Robert Draper
@DraperRobert
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Author & Staff Writer, NY Times. Married to @KirstenPowers. Native Texan resisting urges to post about @TexasLonghorns, @Astros, @HoustonRockets or @Titans.
Joined July 2010
My interview with Erika Kirk (free link):
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In an interview, the wife of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk said she had implored him to wear a bulletproof vest. But she sees divine work in his death.
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I spoke with The Daily last night about what Charlie Kirk meant to the conservative movement:
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The right-wing organizer and close ally of President Trump was shot during an appearance in Utah.
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Someone said the gift link has expired. Don't know if that's true, but in any event here's a new link:
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Collecting donors, voters, TikTok viewers and high-powered friends on his way into Trump’s inner circle.
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Here is a free link to the profile I did on Charlie earlier this year. We spent a lot of time together for the story and I had spoken to him many times since, as recently as last week. He traveled with security.
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Collecting donors, voters, TikTok viewers and high-powered friends on his way into Trump’s inner circle.
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Even the staunchest advocates of ibogaine would say it's a terrible idea to buy it from a stranger and then take it unsupervised, without heart monitoring.
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Gift article by me: The Long, Strange Trip of Rick Perry
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The former Texas governor and Trump energy secretary has now dedicated his life to promoting the powerful psychedelic ibogaine.
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I can’t believe Aaron Parsley @FreshParsley of @TexasMonthly had the strength to write this story about what his family endured in the #GuadalupeRiver flood. It will leave you frozen. https://t.co/ufXdSewSoH
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The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.
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As bad as Signalgate was for Mike Waltz--and it was very bad--he was already on the hot seat weeks before that snafu https://t.co/1LhrbeVsCv
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Mr. Waltz has worked hard to burnish his credentials among the president’s supporters, in the process dismaying his former associates while not convincing his new ones.
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In my story today, @JeffreyGoldberg said that he & Waltz had met twice but that he'd never interviewed him:
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The national security adviser, already embattled, is taking the brunt of the criticism. On Fox News, he said he took “full responsibility” for a journalist being included in a chat with sensitive...
National security advisor Mike Waltz says he’s “never met, don’t know, never communicated with” The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg (who was added into that Signal chat) and that the administration is “looking into and reviewing how the heck he got into this group.”
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Feels like a good time to offer a free link to my recent story about national security adviser Mike Waltz, who inadvertently invited @JeffreyGoldberg of @TheAtlantic into a classified war briefing:
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Mr. Waltz has worked hard to burnish his credentials among the president’s supporters, in the process dismaying his former associates while not convincing his new ones.
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Free link to my profile of CHarlie Kirk
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Collecting donors, voters, TikTok viewers and high-powered friends on his way into Trump’s inner circle.
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Back in the late 90s in Austin, I shared an office with Cecile. No matter where you stood on issues (and back then, her thing was public schools), she was an unpretentious force of nature. #RIP
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She oversaw the United States’ largest provider of reproductive health care and sex education from 2006 to 2018.
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"The record overwhelmingly suggests that Representative Gaetz had sex with multiple women at the party, including the then-17-year-old, for which they were paid," says the 37-page report, which the dissenting committee members do not dispute.
House Ethics Committee accuses Gaetz of regularly paying for sex, possessing illegal drugs and having sexual relations with an underage girl, according to a draft of the panel’s report. @lukebroadwater @maggieNYT @DraperRobert
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Actually, this *is* in the ethics report. Two women (one 25, the other 27) said they didn't consider the transactions to be prostitution. A third woman took the 5th on this question.
ANOTHER ONE of the ethics witnesses who was an alleged “prostitute” claims she was indeed NOT when actually pressed in a deposition. This won’t be in the “ethics” report because of course.
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Notable findings: 1) Gaetz was was likely guilty of the state crime of statutory rape; 2) Insufficient evidence to prove sex trafficking; 3) He obstructed justice through numerous delay tactics; 4) Committee minority didn't object to facts, only to releasing report
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PS--I was the reporter who happened to be on the same plane this morning with Gaetz & his wife; brief scene included
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Mr. Gaetz has consistently denied the allegations of sexual misconduct and drug use, but his prospective nomination ran into trouble in the Senate.
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Latest Gaetz story of the day: the watchdog group American Oversight has just now filed a preliminary injunction to get the DOJ to release its investigative material on Gaetz by Dec 16:
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The nonpartisan watchdog group American Oversight has been trying since last year to get the documents related to the sex-trafficking investigation into Matt Gaetz.
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