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Canada gave its citizens the right to die. Ten years later, doctors are struggling to keep up with the demand. My story for the September issue of @TheAtlantic:
Elaina Plott Calabro
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Elaina Plott Calabro
@elainaplott
Writer, @TheAtlantic. Writing a book about Frank M. Johnson and George Wallace for @penguinpress. Alum @nytimes. Tuscaloosa native. Ruth 1:16.
- Paul Whelan begged your father merely to tweet about him in 2019. When I profiled Elizabeth Whelan and her efforts to free her brother a few months later, the Trump White House did not so much as acknowledge my requests for comment.The Biden Admin was apparently worried that their DEI score would go down if they freed an American Marine.
- In the course of reporting on Patel, and the threat that he and other loyalists like him would pose to the country in a second Trump term, I struggled to shake what I learned about a series of events that took place on October 30, 2020. I want to share them with you here. 🧵This whole @elainaplott story about Kash Patel is wild. But particularly the details from Oct 30, 2020 when Patel, for reason no one quite knows, told Defense that they had air rights for a West African rescue mission they hadn't yet secured ... theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
- Replying to @elainaplottAnyway, if you've made it this far, I hope you'll read the whole story, from our October issue, here:
- Raise your hand if you want this plane landing in your town? America paid unimaginable costs in Afghanistan because of uniparty globalists who dominated the Bush & Obama administrations. No more…
- Replying to @elainaplottI don't know the answers to these questions. But three months of reporting later, they're the questions I can't stop thinking about it — particularly as Patel, in a second Trump term, could very well assume remarkable power atop America's national security establishment.
- “Friends still get a kick out of a story about how Johnson once told Trump that he was praying for him, to which the then-president responded: ‘Thank you, Mike. Tell God I said hi.’”
- Replying to @elainaplottThrough a spokesperson, Patel denied saying this, or making up the approval story. But three former senior administration officials independently cited the near catastrophe in West Africa as one of their foremost recollections from Patel's tenure.
- I've listened to years and years of political speeches by Kamala Harris. This is the most confident I've heard her.
- Here is a gift link to my profile of Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee for FBI Director:
- Replying to @elainaplottWas it because the election was in four days, and Patel was simply that impatient to set in motion a final potential victory for Trump, whatever the risk — was it as darkly cynical as that? Did his lack of experience mean he just had no grasp of the consequences?
- Replying to @elainaplottTwo people familiar with the exchange told me that Tony Tata, the Pentagon official and retired Army general to whom Patel had originally given the green light, confronted Patel in a rage. "You could've gotten these guys killed!" he shouted. "What the fuck were you thinking?"
- Replying to @elainaplottPatel's response: "If nobody got hurt, who the fuck cares?"
