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. The Manhattan district attorneys office is scrutinizing the former presidents role in the hush money payment to a porn star. "Short fiction, always somewhat curiously resembling my own life," she says. I think that theres a misunderstanding among certain aspects of our readership about what it is we do, she said. Trump wants what she can give him access toa kind of status he's always craved in a newspaper that, she says, "holds an enormously large place in his imagination." At first Thrush didn't like her, mistaking her voraciousness for shtick. 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. And, finally, Maggie Haberman, you have said that he may have backed himself into a corner when it comes to whether he's going to run for president again, and, for that reason, he may do it. " She's like my psychiatrist . It was like watching someone juggle fire while standing on a tightrope. Not true, says Risa Heller, a spokesperson for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner: "She speaks to 100 people a day." By Sean Piccoli,Jonah E. Bromwich,Ben Protess and William K. Rashbaum. She covered his real estate business when she was a New York tabloid reporter before moving to Politico and later The Times. Her daughter was home sick from school with a fever. He's tweeted, at various points, that she's "third-rate," "sad," and "totally in the Hillary circle of bias," and he almost exclusively refers to the Times as "failing" and "fake news." We see many compliments in your future with Maggie, a rectangular frame with a metal construction and vibrant violet hue. That [Trump] is unconcerned by that, I think, is the big issue," she says. But who he is is also why he won and why he tripled down after Access Hollywood," the political crisis which Haberman says is probably the yardstick Trump is using to measure his response to the current situation. COVID-19 at Three: Who Got the Pandemic Right? His behavior is really what matters on this front. Haberman is famously formidable. Throughout our conversation, she gave practiced, useful answers that slipped easily into anecdote, and she continually steered the topic away from herself. A lot of people would let it go, but Haberman signals to the hostess. He was shaped by how to attract those stories.. "There has been a very protracted shocked stage in Washington, and I think people have to move past that. All Rights Reserved. "I used to really cringe at the way my colleagues would talk to spokespeople," she said. Millions of high-quality images, video, and music options are waiting for you. And he makes that very clear. And it's very hard to know now whether he really believes this or whether it is just something he is saying. 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. The New York Times reporter may be the greatest political reporter working today. But I do think he figured out personnel, which is often what he's focused on. (One of her refrains is I was shocked but not surprised.) She mounts a similar argument about Trump in her recent book, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. The book presents Trump as a bullshit artist whose grand theme is his own greatness. 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. Because she was literally talking to 16 people within our campaign at the same time.". A few minutes later, here he comes. A characteristic article, which she co-wrote in July of 2017, emphasized that Donald Trump, Jr.,s huddle with a Kremlin-linked lawyer proved unusual for a political campaign but consistent with the haphazard approach the Trump operation, and the White House, have taken in vetting people they deal with. It was a quintessential Haberman balancing act, which underlined both the meetings extraordinary nature (for Washington) and the mundane pattern that it fit (for the Trumps). Yes, Haberman does a decent job laying out the business life of DJT, as seen thru her decidedly inhospitable glasses. He's tall with an athletic build and a military-style cut to his orange hair. He was constantly looking for a relationship with him in the past and kept it going out of office still, this admiration. That must have been a long time ago. Trumps insistence on taking unnecessary flights kind of goes to what he will sublimate in the service of something else, Haberman said. Former President Donald Trump said reporter Maggie Haberman was like his "psychiatrist" during one of their interviews, according to Haberman's new book. Maggie Haberman, thank you, the reporter who has known Donald Trump longer than any other. Her. We discussed Trumps romance with the media. . "I love being with her," he says. Maggie Haberman, political corespondent for The New York Times, reporting at a Bernie Sanders rally at Hunter's Point South Park in New York, April 18, 2016. Three years later, she moved to the Times as it beefed up its political staff in advance of the 2016 campaign. Haberman was not the only reporter to see the underlying logic in the daily bedlam emanating from Washington. Sign up for our daily newsletter to receive the best stories from The New Yorker. There's that Felix Sater character, who was arrested and, I think, did time, for shoving a broken Martini glass in someone's face . As she regards the man with the orange hair, it's like watching a predator decide whether or not to go in for the kill. 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. (The Police Athletic League, a cause beloved by the former Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, profited handsomely from his shamelessness, Haberman writes.) 14-Day Free Returns. Highlights from the week in culture, every Saturday. In a December 19th front-page article, she portrayed the candidate as a shrunken presence on the political landscape. Yet, if a single overarching lesson emerges from the body of work that Haberman has assembled over the past half decade, its that the press and the American public discount Trump at our peril. Dont worry, Passantino allegedly reassured her. 24/7 Customer . Rosenhas taken issue with Habermans characterization of Trump as a master of media manipulation: If you are a man, and you bite a dog, he wrote, that does not make you a master of anything. But Haberman, who tends to predict that Trump will express his worst impulses and cause maximum damage, told me she believed that he is more often underestimated than overestimated. But my question to you is, what do you think he cares about the most or whom? Other commentators, reacting to Rupert Murdochs withdrawal of support and the strong Democratic showing in the midterms, were beginning to treat Trump like a political has-been. Many of the juiciest Trump pieces have been broken by her: That story about him spending his evenings alone in a bathrobe, watching cable news? [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. [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. Born to a publicist and a newspaperman, she grew up in the kind of privileged Manhattan set that Trump spent his early days envying. And that's going to mean certain situations are fraught. "What you're seeing with Maggie Haberman is, you're watching one of the greatest people to ever do this job, giving a maximum effort. 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. She was texting, taking calls, e-mailing, and Gchatting with colleagues and sources. "[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". I don't believe that he learned how to be president more astutely. She wore an iteration of her usual uniform: black pants, black jacket, reddish-pink blouse, and an air of bone-crushing fatigue. I mean, we know it is not true. You are considered the reporter who goes back longer with Donald Trump than anyone else and who understands him better than any other reporter. 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. Amazingly detailed scenes here, including Jeffrey Clark, whose devices were recently seized by federal officials, holding court at an event in the spring [twitter ]https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/553574601733992449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Ferik-wemple%2Fwp%2F2015%2F01%2F09%2Fmaggie-haberman-leaves-huge-hole-at-politico-moves-to-new-york-times%2F[/twitter], It's why he deals with her, Haberman says: "Longevity, just being around him a long time, is something he values." [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. During Rudy Giulianis second mayoral term, Haberman covered City Hall, a notoriously cutthroat beat. Haberman once said in an interview that she talked to 50 people a day. she says she told him. Todays press culture thrusts reporters onstage, parsing their judgments and perspectives as part of a ceaseless Twitter meta-drama about journalistic integrity. Designed with adjustable nose pads for a custom fit. In late April, Haberman spoke on (yet another) panel, this one at the 92nd Street Y, with her colleague Alex Burns. In a statement to The Wrap's Andi Ortiz, a Times spokesperson said, "Maggie Haberman took leave from The Times to write her book. 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. And it's just hard to know how much is that vs. he's convinced himself of this. The profiles sometimes suggest that she is addicted to her job, yet it might be equally accurate to say that she is enthralled by it: she made an initial choice and then lost the agency to decide. "And so he will take this chair and say to you, 'This is actually a table.' Donald Trumps support in the citys wealthy political circles is waning, as 2024 rivals and potential candidates, including Nikki Haley and Mike Pence, make the rounds. Organize, control, distribute and measure all of your digital content. James Carville wanted her to come to Louisiana to talk to a class, but her kids were about to go on school vacation. We encounter all the usual suspects: Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway and Paul Manafort and Hope Hicks. "On more than one occasion, somebody would fly out of their desk and [announce something] that the New York Times was about to post, or a story the Times was working on, or some random bit of gossip, and then somebody else would pop their head up and say, 'Oh, did Maggie just tell you that?' 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. I care about getting it right. " 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.). And, for all Habermans success in demystifying Trump, at times she seems to vest him with eerie power. The media writ large was unprepared to cover a political candidate who lied as freely as Trump did, on matters big and small, Haberman reflects, adding that the word lie presumes knowledge of a speakers motivations. he says, holding out his fist. How an unemployed blogger confirmed that Syria had used chemical weapons. Premium Access. In interviews, she has often invoked the childrens book Harold and the Purple Crayon to illustrate Trumps peculiar blurring of fact and fantasy. As an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence, Haberman studied creative writing and child psychology. [15] Haberman was criticized for applying a double standard in her reporting about the scandals involving the two presidential candidates of the 2016 election. 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. 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. Please check your inbox to confirm. [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. "I didn't care for that metaphor," Haberman says. She was the dominant Trump reporter on the campaign, and she didn't travel with him. I don't think he figured the office out. I suggested that, once, reporters could vanish behind their facts. "Part of it was for her son graduating kindergarten, and part of it was for Maggie for breaking this awesome scoop. "I'm really not surprised. She never hedges her angle to try to protect her access, only to give politicians an unwelcome surprise when they read the story in the morninga practice some journalists follow that Haberman calls "the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. Haberman told me that she believed a number of people from the Trump era remain newsworthy, either because they illuminate something about Trump himself or because they are the subjects of or witnesses in investigations. 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. Collect, curate and comment on your files. As the 2024 race gears up, the Confidence Man and his chronicler have become each others context, bound together and propelled by desires that both are and arent their own. Toward the end of our meeting, Haberman told me that she is superstitious. he asks, pointing at the recorder between us. There's a malevolence around how he does this a lot of the time, but he treats facts as if they are things that can be either discarded or invented or created or augmented, but facts are an ongoing, fluid thing with him. ", And this is the aspect of the job that Haberman tries to focus on in the midst of the storm of distractions his administration provides: holding him to the truth. Sean Piccoli,Jonah E. Bromwich,Ben Protess. Grow your brand authentically by sharing brand content with the internets creators. All rights reserved. I'm having a hard time remembering it." 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. Since 2015, Habermans career has revolved around the most untrustworthy man in national politics. He is behaving in a racist way. CNN political analyst Maggie Haberman weighs in on the statements made to CNN by Emily Kohrs, the foreperson of the Atlanta-based grand jury that investigated former President Donald Trump's . [8] She became a political analyst for CNN in 2014. He draws buildings. Haberman graduated in 1996 from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied creative writing and psychology. And I think, sometimes, he seems less clear. I think his niece is right. Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads. When Trump gave an undisciplined press conference a few weeks into his presidency, the DC press and pols were comparing it to late-stage Nixon, Thrush says. 2023 Cond Nast. The man is, it appears, too drunk to be able to discern if she's flirting or annoyed. NEW YORK Late one recent afternoon, Maggie Haberman pulled into a parking spot in the lot at Gargiulo's, the old-time Italian restaurant in Coney Island where Donald Trump's father used to . According to Hutchinson, Passantinos phone rangit was the Times reporter Maggie Haberman. But, if he does, what do you think a second Donald Trump presidency term would look like? "Okay, wellfist bump?" But he is one of the things he said to me in one of our interviews was the he uses repetition in interviews to beat something into and I quote "my beautiful brain.". "You're going to bring this up every time, aren't you?" "This is a president who is always selling. Clyde covered Trump very sporadically in the 1980s and '90s. Haberman's father, Clyde, is a Pulitzer Prizewinning New York Times reporter, and her mother, Nancy, is a publicity powerhouse at Rubensteina communications firm founded by Howard Rubenstein, whose famous spinning prowess Trump availed himself of during various of his divorce and business contretemps.
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