Eric Lipton NYT
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Investigative reporter NYT. Helping cover President Trump and his administration and circle of friends -- without fear or favor. I write about people and power. My contact on Signal: EricNYT.08
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Eric Lipton NYT
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· Feb 12
A ‘Business-Friendly’ Lawyer’s Rise From Lobbyist to Attorney General Pick
Pam Bondi, whom President-elect Donald J. Trump intends to nominate as attorney general, received trips and donations funded by those seeking favors from her Florida office.
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Jared Kushner’s Firm Pulls Out of Trump-Branded Hotel Deal in Serbia
The announcement came just hours after prosecutors there charged four government officials with corruption in connection with the half-billion-dollar project.
By Sharon LaFraniere and Lara Jakes
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The announcement came just hours after prosecutors there charged four government officials with corruption in connection with the half-billion-dollar project.
By Sharon LaFraniere and Lara Jakes
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
Kushner’s Firm Pulls Out of Trump-Branded Hotel Deal in Serbia
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December 16, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Jared Kushner’s Firm Pulls Out of Trump-Branded Hotel Deal in Serbia
The announcement came just hours after prosecutors there charged four government officials with corruption in connection with the half-billion-dollar project.
By Sharon LaFraniere and Lara Jakes
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
The announcement came just hours after prosecutors there charged four government officials with corruption in connection with the half-billion-dollar project.
By Sharon LaFraniere and Lara Jakes
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Please read this thread and the article.
Today, in the Sunday print NYT, we published an investigative look at Harold Hamm, the 13th child of Oklahoma sharecroppers who started an oil company named Continental, which turned him into a billionaire, powerbroker and friend of Donald J. Trump. You may never have heard of Hamm. But you should
December 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Please read this thread and the article.
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Today, in the Sunday print NYT, we published an investigative look at Harold Hamm, the 13th child of Oklahoma sharecroppers who started an oil company named Continental, which turned him into a billionaire, powerbroker and friend of Donald J. Trump. You may never have heard of Hamm. But you should
December 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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New: Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud.
Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
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Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...
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September 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
New: Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud.
Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
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NEW: The Trump administration has been accusing political enemies of mortgage fraud for claiming more than one primary residence.
Records show President Trump himself did the same thing.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Records show President Trump himself did the same thing.
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
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December 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
NEW: The Trump administration has been accusing political enemies of mortgage fraud for claiming more than one primary residence.
Records show President Trump himself did the same thing.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Records show President Trump himself did the same thing.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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The director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead at their home in Los Angeles on Sunday. He has said that falling in love with his wife inspired him to give “When Harry Met Sally…” a new ending.
Michele Singer Reiner: A Photographer Who Changed Movie History
Falling in love with her inspired the director Rob Reiner to give “When Harry Met Sally…” a new ending. The Reiners went on to work together on movies and political causes.
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December 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead at their home in Los Angeles on Sunday. He has said that falling in love with his wife inspired him to give “When Harry Met Sally…” a new ending.
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NEW: One of the most significant accomplishments of the Trump Admin: Decimating the US's humanitarian aid.
We went to S. Sudan to see the effects.
Rubio says no one has died from the cuts.
Spoiler: That's not true.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy:
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
We went to S. Sudan to see the effects.
Rubio says no one has died from the cuts.
Spoiler: That's not true.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy:
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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December 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
NEW: One of the most significant accomplishments of the Trump Admin: Decimating the US's humanitarian aid.
We went to S. Sudan to see the effects.
Rubio says no one has died from the cuts.
Spoiler: That's not true.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy:
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
We went to S. Sudan to see the effects.
Rubio says no one has died from the cuts.
Spoiler: That's not true.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy:
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
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The life of fossil fuels is being pushed out in the United States--thanks to Trump and oil executives like Hamm. Yes, part of it is AI demand for more electricity. But it is also industry execs like Hamm who gave millions to get Trump back to the White House and now are cashing in on that win.
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The life of fossil fuels is being pushed out in the United States--thanks to Trump and oil executives like Hamm. Yes, part of it is AI demand for more electricity. But it is also industry execs like Hamm who gave millions to get Trump back to the White House and now are cashing in on that win.
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Trump’s Interior took that study, endorsed it and this summer, it started to issue permits to Hamm again to allow the drilling to move ahead. I was out there in early December and met members of the drilling crew who had just “spudded” Hamm’s newest well.
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Trump’s Interior took that study, endorsed it and this summer, it started to issue permits to Hamm again to allow the drilling to move ahead. I was out there in early December and met members of the drilling crew who had just “spudded” Hamm’s newest well.
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The last stop, at least for me, was Wyoming.This is where Hamm is pushing a massive oil project that was stalled during the Biden because of questions over possible harm to groundwater used by cattle ranchers. HOURS of driving to get there. But wow. Beautiful territory. Other worldly. This site.
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The last stop, at least for me, was Wyoming.This is where Hamm is pushing a massive oil project that was stalled during the Biden because of questions over possible harm to groundwater used by cattle ranchers. HOURS of driving to get there. But wow. Beautiful territory. Other worldly. This site.
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Federal records we dug up showed that after these questions emerged re groundwater impact, Hamm and other oil bosses hired their own consultant who did a report concluding no major groundwater impact will happen as 5,000 new wells are drilled. Guess what happened next?
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Federal records we dug up showed that after these questions emerged re groundwater impact, Hamm and other oil bosses hired their own consultant who did a report concluding no major groundwater impact will happen as 5,000 new wells are drilled. Guess what happened next?
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My job as a reporter takes me to some truly wonderous spots--far from the big cities and coasts. This was one of them. But loads of oil operations here too. Loren Elliott, our NYT photographer, brought a drone with him to capture the scale of the landscape.
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
My job as a reporter takes me to some truly wonderous spots--far from the big cities and coasts. This was one of them. But loads of oil operations here too. Loren Elliott, our NYT photographer, brought a drone with him to capture the scale of the landscape.
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But once again, Hamm’s security detail spotted me. This time they grabbed me by the shoulder and threw me out of Hamm’s powwow. I had been invited to the event! So I visited his hometown of Enid, Oklahoma and even found the house where he spent his youth and some guys he grew up with.
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
But once again, Hamm’s security detail spotted me. This time they grabbed me by the shoulder and threw me out of Hamm’s powwow. I had been invited to the event! So I visited his hometown of Enid, Oklahoma and even found the house where he spent his youth and some guys he grew up with.
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Next stop for me was Oklahoma City, for a conference Hamm sponsored that gathered oil industry bosses, Trump officials and tech companies to talk about how natural gas (surprise!) can help power AI data centers.
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Next stop for me was Oklahoma City, for a conference Hamm sponsored that gathered oil industry bosses, Trump officials and tech companies to talk about how natural gas (surprise!) can help power AI data centers.
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EV charger funding. Tax incentives to buy EVs. Permits for wind energy projects. All gone. But tax incentives to extract more oil and gas were expanded by Trump and GOP-controlled Congress. There has been victory after victory for Hamm and his group, Domestic Energy Producers, in Trump's second term
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
EV charger funding. Tax incentives to buy EVs. Permits for wind energy projects. All gone. But tax incentives to extract more oil and gas were expanded by Trump and GOP-controlled Congress. There has been victory after victory for Hamm and his group, Domestic Energy Producers, in Trump's second term
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Rebecca Elliott and I were meanwhile busy interviewing oil industry folks and digging up government documents detailing how Hamm has repeatedly used his clout, along with other oil-industry execs, to radically reshape policies, often in concert with Trump. Started in Trump's first term.
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Rebecca Elliott and I were meanwhile busy interviewing oil industry folks and digging up government documents detailing how Hamm has repeatedly used his clout, along with other oil-industry execs, to radically reshape policies, often in concert with Trump. Started in Trump's first term.
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I was not discouraged. Part of the job. I next saw Hamm in Houston, at the big annual energy conference. There at his book signing, I had a chance to introduce myself to him. He was cordial, friendly enough, I thought. But he declined to talk to me.
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I was not discouraged. Part of the job. I next saw Hamm in Houston, at the big annual energy conference. There at his book signing, I had a chance to introduce myself to him. He was cordial, friendly enough, I thought. But he declined to talk to me.
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But there was an awkward moment for me. I accidently ended up in an elevator with Harold Hamm himself (and his security team.) Oh yes indeed. They weren’t happy-- as one of his aides recognized me. I was escorted out by security--without a Trump pop-tart gift
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
But there was an awkward moment for me. I accidently ended up in an elevator with Harold Hamm himself (and his security team.) Oh yes indeed. They weren’t happy-- as one of his aides recognized me. I was escorted out by security--without a Trump pop-tart gift
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I have been working on and off on this story, along with my colleague Rebecca Elliott, since January when I was at Hamm’s Inauguration Day party for Trump at the Hay Adams in DC. It was a crazy event celebrating the return of big oil to power in DC. Yes, Nigel Farage was there.
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I have been working on and off on this story, along with my colleague Rebecca Elliott, since January when I was at Hamm’s Inauguration Day party for Trump at the Hay Adams in DC. It was a crazy event celebrating the return of big oil to power in DC. Yes, Nigel Farage was there.
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Hamm is only among a dozen or so key oil CEOs. But his friendship with Trump allowed him to play an outsized role in naming Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Hamm is a good buddy with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. Here they were last year with Burgum at a VIP dinner in North Dakota.
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Hamm is only among a dozen or so key oil CEOs. But his friendship with Trump allowed him to play an outsized role in naming Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Hamm is a good buddy with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. Here they were last year with Burgum at a VIP dinner in North Dakota.
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Our NYT piece examines Hamm's determined, 15-year campaign to reshape US energy policy. Why? He wanted to extend out the life of fossil fuels to allow his family-controlled company to keep drilling. He argued this is essential to US. energy security. A free link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/b...
The Oilman Who Pushed Trump to Go All In on Fossil Fuels
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December 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Our NYT piece examines Hamm's determined, 15-year campaign to reshape US energy policy. Why? He wanted to extend out the life of fossil fuels to allow his family-controlled company to keep drilling. He argued this is essential to US. energy security. A free link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/b...
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Today, in the Sunday print NYT, we published an investigative look at Harold Hamm, the 13th child of Oklahoma sharecroppers who started an oil company named Continental, which turned him into a billionaire, powerbroker and friend of Donald J. Trump. You may never have heard of Hamm. But you should
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Today, in the Sunday print NYT, we published an investigative look at Harold Hamm, the 13th child of Oklahoma sharecroppers who started an oil company named Continental, which turned him into a billionaire, powerbroker and friend of Donald J. Trump. You may never have heard of Hamm. But you should
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"The S.E.C., the top federal regulator that polices wrongdoing in the financial markets, is no longer actively pursuing a single case against a firm with known Trump ties."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
The S.E.C. Was Tough on Crypto. It Pulled Back After Trump Returned to Office.
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December 15, 2025 at 7:17 AM
"The S.E.C., the top federal regulator that polices wrongdoing in the financial markets, is no longer actively pursuing a single case against a firm with known Trump ties."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
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Two people were found dead on Sunday inside a Los Angeles home that belongs to the actor and director Rob Reiner, the authorities said.
Two Bodies Found at Home Owned by Director Rob Reiner
The Los Angeles Police Department said it is investigating the deaths as “an apparent homicide.”
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December 15, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Two people were found dead on Sunday inside a Los Angeles home that belongs to the actor and director Rob Reiner, the authorities said.
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Incredible work here.
Today, in the Sunday print NYT, we published an investigative look at Harold Hamm, the 13th child of Oklahoma sharecroppers who started an oil company named Continental, which turned him into a billionaire, powerbroker and friend of Donald J. Trump. You may never have heard of Hamm. But you should
December 15, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Incredible work here.