Aaron Blake
@AaronBlake
Senior political reporter at @CNN. Ex-@washingtonpost.
Interesting detail from comedian Tim Dillon here, saying Vance is going around undercutting Bondi's claim that DOJ has thousands of Epstein evidence videos. x.com/gc22gc/status/…
Jones: Trump admin’s heavily implicated. Dillon: I had dinner last week with @VP. He told me it was just commercial porn and no videos of powerful ppl in compromising positions. But if that’s true, why would Bondi say it’s evidence? It just feels like they’re covering something.…
Statement by @weijia on behalf of the @whca on Trump excluding the @WSJ from the White House press pool as punishment for its coverage:
We have yet to see if the Epstein story really dings Trump with his base. What's clear: That skepticism of his and his administration's actions among the base is more substantial than on virtually anything else -- including Jan. 6. cnn.com/2025/07/21/pol…
Did he get into which skills he had that made him so valuable to a Ukrainian gas company in here or no?
Hunter Biden just went off on the Democratic Party: "Fuck him and everybody around him... George Clooney is not a fucking an actor. He's a brand." "James Carville hasn't won a race in 40 fucking years." "David Axelrod had one success in his political life and that was Barack…
Very different responses from Lutnick and Bessent on whether Trump's Aug. 1 tariff deadline is firm: Lutnick: "That’s a hard deadline." Bessent: "We'll see what the president wants to do."
SOME PERSONAL NEWS: My biography of Harry Reid is available for pre-order and on sale Jan. 20! Exciting news for a project I started more than four years ago on the most powerful official in NV history and one of the more influential DC leaders ever. simonandschuster.com/books/The-Game…
Lots of people are pointing to this old Trump tweet. It's worth emphasizing Obama had merely said the Redskins should "think about changing" their name. He cited "legitimate concerns." Trump is now going much further, threatening to torpedo the team's stadium deal.
President should not be telling the Washington Redskins to change their name-our country has far bigger problems! FOCUS on them,not nonsense
one year ago today, Wolf's day took quite a turn.
Enjoying a Wolf Spritzer at El Presidente restaurant here in DC.
Trump officials accused of defying 1 in 3 judges who ruled against him, "suggesting widespread noncompliance with America’s legal system." washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…
You’re telling me the Washington Post showed up to West Virginia to write about a nudist resort and found someone named Dewey Butts washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…
This is actually something we need to really grapple with, and there is an answer! One of Trump’s political talents is that he intuits how people actually think: humans rely heavily on categories to sort things and events and people to make rapid decisions And we understand…
What did they think this meant
NEW: An Epstein accuser recounts how she told the FBI on two occasions about Trump’s ties to Epstein and other powerful men like Clinton. This type of disclosure is just the type of information potentially buried in DOJ’s Epstein files that Trumps’s allies have clamored for.…
Can’t wait to read this novel from an old friend.
soooo, I wrote my first novel — the first of many to come. It’s called The Motor Route — a dark, one-night mind-bender set on a rural newspaper route in South Dakota. If you’re into psychological suspense with a surreal bend, you should check it out. amazon.com/dp/B0FH67JLQB
While downplaying his ties to Epstein, Trump has repeatedly said things that are contradicted by evidence and his own words. So how close were they? I look at 5 big questions. cnn.com/2025/07/19/pol…
My editor @isabeldobrin when I ask for an extra day or two to land a big scoop:
We have been in touch with Andry Hernández Romero’s legal team and they have confirmed he is out of CECOT and back in Venezuela. We are grateful he is alive and are engaged with both the State Department and his team.
Bondi said admin couldn't get Abrego Garcia returned from El Salvador: "That's not up to us.” Trump solicitor general D. John Sauer cited "unsubstantiated" reports that US "has control over El Salvador’s detention arrangements." The US is now trading migrants it sent there.
White House confirms 250+ Venezuelans detained in El Salvador have been swapped for 10 US nationals that were being held in Venezuela by the Maduro regime.
This is the way. Increase the size of the house, demand that districts be compact and respect county/city/town splits (crossing boundaries no more than once), and a lot of the concerns about redistricting we have melt away.
with gerrymandering and the house capped at 435, we don't really have communities represented in congress. if the house were, say, 800 seats you have an "arab" seat in michigan, more republicans from new york city, a dem seat in utah, it would be more small-d democratic