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Elaina Plott Calabro
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Elaina Plott Calabro
@elainaplott
Writer, @TheAtlantic. Writing a book about Frank M. Johnson and George Wallace for @penguinpress. Alum @nytimes. Tuscaloosa native. Ruth 1:16.
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    Elaina Plott Calabro
    @elainaplott
    Aug 11, 2025
    Canada gave its citizens the right to die. Ten years later, doctors are struggling to keep up with the demand. My story for the September issue of @TheAtlantic:
    Canada Is Killing Itself
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    Elaina Plott Calabro
    @elainaplott
    Dec 8, 2022
    Paul Whelan begged your father merely to tweet about him in 2019. When I profiled Elizabeth Whelan and her efforts to free her brother a few months later, the Trump White House did not so much as acknowledge my requests for comment. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
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    Donald Trump Jr.
    @DonaldJTrumpJr
    Dec 8, 2022
    The Biden Admin was apparently worried that their DEI score would go down if they freed an American Marine.
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    Elaina Plott Calabro
    @elainaplott
    Aug 27, 2024
    In the course of reporting on Patel, and the threat that he and other loyalists like him would pose to the country in a second Trump term, I struggled to shake what I learned about a series of events that took place on October 30, 2020. I want to share them with you here. 🧵
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    nxthompson
    The Atlantic
    @nxthompson
    Aug 26, 2024
    This whole @elainaplott story about Kash Patel is wild. But particularly the details from Oct 30, 2020 when Patel, for reason no one quite knows, told Defense that they had air rights for a West African rescue mission they hadn't yet secured ... theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
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    Elaina Plott Calabro
    @elainaplott
    Aug 27, 2024
    Replying to @elainaplott
    Anyway, if you've made it this far, I hope you'll read the whole story, from our October issue, here:
    The Man Who Will Do Anything for Trump
    From theatlantic.com
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    Elaina Plott Calabro
    @elainaplott
    Aug 18, 2021
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    Steve Cortes
    @CortesSteve
    Aug 18, 2021
    Raise your hand if you want this plane landing in your town? America paid unimaginable costs in Afghanistan because of uniparty globalists who dominated the Bush & Obama administrations. No more…
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    Elaina Plott Calabro
    @elainaplott
    Aug 27, 2024
    Replying to @elainaplott
    I don't know the answers to these questions. But three months of reporting later, they're the questions I can't stop thinking about it — particularly as Patel, in a second Trump term, could very well assume remarkable power atop America's national security establishment.
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    Elaina Plott Calabro
    @elainaplott
    Oct 18, 2021
    Smiled like this all of Saturday.
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    Elaina Plott Calabro
    @elainaplott
    Apr 23, 2024
    “Friends still get a kick out of a story about how Johnson once told Trump that he was praying for him, to which the then-president responded: ‘Thank you, Mike. Tell God I said hi.’”
    The Accidental Speaker
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    Elaina Plott Calabro
    @elainaplott
    Aug 27, 2024
    Replying to @elainaplott
    Through a spokesperson, Patel denied saying this, or making up the approval story. But three former senior administration officials independently cited the near catastrophe in West Africa as one of their foremost recollections from Patel's tenure.
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    Elaina Plott Calabro
    @elainaplott
    Jul 22, 2024
    I've listened to years and years of political speeches by Kamala Harris. This is the most confident I've heard her.
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    Elaina Plott Calabro
    @elainaplott
    Dec 1, 2024
    Here is a gift link to my profile of Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee for FBI Director:
    The Man Who Will Do Anything for Trump
    From theatlantic.com
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    Elaina Plott Calabro
    @elainaplott
    Aug 27, 2024
    Replying to @elainaplott
    Was it because the election was in four days, and Patel was simply that impatient to set in motion a final potential victory for Trump, whatever the risk — was it as darkly cynical as that? Did his lack of experience mean he just had no grasp of the consequences?
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    Elaina Plott Calabro
    @elainaplott
    Aug 27, 2024
    Replying to @elainaplott
    Two people familiar with the exchange told me that Tony Tata, the Pentagon official and retired Army general to whom Patel had originally given the green light, confronted Patel in a rage. "You could've gotten these guys killed!" he shouted. "What the fuck were you thinking?"
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    Elaina Plott Calabro
    @elainaplott
    Aug 27, 2024
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    Patel's response: "If nobody got hurt, who the fuck cares?"
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