Lowell was named a White House Correspondent for the Guardian in 2025 to cover Trump's second term. Before that, he had been the newspaper's lead reporter covering the federal and congressional investigations into Trump after he left office in 2020. Lowell joined its Washington bureau in 2021. He started his career reporting on the
Russian doping scandal and the International Olympic Committee for the
i newspaper while in high school.
MSNBC host Chris Hayes has described Lowell's reporting as "groundbreaking" and Mehdi Hasan has called him a "scoop machine". In November 2021, Lowell broke the story that Trump had called political operatives based at a “war room” in the
Willard hotel and asked them about ways to obstruct the certification President
Joe Biden's election win the night before the
January 6 attack on the US Capitol. The Trump war room scoop led to the
House January 6 committee to open a new line of inquiry, issue a subpoena to a senior Trump adviser and won the 2022
National Press Club's Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism. In June 2023, during the criminal investigation into
Trump's retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago property, Lowell reported on the contents of confidential notes dictated by Trump's lawyer Evan Corcoran that were subpoenaed and later used by the
Special Counsel Jack Smith to indict Trump for obstruction of justice. In July 2023, the day before Trump was indicted in the documents case, Lowell also broke the news that Trump had known for weeks that he was a “target” in the criminal investigation, an indication from prosecutors that he was likely to be charged. == References ==