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S.V. Dáte

S.V. Dáte is a senior White House correspondent at HuffPost. His new work, The Useful Idiot, captures Trump’s failed management of the coronavirus pandemic and his corruption of the Republican Party.

Dáte is the author of five novels and previous two political biographies, including one of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. He has been a journalist for three decades, with stints at the Associated Press, the Palm Beach Post, National Journal and NPR. He is a bluewater sailor, with 35,000 ocean miles, including a two-year trip aboard a 44-foot cutter with his two sons, as they sailed across the Atlantic, through the Mediterranean and back via the Caribbean.


Articles by S.V. Dáte

September 9, 2020 5:32 am

Nixon’s Deal With the Devil

Sometimes you learn so much more about this world by just shutting up and listening.

All those illegals coming over,…

S.V. Dáte