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Robert Costa Profile picture
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Oct 2, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
As we worked on PERIL, it became evident that Jan. 6 was not a sporadic moment, as some have tried to cast it. Our reporting shows it was the culmination of a coordinated pressure campaign. Giuliani & Bannon at the Willard. Eastman & Trump in Oval, etc. nbcnews.com/politics/polit…
While the riot, understandably, was at first the central focus, our book shows that the riot isn’t the whole story of Jan 6. The story is also what Trump and those around him were doing to use power to keep power in days prior, with Bannon & Trump seeing Jan. 6 as the reckoning.
The Eastman memo:

cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2021/image…
Winter 2020: “kill the Biden presidency in the crib”

Fall 2021: “shock troops”

independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
“ProPublica contacted GOP leaders in 65 key counties, and 41 reported an unusual increase in signups since Bannon’s campaign began.”

“I’ve never seen anything like this, people are coming out of the woodwork.”

propublica.org/article/heedin…

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Jan 20
(thread) Backstory of the Milley pardon

In late 2020, Gen. Milley began to express private concern about Pres. Trump's conduct. Those concerns became alarm by Jan. 2021 and Milley took steps to reassure foreign military leaders that the U.S. was stable. cnn.com/2021/09/14/pol…
Milley was not the only one alarmed. Based on our reporting for "Peril," CIA Director Gina Haspel, for instance, told Milley, “We are on the way to a right-wing coup.” cc: @realBobWoodward
washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
Milley has since continued to express concern about Trump, as Woodward documented in "War."
washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/10…
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Nov 5, 2024
News: the infamous Willard "war room" is being revived & reorganized ahead of tonight's election results.

Steve Bannon tells @CBSNews this morning he will be at the Willard, where he was on Jan. 5, 2021.

"Unlike in 2020, we will secure Trump's victory this time," Bannon says.
Bannon, who was just released from prison, says he will be gathering tonight with allies, overlooking the Ellipse, the site of where Trump gave his Jan. 6, 2021 speech. Another "war room," this time for 2024.
Backstory here:
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Jul 21, 2024
From this afternoon @CBSNews

CBS: Will you debate VP Harris?

Trump: "I don’t know who I'm going to debate.  So far, we haven’t determined who is going to be on that side.  But I think whoever it is, I’d like to debate.  Yeah, sure."
More:

CBS: Does it change how you see this whole race?

Trump: "No.  It’s policy. The policies is still bad... The policies whether its him or her wouldn’t be any different.  She was in charge of the border.  She was the border czar, she was the worst ever..."
On the news:

"You know, it's really been a shock to the country.  A lot of people got together, they kept him in the basement... The fake news media went along with it. And we have a man in there that shouldn’t be in there."
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Jul 20, 2024
My latest reporting...

+ President Biden is deeply frustrated in Delaware this weekend with those he perceives as unhelpful and who he believes are participating in an informal, somewhat slow-moving, misguided revolt against his candidacy
+ Biden and members of his inner circle believe both former Speaker Pelosi and former President Obama are privately underestimating his political appeal and the strength of his coalition, especially against Trump, and believe they and others are being too muted on Dem. dissent
+ President Biden, as one friend puts it to me, is "old school" and believes if you "don't think he should run, you should run against him publicly" or otherwise be quiet and be supportive.
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Jul 18, 2024
Years ago, in 2013, I spoke w/ Trump about wrestling. He had just been part of WWE Hall of Fame ceremony. His adviser Sam Nunberg, who had been first introduced to Trump through wrestling, was talking up Trump’s base of support in that community as Trump mulled a visit to Iowa…
I’ll always recall Trump talking about the power of TV, both for wrestling and The Apprentice. And for him. He was confident those things might mean more in terms of winning power than any GOP endorsement. He said wrestling fans “get me.” He was also still promoting birtherism.
Here we are, 11 years later, as he’s nominated for a third time at a convention where the Iraq War is scorned, Mike Pence and Paul Ryan are absent, GW Bush’s photo and name are nowhere, and pro wrestlers are set to speak in primetime, more prominent than any senator or governor.
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Aug 13, 2023
(thread) Will be on @FaceTheNation at 10:30 a.m. ET

Some reporting notes from this weekend...

Re: Hunter/S.C. news, spoke w/ several Biden advisers and top Dem strategists. They see public and private polling plus focus group data that shows most voters aren't focused on H.B.
Inside Biden WH, the SC news wasn't welcomed and there is an ack. that it could lead to a drip, drip scenario on DOJ front. And they know H.B. issues are deeply personal for the pres. But they also believe Rs on trail and on the Hill will overplay the issue, esp if imp. pursued.
Several Biden aides say that Trump has been focused on H.B. going back to the Zelensky call and that a lot of this latest GOP push is already “baked in," not fresh to voters, despite S. Counsel appointment. Expect this to be more of a story on the right than 2024 gen elex issue.
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