Eli Stokols
@EliStokols
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White House + foreign policy correspondent @politico. Priors: West Wing Playbook co-author, @latimes @wsj alum.
Washington, DC
Joined September 2009
Trump's post that he's repositioning nuclear submarines closer to Russia was remarkable because of the near certainty that many are already there — and the fact that the Pentagon hardly ever provides information about their locations. w/ @paulmcleary.
politico.com
The president’s announcement comes amid growing frustration with Moscow and his social media spat with a top Putin associate.
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RT @lrozen: Witkoff: “At @POTUS’s direction, @USAmbIsrael and I met yesterday with Israeli officials to discuss the humanitarian situation….
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RT @adamwren: New: @LauraLoomer says she’s now getting tips from inside the Trump administration about people they want purged. W/ @EliSt….
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Jed Hoyer, wtf did you do all day?.
If the Cubs don’t get a starting pitcher here in the next 10 minutes it’ll be a massive massive failure of a trade deadline for them.
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RT @PhelimKine: “U.S. trade negotiators are squeezing Taiwan like a lemon" w/@drdesrochers @EliStokols @_AriHawkins
politico.com
Foreign trade delegations are engaged in frantic last-minute talks to avoid punishingly high tariffs just after midnight on Friday.
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RT @baseballhall: The way Ryne Sandberg played the game earned him the respect of his teammates, his fellow Hall of Famers and fans around….
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Can’t quite explain how much I loved him growing up, how I wanted to play just like Ryno. Nor could I imagine then that I’d fall in love with someone who’d one day suggest we name our son Ryne. Thank you, Ryno. We’ll love you forever.
.@EliStokols & I named our Ryne to honor my grandmother, who so dearly loved the Cubs and Ryne Sandberg. He was a great, great man. “If you played the game the right way, played the game for the team, good things would happen.”.
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RT @ec_schneider: .@EliStokols & I named our Ryne to honor my grandmother, who so dearly loved the Cubs and Ryne Sandberg. He was a great,….
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Starmer has built a surprisingly close relationship with Trump, in part by texting and calling him directly. And he’s not the only leader talking to the president on his cell more often than has been publicly known. MBS, Macron, Bibi too.
politico.com
Trump’s personal cell diplomacy: Less briefing books, more calls and texts.
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RT @JackDetsch: SCOOP: Navy Secretary John Phelan is attempting to curb the role of the service’s No. 2 leader even before Trump’s pick Hun….
politico.com
John Phelan and his chief of staff are taking control of the duties that would have gone to the future Navy undersecretary.
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Trump’s deep antipathy toward the EU — and lingering desire to do one-off deals w countries, mainly Germany — have long complicated trade talks w Brussels. “Everyone is quite tense.”. w/ @drdesrochers @_AriHawkins @Busvine
politico.com
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is set to meet with President Donald Trump this weekend in Scotland to discuss trade.
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RT @Acyn: Trump: It looks like it’s about $3.1 billion. Powell: I’m not aware of that. Trump: It just came out. Powell: You just added in….
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RT @PedderSophie: France faces an awkward truth. Macron was right about European strategic autonomy in defence. But his government does not….
economist.com
But France lacks the means to pay for much of it
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RT @ec_schneider: NEWS - Roy Cooper expected to launch bid for Senate as early as MONDAY, per two sources with direct knowledge. @stephen….
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JUST IN: President Obama's office responds to Trump's comments.
President Trump is attempting to shift the public’s focus away from the building crisis around the release of sealed documents detailing the Jeffrey Epstein case by urging his Justice Department to go after former President Obama.
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Scoop: A WSJ reporter was slated to be part of the travel pool this weekend when Trump travels to Scotland. After the paper's Epstein story last week, the WH booted them from the pool. w/ @iriesentner .
politico.com
A White House spokesperson declined to comment on if the Journal would be included in the pool in the future, either on the White House campus or on subsequent trips.
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RT @ec_schneider: Scoop - Internal Dem polling from Blue Rose & Future Forward memo explain why Dems are trolling GOP hard on Epstein. “It….
politico.com
Internal polling suggests that there's a window for Democrats to use the controversy over the so-called "Epstein list" — and more than a dozen strategists, elected officials and aides are urging them...
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RT @stu_fraser: There has only been one 6-0 6-0 women’s singles final scoreline in the history of Wimbledon, when Dorothea Lambert Chambers….
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RT @ebazaileimil: Emotional scenes outside the State Department today as employees affected by a sweeping reduction in force leave the buil….
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