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Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he arrives to court for his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024 in New York City. (Justin Lane - Pool/Getty Images)

What Donald Trump’s criminal trial reveals about a potential second Trump administration

Andrea Bernstein

Leonard Leo speaks at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC on April 23, 2019. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump’s court whisperer had a state judicial strategy. Its full extent only became clear years later

Andrea Bernstein, Andy Kroll

Leonard Leo speaks at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC on April 23, 2019. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

We don’t talk about Leonard: The man behind the right’s Supreme Court supermajority

Andy Kroll, Andrea Bernstein, Ilya Marritz

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) (Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

Jim Jordan issues sweeping information requests to universities researching disinformation

Andrea Bernstein

Leonard Leo speaks at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC on April 23, 2019. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

SCOTUS takeover architect Leonard Leo’s new group seeks to influence all politics and culture

Andy Kroll, Andrea Bernstein, Nick Surgey

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers a primetime speech at Independence National Historical Park September 1, 2022 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

How the Biden administration caved to Republicans on fighting election disinformation

Andrea Bernstein, Ilya Marritz

Donald Trump arrives at a rally on April 2 near Washington, Michigan. ( Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Trump has a long history of gathering and wielding “compromising” sensitive info to help himself

Andrea Bernstein

White House Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

It’s illegal for federal officials to campaign on the job — but Trump staffers keep doing it anyway

Andrea Bernstein

Jared Kushner (AP/Evan Vucci)

How is Jared Kushner tackling the White House’s coronavirus response without any evident experience?

Andrea Bernstein

(Getty/Spencer Platt)

To understand Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, you have to learn his family history

Andrea Bernstein

Donald Trump Jr. (Getty/Jeff Vinnick)

Donald Trump Jr. pushed ‘blatantly illegal’ project in India, former official says

Eric Umansky, Andrea Bernstein

The Empire backs down

Andrea Bernstein

McCain vs. New York

Andrea Bernstein

If he can make it here …

Andrea Bernstein

Rudy loses big — but does it matter?

Andrea Bernstein