"That's all I care about." "There's an enormous personal price that she pays, that people pay when they devote so much of themselves to this," Thrush says. Haberman has what can only be described as a wildly expressive poker face: her slender, Clara Bow-ish eyebrows lifting, her tired eyes widening behind her smudged glasses, a tiny pinpoint of a mole on her upper lip emphasizing the thin line she's pressed her mouth into, the dimple in her chin appearing and disappearing as her jaw muscles shift. Mediagazer Must-read media news. Trump is growing visibly with his speech and delivering some adlibs, she wrote on the site, echoing her observation, in Confidence Man, that in the eighties news outlets treated him as if he were born anew with every story. (At one point in our conversation, she told me that he regenerates.) As Trumps political missteps and legal woes pile up, Haberman appears to be relaxing her vigil. My job, she said, is to provide as much information on a topic as possible that is significant and relevant and related to events. What a President does, she noted, will always get coverage. "She came into the Page One conference room, and there was this huge round of applause," Parker says. In the epilogue, Haberman describes a post-Presidential interview in which Trump cracked to his aides, I love being with her, shes like my psychiatrist. The next sentence reflexively brushes his statement aside, insisting, It was a meaningless line, almost certainly intended to flatter. Habermans point is that Trump rarely changes from context to context; he treats everyone like his psychiatrist. And we clearly saw it continue in the White House, be it attacking Elijah Cummings in Baltimore, a city that is part of the United States, and Trump was supposed to be the president for all of the United States, whether he was attacking congresswomen of color, whether he was getting into various condemnations, or lack thereof, I should say, of white supremacists, whether he was flirting with the QAnon conspiracy theory. Haberman was not the only reporter to see the underlying logic in the daily bedlam emanating from Washington. newsletter for analysis you wont find anywhereelse. He treats everyone like they're his psychiatrist, because he's working everything out in real time. Donald Trump reading The New York Times at his Greenwich, Connecticut home in 1987. [7] According to one commentator, Haberman "formed a potent journalistic tag team with Glenn Thrush". By Kenneth P. Vogel,Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt. Her daughter was home sick from school with a fever. After Trump rose to political prominence, Haberman became a player in the theatre of the Trump era: an avatar of journalisms promise, but also of its shortcomings. And I want to start with, I think, the question a question that is all about what keeps him in the news, and that is his denial of the result of the 2020 election, insisting that he actually won. At first Thrush didn't like her, mistaking her voraciousness for shtick. A new era of strength competitions is testing the limits of the human body. " The next time Haberman wrote about him was in 2009"Terror Tent Down at Camp Trump" was the headlinewhen Trump allowed Libyan dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi to pitch a Bedouin-style tent on the lawn of his estate in Bedford, New York.). He confesses that he is drawn to her, like a moth to a flame. And, for all Habermans success in demystifying Trump, at times she seems to vest him with eerie power. She says they were talking about infrastructure when, "out of nowhere," he raised the This Week laugh. Maggie Haberman / New York Times: DeSantis to Visit Early Primary States, Selling His Florida Record . Streamline your workflow with our best-in-class digital asset management system. I do not want you to come away with that impression. "She's like Michael Corleone," Thrush says, "sucked into the family business." To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories, Among the revelations in the recently released materials from the January 6th committee was an account of a conversation that took place in May, 2022, between the former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson and the former White House ethics attorney Stefan Passantino. [20][21] A Guardian review of the book describes her as "the New York Times' Trump whisperer", and describes the book as "much more than 600 pages of context, scoop and drama.it gives Trump and those close to him plenty of voice and rope. Yet her emphasis on her own unspecialness feels more canny than sincere, animated by the need to convey that she is immune to Trumps games. She finds the framing of her relationship with the president in romantic terms "facile." Hutchinson asked her counsel not to take the call. As his star climbed, she served as one of his most diligent chroniclers: in 2016, her byline appeared on five hundred and ninety-nine articles; more recently, she has averaged about an article a day. Judy Woodruff: A number of news reporters have tried and are still trying to understand former President Donald Trump and his influence on our nation's politics today. She was thinking aloud about her scheduleshe doesn't keep an actual calendar, not on paper, not on her phone; it's all in her head. The former President once told her that he found air travel spooky.. Maggie Haberman, thank you so much for joining us. Portions of the electorate learned to associate her with distressing updates about the country. When the moderator of the panel, Jeff Greenfield, a veteran reporter and host of PBS's Need to Know, remarks that a Democratic senator told him the Republican senators think Trump is "nuts," Haberman prefaces her response with "I don't know that I'd go with the diagnostic that you used," but then offerswith specific details that are more enlightening and perhaps more damningthat she had lunch with a Republican senator who has been astonished to discover that Trump watches his every move in the media, calling him directly to parse his TV appearances and quotes he's given the print press. As Twitter blew up as Trump compounded the backlash against Comey's dismissal with an incredible series of missteps, Haberman shot out an exasperated tweet of her own: "What is amazing is capacity of people who watched the campaign to be surprised by what they are seeing. I know a lot of people have been waiting to see this. This article appears in the July 2017 issue of ELLE.. "Maggie's whole career has been about grabbing people by the lapels," Burns says. He admires autocrats in other countries. One colleague says she didn't realize there was a limit to how many Gchats you could have going at one time until she saw Haberman hit the maximum. Yes, Haberman does a decent job laying out the business life of DJT, as seen thru her decidedly inhospitable glasses. I used that metaphor to describe him in 2017. Part of what makes Haberman one of Trumps foremost contextualizers is her fluency in the worlds that formed him. She was accused of skewing her coverage in exchange for access (a claim she rejects)these allegations sometimes came from the same critics who bristled at her papers studious impartiality. Whereas most of the country knows Trump foremost as a reality-TV star from his time on The Apprentice, Haberman remembers that he was a New York institution before he became a national figure. She was a correspondent for Politico with roots in city tabloids, and while I didn't know much about politics or the media, I knew that when she reported. Haberman had her first byline in 1980, when she was seven years old, writing for the Daily News kids' page about a meeting she had with then-mayor Ed Koch. According to Hutchinson, Passantinos phone rangit was the Times reporter Maggie Haberman. But I do think he figured out personnel, which is often what he's focused on. Maggie Haberman is a senior political correspondent who joined The New York Times in 2015 and was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for reporting on Donald Trumps advisers and their connections to Russia. [4], Haberman's career began in 1996 when she was hired by the New York Post. Thats what people have really struggled to understand., Articles about Haberman like to say that the mother of three, who will turn fifty this October, desperately needs a break. Pictures of the incident show Haberman talking nonstop as an uncharacteristically silent Koch stares at her, slightly astonished. Sister Sites: Techmeme Tech news essentials. And I think that the people who he would put into key jobs would be very alarming to a number of people across Washington. "I love being with her," he says. Because otherwise you're just never going to be able to cover him," she says. Confidence Man, which synthesizes years of reporting on Trump and his milieu, is, in some ways, a standard-issue Trump book. She's perfectly willing to walk like a redcoat into the middle of the field and let everyone know she's there because she's going to get [her story]," says Kevin Madden, a Republican communications veteran who has worked for John Boehner, George W. Bush, and Mitt Romney. "The Triborough and Empire State view of Trump is very different from the national view of Trump," she points out. There was a lot of duking it out, she said. Maggie Lindsy Haberman (born October 30, 1973) is an American journalist, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, and a political analyst for CNN. When Haberman demurs, politely but without apology, he is momentarily stumped. Even those of us who had covered Trump for years struggled with how to handle the gush of falsehoods that dotted his sentences. But, in person, Haberman appeared nonplussed when I asked how she negotiates the gray areas in which her duty to break news aligns uncomfortably with Trumps interests. It was simply desperation for a job other than bartending that led her to newspapers. Instead, Habermans Times articles adhered to the journalistic conventions that the press critic Jay Rosen has labelled the view from nowhere. Rife with ostentatious neutrality, the pieces were seen to grant Trump and his circle undue legitimacy. She said that this notion is just not realistic: in a climate of partisan absolutism, distrust of the media, and the coarsening of norms, the context around the news itself has shifted. We see many compliments in your future with Maggie, a rectangular frame with a metal construction and vibrant violet hue. What he needs his attention. Haberman, for her part, has become a front-page fixture and a Fourth Estate folk hero. He draws buildings. The subjects may have primed her for the task of deciphering Trump; her classmates, she said, talked a lot about magical thinking. Her first job in journalism was at the Post, which sent her to crime scenes, trials, hospitals (to document V.I.P. Maggie parries, her face inscrutable. He noticed right away that Haberman had talent. Her coverage is often grounded in statements about Trumps characterthat he thrives on chaos but loves routine, or that he stirs up infighting among his cronies. ", Trump has also sent her his famous press clippings with Sharpie notes on them, mostly with criticisms, but at least once with praise. Maggie Haberman is a tireless, keen-eyed example. Since 2015, Habermans career has revolved around the most untrustworthy man in national politics. [2] At that firm, a "publicity powerhouse" whose eponymous founder has been called "the dean of damage control" by Rudy Giuliani, Haberman's mother worked for a client list of influential New Yorkers including Donald Trump. 1996 - 2023 NewsHour Productions LLC. She glanced at it, then apologized. Can you believe what he just did?' Parts of Confidence Man seem to wrestle with its authors role in amplifying Trumps lies. Toward the end of our meeting, Haberman told me that she is superstitious. Mostly, copy kids at the Post did errands and administrative work, but once a week they would be named "Josephine reporter" or "Joe reporter" of the day and sent out to learn the ropes. Once, in July 2015, she did laugh, on This Week With George Stephanopoulos, at something Democratic congressman Keith Ellison said about Trump having "momentum" going into the primaries. Haberman was learning the same arthow to "punch through" in a daily news cycle, as New York Times political reporter and frequent collaborator Alexander Burns puts it. "Every moment cannot be, 'Wow! Haberman graduated in 1996 from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied creative writing and psychology. I mean, we know it is not true. "Haven't you joined us already?" The first two years of the Trump presidency were a boom time for political books, and one of the boomiest was the deal announced in September 2017 in which the New York Times' star White House reporters, Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush . How Should an Older President Think About a Second Term? When I speak to him, it's because he's trying to sell me," Haberman tells the audience at the 92nd Street Y. Because he is the same person he was during the campaign.". For Confidence Man, Haberman interviewed Trump three times. Photograph by Jeanette Spicer for The New Yorker, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. To some, she upheld the tradition that Woodward and Bernstein built; others condemned her failure to criticize Trumps behavior more vocally. But my question to you is, what do you think he cares about the most or whom? ", Haberman is careful, even in the current free-for-all, to avoid the snide attitude many of the New York intelligentsia have taken toward Trump and his administration. "This is a very precarious moment, in terms of what anyone can believe in. "The difference is, Maggie is in no sense carrying water for Trump," Greenfield said. What erodes that is very dangerous." The time Trump called the Times to blame the collapse of the Obamacare repeal on the Democrats? Haberman once said in an interview that she talked to 50 people a day. I think, to quote someone who knew him years ago who said this to me a couple of months back, a second Trump presidency would be very heavily driven by spite. The aides and advisers who spoke to Haberman for the book - she writes that she interviewed more than 250 people - offer a damning portrait of a commander in chief who was uninterested in. The one who has undoubtedly spent more time covering him than any other is New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman, who has been covering Mr. Trump since the 1990s. His behavior is really what matters on this front. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. The publication of Confidence Man reignited controversies over Habermans ethics. And, early on, he figured out how to neutralize threats by hiring them, as when he lured Anthony Gliedman, the housing commissioner who denied his request for a tax break on Trump Tower, and whom Trump subsequently threatened and sued, to come work for him several years later. How does he see the truth? Habermans dark hair was blown out and she wore a forest-green blouse and pink lipstick. I think that's what a second President Trump presidency would look like. Lately he's gone digital (sort of): He'll write the note on the clip, and then have White House Director of Strategic Communications Hope Hicks take a picture of the note and e-mail it to her. Sensitive subject, but we know there are a number of incidents that happened during his presidency that led people to say he is racist. Subscribe to Here's the Deal, our politics newsletter. Her son didn't have school after the ceremony, so Haberman brought him with her to a politics meeting at the Times. Trump responded, jokingly, "Really? 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When he accused former national security adviser Susan Rice of committing crimes, and defended Fox News' Bill O'Reilly against the sexual harassment claims that would soon end his career at the network? We encounter all the usual suspects: Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway and Paul Manafort and Hope Hicks. I'm quoting now Mary Trump, his niece, who, among other things, said that she thinks he is he has what she calls narcissistic personality disorder. But, if he does, what do you think a second Donald Trump presidency term would look like? Hutchinson had just finished her third deposition with the committee. The appointment of a special counsel Robert Mueller last week "took some of the air out of his tires" but he is still spoiling for a fight, Haberman says. It's titled "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.". To cover Trump is almost definitionally to repeat yourself: its a clich-ridden beat, strewn with familiar caveats and rehearsals of his rehearsals of what people are saying. In the book, Trump tells Haberman that he makes the same point over and over to drum it into your beautiful brain. Haberman told me that she does it because she has to. The quick-hit rhythm that Trump and Haberman were both fine-tuning teed them up perfectly for today's Twitter-paced news environment. And she's got a BlackBerry and a flip phone going at the same time. You're going to see if people were killed," Marques says. He was constantly looking for a relationship with him in the past and kept it going out of office still, this admiration. I suggested that, once, reporters could vanish behind their facts. Ppl don't change." She previously covered the Trump administration and continues to cover Donald Trump and politics in Washington. Significantly, she was accumulating sources who were close to Trump, who knew when he was angry and what he watched on TV and how he could only sleep well in his own bed. "This is the book Trump fears most.". And this is one of the things that makes establishing a baseline of discernible truth around him so incredibly hard. Learn more about Friends of the NewsHour. "And yet Trump seems driven to connect with her.". "I used to really cringe at the way my colleagues would talk to spokespeople," she said. However, contrary to the hopes of her campaign, subsequent stories by Haberman about Clinton were much more critical of her than they had hoped for. ", [youtube ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPME4VCNmyc&t=79s[/youtube]. Her tweets frequently numbered more than a hundred and forty in twenty-four hours. And she clearly knows the family dynamic and knows him and all of these family stories very, very well, better than anyone. She said that she had never approved of anything Trump had doneevaluating him is not her job. She sees herself as a demystifier. The shift by Mr. Lowell, one of Washingtons best-known scandal lawyers, highlights the blurry lines between self-promotion, access to power and the right to legal representation. He clearly, in my reporting and I describe this in the first few days after the November 2020 election, he seemed aware that he had lost in his conversations with a number of aides. He is behaving in a racist way. Showing Editorial results for maggie haberman. Trump conceded this was true and the story was about an "8. COVID-19 at Three: Who Got the Pandemic Right? The New York Times ' Maggie Haberman raised the possibility that former President Donald Trump might not run for office again despite many political observers considering it a foregone. Haberman and The New York Times supposedly disproportionately covered Hillary Clinton's email controversy with many more articles critical of her than of the numerous scandals involving her competitor Donald Trump, including his sexual misconduct allegations,[16][17] with Taylor Link writing: "The NYT's White House reporter calls the Clinton campaign liars, but was hesitant to use that word with Trump. "You're pretty!" The tabloid playbook, which Haberman memorized and which Trump enacted, reflected a sense that journalists and subjects could feed off one another, that the whole enterprise might be boiled down to eyes and, eventually, wallets. There's that Felix Sater character, who was arrested and, I think, did time, for shoving a broken Martini glass in someone's face . Is she, in fact, friendly to Trumps people? Most recently, just in the last few days, he put out a statement about Elaine Chao, the wife of Senator Mitch McConnell. Maggie Haberman is a senior political correspondent who joined The New York Times in 2015 and was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for reporting on Donald Trump's advisers and . Passantino, her lawyer at the time, was in a taxi with her on the way to a restaurant. Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent for the New York Times, stops midsentence to stare at his back as he gesticulates broadly and shouts at his dinner companions over the already considerable din at BLT Steak in Washington, DC, downstairs from the offices of the Times' bureau. He was telling people he wasn't going to leave. Maggie Haberman's forthcoming book about former President Trump will report that White House residence staff periodically found wads of paper clogging a toilet and believed the former president, a notorious destroyer of Oval Office documents, was the flusher. Over time, however, as Haberman did not get beat, did not get beat, he realized she was for real. Haberman jumped to Politico in 2010, where she covered him full-bore for the first time; he was then flirting with the idea of joining the 2012 Republican primary and beginning to spread the lie that Barack Obama was not born in the United States. The books thesisTrumps gonna Trumpis pointedly unglamorous, in keeping with Habermans deflationary assessments of Trumps character. She's former transportation secretary. Like, Maggies friendly to us. (But, she says, Melissa McCarthy's Sean Spicer portrayal more accurately captures him.) She's so well-sourced and so well-connected that she doesn't need to," Karni says. ", Haberman has reached the point in her career where sources are now chasing her, instead of the other way aroundlying to her risks banishment and access to her news-promulgating prowess. We know he does this. For his first term, Haberman has said, he wanted to campaign more than he wanted to be elected; now he wants to be elected without all the travails of campaigning. [19], In 2022, Haberman published a book on the Trump presidency called Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. Habermans Trump is also the Page Six demimondaine who flashed his grin on Sex and the City (Donald Trump, you just dont get more New York than that, Carrie mused) and the developer who perennially stiffed his contractors and enraged the Fifth Avenue lite by destroying two iconic friezes. "The news was something my dad did." Maggie Haberman chose not to make this about another smear campaign against the 45th president of the United States, but rather offer some context that all readers ought to heed. "It's like she's in the building, but she's not even in the city. The audience was, as always, hanging on her every word, hungry to have her translate Trump into someone they could understand. The New York Times reporter may be the greatest political reporter working today. The media personality Keith Olbermann and the opinion columnist Michael J. Stern, among others, charged her with failing to immediately report vital knowledge uncovered over the course of her book researchmost significantly, that Trump had told aides that he wasnt leaving 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue after the election. Haberman has spent a good part of the past seven years immersed in Trumps deranged fantasia of American life. ", Haberman's bullshit detector is appreciated by partisans on both sides: Even if they can't spin her, they know the other side won't be able to spin her either. Well be fine.. He mentioned Nixon unprompted in one of our interviews. "I'm just trying not to get beat," she says. Dont worry, Passantino allegedly reassured her. You don't even know where she isshe could be anywhere. He gives off a hint of reality TVwith his mirages, his come-ons, his brazenness, his feintsand a dash of the Devil. Designed with adjustable nose pads for a custom fit. For a moment, it seems he might be coming over to tell off the reporter. She tried to get work in magazines, but she ended up bartending at Cleopatra's Needle, a jazz club on the Upper West Side frequented by Columbia University students, before eventually landing a job at the Post as a "copy kid" (the new politically correct term at the paper). Questions about her process elicited similarly guarded answers. "There has been a very protracted shocked stage in Washington, and I think people have to move past that. " She's like my psychiatrist . And thank you for having me to talk about the book. Washington, D.C.,s power players, a wider swath of whom than wishes to admit it has Habermans number saved, grew habituated to her presence, if not exactly thrilled by it. (The first time she quoted Trump in a piece was in 2006: "Real-estate mogul Donald Trump talked up Clinton as the next president in Florida on Friday night, reportedly saying at a state GOP fund-raiser, 'She's a brilliant woman and she's going to be a very, very formidable candidate. Absolutely I think she can win, especially if the war's still going on.' She's called me as she was drivingswearing and running latebetween an errand at the American Girl doll store and a dinner party. On this week's episode of Jewish Insider 's "Limited Liability Podcast, " hosts Jarrod Bernstein and Rich Goldberg are joined by both actress, producer and author Noa Tishby and New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman. "I'm actually not trying to be funny," Haberman said, correcting them, and, when they continued to laugh, insisting, "Again, I'm not doing a comedy line. She was a fixture on cable news, her face framed by eyeglasses that Trump, who shares her aptitude for pithy description, accused of being smudged.. [10], Her reporting style as a member of the White House staff of the Times features in the Liz Garbus documentary series The Fourth Estate. "So much of his approach is bending others to the way he sees things," she says. Haberman, who's known for her extensive contacts in Trump's circle, revealed behind-the-scenes details of Trump's political career in her book, such as that Trump considered refusing to leave the. "You can offer perspective, you can offer insight, you can offer details, but they've got to be locked down. The former President is not what he seems, she said, but hes not nothing. For the next decade, she worked for both the Post and the other tab in town, the New York Daily News, covering Hillary Clinton's senate campaign, Michael Bloomberg's mayoralty, and Clinton's first presidential campaign. Haberman and Thrush again, with their colleague Matthew Rosenberg. I just have totems, she said, hoarsely, because her press tour had already begun and she was losing her voice. This purple frame wouldn't be complete without the intricate temple detail, a distinct touch to help you stand out from the crowd. The tale concerns a boy named Harold who goes for a walk in the evening and draws things from his imagination, including an entire city, with his enchanted crayon.
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