JM Rieger
riegerreport.bsky.social
JM Rieger
@riegerreport.bsky.social
Senior Video Journalist, The Washington Post • jm.rieger@washpost.com • Signal: jmrieger.01
Q: You had dinner with Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago a few years ago. What role should he play in the conservative movement?

TRUMP: I didn't know he was coming and he was with...Kanye. And Kanye asked if he could have dinner, and he brought Nick. I didn't know Nick at the time.
November 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Q: Was it your brain or your heart or —

TRUMP: I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well, and they said that I had as good a result as they've ever seen.
November 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Q: Could you tell us why you needed to get an MRI? I understand that the results were good, but what was it for?

TRUMP: Because it's part of my physical. Getting an MRI is very standard. What, you think I shouldn't have it? Other people get them.
November 15, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Q: Have you ruled out a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell?

TRUMP: I haven't even thought about it. I mean, I haven't thought about it for months, maybe I haven't thought about it at all...But I don't talk about that. I don't rule it in or out. I don't — I don't even think about it.
November 15, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Q: Those $2,000 payments, will that be inflationary? Because previously Republicans have said that sending money to people, like under Biden —

TRUMP: Yeah well, the difference is this is money earned as opposed to money that was made up.
November 15, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Q: You've said that tariffs do not increase prices for consumers, but now you're lowering —

TRUMP: I didn't say they don't. I say they may in some cases, but to a large extent, they've been borne by the country.
November 15, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Q: What did Jeffrey Epstein mean in his emails when he said you knew about the girls?

TRUMP: I know nothing about that. They would've announced that a long time ago..Jeffrey Epstein and I had a very bad relationship for many years but he also saw strength because I was president.
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Plaskett declined to answer questions and directed all inquiries to her congressional staff.

Plaskett's chief of staff told The Post on Thursday that she was "not in a position to confirm or not" whether Plaskett was texting with Epstein at the hearing.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
November 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Jeffrey Epstein appeared to text with Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) during Michael Cohen's 2019 congressional hearing and may have influenced her questions.

Text message time-stamp match up with hearing video reviewed by The Washington Post.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
November 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Mike Johnson on Adelita Grijalva:

"I really like this lady, she's going to be an excellent member of Congress, she's a great person"
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Adelita Grijalva has been sworn in as a member of the House of Representatives
November 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Dick Durbin

Sept. 30, 2025: "We want to stop this cutback in health care quality and availability..That's what we're holding out for"

Nov. 10, 2025: "[I] cannot accept a strategy which wages political battle at the expense of my neighbor's paycheck or the food for his children"
November 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Jeanne Shaheen

Oct. 22, 2025: "...how important it is to be able to continue to afford [insurance]. That's what this fight is about."

Nov. 9, 2025: "Waiting another week, or another month, wouldn't deliver a better outcome."
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Jacky Rosen

Oct 8, 2025: "If John Thune thinks that I don't have the resolve to..stand with Nevadans who..deserve the dignity of just being able to go to the damn doctor..then [he] doesn't know [me]"

Nov 10, 2025: "It's the only way we can move forward with the ACA tax credits"
November 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Tim Kaine

Oct. 19, 2025: "Offering a vote in the Senate without a commitment that it would pass...is an empty offer"

Nov. 10, 2025: "It's not on a guaranteed outcome. But we were not getting a vote."
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
For weeks, Democrats said they would not vote to end the government shutdown until Republicans agreed to health care subsidies for the Affordable Care Act.

Then, some of those same Democrats voted to reopen the government without subsidies.

My latest supercut for @washingtonpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Kash Patel in December 2023:

“I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government-funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”
November 12, 2025 at 2:59 AM
TRUMP: That's the same stone as the White House [in the Rose Garden], so now you can have news conferences, you can — you know, nobody could stand in the mud.

INGRAHAM: Where did you get the stone?

TRUMP: Uh, different places.
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Q: You've said as many as 600,000 Chinese students could come to the US. Why is that a pro-MAGA position?

TRUMP: ..If we were to cut that in half..you would have half the colleges in the United States go out of business.

Q: So? So what?

TRUMP: Well, I think that's a big deal.
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
INGRAHAM: These are not our friends, sir, are they in China?

TRUMP: Well, a lot of our allies aren't our friends either, Laura. Our allies took advantage of us on trade more than China did.
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM