Peter Baker

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

They originally drafted nine last summer and then added a 10th placeholder titled "The Next High Crime." A few weeks later they learned about Ukraine. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

House Democrats drew up 10 articles of impeachment against Trump last year charging him with Mueller obstruction, hush money, emoluments, dangling pardons and other offenses before narrowing their case to Ukraine, per new inside book by ⁦@NormEisen⁩ https://t.co/XfA7bi6q8F — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @sangerkatz: Since Covid arrived, 179,000 more Americans have died than would in a normal year. https://t.co/el2F4irjhD @DeniseDSLu @jsh… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jaketapper: Elijah Cummings' widow says Rubio made 'honest mistake' in mixing up her husband and John Lewis - CNNPolitics https://t.co/… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @maggieNYT: “Lewis Lukens, the embassy's former second-in-command, confirmed in a text to NPR that Johnson told him about the president'… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @marclacey: Said @peterbakernyt who worked with @FeliceBelman back in the day at the @oberlinreview: “She was whip smart, preternatura… — PolitiTweet.org

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Very exciting! Welcome, @FeliceBelman! — PolitiTweet.org

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@RoigFranzia According to the notes, the general went on to say: "I also spent a lot of time talking to Melania Trump about the locations of all our intercontinental ballistic missile fields. She was more inquisitive and smarter than the president." — PolitiTweet.org

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“The president is an idiot," the Joint Chiefs vice chair said, per notes taken by his accuser. "He is just a businessman without the basic understanding of national security. Everything is a business transaction for him.” @RoigFranzia https://t.co/pIAQq75pr0 — PolitiTweet.org

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More than 15,000 restaurants in America have closed permanently during the pandemic and as many as 10% of independent operators could shut by year's end. ⁦@heatherhaddon⁩ https://t.co/YBLO38NdQk — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump will hold another briefing at 5:30 p.m. today, White House announces. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Make sure to check out @TheOutpostMovie, the @RodLurie film based on the @jaketapper book about one of the most intense battles in Afghanistan. It's a gripping, propulsive, must-watch story of heroism and humanity, while posing important questions about our venture there. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump offers supportive words to Ghislaine Maxwell, who has been charged with luring multiple underage girls into Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit: "I wish her well." — PolitiTweet.org

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Hours after McEnany said Trump is tested daily and sometimes "multiple" times a day, Trump says he is usually tested every two or three days. "I don't know of any time I took two tests in one day." — PolitiTweet.org

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After weeks of dismissing the seriousness of the virus crisis, Trump acknowledges that it is getting worse not better: "It will probably unfortunately get worse before it gets better, something I don’t like saying about things but that’s the way it is." — PolitiTweet.org

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Fauci, pushing back politely on Trump who called him "a little bit of an alarmist": "I consider myself more a realist than an alarmist," he tells @jaketapper — PolitiTweet.org

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Fauci tells @jaketapper that he has not been invited to today's White House coronavirus briefing but had "a good long conversation" with Trump toward the end of last week. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump's order on apportionment could shift a few House seats from some states to others, potentially helping Republicans, but it will almost certainly wind up challenged in court. @katierogers https://t.co/XHeMotADuE — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump has repeatedly claimed that he saved 2 million lives through his handling of the coronavirus. Today McEnany inflated that even further, saying, "The president saved 3 to 4 million lives." — PolitiTweet.org

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Will Fauci or Birx or other public health experts appear at the president's 5 p.m. coronavirus briefing? "You’ll have to tune into see," says McEnany. — PolitiTweet.org

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Apologies to @dgelles and @gelles ! But good article. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

RT @michele_norris: Deep breaths for this.....thanks my late sisterfriend Gwen who stayed on me until the very end to write a book about t… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

The last time a presidential candidate sustained such a large advantage for so long was nearly 25 years ago, when Clinton led Dole in 1996. But big leads have tended to fade in more recent cycles. Will that happen to Biden? ⁦@Nate_Cohn⁩ https://t.co/qyVNZ4gWoD — PolitiTweet.org

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"I'm less optimistic than I was 30 days ago." "I have a more cautious view than I did four weeks ago." Nation's CEOs tell ⁦@gelles⁩ that they're feeling grimmer as virus cases spike in the South and West and new lockdowns loom. https://t.co/u0pCgAe5rZ — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: "By comparison to most other countries, who are suffering greatly, we are doing very well." https://t.co/e4BU8rG8Ll — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NYTimesPR: .@nytimes does not plan to publish Tucker Carlson's residence, which Carlson was aware of before his broadcast tonight. http… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Over the years, @RohdeD grew used to seeing denialism and conspiracy theories in Serbia as it sought to pretend the Srebrenica massacre never happened. Now he's seeing similar trends here in America. https://t.co/uTCCG18koq — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says he is bringing back the daily coronavirus briefings starting tomorrow because they got good ratings. “I was doing them and we had a lot of people watching, record numbers watching in the history of cable television, and there’s never been anything like it,” he says. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Almost a year since his unlikely promotion to the top job in the Pentagon, Esper, the man known derisively in some national security circles as “Yes-per,” has started to show a willingness to challenge Trump, writes @laraseligman https://t.co/NESkzIEipc — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KannoYoungs: Our sources have given us permission to post the DHS memo prepared for DHS acting secretary Chad Wolf on the lack of train… — PolitiTweet.org