Death of the Trump Scoop

An 'act-of-God' Signal scoop and an Epstein omertà: proof the Trump White House doesn’t leak anymore.

Reporting for ABC News as a White House Correspondent during Trump's first term.

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A few weeks ago in Washington, over lunches, dinners, and too many drinks, as I tried to get a feel for how the epicenter of power has shifted, one theme kept surfacing: the death of the Trump scoop.

In 2016, when I first landed on the White House beat for POLITICO, I was part of a scrappy crew of reporters, the farm team f…