JustinElliott]

NEW:

We uncovered records showing President Trump himself got two principal-residence mortgages that match his own description of criminal “mortgage fraud.”

The year was 1993 …

[Justin Elliott @JustinElliott]

Here’s the full story, with @RobertFaturechi @Amierjeski

https://t.co/o2DzhXfoaE