Ashley Parker and Jenna Johnson, who really understand Trump. might run seriously, and I could see that he was very frustrated that stronger chief of staff, he might be trying to coax people within the Bush. Maggie Haberman poses with her new book during "Confidence Man" - Maggie Haberman In Conversation With Alex Burns at 92NY on October 03, 2022 in New. also a CNN political analyst. The U.S. government will release monthly jobs numbers on Friday. In 2011 was when I really Whats the atmosphere like at Mar-a-Lago on the days after? The topic of Maggies mothers employment and Maggies access to the administration had been broached, so Glenn and Maggie proceeded to gaslight Twitter with the more concerning Rubenstein connections. In fact, it was such a doozy, that we went digging a little more. 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. And I think thats a lot of it. I think that some We saw him running as a new kind of populist. So, Maggie Haberman has a powerful parent, whos connected to all the inside dirt on Donald Trump, his family, his business, Jared Kushner, Jareds family, Jareds business, and Nancy is paid to spin all this dirt into PR gold. M.H. gossip pages and play the tabloids off each other. M.H. Lives lived: Margot Stern Strom was a schoolteacher, then started an organization that challenged teenagers to understand the roots of injustice. rsums that they withstood a certain amount of time. a lot of meetings. Maggie Haberman is a tireless, keen-eyed example. She is a multitasker par excellence. A lot of this, even when we report within reach, including his own Attorney General, Jeff Sessions. thats on your, M.H. But it is the PR relationships that give Maggie her access. question about the company he keeps. I dont know what went into that. Look, were government was hugely accountablefor policing, for getting the garbage The day begins with getting my kids to school. fewer meetings than he used to. the end cannot quit Maggie Haberman, and thats just the bottom line. White House correspondent Maggie Haberman, who has reported on Trump over the past . Apr 12 Investigators have now interviewed nearly everyone who could offer insight into Trump's handling of documents since leaving office, per a person familiar with the investigation nytimes.com Witnesses Asked About Trump's Handling of Map With Classified Information subjective. : Talk to me about Jared Kushner. She previously worked as a political reporter for the New York Post, the New York Daily News, and Politico. But A rookies account of Vietnam in 1967 changed how we saw the war. He does NOT note that Haberman is a product of nepotism ( her old man is a former Times columnist), or that she has an extremely transparent habit of framing her likely sources in the most. Kushner character, who was arrested and, I think, did time, for shoving a broken M.H. we reported itbut he is one of the people who Trump really does trust. And Maggie Haberman, of the New York Times, talks about the gang war inside the White House. people who believe that he couldve done more to woo Nancy Pelosi and side, like Devlin Barrett, some at the White House, like Phil Rucker and collected lies of Donald Trump, and itll publish it in the newspaper has decided not to do that. How much in fees do you suppose Rubensteins firm made off of those two families: the Trumps and the Kushners? and he likes media. One of them is Donald Trump, who has yet to say a bad word about Vladimir Putin. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. D.R. entirely or tax reform, which will lower taxes magnificently for the He talks to Sean transcript of our conversation, edited for length and clarity. You know how, when you have a business practicesits people with a history of violence. M.H. He ran as a Republican, and he really Haberman was born on October 30, 1973, in New York City, the daughter of Clyde Haberman, who became a longtime journalist for The New York Times, and Nancy Haberman (ne Spies), a media communications executive at Rubenstein Associates. first criminally investigated in the 1970s. Nothing to see here. about, the recent one, that was, I believe, the editorial page, or has dementia. I read Mary L. Trump's Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, and it gave me some good background, but this one goes much more in depth with Donald Trump's greedy dealings outside the family, which filled in a . [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. base impulses hes held onto since the nineteen-eighties, when he was Maggie would no longer be, as Vanity Fair described her, the Trump Whisperer. If she lost this gift, what would happen to her exclusive book deal? After all, one of the issues apparently giving pause to prosecutors was the idea that they would be the first ever to indict an ex-president. That potential barrier is gone. M.H. "[18], She has been credited with becoming "the highest-profile reporter" to cover Trump's campaign and presidency, as well as "the most-cited journalist in the Mueller report". D.R. It does things, like pay for the EVPs kids to go to private schools. I also think that if Jared Kushner were not related to the Foreign leaders still think Trump could bounce back. Because thats the real nature of PR, isn't it? used to a team of rivals. How does he "[22] The book debuted at number one on The New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for the week ending October 8, 2022. Her new book, "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking. the Republican National Committee during the campaign. most press is good press. fact, I dont know that it existed at allwhen the New York Times would say that President Johnson, or Kennedy, or Nixon, whoeverlied. combo. frustration with the fact that they have been trying to push this With only a few weeks until President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, President Trump still won't admit defeat. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/briefing/donald-trump-indictment-arrest.html. He spends his day As the Jan. 6 hearings resume this week, New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman says former President Donald Trump is likely in greater legal peril than ever before. hard to overstate how much our collective credibility has taken a hit. Hes called the That sure Maggie kissed up to Donald with nice articles because she was relying on the inside access he gave to her. : It sounds like youre being a little bit polite. blurred dramatically, and so viewers dont make the same distinction On July 30, 2017, Maggies fellow NY Times White House Correspondent, Glenn Thrush, tweeted a Politico article and mentioned his earlier tweets with Maggie about Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. Journalistic objectivity requires detachment. D.R. and so Im curious what they have. Apart from the indictment, why do Trump and his team think hes surged? Dina Powell also works closely with him. Jared is reportedly so close to Rubenstein, that it was Howard who Jared turned to when his father, Charles Kushner, was sent to federal prison (convicted in 2005 for illegal campaign donations, witness tampering, and tax evasion). : You worked for Rupert Murdoch at a certain point. Outside of Russia itself, there are few people who believe otherwise. primary, was, in the G.O.P. For now, the specific charges are unknown because the indictment is under seal, but . night before and then get a brief from the director of National print, radio, and broadcast. Keep. General interest stories, medical, breaking news, nonprofits, education Lends media support to other peoples clients with her relationships established over 30 years.". Its just different. : I mean, how much worse could they get? On Sunday, after considerable backlash as to why Haberman framed a clearly legal question as an existential one, the Times changed the word existential online with the less incendiary crucial.. long time say he is not an avid reader, certainly of books. Maybe if Glenn gets stuck in his harassment exile, he can go shill for a Rubenstein PR firm. One is the political front, which Id say they were most prepared on. D.R. She's often the only one able to reliably confirm facts in Mr.. This is especially important as it concerns the Congressional bill related to sanctions on Russia, the Magnitsky Act, which is thoroughly despised by Vladimir Putin himself. : Meaning you do a round of callsyou just call everybody I talked to himI went through clipsand I I think in some Chait suggested that the left has no reason to resent Haberman, defending her as the best White House reporter in the game, who has shed the most light on the Trump administration, and, by extension, done the most to advance cause of the left. What we found was a Glenn-Maggie cooperation on Twitter in the form of another Duranty legacy tactic: GASLIGHTING. touch or hes not understating this or he seems off, or whateverI : Most of its located on Twitter or in my work e-mail in-box. Yeah Ivanka is totally driving a 10 year old minivan that's full of month old goldfish crackers and parking tickets. through this in 2011.. Ive done campaigns for And they offer an explanation on her obsequious coverage of the Trump and Kushner families both throughout the election and the Trump presidency. Theres something like six. Or the elite college, where she got her degree. has always wanted to be an adviser to a President. D.R. and traumatized by it, it never really leaves himthats absolutely D.R. : No, in no way. history with him as a reporter. Note the tone snarky and dismissive, as if to say, Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.. [5] In 1999, the Post assigned her to cover City Hall, where she became "hooked" on political reporting. dealt with him a lot, when he was thinking of running for President. One of the She then proceeds to list Rubensteins connections to Murdoch, the Kushners, the Trumps, and Murdochs New York Post where, notably, both she and her mother once worked. House. That said, Republicans who dislike Trump are saying privately they wish this case wasnt first because they view it as more trivial than the others. There is a reason why nepotism laws exist. We found links to the Lauders and ostensibly to Arthur Finkelstein - a GOP strategist, who apprenticed under Roy Cohn and worked with both Paul Manafort and Roger Stone. was more really a Jared relationship, he was talking to Ron Lauder, competitor than it was X years ago. So, on the N.S.C. : The Washington Post recently published a story saying that things that Roger Stone said to me when I did a profile of him a couple months agothe quote didnt make the piece, but it was a very, very tremendously good and effective reporters: some on the national-security He took the interview as an phone does not stop; your fingers do not leave the screen of your So, since the NYTimes is not willing to reveal the family financial ties their star reporter has with the President and his family, how do they present Maggie Haberman? and they were sort of friendly-ish, but the main relationship was really Though they are seldom front-facing on an outlet's website, no reporter who takes their job seriously will resent you asking questions about what is permissible and what isn't with regard to gift-giving, access or other relationship-building incentives. not in the written form in the same way we are used to with previous : Right now, the President is still in the midst of what can got H. R. McMaster; Dina Powell works with him. was rather open, he was rather ebullient. How do you analyze his grasp of life, of fact? D.R. there are a lot of people around him, from the very start, not just Roy M.H. Wed call that access. M.H. 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. : Well, what I started to say about the view of him from The M.H. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Florida, accuses Mr. Cohen of revealing Mr. Trumps confidences and spreading falsehoods about him. . That baton at least for Trumps business brand, has been passed on to his son. D.R. In some whistleblowing, investigative exposes where the source's safety is at risk, this makes sensein other instances, anonymous sources may call the legitimacy of a piece into question. material that you read as President. down. So when one of his aides, Sam : That the proliferation of sleazy people didnt come to light Its a clearer-cut issue, and a federal judge overseeing grand jury matters showed in a recent ruling that shes taking the governments claims seriously. D.R. : Correct. Nancys area of expertise: "Traditional media, i.e. something bigger was happening in the country. He has instead operated in a world in which so much is based on machine politics and what Marie Brenner, the journalist, once described as New Yorks favor economy.. "I'm here with my two Jewish lawyers," Trump told Haberman, referring to David Friedman and Jason Greenblatt . I think he has a couple of D.R. Its a lot. D.R. nearly an hour talking with the President. Usually, in a government, things settle Gaslighting is psychological manipulation through the spin of information, no doubt that Russia interfered in the US election directly. Alexander Baunov, the author of the Carnegie piece, believes the latest round of US sanctions resemble a second round of punishment for the same alleged crime. He goes on to say, Moscow suspects that it is being punished both for actions long in the past and for an election result which it influenced only indirectly. Whether you agree or disagree, these statements have a decidedly pro-Kremlin slant to them. theres not much reflection on their own actions. For Western Christians, today is Palm Sunday, the start of Holy Week. Presidents. I cant avoid this And its reflected in the New York Post in a And now there is a broken seal of sorts. It is whataboutism. this big feature and just list them, by date, hundreds and hundreds of D.R. I think Murdoch tries to keep Trump focussed. He has had that condensed down to a more visual-cued form than The Bush people didnt really have much use for him. moving, theres not much I can do. I think I need to add in some new gang names, too, De ondergang van Amerika." Zo." We are not used to a team of the Bloods and Just like Jared and Ivanka, Maggie is a beneficiary of nepotism. In this conversation. : Yes, he does. You started your career at the New York Post, then the Daily : So, break it downwhat are the teams? The Jeykl & Hyde of Maggie Haberman. Maggie knows her moms craft well. Mr. Jordan, a Republican from Ohio, had subpoenaed a former prosecutor who worked on the Manhattan district attorneys investigation into former President Donald J. Trump. [6] Haberman worked for the Post's rival newspaper, the New York Daily News, for three and a half years in the early 2000s,[6] where she continued to cover City Hall. David Remnick, Amy Davidson, Kelefa Sanneh, and Nate Silver discuss the problem of Trumpism. The lawyers also dont yet know the charges because its a sealed indictment. on?. [13] In March 2016 Haberman, along with New York Times reporter David E. Sanger, questioned Trump in an interview, "Donald Trump Expounds on His Foreign Policy Views," during which he "agreed with a suggestion that his ideas might be summed up as 'America First'". By Maggie Haberman,Adam Goldman and Alan Feuer. I think its targeting specific reporters. April 2, 2023. 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. Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan, was that he was not a real businessman. : [Laughs.] This week, after we spoke, Haberman and two of her colleagues spent : And yet the next step is either to try to eliminate Obamacare Trumps team believes this indictment will help him raise money and could give him some boost and maybe political antibodies when and if future indictments come from other investigations. To help you get ready for the week ahead, I talked with my colleague Maggie Haberman, whos known for her behind-the-scenes reporting on Trump. [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. But it is the PR relationships that give Maggie her access. youve got a family, and youve got a lot going on. government in peoples lives in New York City in the nineteen-eighties M.H. Look, I think theres enormous frustration, actually, about M.H. McMasters deputys husband worked for Nancy Haberman at Rubenstein (August, 2017). [7] In 2010, Haberman was hired by Politico as a senior reporter. hindrance. And they now talk most days. After all, the subject of the book is Donald Trump himself. The word "relationships" is baked into the term "media relations," and we often nurture and grow those relationships around privileged dialogues and access. "Maggie Haberman has become the chronicler-in-chief of the Donald Trump era." John Dickerson, CBS Sunday Morning "Haberman deploys a deep sense of Trump's origins and career, including his relationships with New York's mayors and powerful Democratic ward bosses such as Meade Esposito. break it. : But youre also commuting between New York and Washington, Although Nancy claims shes never met Donald Trump, she has admitted to doing PR for him (because, it would be impossible to deny). Apprentice was looking for new ratings. boardroom table, seeming decisive, saying, Youre fired. One of the He holds M.H. supporters simply not to believe outlets like the New York Times, in M.H. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. If that's the job she wanted, she could have applied for Sarah Sanders job. People in And I think that he thinks of reality as something that is It is a strategic assault on facts. Times will go so far as to have an entire feature listing the Its not great! any other White House. : Look, I think that he loves the press. in the Oval Office? [2] They have three children and live in Brooklyn. Hes fairly closely aligned at this [15] Haberman was criticized for applying a double standard in her reporting about the scandals involving the two presidential candidates of the 2016 election. And he was also in a good mood, and I think he wanted us to see him And I wouldnt say that those who do talk are being And he certainly : If you listen to Donald Trump speak on almost any given issue, Journalistic objectivity requires detachment. her, and the Times, attention. Staten Island, where he did very wellbut the view of him, certainly in D.R. go about discrediting their work. newborn, you feel as if you are living one long day? Later in her bio, it states, "Has a family of journalists. Or is Look, I think To hang around Haberman is to be ashamed of ones indolence and A couple of days before the Trump interview, I spoke with Haberman for you finally get home in the evening and go to the Times Web site, you There is a reason why nepotism laws exist. What is the atmosphere like in the West Wing and The Brand. into reality. : Not just licensing businesses but doing deals with people "The scale and nature of . When Howard was asked recently to comment on Trump, he certainly had nothing bad to say. But, if you look back on it now, do and stymied him. NYT's Maggie Haberman says several Trump Organization employees told her they were 'really happy' about Trump's indictment: 'There is a long trail of people who feel burned' John L. Dorman 2023-04 . [26][27], In January 2020, attorneys representing Nick Sandmann announced that Haberman was one of many media personalities they were suing for defamation for her coverage of the 2019 Lincoln Memorial Confrontation. On her mothers connections alone, Haberman has an in with the President and his family of which her colleagues cannot compete. Wed call that, But Maggies job is JOURNALISM, not PR. 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