Peter Baker

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Khashoggi's children have received million-dollar houses in Saudi Arabia and monthly five-figure payments as compensation for the killing of their father as the kingdom seeks to quell international outrage. ⁦@gregpmiller⁩ https://t.co/7UP8GdF3FT — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

"We’ve still got some juice behind us": Global recession fears ease with better-than-expected manufacturing reports in the US and China. ⁦@pkwsj⁩ ⁦@PaulHannon29⁩ https://t.co/w1WEitwybT — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

“'The Matriarch' will be read, and worth reading, for a long time to come," Andrew Ferguson writes about the new ⁦@SusanPage⁩ biography of Barbara Bush. https://t.co/JIC4pQ1NUy — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

White House whistleblower tells House committee that senior Trump administration officials granted security clearances to at least 25 people whose applications had been denied by career employees, say Democratic staff. ⁦@npfandos⁩ ⁦@maggieNYT⁩ https://t.co/4HIhpxt0dn — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

RT @nytpolitics: Pete Buttigieg Says He Raised $7 Million in First Quarter for 2020 Bid https://t.co/9VaAxUhqXH — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

RT @nytpolitics: A Florida man raised $100,000 to hound the families of victims of the Sandy Hook massacre. This how Alex Jones and Infowar… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

RT @apolyakova: SNL’s take on the Kremlin’s response to the Mueller report beautifully captures how the collusion narrative benefited Mosco… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Russian collusion? In Africa, Moscow is extending its influence once again, returning in a concerted way to the continent that was once a Cold War battleground. ⁦@EricSchmittNYT⁩ https://t.co/lVVfkz4t1e — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

The Flores allegation against Biden offers a vivid illustration of the #MeToo-era challenges that await a 76-year-old pol known for close physical contact with women and men, including hugging, kissing and touching. ⁦@melbournecoal⁩ ⁦@jmartNYT⁩ https://t.co/mQ7y4Vr5MT — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Think politics is a joke where you live? In Ukraine, a comedian who plays an accidental president on television leads the first round of voting for president. ⁦@IuliiaMendel⁩ ⁦@NeilMacFarquhar⁩ https://t.co/5rQqNHzOHq — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Despite scandals, Northam, Fairfax and Herring are going nowhere, leaving Virginia in the extraordinary position of having its entire executive branch hobbled, but no mechanism to clean house and move on. ⁦@SchneiderG⁩ ⁦@LVozzella⁩ https://t.co/0czBUNFAtP — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Kellyanne Conway confirms on @FoxNewsSunday that George Conway "changed his mind" about working for Trump and "withdrew himself from consideration at the White House" -- contrary to Trump's assertion that "I, with her help, didn’t give him the job he so desperately wanted." — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

“I don’t think the central institutions of government have been discredited like this in the postwar period": The hollowing out of confidence in democracy in Brexit-torn UK. ⁦@EllenBarryNYT⁩ ⁦@benjmueller⁩ https://t.co/sXUaxm5XRC — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Accused of inappropriate touching, Biden denies wrongdoing while acknowledging that he is prone to "expressions of affection." ⁦@ByMattStevens⁩ ⁦@melbournecoal⁩ https://t.co/yKuh2wQUyk https://t.co/yKuh2wQUyk — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

"A used bullet": ⁦@mschwirtz⁩ dives deep into the murky world of Russian hit jobs and ends up talking with an assassin. https://t.co/7T0oUZiakK — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

"I can't breathe. I have asthma. Don't do this": The chilling last moments of Khashoggi's life and other new detail… https://t.co/NonQjfkKnP — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

This town was never so headspinning: ⁦@MarkLeibovich⁩ on the far-from-uplifting ballad of George and Kellyanne, providing a running background mishegoss to the main noise of the Trump era. https://t.co/JUG1lMbVoJ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

RIP Fred Malek, longtime Republican strategist and adviser to presidents. Visited him last year and he talked about still being active at 81. “Why do I do all this, which keeps me pretty damn busy? It’s a quest for relevance and achievement.” @kseelye https://t.co/OslEOTkk5O — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

RT @spetrykowski: It’s been a week! AG Barr says he’ll release the Mueller report in mid April. ⁦@costareports⁩ and our ⁦@Washington Week⁩… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Death threats, lost clients, massive legal bills: former Trump campaign adviser @MichaelRCaputo describes a journey through the modern scandal experience. https://t.co/2StdmM4o3r — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Amid Democratic scandals in Richmond, the Trump team looks south for a state it can flip next year. "Virginia is in play in 2020." @politicoalex https://t.co/uX5oX3if1w — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

The Russia story won’t go away. For Trump, it’s key to his victimization narrative—look at what the evil deep state did to me. For Democrats, it remains proof of his unfitness for office. So yes, post-Mueller DC is less different than you would think @sbg1 https://t.co/m9X1J8ECh6 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

"Trump did not seem so much a vindicated president as a vengeful one, whose political calculus involved none of the reaching out to disaffected voters that more conventional politicians might attempt at such a moment," writes @sbg1 https://t.co/m9X1J8ECh6 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

RT @sbg1: Remember when everyone was shocked when Dick Cheney swore at a senator on the Senate floor and it was overheard... https://t.co/B… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

RT @PoliticsProse: Friday: @joanbiskupic discusses the life and turbulent times of Chief Justice John Roberts in THE CHIEF https://t.co/LyY… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Sessions was fired because of an ethics investigation conducted by, wait for it, Bill Barr, the outgoing Bush attorney general. Sessions’s successor, Louis Freeh, was the one who really investigated Clinton and the two despised each other. But Clinton never sought to fire Freeh. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

RT @sbg1: Amazing it took this many days just to find out an approximate length of the Mueller Report. https://t.co/On6FjWgUX5 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

RT @POTUSPressPool: .@nytimes chief White House correspondent & @MSNBC analyst @peterbakernyt is on @POTUSPressPool with @juliemason at 3pm… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Supreme Court refuses to block Trump administration's ban on bump stocks, attachments enabling semiautomatic rifles to fire in rapid bursts, meaning the regulation will remain in force while challenges move through the lower courts. ⁦@adamliptak⁩ https://t.co/4VFLkTjbvL — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Mueller’s report exceeds 300 pages, Justice Department says, encouraging questions about what else he found beyond… https://t.co/hsn9gZ4ZLX — PolitiTweet.org