Josh Dawsey

Washington, D.C.

Political investigations and enterprise reporter

Education: University of South Carolina

Josh Dawsey is a political enterprise and investigations reporter for The Washington Post. He joined the paper in 2017 and previously covered the White House. Before that, he covered the White House for Politico, and New York City Hall and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for the Wall Street Journal.
Latest from Josh Dawsey

Tensions grow between Trump and Lake in Arizona race for Senate

The former president fears that GOP candidate Kari Lake might not win and will drag down his own prospects in the battleground state

April 29, 2024
Kari Lake, Republican candidate for Senate from Arizona, and an aide leave Capitol Hill on March 6.

Trump and DeSantis meet privately in Florida

Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis met privately Sunday morning in Miami, breaking a years-long chill between the presumptive Republican nominee and his onetime chief primary rival.

April 28, 2024
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former president Donald Trump, both pictured in 2023.

Trump on trial: Personal anguish, political defiance and a loss of control

The former president has tried to campaign during his New York trial, but it’s constraining him.

April 27, 2024
Former president Donald Trump greets construction workers and union members at the project site for the new JPMorgan Chase headquarters before going to Manhattan criminal court Thursday.

GOP urges Secret Service to move protesters from park near convention arena

The Republican Party is urging the Secret Service to move protesters further away from the arena in Milwaukee where the party will hold its convention in July.

April 26, 2024
The Fiserv Forum will host the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

Competing agendas and cover songs: Inside Trump’s talks with foreign leaders

It’s unclear whether the conversations will have an effect on a former president who is impulsive with his decision-making.

April 26, 2024
Former president Donald Trump welcomes Polish President Andrzej Duda at Trump Tower in New York on April 17.

How Trump turned the 2016 primary into a supermarket tabloid gutter fight

Court testimony detailed how Donald Trump used the National Enquirer to smear GOP rivals who now support him in his current trial.

April 24, 2024
Then-Republican presidential candidates Sen. Marco Rubio, Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz argue during a Republican presidential primary debate at The University of Houston on Feb. 25, 2016.

At Trump’s N.Y. trial, the jury pool spoke, and he had to listen

The jury selection process for Trump’s hush money trial gave ordinary Americans a chance to offer their opinions on the former president’s nearly five decades in the public spotlight.

April 21, 2024
Former president Donald Trump arrives at Manhattan's Criminal Court with his legal team ahead of the start of jury selection in New York on Monday.

Trump deploys favorite political tool, social media, as legal cudgel

Behind the scenes, researchers working for Trump’s legal defense are scouring prospective jurors’ online lives, hunting for bias.

April 18, 2024
Former president Donald Trump arrives at Manhattan criminal court with his legal team ahead of the start of jury selection on Monday.

Trump rails against wind energy in fundraising pitch to oil executives

“I hate wind,” the former president told oil industry officials at a recent Mar-a-Lago dinner, doubling down on promises to end this form of clean energy.

April 17, 2024
Two of the offshore wind turbines that have been constructed off the coast of Virginia Beach, on June 29, 2020.

Trump trial further splinters his relationship with his beloved New York

He was a Queens-born developer who conquered Manhattan and the tabloids, but now he’s a Florida man who visits the city only intermittently.

April 17, 2024
Donald Trump stands next to a model during a 2005 news conference presenting a proposed rebuilding plan for the World Trade Center.