Aidan McLaughlin
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Washington Correspondent @VanityFair Tips: [email protected]. Signal: aidanmclaughlin.10
NEW: Trump's Thursday speech is slated to address newly declassified intelligence reports that the White House asserts reveal plans by foreign nations to interfere in the 2020 election, according to two White House officials granted anonymity to discuss internal plans.
Fox News brought on Ro Khanna this morning to do a hit interview about his trip to the West Bank. Imagine hosts treating a Republican like this.
Hegesth says of the Strait of Hormuz: "Something we're dealing with. We have been dealing with it. You don't need to worry about it."
Trump on Lindsey Graham: "He had one bad moment in the January 6 thing when he stood up -- 'alright, now I've had it, that's it, I can't do it anymore' -- then he called me about 40 minutes later and said, 'Did I really said that? I can't believe it.' And he took it back. So I give him a 99.9 instead of 100."
A NYTimes Exclusive: Inside Israel’s Secret Operation to Cultivate Ahmadinejad The yearslong effort to groom the former Iranian president as an intelligence asset culminated in a dramatic effort to take him to an Israeli safe house in the early days of the war. But the plan fell apart. W\ @MarkMazzettiNYT @julianbarnes and @farnazfassihi via @nytimes nytimes.com/2026/07/13/us/…
How Lindsey Graham worked Trump, via Mark Leibovich theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…
