Peter Baker

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

RT @JoshNBCNews: JUST IN - 6 members of the Trump campaign advance staff in Tulsa doing logistics for Trump's rally tested positive for COV… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

AF2 stuck on the runway at Andrews for 70 minutes now, awaiting conditions safe enough for takeoff, per pooler @jdawsey1. Lightning spotted in the area, he reports. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Judge rejects Trump DOJ effort to block Bolton book, saying horse is out of the barn. But he is harsh on Bolton, saying he "has exposed his country to harm and himself to civil (and potentially criminal) liability." — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

I have no classification training either and have not seen the six examples cited by the government since they're not public, but fwiw having read the book and spent many years covering Washington, there's nothing in it that seems like an obvious national secret. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Trump DOJ admits that as many as half of the six examples of "classified information" identified by a political appointee with no training in classification may not have been classified when Bolton wrote his book but became so only when the political appointee deemed them to be. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

The NSC career official who completed her review of Bolton's book and determined there were no more changes necessary did not submit an affidavit in favor of Trump DOJ effort to now say there is classified into in it. ⁦@charlie_savage⁩ https://t.co/YCO0fn1Ag3 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Worth remembering that Berman is a Republican who donated to Trump, worked at the same law firm as Giuliani and was first installed by Trump administration. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Days after Bolton accused Trump of "obstruction of justice as a way of life," Barr tries to oust prosecutor who has investigated Trump associates for crimes. ⁦@BenWeiserNYT⁩ ⁦@WRashbaum⁩ ⁦@nicole_hong⁩ ⁦@maggieNYT⁩ ⁦@ktbenner⁩ https://t.co/6ZYPVVikM7 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Here's that Fox poll that Trump is so mad about -- Biden leads 50-38, a four-point larger margin than last month. https://t.co/RBlbf1ZT4u — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Spending on police has gone up even as crime has gone down. Is there a relationship? @tmthomasdc @beatricezjin https://t.co/xdPTiRts9C — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Bolton is just the latest ex-aide trashed by Trump as losers and liars. "The record of retrospective insult raises an obvious question: If they were such incompetent dolts why did Trump hire them in the first place?” @Noahbierman @EliStokols @ChrisMegerian https://t.co/x03vnP8gPj — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

RT @GlennKesslerWP: I covered the State Department for nine years and cannot imagine any Secretary of State calling a national security adv… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Pompeo accuses Bolton of spreading "lies" and calls him "a traitor who damaged America by violating his sacred trust with its people." But he doesn't deny once saying Trump is "so full of shit." — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

While federal government leadership has faded, about 800 Americans are still dying every day from the coronavirus, a pace that would yield 200,000 dead by the end of September. ⁦@SherylNYT⁩ ⁦@noahweiland⁩ ⁦@smervosh⁩ ⁦@SangerNYT⁩ https://t.co/bhhO6wxfzp — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Supreme Court civil rights act ruling this week breathes new life into a variety of lawsuits brought by transgender plaintiffs alleging discrimination. ⁦@EricaLG⁩ https://t.co/lrRZA4HHms — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

"Together, at the wrong time in history": Trump and de Blasio, two New Yorkers confronting moments of crisis that have challenged their leadership. ⁦@jwpetersNYT⁩ https://t.co/alZbNezidH — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

RT @shearm: At the heart of the Supreme Court's decision today was reporting from BORDER WARS, the book that @juliehdavis and I wrote last… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Bolton says the NSC review of his book mainly required him to remove quote marks from conversations involving Trump. So he offers a guide to readers: “In some cases, just put your own quotation marks around the relevant passages; you won’t go far wrong.” https://t.co/8wzPqerQ2G — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

The court ruling was a blow to a central Trump campaign promise—that he would “immediately terminate” an Obama executive order that Trump called an illegal executive amnesty for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants. ⁦@adamliptak⁩ ⁦@shearm⁩ https://t.co/JbBgtiNuWA — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Supreme Court preserves DACA on 5-4 ruling written by Roberts, another rebuke to Trump this week. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

"The ultimate score-settling in the book is not with Pompeo or Mnuchin. It is with Donald Trump," whose "own national-security adviser ... came to believe he adopted 'obstruction of justice as a way of life.'" ⁦@sbg1⁩ https://t.co/lyIianMBR8 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Takeaways from Bolton book, including his views of Trump-Kim meeting (“foolish mistake”), Trump’s desire to invite Kim to the White House (“a potential disaster of enormous magnitude”) and Helsinki meeting with Putin (a “self-inflicted wound”). https://t.co/8wzPqerQ2G — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Despite the coronavirus, NASA plans to launch Mars probe Perseverance next month to explore for evidence of ancient life on the Red Planet and begin the process of returning samples to Earth for the first time. @wapodavenport https://t.co/btih6QFfVL — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Kazakhstan’s Nazarbayev, one of the world’s most enduring autocrats who ruled for nearly 30 years until stepping down in 2019, tests positive for the coronavirus. https://t.co/k0E9MHhacF — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Gorsuch’s gay rights ruling sent a shudder through the ranks of conservative activists and columnists, some of whom saw signs of another betrayal by a Republican-appointed justice who ended up siding at times with liberals on key issues. @DavidGSavage https://t.co/ggZjsujUsv — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

As @JonLemire points out, Trump’s response to Bolton is: (a) he’s revealing classified information and (b) his book is just “lies & fake stories.” But of course it can’t be both. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Bolton book: A withering portrait of a president ignorant of even basic facts about the world, susceptible to transparent flattery by authoritarian leaders manipulating him and prone to false statements, foul-mouthed eruptions and snap decisions. https://t.co/l09DshC2tH — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Newly installed Trump appointee wastes little time instituting political purge of yet another part of government traditionally independent of politics, firing chiefs of four news outlets and disbanding the bipartisan board overseeing them. ⁦@ewong⁩ https://t.co/kwyQMLv83P — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Thanks for the feedback! Key to life: Always listen to @sbg1 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

"The president is acting trapped and defensive and his self-destructive behavior has been so out of step for an incumbent in an election year that many advisers wonder if he is truly interested in serving a 2nd term." ⁦@maggieNYT⁩ ⁦@anniekarni⁩ https://t.co/LY2YyzNRXP — PolitiTweet.org