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Robert Draper

@draperrobert

Author & Staff Writer, NY Times. Married to @KirstenPowers. Native Texan resisting urges to post about @TexasLonghorns, @Astros, @HoustonRockets or @Titans.

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The Latino-dominated border communities of Texas, long a bastion for Democrats, appear to have cast a referendum on the party's immigration, economic and cultural policies.

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Inside the Federal Work Force That Trump Has Promised to Eviscerate. President-elect Trump and his allies have pledged to strike fear in the heart of what they term “the deep state.” They have already succeeded. Robert Draper Michael Crowley Zach Montague nytimes.com/2024/11/08/us/…

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The first-ever AG nominee to feel compelled to say (as he did to me last year), "I'm not some Lord of the Flies nihilist." My latest on Gaetz: nytimes.com/2024/11/13/us/…

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Breaking: A hacker going by the name of Altam Beezley has accessed transcripts of testimony said to be damaging to Gaetz--my story: nytimes.com/2024/11/19/us/…

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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: nytimes.com/2024/11/19/us/…

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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 nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/…

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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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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.

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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.

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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 nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/…

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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 Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic into a classified war briefing: nytimes.com/2025/03/16/us/…

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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 nytimes.com/2025/03/16/us/…

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I can’t believe Aaron Parsley aaron parsley of Texas Monthly had the strength to write this story about what his family endured in the #GuadalupeRiver flood. It will leave you frozen. texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…