Daniel Lippman

@dlippman · joined 13 Feb 2009

Reporter @Politico covering the White House and Washington. Email tips to daniel@politico.com. Text or Signal: 413-854-8628. Repped by @LAIspeakers

54 962Followers

5 024Following

14 133Posts total

152.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views2 175this account964median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.96%this account3.25%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.64%this account2.01%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 175	964	2.26×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.96%	3.25%	1.22×
Engagement rate	0.64%	2.01%	0.32×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

109.3K24 Aug

8.5K

7.4K

6.2K

1.7K28 Aug

2.2K1 Sep

15.5K3 Sep

193

54 Sep

1.7K

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.61%24 Aug

0.64%

0.66%

2.39%

0.17%28 Aug

0.64%1 Sep

1.12%3 Sep

2.07%

0.00%

0.00%4 Sep

1.05%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.01%.

What the audience does

Likes63.1%797 in total

Reposts21.8%276 in total

Replies2.7%34 in total

Quotes2.1%26 in total

Bookmarks10.4%131 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

NEW: Former Trump acting FEMA head Dave Richardson told @ByTomFrank and me that the reason the admin. didn't shut down FEMA as planned was fear of bad press if a disaster response went poorly. "Fear is what kept it. People are really afraid of the media." https://t.co/jTQIJ66n72 1.7K views · 10 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@dlippman hope people finally start noticing for real by then 5 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@dlippman Patriot 21 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@dlippman Daniel, remember when Paxton received $274,000 from Chair of Texas Tech Board and the next day his office wrote a letter threatening the Big 12 with a $200 million lawsuit if the Conference didn’t back off sanctions for TT for letting admitted gambler, Brenden Sorsby, p 193 views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

SCOOP: TX AG Ken Paxton has pushed for strict enforcement of gambling laws. But after he and his PAC took thousands of dollars from Kalshi and its CEO, he declined to sign onto several nationwide efforts by many state AGs to rein in the prediction market. https://t.co/3teY4lgGrw 15.5K views · 104 likes · 59 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

SCOOP: The Iraqi government has hired an old associate of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Bakr Al-Samarraie, to help deal with U.S. officials. He recently was a real estate agent and has little traditional government or diplomatic experience. https://t.co/vN5709SwG0 https://t.co/ 2.2K views · 7 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

“The Arkin Group and Ms Kataoka believe their statements that Mr Troost falsely claimed that Mr Srivastava posed as a US intelligence operative during their dealings were inaccurate and they withdraw all such statements about Mr Troost.” https://t.co/60WteZqdWI 1.7K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 28 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@dlippman @AntiToxicPeople This is ridiculous, I lived in the DC area for years, plenty of people temporarily crashed at the houses of their rich friends when they were quickly appointed to a role, heck I wasn’t even rich and after PCS deployments several CIA officers slept in my 6.2K views · 132 likes · 7 reposts · 9 replies 24 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Spear and Valani didn’t respond to requests for comment. An HHS spokesperson told me: “Food, lodging or entertainment received as ‘personal hospitality’ of any individual is not a reportable gift.” The house: https://t.co/tiAfWiux47 7.4K views · 37 likes · 11 reposts · 1 replies 24 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Spear and Valani have been friends for a while but the stay at the Georgetown house raised eyebrows among some people at HHS who questioned the ethics of her stay, according to the people. 8.5K views · 46 likes · 6 reposts · 1 replies 24 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

SCOOP: Stefanie Spear, a top aide to HHS Sec’y Robert F. Kennedy Jr., early on in the Trump admin stayed for a short period at a $10M Georgetown house rented by vape billionaire Riaz Valani, a top investor in Juul, which is regulated by HHS, per 2 people familiar w/ the matter. 109.3K views · 455 likes · 182 reposts · 18 replies 24 Aug 2026 · Open on X →