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Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and MSNBC analyst. Proud husband of @sbg1 and father of @tab_delete . Paperback of "THE DIVIDER" now out.

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Joined March 2010

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Peter Baker

8 months

Anyone who wants to understand what a second Trump term would be like need only peek behind the scenes to find out what really happened during his first term. The paperback edition of "THE DIVIDER: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021," w/ @sbg1 comes out Sept. 19.

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Peter Baker

4 years

Federal ethics law: "An employee shall not use or permit the use of his Government position or title or any authority associated with his public office to endorse any product, service or enterprise ... "

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If it’s Goya, it has to be good. Si es Goya, tiene que ser bueno.

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Trump: "You know the way it was asked. I was looking at you." Reporter: "No you weren't sir. I wasn't there yesterday."

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Peter Baker

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Lincoln did not delay elections during the Civil War. FDR did not delay elections during World War II.

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Peter Baker

2 years

Reminder: Russia signed a binding international agreement in 1994 committing "to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine” and “to refrain from the threat or use of force” against the country.

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Peter Baker

5 years

Trump @PressSec confirms that White House has suspended the hard pass of a reporter because it doesn't like the way he does his job. This is something I've never seen since I started covering the White House in 1996. Other presidents did not fear tough questioning.

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Peter Baker

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Trump: “We’re doing very well.” Coronavirus deaths over the last 7 days: Australia: 70 Canada: 37 France: 51 Germany: 49 Italy: 55 Japan: 27 Spain: 57 Sweden: 27 UK: 414 US: 7,189

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Peter Baker

4 years

In the Rose Garden, Trump calls himself "an ally of all peaceful protesters." At the very same moment outside the White House, police and troops have moved against peaceful protesters with tear gas and flash bangs.

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Peter Baker

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Is it really possible that the president of the United States is the only person who doesn't understand that stopping the count at this point would mean Biden wins?

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Peter Baker

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Old enough to remember when it would have been shocking to see a former president admit that his goal was to have "overturned the Election."

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Peter Baker

5 years

Jobs created during the first 21 months of Trump’s presidency and the final 21 months of Obama’s presidency: Trump: 4,054,000 Obama: 4,477,000 So job creation is no better now than it was under Obama. What is striking is that the recovery continues so long after it started.

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Peter Baker

4 years

Very haunting listening now to the bells at Washington National Cathedral tolling for the 200,000 killed by the coronavirus in the United States.

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Peter Baker

3 years

Friend reminds us that the night before the 2009 inauguration, Obama and McCain joined together for a bipartisan unity dinner. Obama praised McCain as "an American hero." McCain vowed to "do the best I can to help you in the hard work ahead."

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The Bidens stop at Call Your Mother, the bagel shop in Georgetown, en route back to the White House -- already a big change. Trying to remember but can't recall Trump ever stopping anywhere in DC other than his own hotel.

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Trump: "They're very respected doctors. There was a woman who was spectacular in her statements about it and she's had tremendous success with it." Reporter: "She's also made videos saying that doctors make medicine using DNA from aliens." Trump: "I know nothing about her."

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Trump, Feb. 28: "The press is in hysteria mode" over coronavirus. Trump video, April 13: "The media minimized the risk from the start."

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Peter Baker

5 years

It's become commonplace enough in the past two years that it no longer gets much notice. But it's worth remembering that no other president in decades publicly threatened "retribution" against a television network because it satirized him.

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Peter Baker

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Stahl: "You're OK with some tough questions?" Trump: "No, I'm not." That basically sums it up.

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Peter Baker

2 years

In almost every way, Putin seems to have achieved the opposite of what he ostensibly wanted. Instead of pushing the US out of Europe, there are more American troops back on the continent. Instead of driving a wedge into the West, he has unified it. (1)

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Peter Baker

6 years

The president of the United States praises the convicted felon who ran his campaign because "he refused to break" and give information to prosecutors.

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Peter Baker

4 years

Most damning line so far from a woman whose father died of the coronavirus: “His only preexisting condition was trusting Donald Trump.”

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Peter Baker

4 years

He did not go inside the church or inspect damage or meet with ministers or talk with protesters or lay a wreath or make a speech or answer questions or clean up debris. He did nothing but pose for photos. Pretty sure that's the definition of a photo op.

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4 years

Kellyanne Conway says it's wrong to call President Trump's walk to St. John's Church a photo-op. That is "calling into question" Trump's faith. Note: Trump walked over from the White House to the church, held up a bible, and posed for photos. Most would call that a photo-op.

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Peter Baker

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Why is it okay to have mail-in voting in Florida and not elsewhere? Trump: "Florida has a great Republican governor..."

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Trump, Feb. 26: "This is a flu. This is like a flu." Trump, today: "It's not the flu. It's vicious."

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Peter Baker

4 years

"The president's never seen that video," McEnany says of a video he himself tweeted out.

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Peter Baker

2 years

Did Trump commit a crime? "This is the smoking gun," Sol Wisenberg, a former deputy to Ken Starr, tells me about today's hearing. "There isn’t any question this establishes a prima facie case for his criminal culpability on seditious conspiracy charges."

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Peter Baker

4 years

How did Italy, France and Spain do? Average daily deaths over last week: US: 1,204 Italy: 6 France: 10 Spain: 2

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Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

Wrong! We have more cases because we have tested far more than any other country, 60,000,000. If we tested less, there would be less cases. How did Italy, France & Spain do? Now Europe sadly has flare ups. Most of our governors worked hard & smart. We will come back STRONG! ::

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Peter Baker

2 years

In the first year of Trump’s presidency, the S&P 500 hit new records 62 times and finished up 17%. In the first year of Biden’s presidency, the S&P 500 hit new records 70 times and finished up 29%.

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Peter Baker

4 years

Just remembering how Bush 43 in his final weeks in office pardoned a developer convicted of mail fraud. When it came out that the developer’s father had contributed $30,000 to the GOP, Bush was so upset that it would look like a favor for a donor that he took the pardon back.

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Peter Baker

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McEnany, today: "The president has never downplayed critical health information." Trump, March 19: "I wanted to always play it down."

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Peter Baker

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Trump, Thursday: “I don't believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators.” Reporter, today: “You’ve said repeatedly that you think some of the equipment that governors are requesting they don’t actually need.…” Trump: “I didn’t say that. I didn’t say that. I didn’t say that.”

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Trump: “Countries where there have been very significant flareups over the last short period of time are Spain, Germany, France, Australia, Japan.” Coronavirus deaths reported on Aug. 1: US: 1,244 Spain: 0 Germany: 0 France: 11 Australia: 7 Japan: 1

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Peter Baker

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Sorry, simply not true. I've interviewed 7 presidents and covered 4 full time over last couple decades. All complained about the press and at times lashed out. But none of them, Republican or Democrat, engaged in the kind of "enemy of the people" rhetoric Trump routinely does.

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This is also a lie. Obama did repeatedly. @peterbakernyt is lying as usual.

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White House shifts its explanation for barring @Acosta — no more mention of “placing his hands” on anyone, now the issue supposedly is that he kept asking questions. So if they think he monopolizes a press conference, why do they call on him?

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Mitt Romney on the Trump-Cruz effort to overturn the results of a certified democratic election: "I could never have imagined seeing these things in the greatest democracy in the world. Has ambition so eclipsed principle?"

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“This country is a hellhole.” — Donald Trump, May 20, 2015 “But she called our country and our people ‘garbage.’” — President Trump, July 23, 2019

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Peter Baker

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The president of the United States today accused Bob Mueller, a former FBI director and prosecutor, of a felony by asserting that he lied to Congress. The White House had no explanation and offered nothing to back up the charge.

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Peter Baker

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Trump says he was “extremely angry” about the Khashoggi killing but “nobody has has directly pointed a finger” at MBS. Except, of course, the CIA and the UN.

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Peter Baker

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In statement, White House @PressSec acknowledges barring CNN reporter @kaitlancollins because she “shouted questions and refused to leave” Oval Office at end of pool spray. If that’s the standard, they will have to bar every member of the press pool since that’s what all of us do

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Peter Baker

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Donald Trump Jr.: "Why aren't they talking about deaths? Oh, oh, because the number is almost nothing because we've gotten control of this thing." Coronavirus deaths in US yesterday: 1,016 Deaths over last 7 days: 5,579 Deaths on 9/11: 2,977

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Who was it that said the Saudis have messed with the wrong newspaper? If they think this is going away without answers, they must have had some other paper in mind.

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Trump, 2020: "I played golf over the weekend. The Fake & Totally Corrupt News makes it sound like a mortal sin." Trump, 2014: "When you're president you sort of say like I'm going to sort of give it up for a couple of years and I'm really going to focus on the job."

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For the first time, the public sees the president’s own daughter confirm that she accepted Barr’s assessment that the election was not stolen.

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Peter Baker

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Trump says citizenship has to be asked on the census to determine congressional districts. Actually, districts are drawn up based on total population, not the number of citizens, a practice upheld by the Supreme Court as recently as 2016.

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Trump: "So after 50 years of being virtually empty, I built up our oil reserves during my administration ... to 100% full.” Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Jan 2017: 695 million barrels Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Jan 2021: 638 million barrels

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Trump assails Warren for proposing to rename bases named for Confederate generals and expresses hope that “Republican Senators won’t fall for this” — perhaps unaware that the Republican-controlled Senate Armed Services Committee has already approved it on bipartisan vote.

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Peter Baker

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The 2 pm White House briefing was canceled at 3:55 pm.

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For the fourth time in American history, a president faces a serious threat of impeachment by the House of Representatives.

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With everything else that he said today, it may not get as much attention, but it still stands out that the president of the United States today said the Soviets were right to invade Afghanistan in 1979. Pretty sure that’s a first for an American leader.

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“Trade wars are good, and easy to win.” — President Trump, March 2, 2018 “I never said China was going to be easy.” — President Trump, August 15, 2019

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Peter Baker

4 years

In the space of one tweet, Trump manages two falsehoods. He says he fired Mattis (actually he resigned) and says he "changed" Mattis's nickname to "Mad Dog" (he did not, that nickname long preceded Trump, though Mattis did not care for it).

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Peter Baker

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Breaking: Bolton instructed aide to report Giuliani pressure campaign to White House lawyer. “I am not part of whatever drug deal Rudy and Mulvaney are cooking up,” Bolton said, according to testimony to House investigators. @npfandos

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Bolton Objected to Ukraine Pressure Campaign, Calling Giuliani ‘a Hand Grenade’ (Published 2019)

John R. Bolton, then the national security adviser, ordered an aide to report the machinations by the president’s personal attorney to a White House lawyer, House investigators were told.

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Lindsey Graham, 2017: "If Jeff Sessions is fired, there will be holy hell to pay." Lindsey Graham, 2018: “The president’s entitled to an attorney general he has faith in ... and I think there will come a time sooner rather than later where it will be time to have a new face..."

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Where we live, your child must receive vaccinations against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, mumps, measles, rubella, polio, Haemophilus influenza type (Hib), hepatitis B, and varicella in order to attend school. Don't remember any big fight over these.

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Peter Baker

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Ken Starr and his team already knew the answer to the question when they asked Bill Clinton about Monica Lewinsky and they considered it material and deemed the answer to be perjury. So did a majority of the House of Representatives.

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Lying to the FBI is only a crime if the lie was “material”. If the FBI already knew the answer to the question— if they have tapes— and ask it only to elicit a lie, should that lie be deemed material?

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Nearly four months after the first coronavirus case was detected in the United States, the White House says it had a plan all along.

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The audience at the cathedral broke out in applause when Meghan McCain declared: “The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great."

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Trump says he is being cheated because Biden is picking up votes in some states as the counting proceeds while boasting that he is picking up votes in Arizona as the counting proceeds.

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Trump: "I never thought about being a politician until two days before I decided to run. A little before that.” In fact, he volunteered to run as Bush’s vice president in 1988, launched a campaign for president on Reform Party ticket in 2000 and considered runs in 2004 and 2012.

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Peter Baker

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White House Photographers Assn says it "is appalled to learn that the White House spokesperson may have shared a manipulated video of CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s interaction with a White House intern during a news conference. ... Manipulating images is manipulating truth."

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Peter Baker

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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."

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Trump-dictated statement, July 2017: "We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago." Trump, August 2018: "This was a meeting to get information on an opponent."

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Another first lady heard from: Rosalynn Carter releases statement saying "The practice and policy today of removing children from their parents' care at our border with Mexico is disgraceful and a shame to our country."

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It's 1:34 am in London and the president of the United States is awake and tweeting about an actress who offended him.

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Trump to award Medal of Freedom to Arthur Laffer, father of supply side economics that gained prominence in the Reagan years.

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Ben Sasse on Trump's pardons of Manafort, Stone and others: "This is rotten to the core.”

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"The mail ballots are corrupt in my opinion," says Trump, who requested a mail ballot to vote in last month's Florida primary.

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Trump to Dems last week: "I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I won't blame you for it." Trump this morning: "If enough Dems don’t vote, it will be a Democrat Shutdown!"

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Haunting to be listening to the bells of Washington National Cathedral tolling 500 times, one for every 1,000 Americans who have died from covid.

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Trump says 4 million coronavirus tests have now been conducted. That was the amount first promised to be done by the week of March 9.

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Great job by @kaitlancollins following up with Trump. She has made herself one of the all-stars of the briefing room with her polite but persistent questioning.

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Driving around DC today, it's striking how flags on federal buildings controlled by the president are not at half staff, unlike the ones at the Capitol which were lowered in honor of the police officer killed in this week's mob attack.

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Hours after saying that "this is a great day" for George Floyd, Trump retweets a post quoting conservative commentator saying of Floyd, "The fact that he has been held up as a martyr sickens me."

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Rob Portman: "The orderly transfer of power is a hallmark of our democracy, and although I supported President Trump, the Electoral College vote today makes clear that Joe Biden is now President-Elect.”

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What Russian officials said in recent weeks about American warnings that Moscow was poised to invade Ukraine: "Hysteria." "False information." "Total disinformation."

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Trump lashes out at Republican senators, the FBI, the court system, his own Justice Department, the news media and the technology sector for not accepting his baseless claims to have won the election.

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At the moment, the markets have now wiped out roughly 83 percent of the gains of the entire Trump presidency.

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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."

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Worth noting too: the president of the United States just called for an economic boycott of one of the country's largest telecommunications firm as a way of pressuring a media organization to cover him in a way that he approves of.

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Peter Baker

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The White House briefing room "is like a Blockbuster video store: dusty, cobwebbed and abandoned," writes ⁦ @farhip ⁩. The last briefing was 83 days ago, a new record.

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Trump: "We’re doing better than Europe." Average deaths per day over the last week: Spain: 107 France: 53 Italy: 14 US: 799

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More than 100,000 Americans are expected to die after a slow initial government response to the coronavirus pandemic and the first person to be fired is ... the aircraft carrier captain who pleaded for help for his stricken crew. ⁦ @ckubeNBC ⁩

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Navy relieves captain who raised alarm about COVID-19 on ship

The Navy relieved the captain who sounded the alarm about an outbreak of COVID-19 aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.

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Trump got elected in part by attacking Clinton for deleting emails that she deemed personal, then spent four years destroying official documents despite federal law. ⁦ @AshleyRParker ⁩ ⁦ @jdawsey1 ⁩ ⁦ @thamburger ⁩ ⁦ @JaxAlemany ⁩

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‘He never stopped ripping things up’: Inside Trump’s relentless document destruction habits

Trump’s shredding of paper in the White House was far more widespread and indiscriminate than previously known and — despite multiple admonishments — extended throughout his presidency.

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Peter Baker

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When you hear Trump suggest that he sent the National Guard somewhere or that governors should ask him to do so, keep in mind that's not true. Governors control National Guard units in their states and deploy them or not as they see fit. (1/2)

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Trump has gone to the Oval Office, over the objections of aides who wanted him to remain isolated in the residence while recovering from the coronavirus.

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Peter Baker

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It has come to this: Even the Canadians don't want us. Cars with US plates are vandalized and Americans sneaking across the border face fines as high as six figures.

Canada to U.S. Visitors: Please Don’t Sneak Across the Border (Published 2020)

Some Canadian citizens, concerned about the spread of the coronavirus, are taking matters into their own hands and reporting illegal American visitors.

www.nytimes.com

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Bush was fading for days, not getting out of bed and not eating. When his friend Jim Baker showed up yesterday morning, he perked up. “Where are we going, Bake?” he asked. “We’re going to heaven,” Baker answered. “That’s where I want to go,” Bush said.

‘I Love You, Too’: George Bush’s Final Days (Published 2018)

The end for Mr. Bush was remarkably peaceful after a life that took him from the skies of the Pacific during World War II to the Oval Office at the end of the Cold War.

www.nytimes.com

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Striking how Putin is adopting Trump's perceived enemies as his own. The new Russian sanctions list includes people Trump considers adversaries like Letitia James, Brad Raffensperger and the officer who shot Ashli Babbitt even though none has anything to do with Russia policy.

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Peter Baker

4 years

Almost a quarter of young adults in America (23%) said they believed the Holocaust was a myth or had been exaggerated or weren’t sure. One in eight (12%) said they had definitely not heard, or didn’t think they had heard, about the Holocaust.

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Nearly two-thirds of US young adults unaware 6m Jews killed in the Holocaust

According to survey of adults 18-39, 23% said they believed the Holocaust was a myth, had been exaggerated or they weren’t sure

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Baker

6 years

Once again, Trump has this wrong. The 2% spending target is not a current commitment but a goal set for 2024, still six years away. No one is "delinquent" or owes the US any payments.

@realDonaldTrump

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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Many countries in NATO, which we are expected to defend, are not only short of their current commitment of 2% (which is low), but are also delinquent for many years in payments that have not been made. Will they reimburse the U.S.?

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Peter Baker

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Not sure I understand the whole media-scared-supporters explanation for the low Tulsa turnout. Wouldn't that mean that Trump supporters trusted the media over Trump?

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Peter Baker

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Pompeo, Tuesday: "The president has made very clear he is prepared to meet with no preconditions." Trump, Sunday: "The Fake News is saying that I am willing to meet with Iran, 'No Conditions.' That is an incorrect statement (as usual!)."

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Biden’s victory is sealed as Congress's electoral count passes the 270-mark at 3:32 a.m. Vermont put him over the top.

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Bush 43 congratulates Biden on his victory: "Though we have political differences, I know Joe Biden to be a good man, who has won his opportunity to lead and unify our country."

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Peter Baker

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In his attack today, Trump says Mueller "worked for Obama for 8 years." Actually, Mueller, a Republican, was appointed FBI director by Bush and worked for him for more than 7 years. His 10-year term continued into Obama and was extended 2 years by both parties in the Senate.

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Peter Baker

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The president of the United States is now claiming that his own White House briefings are fake news and that an official his White House put in the briefing room "doesn't exist."

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6 years

. @realDonaldTrump is slamming the @nytimes for citing a senior White House official “who doesn’t exist,” but the portion of the article he appears to be referring to directly cites comments made at a background briefing the White House held for the whole press corps Thursday.

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According to Trump, the last administration’s handling of the H1N1 virus (12,469 deaths) was “a disaster.” His handling of the coronavirus (197,472 deaths and counting) has been an “incredible job."

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Trump just stands in front of the church and holds up a bible while posing for photos. He does not even go inside for a faux tour of the damage or make a pretense of having any purpose in going there other than to pose for photos.

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Peter Baker

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Zelensky, as the House goes on a two-week recess without approving security aid for Ukraine: "Please remember everyone that dictators do not go on vacation."

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Peter Baker

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Reporter: “The president said it will be verified.” Pompeo: “Of course it will.” Q: "Can you tell us a little bit more about--what is, what discussed about how?" Pompeo: “Just so you know, you could ask me this, I find that question insulting & ridiculous & frankly ludicrous.”

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Peter Baker

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More than four decades later, a secret revealed: How a prominent Texas politician says he unwittingly joined a mission to sabotage Jimmy Carter's 1980 campaign by urging the Iranians to hold 52 American hostages until after the election.

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A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election (Published 2023)

A prominent Texas politician said he unwittingly took part in a 1980 tour of the Middle East with a clandestine agenda.

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Peter Baker

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For anyone who missed it last week, the ⁦ @nytimes ⁩ reprints the extraordinary journalistic investigation of Trump's dubious tax schemes in today's print paper. A must-read by ⁦ @DavidBarstow ⁩ ⁦ @susannecraig ⁩ ⁦ @russbuettner ⁩

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