Peter Baker

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

How a four-hour meeting in the White House exploring ways to overturn the election turned into a shouting match. “It was really damned close to fistfights." — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

How Trump called Georgia's Republican attorney general to tell him not to interfere after the attorney general criticized a lawsuit seeking to invalidate his state's election results favoring Biden. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

How a conspiracy theorist called a "con man" by his own lawyer and a retired general banned by Fox News for lying about McCain promulgated false assertions about the election. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

How Trump's team had an Electoral College pool on Air Force One returning from the final campaign rally and Eric Trump predicted his father would get 320 votes. (He got 232.) — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

How Kushner and Meadows reassured McConnell that Trump would eventually face reality and acknowledge defeat. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

The definitive inside look at Trump's campaign to overturn a democratic election that he lost, by the all-star team of ⁦@jimrutenberg⁩ ⁦@Jo_Becker⁩ ⁦@EricLiptonNYT⁩ ⁦@maggieNYT⁩ ⁦@jmartNYT⁩ ⁦@AllMattNYT⁩ ⁦@nytmike⁩ https://t.co/CRf49KDXhr — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Pretty awesome, @anniekarni! — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Biden calls Collins and invites her and rest of 10 Republicans who offered compromise covid relief plan to meet with him. But the White House signals it is reluctant to curb its spending package, saying "the danger now is not in doing too much: it is in doing too little." — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Biden withdraws 73 rescissions to the spending bill that Trump submitted before leaving office. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Biden withdraws 73 recessions to the spending bill that Trump submitted before leaving office. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

⁦The past few weeks in the US have been the deadliest of the pandemic but transmission seems to be slowing, with the number of new average cases 40% lower on Jan. 29 than at the peak three weeks earlier. @LaurenLeatherby⁩ ⁦@LazaroGamio⁩ https://t.co/JaP6RVny63 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

The widespread protests in Russia underscore the unraveling of the “Crimea consensus” of wide support for Putin for annexing the Ukrainian peninsula. Now, people are focused on their disappointment over slumping wages and pensions. ⁦@AndrewKramerNYT⁩ https://t.co/x5lLXdgnET — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

"It’s like we’re slipping into 1937": Today's large-scale police response signaled anxiety in the Kremlin over Navalny’s ability to unite disparate critics of Putin. ⁦@antontroian⁩ ⁦@AndrewKramerNYT⁩ ⁦@INechepurenko⁩ ⁦@ATHigginsNYT⁩ https://t.co/yzRanSV9KL — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Myanmar’s civilian leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and other government leaders are detained in early-morning raids amid rumors of an impending coup. ⁦@hkbeech⁩ https://t.co/sMb29IQ1La — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PunchbowlNews: We’re live at our first Punchbowl Book Club with @sbg1 and @peterbakernyt discussing their new book “The Man who Ran Was… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @apalmerdc: T-minus 2 hours until @PunchbowlNews inaugural book club! @bresreports will lead a convo w/ @sbg1 & @peterbakernyt on their… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Among the books the Biden team studied during the transition to prepare for his opening days were "The Defining Moment" by ⁦@jonathanalter⁩, "FDR" by Jean Edward Smith and "A Thousand Days" by Arthur Schlesinger. https://t.co/h9HKMT5FM6 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Twenty-one men interviewed by ⁦@MaggieAstor⁩ and ⁦@dannyhakim⁩ accuse John Weaver of online solicitations, including one who was as young as 14 when Weaver first reached out. Lincoln Project calls Weaver "a predator, a liar and an abuser." https://t.co/nfA1S1cEBj — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Before parting ways with five lawyers set to defend him at his impeachment trial, Trump had pushed his team to focus on his baseless claim that the election was stolen from him, one person close to the situation tells ⁦@maggieNYT⁩ https://t.co/WoKQFvfxBq — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Working in the White House usually leads to lucrative posts with lobbying firms, businesses or colleges. But the post-Trump job search looks more like "Hunger Games" than "Wall Street," writes ⁦@katierogers⁩, who reviews the early results. https://t.co/YCj6sL1Ax0 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Fact-checking Biden's first week: Of 20 factual claims analyzed, all but three were largely if not completely accurate. One claim was an overly optimistic projection, another falsely criticized Trump and a third Biden promptly corrected. ⁦@YLindaQiu⁩ https://t.co/32XxMrQHcK — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Ten Senate Republicans pitch a bipartisan compromise to Biden on his $1.9 trillion covid relief plan, but it may not impress Democrats. One of the signers said he expected it to total about $600 billion, roughly one-third of what Biden has proposed. @ESCochrane @lukebroadwater — PolitiTweet.org

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Textbooks in Saudi Arabia are slowly being scrubbed of much of their historic anti-Semitic and misogynistic content, with particularly significant revisions made in the fall. ⁦@SarahDadouch⁩ https://t.co/psNFbVyemK — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

"There seems to be less reward for figuring out how to be one of those people that says, ‘How do you find that sweet spot, that common ground, to be able to make progress?'" the retiring Portman tells ⁦@danbalz⁩ https://t.co/6SRqdP2434 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Despite the extraordinary challenges of recent years, a new poll finds that Gen Zers actually are collectively more confident that America can move forward from Trump than older groups. ⁦@SamuelAbramsAEI⁩ https://t.co/9b4sajFTcI — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

If Biden has gotten off to the fastest start of any president since Roosevelt, the speed bumps ahead threaten to drain his momentum as he heads into a more grinding February. https://t.co/h9HKMT5FM6 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

RT @gangrey: Every single time I teach, I talk about @brady_dennis's 300-word story "After the sky fell." It might be the closest any of us… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

@johnson_carrie @sbg1 Thank you so much! — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

"Part of the next few months will be an exercise in understanding which parts of our politics have fundamentally changed and which were specific to Trump’s uniquely polarizing persona," writes ⁦@sbg1⁩ https://t.co/dussbmSXvH — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

While new cases in the US have fallen from record highs earlier this month, in a majority of counties residents are at an extremely high risk for contracting Covid-19 right now. Look up the risk in your county here. https://t.co/Yu96erf3BK — PolitiTweet.org