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Garrett Owen (page 5)

Email: garrett.owen@salon.com

Garrett Owen is a National Affairs Fellow for Salon. His extensive coverage of the Trump administration includes reporting on the Epstein files, the Iran War, the Justice Department, and gerrymandering efforts across the country.

He is based in New York City and is the 2025 recipient of the Silurians Press Club Award for his local reporting in Manhattan. His work has appeared in Time Out, Byline, Brooklyn Magazine, Straus News, and others.

He can be reached on email, and tips can be sent via Signal to garrettowen.05

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PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - DECEMBER 28: U.S. President Donald Trump greets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at his Mar-a-Lago club on December 28, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump invited Zelensky to his private club to work on the U.S.-proposed peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, as the conflict approaches four years since the sudden full-scale invasion by Russia on February 24, 2022. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

“Progress achieved”: Zelenskyy says US has agreed to 15 year security guarantees for Ukraine

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US President Donald Trump participates in calls to US service members, on Christmas Eve, from the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, December 24, 2025. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP / Getty Images)

Trump orders Christmas Day airstrikes against Islamic State in Nigeria with “more to come”

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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem delivers remarks to staff at the Department of Homeland Security headquarters on January 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Manuel Balce Ceneta-Pool/Getty Images)

“Unconscionable and unlawful”: Judge blasts Trump admin for blocking Dem states’ disaster funding

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Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, MA on 9/8/04. (Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images)

“What are they hiding?”: Epstein files reveal “10 co-conspirators” investigated by DOJ, FBI

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LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 23: Activist Greta Thunberg is arrested and sits in the back of a police van outside the offices of Aspen Insurance on December 23, 2025 in London, England. The activists targeted the company due to its alleged business relationship with the Israeli defence contractor Elbit Systems. They are also protesting in support of six of the so-called "Filton 24" prisoners who were arrested in 2024 and have been refusing food for over 50 days while being held on remand ahead of a trial. (Photo by Martin Pope/Getty Images)

Greta Thunberg arrested in London while supporting Palestine Action hunger strike

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Bari Weiss (Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press)

Canned “60 Minutes” segment airs in Canada

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Donald Trump and his then-girlfriend, Melania Knauss, alongside future convicted sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago on February 12, 2000. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Images))

Trump traveled on Epstein’s private jet “many more times than reported” new documents reveal

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WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 16: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks at a press conference with other Senate Democrats on the upcoming deadline for the release of the Epstein files, in Washington, DC on December 16, 2025. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

“Disregard of the law”: Schumer asks Senate to pursue legal action against DOJ over Epstein files

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UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 4: FBI Director Kash Patel conducts a news conference at the Department of Justice on Thursday, December 4, 2025, announcing the arrest of Brian Cole Jr., who allegedly placed pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic National Committee offices on January 6, 2021. Also appearing are, from left, ATF Special Agent in Charge Anthony Spotswood, Darren B. Cox, deputy assistant director of the FBI Criminal Investigative Division, and Attorney General Pam Bondi. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

“An embarrassment”: FBI Director Kash Patel has taxpayer-funded luxury, armored BMW

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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 24: Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House March 24, 2025 in Washington, DC. During the event, it was announced that Hyundai will invest $20 billion in U.S. manufacturing, including a $5 billion investment in a Louisiana steel factory that will produce 1,500 jobs. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

“We decide our own future”: New Trump envoy draws ire for plans to annex Greenland

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Bari Weiss' tenure at CBS News has been tumultuous (Leigh Vogel/Getty Images)

“Bari Weiss spiked our story”: CBS yanks “60 Minutes” segment on Trump deportees at the last minute

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US conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro speaks during Turning Point's annual AmericaFest conference in remembrance of late right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk, in Phoenix, Arizona on December 18, 2025. (Photo by Olivier Touron / AFP)

“Frauds and grifters”: MAGA infighting on first day of TPUSA’s America Fest

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According to public opinion polls, a growing number of MAGA supporters are expressing regret for supporting President Donald Trump in 2024. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump suspends green card lottery in wake of Brown University, MIT shootings

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WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 07: U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump attend the 48th annual Kennedy Center Honors at the Kennedy Center on December 07, 2025. (Photo by Allison Robbert/Getty Images)

“Beyond wild”: Kennedy Center board vote to rename venue after Trump

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks to the press on Oct. 17, 2025. (Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images)

Congress abandons healthcare negotiations, will let ACA subsidies expire

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WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 16: President Donald Trump speaks at a Hanukkah reception on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025 at the White House in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Peter W. Stevenson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

White House says US would be “lucky” to have Trump stay in office after current term

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U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks during a news conference after the House Republican Conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol Building on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“I have not lost control”: Johnson blindsided by centrist GOP revolt on ACA vote

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Former Treasury Secretary & White House Economic Advisor Larry Summers. (Robin Marchant/Getty Images)

“Shameful”: Harvard secretly investigated students who leaked Summers’ Epstein apology

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U.S. Vice President-elect Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) arrives for the Senate Republican leadership elections at the U.S. Capitol on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Vance responds to Wiles’ claim he’s a “conspiracy theorist”

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U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks during a news conference after the House Republican Conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol Building on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“Political malpractice”: Johnson faces bipartisan blowback for nixing ACA subsidies vote

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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 04: U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles (R), speaks during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House on February 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. Netanyahu is the first foreign leader to visit Trump since he returned to the White House last month. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“Hit piece”: Susie Wiles accuses Vanity Fair of crafting “negative narrative” of Trump admin

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WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 15: U.S. President Donald Trump poses with a recently signed executive order classifying fentanyl as a "weapon of mass destruction," during a ceremony for the presentation of the Mexican Border Defense Medal in the Oval Office of the White House on December 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. During the ceremony, Trump recognized the first 13 service members to receive the recently established Mexican Border Defense Medal (MBDM), which recognizes service members supporting Customs and Border Protection on the U.S.-Mexico border. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“Twisting the meaning of words”: Trump declares fentanyl a “weapon of mass destruction”

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Former FBI Director James Comey (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Trump’s politically motivated prosecutions keep crumbling

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An undated photograph of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein (Democrats on the House Oversight Committee)

House Democrats release new batch of Epstein photos

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