Todd Zwillich

Journalism in Washington, often heard hosting 1A & NPR. Former host of The Takeaway from WNYC and "Breaking the Vote" @ Vice News.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Trump, election night 2024: "I'm not going to start wars. I’m going to stop wars."

Trump, Sunday: "I didn’t guarantee no war."

@katierogers https://t.co/UIRFOnlxFi

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Feb. 10: Trump portfolio buys between $1 million and $5 million in stock in Dell.

Feb. 19: Trump at rally encourages supporters to "buy a Dell computer."

May 27: Pentagon awards $9.7 billion contract to Dell.

@maeganvaz https://t.co/f1HqeHqqtV

[Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein]

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

About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company. https://t.co/q1i7ylna8q

[Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich]

As Trump returns for more medical tests, a reminder thread of the biases, disinformation and reporting from his disappearance from public, Labor Day last year.

[Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich]

Trump was absent from public view for a week. We still don't know why. Everyone's missing the story, and it's nuts. 🧵
https://t.co/yV4EFNORkn

[Ben Smith @semaforben]

Great @burgessev @ShelbyTalcott look at the meltdown in the Senate https://t.co/0zA2ijhLnG

[Stephen Richer @stephen_richer]

The Justice Department just lost its voter roll lawsuits in both Maine and Wisconsin.

It is now 0-8.

[Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich]

In 2014 Trump said Obama should resign when a single physician who treated patients in an Ebola-endemic area returned to NYC

[Julia E. Ainsley @JuliaEAinsley]

Since noon yesterday DHS has been directing passengers from Ebola affected countries to Dulles for a health screening. But based on this CDC statement, there is no quarantine requirement for travelers with symptoms. Just info gathering for a “public health follow up”

[Roger Parloff @rparloff]

Reupping:
"Those who engaged in the attacks last week will be brought to justice."
---Trump on 1/13/21, after the House impeached him but before the Senate had voted on whether to convict.

[Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich]

NYT won a Pulitzer for this reporting, showing that Trump long before today's historic self-exemption from tax law, Trump amassed $431 million from his parents, largely by helping them evade taxes.

https://t.co/jyYx1pqz54

[Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich]

Reminder: "Fred and Mary Trump transferred well over $1 billion in wealth to their children, which could have produced a tax bill of at least $550m under the 55% tax rate then imposed on gifts and inheritances.

The Trumps paid a total of $52.2m, or about 5%, tax records show."

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

And then there's this:

The settlement gets sweeter for Team Trump

In a newly-posted, one-page document, the Justice Dept details that it is now prohibited from pursuing tax claims against Trump or his family in the future

Signed by Todd Blanche

https://t.co/DuQ6X95Hf5

[Acyn @Acyn]

MacFarlane: A man from Florida was arrested again in recent months, convicted of molestation. According to the police report we reviewed, that defendant tried to silence the victim by promising him future trump reparations money that he was expecting from a fund just like this.

[Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich]

For your consideration

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: President Trump says he's called off an Iran strike planned for Tuesday at the request of Gulf allies to allow for "serious negotiations." https://t.co/2t8CYfrxUM

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

Marco Rubio's committee:

“Manafort's high-level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services, particularly Kilimnik and associates of Oleg Deripaska, represented a grave counterintelligence threat.”

[Elizabeth Williamson @NYTLiz]

EXCLUSIVE: Last year Kash Patel and his gf flew on an FBI G5 to Philly to see George Strait & Chris Stapleton from a private stadium suite that costs up to $50,000. He won’t say who paid. https://t.co/ex82frRDy4 via @NYTimes

[Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich]

Trump keeps buying stocks while making regulatory and contracting decisions that improve those very stocks

[Samuel Larreal @samuellarreal_]

NEW: President Donald Trump bought and sold millions of dollars worth of stock in tech companies and government contractors including Nvidia and Palantir.

Some of those trades overlapped with regulatory decisions that were favorable to these companies.
https://t.co/BtBuyvLNTp

[Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich]

"At the restaurant Tuesday, William Paul went on to tell Lawler he 'needs to watch more Tucker Carlson.'”

[Reese Gorman @reesejgorman]

New: Sen. Rand Paul’s son drunkenly accosted and hurled anti-Semitic insults at Rep. Mike Lawler at a Capitol Hill bar on Tuesday night.

His son told Lawler that if Rep Thomas Massie loses, it’s going to be because of “your people.”

“My people?” Lawler asked Paul.

“Yeah, you Jews,” Paul responded. 

“Do you think I’m Jewish?” Lawler asked. “I’m not.”

“Oh wow, I’m so sorry for calling you a Jew,” Paul said. 

He then said that Jews were “anti-American” and how Lawler and his “Jewish supporters” served Israel more than America.

https://t.co/fhn93tHA4g

[Arthur Delaney 🇺🇸 @ArthurDelaneyHP]

I asked Chuck Grassley if Senate Republicans are taking about removing the $1 billion ballroom earmark from their budget bill.

“That’s what's going on right now. So you'll have to ask me that question at the end of this week,” he said.

👀

[Michael Albert, MD @MichaelAlbertMD]

Wait...this is brilliant. @doctordaoud

[Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich]

The sheer scope of potential (and increasingly likely) defeat in Iran is devastating. This describes a "no good options" scenario with American decline as the consequence.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Bob Kagan has about as strong Iran hawk credentials as anyone. And yet from Day 1 he had the strategic disaster that is this war pegged. This piece has the geniuses behind it dead to rights.

Checkmate in Iran

https://t.co/78aJ4VYX9f

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

I am the reporter here — and imho the question should be asked more often.

More than 100 children were reported killed at Minab.