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NEWS: Alina Habba’s $50 million contract was terminated last week.
Company fired her for “failure to perform duties.” She will keep $6.5 mil in salary and $8 mil signing bonus.
The firing came days after The Times reporting prompted a Trump outburst.
nytimes.com/2026/11/10/us/po…
New: Read the full letter Donald Trump wrote to Joe Biden in 2021
The former president reprints the letter in his new book and we have it here:
nytimes.com/2026/11/10/us/po…
Scoop: The U.S. received and disbursed more than $12 billion in revenue from Venezuela’s natural resource exports in the first nine months of this year, according to a confidential report by the global financial services firm KPMG.
w/ @AKurmanaev
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Tyler Pager retweeted
“Maduro has said publicly that he has Jewish heritage… But people close to him said he had not expressed interest in Judaism until his capture.” nytimes.com/2026/11/08/nyreg… our latest with @tylerpager @Jonesieman
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.@tylerpager @jonathanvswan and I had reached out to the White House to request comment for a story that Trump told many people he planned to replace Wiles, and that Stephen Miller was the likely replacement. Shortly before the deadline we gave, the president posted the news.
In NYT interview, Rubio said elections in Venezuela would “ideally” be held next year, but he could not guarantee elections would be held before Trump left office.
He also voiced support for closer military cooperation between VZ and U.S.
w/ @AKurmanaev
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We sat down with Marco Rubio in the White House this afternoon.
He dismissed reports that he was planning to leave the Trump adminstration and refused questions about his political future.
More to come...
w/ @AKurmanaev
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NEWS: Trump said Tuesday night that he would accept the results of the midterm elections and was prepared to work with Democrats.
“I am absolutely willing to accept those results,” he said in an interview with The New York Times.
More w/ @EricaLG
nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/po…
Following NYT reporting, Peter Welch and Dave Min have sent letters to Alina Habba Mildon and Julio Herrera Velutini asking for information about Herrera's pardon.
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Letter to Mildon: welch.senate.gov/wp-content/…
Letter to Herrera: welch.senate.gov/wp-content/…
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"I was sick, and now I am better, and I know that youth and beauty are unreliable narrators." Beautiful, honest essay by Hannah Viederman (aka @tylerpager's cooler and more fun half), which I urge everyone to read: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
"This is what I wish I could tell those 13-year-old girls, but I’m not a bar-mitzvah motivator anymore."
My wife wrote a moving essay in @TheAtlantic about having a stroke at 25 years old.
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Trump on Saturday strongly criticized his former lawyer, Alina Habba Mildon, saying it was “totally obnoxious and outrageous” for her to enter into a $50 million deal for work with a billionaire Venezuelan family seeking a pardon from the president.
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He says he's 29. His U.S. visa + Turkish passport show he is 25. He says he's only been married twice. A third woman told friends they were married too.
Meet Turhan Mildon, the man at the center of the White House inquiry
w @AKurmanaev + @declanwalsh
nytimes.com/2026/10/30/us/po…
NEWS: Trump erupted after he learned Alina Habba signed a $50 million deal. He told allies she should donate a portion of that money to his future presidential library or another Trump entity. He also suggested the family should not pay out her contract.
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SCOOP: Julio Herrera Velutini, a Venezuelan billionaire, really wanted a pardon. He got it not long after his daughter hired Alina Habba, a lawyer close to Trump, in a deal worth more than $50 million. Habba was also working at DOJ at the time.
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Trump continued to sell himself as the GOP's savior this week. But back in the Washington, his White House was consumed by dramas that reinforced why he is a drag on Republican candidates.
My story from rallies in Alaska, Montana, Georgia and Kentucky
nytimes.com/2026/10/18/us/tr…
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One text message from June 2025, purportedly from Grenell, appears to be asking about payment for a “software system.” Grenell denied the authenticity of the text.
nytimes.com/2026/10/17/us/po… with @tylerpager
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Alina Habba Mildon initially told Trump that the $17mn bank transfer at the heart of her spat with Grenell came from her husband. But when her lawyers later presented White House the wire receipt, the sender was redacted. The money actually came from the government of the DRC.
Scoop: The White House investigation into a dispute between two prominent Trump supporters, Richard Grenell and Alina Habba Mildon, centers on a bank transfer from the Democratic Republic of Congo to a Texas defense company,
W/ @AKurmanaev
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Scoop: The White House investigation into a dispute between two prominent Trump supporters, Richard Grenell and Alina Habba Mildon, centers on a bank transfer from the Democratic Republic of Congo to a Texas defense company,
W/ @AKurmanaev
nytimes.com/2026/10/17/us/po…
NEWS: President Trump fired Katie Zacharia on Friday, after less than a week on the job.
nytimes.com/2026/10/16/us/po…
