White House reporter Aamer Madhani received a tip from an official that incoming senior Trump administration officials had begun questioning career civil servants who work on the White House National Security Council about who they voted for in the 2024 election, their political contributions, and whether they had made social media posts that could be considered incriminating by President-elect Donald Trump’s team.
Madhani enlisted AP chief White House correspondent Zeke Miller to help shore up details and press the Trump transition team to respond. Together, they landed a scoop about behind-the-scenes efforts by the incoming Trump administration to clear the critical foreign policy-making arm of the White House of anyone it believes is less than 100% behind the president-elect’s agenda.
AP was alone on this story, with other news organizations scrambling to catch up and writing stories citing AP reporting.
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