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Chris Megerian
@ChrisMegerian
@AP politics editor. Former White House reporter. Previously @latimes and @starledger. Reach me at [email protected] or on Signal at cmegerian.45
Washington, DC
Joined April 2009
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    Why do the armed white people have their faces blurred out, but the black protestor does not?
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    Here's another way to think about these chairs at the White House — you could fill roughly all of them with the number of people who died of COVID-19 yesterday
    Social distancing not in effect for seats set up for Pres Trump's convention speech tonight on the South Lawn.
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    It’s not normal for presidents to describe someone who cooperates with law enforcement as a “rat.”
    The failing @nytimes wrote a Fake piece today implying that because White House Councel Don McGahn was giving hours of testimony to the Special Councel, he must be a John Dean type “RAT.” But I allowed him and all others to testify - I didn’t have to. I have nothing to hide......
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    "I don't want people to be frightened. I don't want to create panic," says a president who has tried to convince the country that rampaging mobs will be invading suburbs everywhere.
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    The president is now being fact checked by Playbill
    Trump responds to Michael Moore's recent Broadway show with an inaccurate claim bit.ly/Michael-Moore-…
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    The White House announces that the president has withdrawn Chad Wolf's nomination to be the permanent Homeland Security secretary, hours after Wolf urged the president to denounce yesterday's violence.
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    The president is complaining that officials will want to count all the ballots before deciding who wins the election.
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    Replying to @ChrisMegerian
    So now we know that right-wing media circulated an unverified account purporting to be the president’s sister, and then the president himself shared the coverage rather than confirm that it was, in fact, his sister behind the tweets.
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    I noticed something strange on Twitter this morning, so I started poking around. Here’s what I found.
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    Rep. Schiff tells me tonight that House Intel wasn’t previously aware of the allegation involving Paul Manafort and polling data. He calls it “deeply alarming.”
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    Things Trump has criticized on Twitter post election-- media, protestors Things Trump has not criticized-- racist incidents around country
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    This is big. The vaccine doesn’t just prevent you from getting sick — it prevents you from getting others sick too
    JUST IN: Pfizer's Covid vaccine stopped 89.4% of transmission in Israel, the first real-world sign that immunization will curb the spread of coronavirus trib.al/JJhiJ8U
    GIF
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    The headline in the Queens Daily Eagle
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    Two tweets from yesterday. Turns out the reporters were correct.