Trump's Comeback: Peter Baker (interview) | FRONTLINE

Peter Baker is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times. He previously spent 20 years reporting for The Washington Post. Baker is the co-author, with Susan Glasser, of The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017–2021.

The following interview was conducted by the Kirk Documentary Group’s Michael Kirk for FRONTLINE on November 20, 2024. It has been edited for clarity and length.

This interview is being published as part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, an effort to open up the source material behind our documentaries. Explore the transcript of this interview, and others, on the FRONTLINE website

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