Ken Dilanian
@kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social
Justice and Intelligence Correspondent, NBC News. Reach me at DilanianNBC@proton.me
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“What I don’t understand is why some Democrats are hopping on this bandwagon. They may believe the Epstein file release will hurt Trump. But they are undermining public trust and sowing public cynicism in ways that make the entire progressive project impossible.“
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Opinion | The Epstein Story? Count Me Out.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“What I don’t understand is why some Democrats are hopping on this bandwagon. They may believe the Epstein file release will hurt Trump. But they are undermining public trust and sowing public cynicism in ways that make the entire progressive project impossible.“
. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
“What I don’t understand is why some Democrats are hopping on this bandwagon. They may believe the Epstein file release will hurt Trump. But they are undermining public trust and sowing public cynicism in ways that make the entire progressive project impossible.“
. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Opinion | The Epstein Story? Count Me Out.
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“What I don’t understand is why some Democrats are hopping on this bandwagon. They may believe the Epstein file release will hurt Trump. But they are undermining public trust and sowing public cynicism in ways that make the entire progressive project impossible.“
. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
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EXCLUSIVE: Grand jury investigating Trump admin officials
@carolleonnig.bsky.social and @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social join Katy Tur with more of their exclusive reporting.
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@carolleonnig.bsky.social and @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social join Katy Tur with more of their exclusive reporting.
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EXCLUSIVE: Grand jury investigating Trump admin officials
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November 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Grand jury investigating Trump admin officials
@carolleonnig.bsky.social and @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social join Katy Tur with more of their exclusive reporting.
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@carolleonnig.bsky.social and @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social join Katy Tur with more of their exclusive reporting.
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SCOOP: A federal grand jury in Maryland is investigating whether FHFA director Bill Pulte and Justice Department prosecutor Ed Martin improperly appointed unauthorized people to help in mortgage fraud investigations of President Trump's critics. With @carolleonnig.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
SCOOP: A federal grand jury in Maryland is investigating whether FHFA director Bill Pulte and Justice Department prosecutor Ed Martin improperly appointed unauthorized people to help in mortgage fraud investigations of President Trump's critics. With @carolleonnig.bsky.social
New: In private correspondence with Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein wrote in 2011 that Donald Trump, “spent hours at my house” with a victim of sex trafficking, referring to Trump as the “dog that hasn’t barked.” Emails obtained by @housedemocrats.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
New: In private correspondence with Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein wrote in 2011 that Donald Trump, “spent hours at my house” with a victim of sex trafficking, referring to Trump as the “dog that hasn’t barked.” Emails obtained by @housedemocrats.bsky.social
Ghislaine Maxwell, the Epstein confidante and child sex trafficker, is being waited on “hand and foot” by the staff at her minimum security prison camp while she prepares a request that Donald Trump commute her sentence, according to whistleblower revelations. More on @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Ghislaine Maxwell, the Epstein confidante and child sex trafficker, is being waited on “hand and foot” by the staff at her minimum security prison camp while she prepares a request that Donald Trump commute her sentence, according to whistleblower revelations. More on @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social
New: Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after they filed a sentencing memo describing a defendant as having been part of “a mob of rioters” who “attacked the U.S. Capitol.”
October 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
New: Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after they filed a sentencing memo describing a defendant as having been part of “a mob of rioters” who “attacked the U.S. Capitol.”
Here's one of the alleged mob guys charged in the NBA-related gambling takedown today: "Joe Brooklyn" Lanni, an alleged Gambino family capo.
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Gambino mobster ‘Joe Brooklyn,’ 6 other wiseguys cop guilty pleas for violent bid to take over NYC’s garbage biz
“Get this axe and you make him – two,” one mobster allegedly threatened an extortion victim.
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October 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Here's one of the alleged mob guys charged in the NBA-related gambling takedown today: "Joe Brooklyn" Lanni, an alleged Gambino family capo.
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This federal gambling takedown is absolutely wild. Mafia soldiers, an NBA coach, rigged poker games with crooked shuffling machines and hidden cameras…and an allegation that an NBA player fixed a game to profit from a bet.
October 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This federal gambling takedown is absolutely wild. Mafia soldiers, an NBA coach, rigged poker games with crooked shuffling machines and hidden cameras…and an allegation that an NBA player fixed a game to profit from a bet.
EXCLUSIVE: Ex-DoJ officials say Trump is destroying the department. Most sweeping accusations against a president since Nixon
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Ex-Justice officials: 'It's our duty to sound the alarm'
Scores of officials who have resigned or been forced out of the Justice Department this year are speaking out against its "destruction."
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October 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Ex-DoJ officials say Trump is destroying the department. Most sweeping accusations against a president since Nixon
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As I reported last night: The DoJ fired the top national security prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia a few hours after MAGA activist Julie Kelly denounced him on X because he has been detailed to work for the deputy attorney general in the last administration.
October 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
As I reported last night: The DoJ fired the top national security prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia a few hours after MAGA activist Julie Kelly denounced him on X because he has been detailed to work for the deputy attorney general in the last administration.
New: Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are demanding that AG Bondi turn over documents relating to the firing of the EDVA prosecutor that paved the way for the Comey indictment. @durbin.senate.gov and others
September 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
New: Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are demanding that AG Bondi turn over documents relating to the firing of the EDVA prosecutor that paved the way for the Comey indictment. @durbin.senate.gov and others
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BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted on two counts by Virginia grand jury, a senior Justice Department official tells MSNBC. @msnbc.com Justice and Legal Correspondent @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social joins The Weeknight with the latest.
September 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted on two counts by Virginia grand jury, a senior Justice Department official tells MSNBC. @msnbc.com Justice and Legal Correspondent @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social joins The Weeknight with the latest.
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3/ @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social confirms ABC News reporting
Prosecutors "presented newly sworn US attorney Lindsey Halligan with a memo explaining ... there isn’t enough evidence to establish probable cause a crime was committed, let alone enough to convince a jury to convict him."
Prosecutors "presented newly sworn US attorney Lindsey Halligan with a memo explaining ... there isn’t enough evidence to establish probable cause a crime was committed, let alone enough to convince a jury to convict him."
September 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
3/ @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social confirms ABC News reporting
Prosecutors "presented newly sworn US attorney Lindsey Halligan with a memo explaining ... there isn’t enough evidence to establish probable cause a crime was committed, let alone enough to convince a jury to convict him."
Prosecutors "presented newly sworn US attorney Lindsey Halligan with a memo explaining ... there isn’t enough evidence to establish probable cause a crime was committed, let alone enough to convince a jury to convict him."
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BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey is expected to be indicted by Trump’s DOJ, according to new reporting from @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social and Carol Leonnig.
September 25, 2025 at 4:09 AM
BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey is expected to be indicted by Trump’s DOJ, according to new reporting from @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social and Carol Leonnig.
Warner Accuses Trump Administration of Undermining National Security www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
Warner Accuses Trump Administration of Undermining National Security
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September 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Warner Accuses Trump Administration of Undermining National Security www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
Exclusive: FBI agents have been pulled off terrorism and child predator cases to chase undocumented immigrants
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President Trump's deportations are diverting FBI agents off child predator cases
Officials warn that President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown is leaving domestic terrorists, including online extremists who prey on children, unpoliced.
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September 16, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Exclusive: FBI agents have been pulled off terrorism and child predator cases to chase undocumented immigrants
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FBI and DOJ being 'politicized' in way 'we've never seen in modern history': @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social
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FBI and DOJ being 'politicized' in way 'we've never seen in modern history': Dilanian
The FBI is searching the home and office of former National Security Adviser John Bolton as part of a “national security investigation in search of classified records,” according to a source familiar ...
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August 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
FBI and DOJ being 'politicized' in way 'we've never seen in modern history': @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social
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FBI agents fear Trump is turning the bureau into a police force, at the expense of its national security mission. Latest plan: Equip FBI agents with tasers.
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Trump is turning the FBI away from investigating terrorism and corruption, sources say
Staffing cuts and a new focus on violent crime will leave fewer resources for the agency's other goals.
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August 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
FBI agents fear Trump is turning the bureau into a police force, at the expense of its national security mission. Latest plan: Equip FBI agents with tasers.
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Supporters have launched a fundraising appeal to help two veteran FBI agents recently fired for what appear to be political reasons:
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Support Their Service
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August 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Supporters have launched a fundraising appeal to help two veteran FBI agents recently fired for what appear to be political reasons:
www.supporttheirservice.com
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The latest @crisisroompod.bsky.social has just dropped! Fiona Hill, once the president’s top Russia adviser & inside the room at the Helsinki Trump/Putin summit joins Amber Rudd @mpolymer1.bsky.social and I to discuss what’s about to happen in Alaska podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Who is playing who? Trump, Putin, and the Alaska ‘Peace Summit’
Podcast Episode · The Crisis Room · 14/08/2025 · 40m
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August 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The latest @crisisroompod.bsky.social has just dropped! Fiona Hill, once the president’s top Russia adviser & inside the room at the Helsinki Trump/Putin summit joins Amber Rudd @mpolymer1.bsky.social and I to discuss what’s about to happen in Alaska podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
New and exclusive: Sen Durbin is asking the DoJ Inspector General to investigate the apparent politically-motivated firings of FBI leaders.
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Firings at FBI spark demand for probe from top Senate Democrat
Personnel purges and new physical requirements risk driving out women and people of color from the bureau’s staff, Sen. Dick Durbin warns in a letter exclusively obtained by MSNBC.
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August 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
New and exclusive: Sen Durbin is asking the DoJ Inspector General to investigate the apparent politically-motivated firings of FBI leaders.
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Letter from FBI Director Kash Patel firing veteran FBI agent Walter Giardina, whose wife died of cancer last month at age 49. Patel accuses this agent, a Marine combat veteran, of “weaponization.” Many of his FBI colleagues told me he did his job scrupulously and ethically.
August 9, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Letter from FBI Director Kash Patel firing veteran FBI agent Walter Giardina, whose wife died of cancer last month at age 49. Patel accuses this agent, a Marine combat veteran, of “weaponization.” Many of his FBI colleagues told me he did his job scrupulously and ethically.