FBI agents just showed up at the homes of FOUR New York Times reporters after they reported on Trump’s $400 million Qatari jet
FBI agents just showed up at the homes of FOUR New York Times reporters after they reported on Trump’s $400 million Qatari jet.
Earlier this year, Pete Hegseth texted the attack details of imminent strikes in Yemen to a Signal group chat that accidentally included the editor of The Atlantic. Nobody was charged. Pete Hegseth kept his job.
Yesterday New York Times reporters Julian Barnes, Eric Lipton, Tyler Pager and Eric Schmitt reported on critical security concerns surrounding the Qatari-gifted plane intended to become Trump’s new Air Force One.
Trump flew home from Turkey on the old plane, leaving the new Air Force One behind on the tarmac. The Times reported that the Secret Service had raised security concerns as the “gift” has no missile defense system. Trump denied that explanation, then acknowledged the threat from Iran was real, telling reporters, “I have a threat all the time. I’m No. 1 on their list.”
Now all four reporters have been ordered to testify before a federal grand jury in Manhattan next Wednesday.
Kash Patel met with White House officials on Friday and spoke with Trump by phone that same day about the investigation. He was seen leaving the White House campus at 6:44 p.m. The subpoenas went out that night.
The documents barely explain why. They order the reporters to testify “in regard to an alleged violation of criminal law” and leave it at that.
Before the story was published, a senior FBI official called the Times and asked the newspaper not to run it, citing a national-security concern the official refused to identify.
Last year, Trump eliminated Biden-era protections that restricted the government from secretly seizing reporters phone records.
Now four journalists who reported something damaging to Trump are being summoned before a federal grand jury, with federal agents personally delivering some of the subpoenas to their homes.
The administration says this is a leak investigation. But the timing, the White House involvement and the decision to send agents to reporters’ doors make this look like an attempt to intimidate the journalists who published the story – and anyone else who might expose something Trump wants to hide.
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