David Fahrenthold

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RT @EricMGarcia: Trump's determination to reopen the economy and extinguish the virus caused him to embrace panaceas and tuned out the fact… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ezraklein: "Brazil has about 80,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, but experts say the real number is much higher, potentially above 1 mi… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NewYorker: The Four Seasons closed in March. On April 2nd it reopened, transformed into the city’s cheapest and most civic-minded hotel… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @washingtonpost: The span of 34 days between March 29, when President Trump agreed to extend social-distancing guidelines, and this past… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PhilipRucker: Trump was so fixated on hydroxychloroquine that he got a Mar-a-Lago friend and vitamins executive to call Gov. Gavin News… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DonnaCassata: 34 days of pandemic: Inside Trump’s desperate attempts to reopen America https://t.co/Xh5JWe8BPG — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KFILE: Washington Post reports on internal RNC data and it's brutal for Trump in most categories. Just 37% believe the country is heade… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @propublica: A contractor with zero experience got a $34.5 million contract to supply the VA with masks and other medical supplies. He f… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bylenasun: NEW: A coronavirus vaccine is the light at the end of the tunnel. Inside one of the most thrilling – and unnerving moments i… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DonnaCassata: White House blocks Fauci from testifying before House panel, committee spokesman says https://t.co/luTnnjLUYL — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Mike_Hixenbaugh: This is a fun Friday read by @davidmcswane. If I read correctly, the VA handed out an eight-figure no-bid contract for… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MicahGrimes: Colorado paramedic who traveled to NYC to help coronavirus victims dies after contracting COVID-19. https://t.co/UoMkhAccRI — PolitiTweet.org

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Could be. But the hotel only has 263 rooms! Buying 139 of them at a time (or even 70 at a time, if you're doing it over two nights) seems like overkill. — PolitiTweet.org

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I don't think that's how it usually works! (Especially when POTUS isn't even staying overnight at the hotel -- in this case, he just came and went to the fundraiser). — PolitiTweet.org

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That's what makes the huge Secret Service charges of 6/28/2017 so interesting. One charge is for $33,638 -- exactly enough to rent 139 rooms. If that's all for one night, why would a fundraiser require 139 rented rooms? Secret Service agents presumably already have homes in D.C. — PolitiTweet.org

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Good question! At other clubs, like Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster, Trump's properties have sometimes charged the government sales tax (even though the feds should be exempt). But in D.C, the Trump Hotel appears to know the rules better, and they don't. So no taxes. — PolitiTweet.org

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If you see any patterns In those numbers, let me know here, or via [email protected]. Anybody who gives us a lead that produces a story gets a “Democracy Dies in Darkness” t-shirt, on me. Now, go to it! And thanks. /DF https://t.co/jXuU0h81dC — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s some hints: --These amounts aren’t rounded: they’re all in round dollar figures. --None appear to include sales tax. --Trump Org often charges the govt the max allowed rate. Here's a list of maximums from then. (In my list I starred payments that match the hotel room max) https://t.co/b0uriyUs51 — PolitiTweet.org

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And here's the rest, from 2017 and 2018: 7/21: $1,635 8/4: $4,932 9/7: $2,666 9/8: $640 9/18: $9,272 10/30: $2,500* 12/8: $402* and $2,973 12/13: $3,888 and $8,118 1/31/2018: $3,006 and $7,418 — PolitiTweet.org

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Here are some charges I can’t explain from @realdonaldtrump’s D.C. hotel to the Secret Service in 2017: 3/15: $3,096 3/27: $1,976 4/17: $1,884 and $1,976 5/26: $1,580 and $2,052 6/13: $14,900 6/19: $1,100 and $3,160 6/28: $33,638* and $1,863 7/17: $11,475 (continued...) — PolitiTweet.org

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But that leaves more payments, totalling about $126K, that I still can't explain. If you've got time and a low enough bar for entertainment (and, let's face it, you probably do now), take a look... — PolitiTweet.org

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And, after we dug deeper, it was! Secret Service paid @realdonaldtrump's hotel to rent Room 531 for 137 straight nights. The reason: Treasury Sec. Mnuchin was living in a Trump Hotel suite, and agents had to stay as long as he did. Taxpayers paid $33,154. https://t.co/zHxi4P1NY5 — PolitiTweet.org

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About every 13 days, Secret Service paid Trump Org an amount equal to 13 times $242. And $242, it turned out, was the maximum that any federal agency could pay for a hotel in DC. It looked like a loooooong rental of the same room, billed every 2 weeks. — PolitiTweet.org

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But! Sometimes dates and dollar amounts are important clues. Look at the string of $3,146 payments at the bottom here. What's the pattern? https://t.co/89kuof2Tda — PolitiTweet.org

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I've got a list of payments that the Secret Service paid to @realdonaldtrump's D.C. hotel. Total of $126,000, in just a year. What I don't have is the *why.* What was the Trump Hotel charging for, and at what rates? All I have is the dates and dollar amounts, like this. https://t.co/HKtvvPfRtp — PolitiTweet.org

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Ok, folks...I want to ask your help with something! I’m trying to solve a mystery. And I've got data! Now, I'm hoping you will see answers in it that I haven't found yet...1/ https://t.co/FGMg2aGJ8f — PolitiTweet.org

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Taxpayers paid @realdonaldtrump's company $33,000 in 2017, b/c Treasury Sec. Mnuchin spent several months living in the Trump Hotel. The Secret Service had to rent the room next to him, for 137 straight days. Trump's company charged them $242/night. https://t.co/zHxi4P1NY5 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @markberman: Absolutely wild chain of events: Commentator tries to email a NY doctor who has touted an anti-malarial drug on Fox. Instea… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @dataeditor: since the sba won't give us data on who is receiving loans through the paycheck protection program, i did my best to cobble… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @terri_rupar: Prosecutors are looking at the communications of a doctor & frequent Fox guest after Jerome Corsi sent an email intended f… — PolitiTweet.org