West Wing Report (Edited by Paul Brandus)
@WestWingReport
Journalist/Author/Historian - reporting from the White House press room since 2008. Bio below. Subscribe to my newsletter on Disinformation - also below
Bio: 5-time author, speaker 7 presidential libraries. Dow Jones / MarketWatch columnist. Worked in Moscow for 5 years, New York 11. Also London & L.A. Network TV, Capitol Hill, White House. Been to 67 countries but only 43 states. Longtime venture capital investor. Meet my Corgi:
Spinning conspiracy theories is as natural to Trump as breathing in and out. My files show no less than 84 — count, ‘em, 84 — different conspiracy theories he has peddled over the years. Want the full list? Subscribe to my Substack "Disinformation Wire" disinformationwire.substack.com/subscribe?next…
Trump is complaining about the cost of renovating Fed building but he is spending $1bn to renovate a new Air Force One that will only fly for about a year. nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/… via @NYTimes
This is the best ever true news BBC ever made about Israel, 4 minutes but every minute is extremely important
I am working right now on my second massive report about Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, and what I can tell you so far is that I am more convinced than ever before that Donald Trump is covering up a history of pedophilic sex crimes (to wit, with pubescent but pre-legal teens).
Venezuelan Little League team denied travel visas to U.S.; won’t compete in World Series
The headline is factul and accurate. So what's the problem?
Our viral front page today was very simple. We told the facts about Donald Trump, a man who doesn't like the facts 👇 thenational.scot/news/25341478.…
Today's front page 📰 Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland Our front page has caused a stir online, prompting anger from Donald Trump's supporters. So, we want to ask: which part is factually inaccurate? 🤔
What do YOU think? Rather different narratives, indeed (via @FT)
Last night's phone call from a life long British friend who is in the upper hierarchy of their intelligent service. Paraphrase his opening line: "Peter, I can't understand why your national media failed to report what most NATO countries and Israel have known for over a decade:
AM Read via @FT ft.pressreader.com/v99e/20250724/…
Data from Trump's own ICE: -Deportations since February: 14,700 per month on avg. -Obama in 2013: 36,000 per month -Trump's stated goal: 83,333 per month (1 million/year) (first reported by NBC News)
Donald Trump, July 2018: "I accept our intelligence community's conclusion that Russia's meddling in the 2016 election took place."
-why cutting NPR funding will fuel disinformation -should lying about climate change be criminalized? -how one country is fighting back against lies -those stories and more in this week's "Disinformation Wire" substack open.substack.com/pub/disinforma…
The Opera House at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is to be renamed for Melania Trump - per a GOP proposal introduced in Congress
