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ARTICLES BY BESS LEVIN
Eric Trump Is in the ****ting-Himself Stage of the Trump Org Fraud Investigation
ABOUT 19 HOURS AGO | By Bess Levin | Vanity Fair
We learned earlier this week via a court filing that Mazars USA, the accounting firm that has worked for years with Donald Trump and the Trump Organization, had not only cut ties with the family business but let it be known that the financial statements it had prepared for it could not be trusted. That would be bad news even if the Trump Organization was known as the most scrupulous, ethical, upstanding organization in the business world, but of course, it is not. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?
You’ll Never Believe It but Hillary Clinton Did Not, in Fact, Spy On Trump’s White House
ABOUT 22 HOURS AGO | By Bess Levin | Vanity Fair
Imagine, if you will, that a special counsel appointed by the federal government declared in a court filing that he had evidence that a major political figure—let’s call her Hillary Clinton—had paid spies to infiltrate the White House and run surveillance on Donald Trump in order to frame him as a foreign asset. The whole thing would be a big flipping deal! One for which there would be major, major consequences and far-reaching fallout. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?
Trump’s Longtime Accountants Just Threw Him Under the Bus
2 DAYS AGO | By Bess Levin | Vanity Fair
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Donald Trump is currently in what the legal profession defines as “a world of pain.” In addition to a congressional investigation into his actions before, during, and after January 6, which could lead to a criminal referral to the Justice Department, the former president is the subject of no fewer than four criminal and civil investigations by prosecutors across the country. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?
A Handful of Republicans Are Trying to Prevent Trump 2024 (And It’s Not Going Well So Far)
2 DAYS AGO | By Bess Levin | Vanity Fair
There are approximately 1 million reasons why the words “Donald Trump has won the 2024 election” should send shivers down people’s spines, up to and including the prospect of again watching the president of the United States board Air Force One with toilet paper stuck to his shoe, and seeing Christmas ruined for countless children by the leader of the free world. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?
Surprise: Some of the Documents Trump Tried to Hide at Mar-a-Lago Were Actually Pretty Important
5 DAYS AGO | By Bess Levin | Vanity Fair
As you’ve probably heard by now, Donald Trump has a problem with paper. Specifically at issue is the fact that he spent his four years in office (1) regularly shredding presidential documents (2) possibly flushing some down the toilet, and (3) absconding to Mar-a-Lago with more than a dozen boxes containing presidential records that were not his to take. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?
South Carolina Congresswoman Pledges Total Devotion to Trump One Day After He Endorses Her Opponent
6 DAYS AGO | By Bess Levin | Vanity Fair
Donald Trump and his acolytes regularly engage in hugely cringeworthy behavior, but perhaps the most cringeworthy subgenre of “Trump or Trump-adjacent people doing things that make us want to die of secondhand embarrassment“ is the one wherein Trump thoroughly debases and/or humiliates someone and that someone then publicly begs for more. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?
Trump’s Toilet Obsession Just Took a Dark Turn
6 DAYS AGO | By Bess Levin | Vanity Fair
Of the many obsessions that Donald Trump inflicted on the public during his four years in office—his hatred of windmills, the heights of politicians, hydroxychloroquine—one of the most bizarre was his fixation with toilets. Specifically, his insistence that it took an inordinate number of flushes to clear the bowl. “People are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times as opposed to once,” he told reporters from the Roosevelt Room in 2019, claiming the EPA was looking into the alleged problem. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?
Report: Jared and Ivanka Aren’t Winning Any Popularity Contests With Florida Neighbors
7 DAYS AGO | By Bess Levin | Vanity Fair
When Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner relocated from New York to Washington, D.C., in 2016, the duo perhaps assumed that their next move would be a much quicker one—the less than two miles between their Kalorama mansion and the White House, which they believed they’d inhabit when Ivanka became the first woman president. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?
Republican Lawmakers Now at the “Kiss My Ass” Stage of the Mask Debate
7 DAYS AGO | By Bess Levin | Vanity Fair
Did you spend most of the last two years working from home and only interacting with your colleagues through a screen? Has your office begun to require your presence on-site at least a few days of the week? Are you feeling a bit rusty when it comes to interacting with other humans? Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?
Ron DeSantis Signals He’d Be Open to Making Florida an Anti-Gay Hellhole
8 DAYS AGO | By Bess Levin | Vanity Fair
A funny thing about Republicans is that despite claiming to be the party of “personal freedom,” in the last year alone, they have tried to prevent Americans from: reading certain books, teaching about systemic racism, making decisions about their own bodies, and, in the case of some groups, voting in democratic elections. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?
Florida Republicans Think They Can Trick People Into Supporting Their Wildly Restrictive Abortion Ban Because It’s Not as Bad as Texas’s
8 DAYS AGO | By Bess Levin | Vanity Fair
Strangely, reproductive rights advocates aren’t buying the whole “Hey, it’s better than Texas!” argument, and desperately hope others won’t fall for it. “If they drop a bill so extreme and so crazy that it dominates the news for months, when they drop a 15-week ban, it does not look as extreme,” Annie Filkowski, policy director of the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, told the Post. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?
Marco Rubio’s Mouth Refuses to Form the Words “Trump Was Wrong”
9 DAYS AGO | By Bess Levin | Vanity Fair
Last Friday, a truly shocking event occurred. After an entire year of former V.P. Mike Pence continuing to be a good little soldier, saying only that he and Donald Trump would never see “eye to eye” on the events of January 6, Pence actually came out and condemned the insurrection his boss incited. (Which, as a reminder, involved rioters shouting “Hang Mike Pence.”) Did this suddenly make Pence an upstanding individual who we’d want to hold public office? No, of course not. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?
Donald “Like, Really Smart” Trump May Have Given Prosecutors a Reason to Charge Him With Obstruction
9 DAYS AGO | By Bess Levin | Vanity Fair
As you’ve no doubt heard by now because there is literally no escaping this man, at a rally last month in Texas, Donald Trump devoted a good portion of his remarks to attacking a trio of prosecutors who are currently investigating him. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?
Mike Pence Grows a Spine, Says Trump’s Election Ravings Are “Un-American” and “Wrong”
12 DAYS AGO | By Bess Levin | Vanity Fair
For more than a year now, we’ve found Mike Pence’s take on the events of January 6, 2021, more than a little strange. While he has stated publicly that he believes it was a “dark day” in history, he’s also gone out of his way not to blame Donald Trump for nearly getting him killed, simply saying that he does not think the two men will ever see “eye to eye” on the whole thing. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?
Donald Trump Jr., Gunning for First Fatherly Hug of 2022, Joins War on Lindsey Graham
12 DAYS AGO | By Bess Levin | Vanity Fair
Something you’ve probably picked up on during the last few cursed years is that Donald Trump demands complete and total subservience from everyone in his life, the kind generally reserved for the relationship between a man and his dog. No one—and we mean no one—can ever cross him and God help the person who even entertains the idea of leveling the absolute mildest criticism, even if said person has historically treated him like an emperor king. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?
MacKenzie Scott Once Again Reminds People Jeff Bezos Is a Cheapskate by Comparison
13 DAYS AGO | By Bess Levin | Vanity Fair
Over the last several years, MacKenzie Scott, formerly Bezos, has made a name for herself as a philanthropist committed to giving away large gobs of money. Last June, for example, she donated $2.74 billion to 286 different organizations, and on Thursday, Communities in Schools, a network of nonprofits that work in 2,900 “high-poverty” K-12 schools across the country, said that the national office and its affiliates had received a cool $133.5 million from the former first lady of Amazon. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?
Yeah, This Was Clearly the Next Logical Step in Rudy Giuliani’s Career
13 DAYS AGO | By Bess Levin | Vanity Fair
As we’ve discussed at great length around these parts, one of the most burning questions of the 21st century is “what the hell happened to Rudy Giuliani?” Once “America’s mayor” and a 2008 candidate for president, the guy has since squandered his reputation about 970,000 different ways, each time hitting bottom so hard that no one would dare imagine he’d be able to get up again. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?
Republican Senator Suggests Biden’s Black Female SCOTUS Pick Won’t Know “A Law Book From a J.Crew Catalog”
14 DAYS AGO | By Bess Levin | Vanity Fair
Since Joe Biden reiterated his campaign pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court, conservatives have engaged in a daily battle to determine who can offer the most sexist, racist, and generally offensive commentary in response to this long-overdue, historic moment. Tucker Carlson has obviously been a reliable source of mouth sewage. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?
Lindsey Graham Spent Six Years With His Head Up Trump’s Ass for Nothing
14 DAYS AGO | By Bess Levin | Vanity Fair
Throughout his time in the White House, Donald Trump collected a number of exceedingly reliable footstools. There was Attorney General William Barr, who basically served as the former president’s personal lawyer. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who regularly shredded his dignity on the guy’s behalf. Mike Pence, other than that one time. And, of course, the vast majority of the Republican Party, which lived in constant fear of getting on the wrong side of the then president. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?
Trump Officially Loses It, Demands Mike Pence Be Investigated for Not Overturning the Election
15 DAYS AGO | By Bess Levin | Vanity Fair
Something you may have heard once or twice over the past 15 months is that Donald Trump thinks he won the last presidential election. “This is a fraud on the American public,” he declared in the wee hours of November 4, 2020, after his lead in various battleground states began to shrink. “This is an embarrassment to this country. We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election.” This, of course, was a bald-faced lie. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?
Trump Literally Shredded Presidential Records, and No, He Wasn’t Supposed to Do That
15 DAYS AGO | By Bess Levin | Vanity Fair
Earlier this month, Donald Trump’s efforts to conceal exactly what he was doing before, during, and after the January 6 attack on the Capitol were dealt a major blow when the Supreme Court ruled that the House committee investigating the insurrection could get its hands on the documents he desperately wanted to keep under lock and key. The panel began receiving the records it had requested from the National Archives, and will continue to do in the coming weeks and months. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?
Trump Makes It Clear He’d Be an Out and Out Dictator If Reelected in 2024
16 DAYS AGO | By Bess Levin | Vanity Fair
From his insistence on telling people about his bathroom habits to his indifference regarding human life, there are a lot of reasons why Donald Trump being reelected in 2024 would be a terrible, terrible turn of events. One of them that’s never far from the mind these days? The fact that he’s made it as clear as possible that he would have absolutely no regard for the Constitution or rule of law. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?
Trump Lashes Out at Prosecutors Like a Man Who Knows He’s About to Be Held Accountable for the First Time in His Life
16 DAYS AGO | By Bess Levin | Vanity Fair
One of the most frustrating things about Donald Trump is the fact that despite being what U.S. penal code 212(j)(1)(j) defines as “a hugely corrupt motherf--ker,” for most of his 75 years on earth, he’s escaped any and all responsibility for his actions. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?
You’ll Never Believe It, but Mitch McConnell Is Already Threatening to Block Biden’s SCOTUS Pick
19 DAYS AGO | By Bess Levin | Vanity Fair
There aren’t a lot of things you can count on in life, but one thing on which you definitely can, with the consistency of the most Swiss of Swiss watches, is Mitch McConnell blocking Democratic presidents’ agendas just to be a dick. While even the worst people in Washington typically have something that motivates them beyond their own power, the Kentucky lawmaker really and truly does not. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?
19 DAYS AGO | By Gabriel Sherman, Cristian Farias, Abigail Tracy, Bess Levin | Vanity Fair
Peter Thiel, MAGA Enthusiast Good morning from the Hive newsroom! Tech billionaire and MAGA enthusiast Peter Thiel held a fundraiser for Liz Cheney's primary challenger Harriet Hageman at his lavish Miami compound on Wednesday, Gabriel Sherman reports. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?