December 2024
Trump picks another in-law for top Middle East post
Massad Boulos has been named an adviser, a day after the president-elect appointed another son-in-law’s father to be US ambassador to Paris.
- Susie Coen
November 2024
The idealists who thought Truth Media was their big chance
They thought they could build a mainstream platform that prized free speech and treated users as more than eyeballs. Then they ran up against Trump’s management choices.
- Amanda Chicago Lewis
Employment jumps; Cbus CEO apologises; Trump’s shock pick
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The billionaires in charge of Trump’s White House
His first term was heavily reliant on the party establishment. The inner circle now includes billionaires and is in tune with the ideas of the new right.
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- Alex Rogers and James Politi
August 2024
Chinese officials struggle to build ties with Trump’s campaign
The frustrated overtures come amid rising bipartisan hostility towards China and a realisation in Beijing that US policy is unlikely to become less hawkish.
- Demetri Sevastopulo
June 2024
- Opinion
- US election
Why Trump, and not Hunter Biden, is trashing America’s courts
Treating the rule of law as a partisan issue is the mark of a corroded political culture.
- Edward Luce
Trump claims ‘sick people’ are behind his prosecution
The former president declared that he would appeal against the landmark verdict, calling the trial a “scam” and the judge a “tyrant”.
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- Maggie Haberman and Michael Gold
March 2024
Trump is richer than ever but still desperate for cash
The former president’s fortune on paper has vaulted to $US7.2 billion thanks to his newly public media company, but legal strains threaten his finances.
- Erik Larson, Tom Maloney and Stephanie Lai
February 2024
- Opinion
- US election
The real reason Trump wants the White House again
The Republican frontrunner is hoping to cash in on the presidency to mend his business woes.
- Edward Luce
October 2023
- Analysis
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
US continues push for Saudi-Israel ties even after Hamas assault
US President Joe Biden and his top aides have recently attempted to negotiate a complex three-way ‘normalisation’ deal with Saudi Arabia and Israel.
- Edward Wong, Mark Mazzetti and Vivian Nereim
December 2021
Jared Kushner’s investment firm raises $4b in committed funding
Mr Kushner, a former top aide to former US president Donald Trump who is married to his daughter, Ivanka, formed the Miami-based Affinity Partners this year.
- Steve Holland
June 2021
Where is Trump now? Florida coast becomes Republican power base
Lured south by sunshine, golf and money, the former president’s allies and hangers-on have formed an alternate universe that revolves around Mar-a-Lago.
- Joshua Green
March 2021
America’s swab supply depends on two cousins who hate each other
The pandemic brought the business opportunity of a lifetime to a small family-owned business in Maine but it was not enough to quell an epic family feud.
- Olivia Carville
February 2021
Ivanka and Jared’s White House run ended with sharp income drop
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s assets appreciated only modestly, if at all, over the past four years, while the sharemarket climbed more than 60 per cent.
- Sophie Alexander and Bill Allison
January 2021
Trump pardons Bannon, 142 others
The pardon for former key aide Steve Bannon marks the latest example of the outgoing president using his pardon power to end the legal woes of his allies.
- Josh Dawsey and Matt Zapotosky
Prospect of pardons in final days fuels market in access to Trump
The brisk market for pardons reflects the access peddling that has defined Donald Trump's presidency as well as his unorthodox approach to exercising unchecked presidential clemency powers.
- Michael S. Schmidt and Kenneth P. Vogel
How Trump's COVID-19 response went from bad to worse
In the heat of a re-election campaign and in the face of mounting evidence of a coming surge in infections and deaths, Trump's management of the crisis was in effect reduced to a single question: What would it mean for him?
- Michael D. Shear, Maggie Haberman, Noah Weiland, Sharon LaFraniere and Mark Mazzetti
December 2020
- Opinion
- Rear Window
Rupert Murdoch faces the Wendi gambit
While Murdoch prepares for a new chapter with Trump as ex-president, Wendi Deng has a few links of her own to work on.
- Neil Chenoweth
November 2020
Ivanka and Jared look for a new beginning
Donald Trump's election defeat leaves his daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner out of a job, but they are already planning for life outside Washington, DC.
- Elizabeth Williamson
Biden's chief of staff pick signals end of Trump-era chaos
A strategist with a legal mind and political ear, Ronald Klain is the sort of behind-the-scenes Washington hand more common in decades past.
- Michael Scherer