Antonia Hitchens

3 days ago | newyorker.com | Antonia Hitchens

On the first night of Donald Trump’s second term in office, he signed an executive order called “Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government,” which pardoned more than fifteen hundred people who were charged or sentenced for their participation in the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. Earlier in the day, Trump had appointed Ed Martin, a conservative activist and lawyer from Missouri, as the acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.

3 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Antonia Hitchens

“No dissent,” Donald Trump recently posted on social media. Antonia Hitchens reports on the brazenly transactional ecosystem he has built, which rewards flattery and lockstep loyalty. And then:Antonia Hitchens Hitchens has been writing about politics for The New Yorker since 2018. Presiding from a balcony at the White House this morning, President Trump, alongside a human-size bunny, welcomed thousands of American children to the annual Easter Egg Roll.

3 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Antonia Hitchens

Representative Andy Ogles, a Republican from Tennessee, recently started making videos from his office on Capitol Hill. Ogles, a Freedom Caucus member in his second term, often films himself in front of a reproduction of “Washington Crossing the Delaware,” the painting by Emanuel Leutze. “What you have here is a moment in time that comes along once in a century,” he says in a clip called “The Case for Trump 2028,” in which he proposes that the President run for a third term.

2 months ago | lrb.co.uk | Antonia Hitchens

Two weeks before​ Donald Trump’s inauguration, I ran into a man who calls himself the Retribution Pastor by the swimming pool at Mar-a-Lago. Joel Tenney, who comes from the largest family in Iowa, had worked to turn out voters for the caucuses last January, and occasionally led the crowds at Trump rallies in prayer. ‘Retribution means justice,’ he liked to tell them.

2 months ago | businessandamerica.com | Antonia Hitchens

“I’m getting really tired of winning,” a consultant said to me the weekend after Trump was sworn in. He had convened a mixer for aspiring Administration workers and D.C. newcomers; many in the room were hungover and sniffling, in the early stages of a post-Inauguration flu. A political strategist who attended one of the inaugural balls referred to half-joking speculation, stoked by the podcaster Shawn Ryan, that China had released a “brain-fog bioweapon” into the ballroom.