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Aaron C. Davis
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Investigative Reporter at The Washington Post. acdavis.77 [email protected]
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Joined January 2009
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    Join me and @CarolLeonnig for a conversation about this pivotal moment in American history. Our book about fundamental changes underway at the Justice Department publishes on Nov. 4. Event details and ticket info threaded below: (And...📚Order here: shorturl.at/c1FPP)
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    BREAKING: A source tells me The Defense Department has just denied a request by DC officials to deploy the National Guard to the US Capitol.
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    Thread on today’s scoop: Five days before Donald Trump became president in January 2017, men carried over 200 pounds of cash out of a state-run bank in Cairo. The discovery matched U.S. intel that Egyptian president el-Sisi had sought to give Trump money to win the White House.
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    A week ago this evening, one of the most violent scenes ever caught on camera unfolded outside The White House. Thousands of mostly peaceful protesters were pushed, gassed and shot at. Please watch our reconstruction of a defining hour Trump’s presidency:
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    Update: The hack of the Christian fundraising website, GiveSendGo, has not deterred donors (but perhaps emboldened them) to continue using the site to send money to organizers of the Canadian trucker convoys. Donations are up $1.2 million since the site came back online yesterday
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    NEW: USPS chief Louis DeJoy’s rise in GOP was fueled by donations from his company's workers who were later reimbursed through bonuses, former employees say – an arrangement that would be unlawful. w/ @AmyEGardner, @jonswaine and WaPo team.
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    NEW🚨: Under subpoena, computer experts turn over docs showing Sidney Powell and an attorney for the Trump campaign directed and paid for them to copy election system software in Georgia, Michigan and Nevada. By @emmersbrown @jonswaine @AmyEGardner & me.
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    Hopkins “repeatedly expressed regret for signing the initial affidavit because it overstated what he knew and witnessed, according to the recording. He told agents the affidavit was written by Project Veritas.”
    NEW: Pa. postal worker walked back ballot-tampering claims in interview with federal agents, recording shows me w/ @ShawnBoburg & @DDaltonBennett washingtonpost.com/investigations…
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    closing the loop for anyone only seeing this tweet:
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    DOD reverses course. White House tweets that National Guard will be deployed to Capitol. In the meantime, this happened: x.com/dhookstead/sta…
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    Among our findings: Although President Trump, Attorney General Barr and federal law enforcement agencies have denied that tear gas or chemical agents were used against protesters. The Post found city streets were swept the night before, and new CS canisters were found after.
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    Riot teams from the federal Bureau of Prisons, which are trained to subdue unrest at federal penitentiaries, were involved in the police offensive. Video evidence show they shot into the crowd of fleeing protesters.
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    A White House advisor said protests were spontaneous, but Michigan records showed the organizing group goes by another name: “Michigan Trump Republicans” and directors include “the state GOP v. chair of ’grass roots‘ efforts” ... aiming to damage Whitmer. washingtonpost.com/national/ralli…
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    And there was little evidence of provocation for the police action: The Post could not find any video confirmation that rocks, bricks, or caustic liquids had been thrown on police, as the U.S. Park Police alleged the following day in explaining the offensive.
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    NEW: That ‘no quid pro quo’ call that President @realDonaldTrump talks about? There’s no record it was a real phone call. w/ @eliseviebeck & @jdawsey1