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Dan Diamond
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White House reporter at the Washington Post. Focused on politics, policy and public health. Democracy dies in darkness.

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I didn’t write that it was taken when he first stood up; it came after he pivoted to look at the man seeking aid, and then he looked away when people were being ushered from the room.
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Reposted by Dan Diamond
I read the screenshot first and your commentary second, and, yes, I really needed the Oxford comma there. But also, the show that existed in my imagination for a minute would probably be far better than any of the three shows actually described here.
November 9, 2025 at 4:41 AM
of course he’s on your list of unheralded Gueys
November 9, 2025 at 4:17 AM
That’s not true — Oz immediately went over, caught the man and cared for him until the White House Medical Unit team arrived.
November 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Respectfully, there were plenty of people who were fixated on the identity of the man and what his collapse allegedly revealed.

A top trending item on X this morning still invokes the "Novo Nordisk executive."

If we can't fix this small, defined error, what does that say about the bigger stuff?
November 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I can only speak for myself — if there's a factual error on my stories, I want to know, and I'll fix it.
November 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Great case study in how wrong news spreads in our broken social-media.
November 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
They don't look that alike — one has dark eyebrows, the other doesn't, for instance.

I've talked to people with direct knowledge. The man who collapsed was not a mid-level Novo Nordisk staffer based in Switzerland.

Most important:

*Novo Nordisk confirms Gordon Findlay was not in the Oval Office.*
November 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM