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Justin Elliott retweeted
*whispers* remember the @propublica reporting about Putin-allied Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev funding Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding? that's a sports story, too. new @pablofindsout with @katienolan and @CruzKayne: youtu.be/E5F9NuLxZfw?si=NK1V…
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Justin Elliott retweeted
NEW: I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. Spoiler Alert: They invited me into the VIP program after just one week. Here’s how I yeeted $20K+ ripping riskier and risker bets 🧵
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Still no comment from Don Jr's camp on whether this money has been paid back, as President Trump claimed
A toaster is a wedding gift. A private-island party paid for by a Putin-connected oligarch is something else. Republicans nearly wore out the subpoena machine investigating Hunter Biden’s foreign relationships. We should not unplug it now. ‘Trust us’ was not enough then, and it is not enough now.
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Justin Elliott retweeted
BREAKING NEWS: Utah GOP Sen. JOHN CURTIS is asking the Senate Judiciary to investigate Donald Trump Jr over a report that a Russian oligarch close to Putin paid for his wedding celebration. punchbowl.news/09-21-2026-cu…
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Justin Elliott retweeted
Exclusive: In late 2024, FBI agents were looking at Sen. Susan Collins’ role in a massive illegal bribery scheme alleged by a former federal contractor. Then Trump gutted the FBI and DOJ, leaving no one to carry on the investigation – it’s dead. 🧵
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New podcast episode just dropped! Don Jr.’s Secret Wedding Guest propublica.org/podcast/donal…
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New story: Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin w/ @BrettMmurphy @js_kaplan @Amierjeski
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for the record, this is how Bettina's wedding planner described the three-day wedding: hellomagazine.com/brides/914…
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Justin Elliott retweeted
Scoop: 4 anonymous accounts that perfectly correspond w/ Trump & sons’ holdings have taken first step to enable offloading of family’s own crypto, records show Could be worth billions of dollars Meanwhile, retail investors have lost +$1B washingtonsun.com/donald-tru…
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Justin Elliott retweeted
NEW: Flaming robots. Haywire Turkish machines. An actual dumpster fire. General Dynamics received $533 million from the Army to produce artillery but hasn’t made a single usable shell. ProPublica got the inside story of what went wrong. It’s a wild ride: propublica.org/article/gener…
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Justin Elliott retweeted
A few weeks ago, after two years of work, I published a story unlike any I’d encountered in my 18 years at ProPublica. I’ve been off social media for a while, but I felt compelled to come back to share some of my reporting journey here. 🧵
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Justin Elliott retweeted
NEW: We got a private SpaceX investor list, from way before the IPO. It's a rare window into a delicate issue for Musk: which investors in countries like China got stakes in SpaceX, and how. One investor has ties to Chinese military contractors. propublica.org/article/space…
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Justin Elliott retweeted
New: New records obtained by ProPublica detail at least a dozen SpaceX investors with addresses in mainland China, Hong Kong or Russia who acquired stakes in SpaceX years ago through a middleman firm in the U.S. called Tomales Bay Capital. propub.li/4xBG1vE
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Justin Elliott retweeted
NEW: Earlier this year, an obscure startup in Texas announced that it had received at least $100 mil from one of the richest men in Asia. We dug into the backstory. We discovered a saga involving Donald Trump Jr., Russian oil, and an Indian billionaire family’s private zoo.
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