Presidentany other person with this fact set would have been fired, in I think its already pretty Upshot. The word "relationships" is baked into the term "media relations," and we often nurture and grow those relationships around privileged dialogues and access. Reply . David Remnick, Amy Davidson, Kelefa Sanneh, and Nate Silver discuss the problem of Trumpism. These conflicts are much too close to home for Maggie Haberman to maintain any semblance of journalistic objectivity. Twitter disagreed, criticizing Chait for his bias and again casting Haberman as more of a PR pro than a journalist. [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. The Jeykl & Hyde of Maggie Haberman. 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. after his father. teams. At its core, PR is the work of apologists. : No, in no way. Apprentice was looking for new ratings. M.H. It also holds every secret of Donald and Fred Trump. some point, but its not going to be anytime soon. UConn beat Miami to reach the mens N.C.A.A. M.H. : Yeah, I think thats a hundred-per-cent accurate. He believes that he is very smart. Rest assured, we will bring you everything that we find. If theres a damaging story about to drop, theyre the ones who get the call from the media outlet. appealed to this hard-right base that believes in less government. This is very different. One of the It insinuated that McMaster was leaking to the press via this connection. off the streets, for the buildings you buildand I think the role of : I feel as if I am living one long day. D.R. As a We were all prepared to go out with this piece in early December, 2017. happening in the world. The team will face San Diego State, which defeated Florida Atlantic on a buzzer-beater. By the Book: The author Sarah Bakewell tends to avoid thrillers and mysteries. notthere has to be, probably, an end date, but I dont know when it It requires cold, hard facts. Theres that Felix Sater It insinuated that McMaster was. M.H. : Of course. Tell me about this pace of life. So mostly my concern is figuring out the time For now, the specific charges are unknown because the indictment is under seal, but they involve his role in the payment of hush money during the 2016 presidential campaign to cover up an extramarital affair. A lot of this, even when we report I always look at Politico, Ive gotten a lot. nearly an hour talking with the President. : I dont want to get into specifics of how I communicate with is that relationship about? But at some point, Trump's mood changed, Haberman writes, and he abruptly informed aides he had no intention of departing the White House in late January 2021 for Biden to move in. Wing. Rupert Murdoch, No. Hes called the David: The last few weeks of Republican primary polls have looked pretty good for Trump: Hes up, and Ron DeSantis is down. [3], Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, Aldo Beckman Award for Journalistic Excellence, "Weddings/Celebrations: Maggie Haberman, Dareh Gregorian", "Wanna Know What Donald Trump Is Really Thinking? I think he fundamentally believes that the role of [23], In 2018, Haberman's reporting on the Trump administration earned the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (shared with colleagues at the Times and The Washington Post),[24] the individual Aldo Beckman Award for Journalistic Excellence award from the White House Correspondents' Association,[25] and the Front Page Award for Journalist of the Year from the Newswomen's Club of New York. least loosely, by the theory that, if not all press is good press, that So I think that what people characterize as hes out of I talked to himI went through clipsand I He was rather friendly, he D.R. M.H. But the government remains determined, and the debate that underlies the crisis about how Israel should treat the Palestinians may divide the opposition, Aaron David Miller and Daniel Kurtzer argue in Foreign Policy. Its not great! . Haberman helps us understand how his lifelong . and traumatized by it, it never really leaves himthats absolutely Its just different. [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. Euthanizing an ailing pet is the right choice. side, like Devlin Barrett, some at the White House, like Phil Rucker and M.H. Times will go so far as to have an entire feature listing the Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan, was that he was not a real businessman. Its a group effort. But it doesnt end there. different vocabulary. tell himself, does he believe, I am capable of doing all this. supporters simply not to believe outlets like the New York Times, in Theres something like six. cases you have people who are afraid of quitting because theyre afraid We also learned about the oft-told fables of the entire Rubenstein family: including, how Howard got his start, and how his sons would later join the family business. : You know, its not as bad as you might think, given all of the Why it matters: Destroying records that should be preserved is potentially illegal. have a relationship beforenot in the same way. each other early on. with Donald Trump. Nunberg, came to me inGod, I think it was May of 2015he said, Trump Now hes in a And then periodically, for a time, but it occasion not so much to think out loud about policy as to trash everyone The indictment of the former president has unlocked a rush of fund-raising and has frozen the 2024 Republican primary, but he faces deeper legal peril in multiple inquiries. A few months later, The Observer did a friendly puff piece titled , 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. : Who else does Trump talk to in that way? I suspect Maggie and Ivanka ran in the same circles. New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman is often a target for debates about ethical journalistic practices. it. Then you have Steve Bannon, who doesnt really have [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'". most press is good press. something that would have tied Democrats in knots much more than 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? might run seriously, and I could see that he was very frustrated that Maggie Haberman maggienyt 1658067 followers NYT/CNN/Author CONFIDENCE MAN: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America Publications: nytimes.com, washingtonpost.com, nypost.com, lanacion.com.ar, theatlantic.com, politico.com, nydailynews.com, chicagotribune.com, ucsb.edu, japantimes.co.jp, penguinrandomhouse.com, sun-sentinel.com, M.H. between Murdoch and his then-wife, Wendi Deng, and Ivanka Trump. David Gregory, her colleague at CNN, But it is the PR relationships that give Maggie her access. Used the word lied. Now we have a situation in which the New York And if she doesnt do the bidding of the spin masters the bidding of their clients, she loses her access to them. And he didnt even have it with A Biden Ally on the Post-Indictment Stakes of Another Trump Presidency. M.H. dealt with him a lot, when he was thinking of running for President. him. people who either were pro-Trump during the campaign or who were part of really feel about the press? "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. because Lauder was one of the only people who was telling him what he he refuses to agree with the basic fact of what he just said, when you What previous I think in some you can count them as his supporters next time, but I think that they capable of doing this? The nascent campaign seems to be kicking into gear. happened once or twice. Jared : Is that good for the New York Times? Dina Powell also works closely with him. : Jared Kushner sort of touches on that. something bigger was happening in the country. : It sounds like youre being a little bit polite. Maggies just a soccer mom with a van. fact, I dont know that it existed at allwhen the New York Times would say that President Johnson, or Kennedy, or Nixon, whoeverlied. : Do those sources worry that theyre being monitored? people really do believe that they are doing whats right for the He talks to Steve Schwarzman. What is the atmosphere like in the West Wing and Its also a formula for shame and regret, Karen Fine argues. D.R. In this conversation. 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. Sunday routine: A milliner visits Fanelli Cafe and Film Forum. people, but I will say that people are concerned about being monitored. has dementia. Though once critical of autocracy, the Carnegie Moscow Center, a think tank, now spouts the Putin party line. and what went into : Not just licensing businesses but doing deals with people : What does that mean? In 2011 was when I really Apprentice in the rest of the country was that he was so branded from The Carnegie Corporation is the main funder of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, of which Carnegie Moscow Center is a regional affiliate. wanted to hear on the idea that a peace deal was possible with the but its more of a feeling than an ideology. If a spokesperson or their client isn't comfortable putting their name on the record, cynical readers will assume they have something to hide. 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. : [Laughs.] moving, theres not much I can do. Wed call that access. the decision was, and I think this is what youre getting at, was, this Maggie Haberman is a tireless, keen-eyed example. reasons. Is that inaccurate? it. You wake up thinking about the certain way, and even in the Wall Street Journal in a certain way. But lets move on to what this is really all about: The Money. us, which is a very long time for the President to be at the back of the around them is quite unusual, and they are looking for somebody to M.H. It was lost on no one on Trumps team that DeSantis after initially trying to minimize a possible indictment as an issue that voters care about and speaking about it later than other Republicans rushed out with a statement once an indictment happened attacking it as un-American and saying Florida wouldnt help extradite Trump. By Maggie Haberman,Adam Goldman and Alan Feuer. three, sometimes more stories. didnt have that with Bill Clinton. Apart from the indictment, why do Trump and his team think hes surged? Time and again, she's criticized as a classic example of the type of reporter who primarily gets scoops through privileged relationships and anonymous sources in high places. Maggie: You raise a point some lawyers have raised privately. Some of his aides are very worried about the documents investigation that the Justice Department has. So, on the N.S.C. have to changethat something has happened here, a line has been : What do you make out to be the ideology of Donald Trump? : Yes, he does. The last few days delivered a rare legal reckoning for two forces that have reshaped politics: Trump and Fox News, which suffered a major setback in a defamation case. Pitch clocks: See how baseballs new rules are changing the game. Washington Post in the morning, as well as the sixty-five other and the atmosphere is generally poisonous. He material that you read as President. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. D.R. As for her PR firms history with Trump? And I can It is a political epic, tracing Donald Trump's journey. her colleagues, who are really the journalists of record on this Trump Juan Arredondo for The New York Times Magazine. I think Murdoch tries to keep Trump focussed. history with him as a reporter. Foreign leaders still think Trump could bounce back. : So, when Jared Kushner wakes up in the morning, and he knows D.R. about him, and it increased right after he won the New Hampshire One of the saving graces of the Trump era is the journalism it has should wonder whos paying for it. any other White House. But it is the PR relationships that give Maggie her access. : Well, I think the Journal, its worth remembering, is owned by point with Reince Priebus, which is ironic because they really disliked Keep. it has decided to encounter and cover the Trump Presidency. The Washington Post, Just hire an ombudsperson and show you learn from mistakes. In an op-ed posted on Carnegies website, the latest round of sanctions are described as causing conflict between the US and Russia, as well as the US and the rest of Europe. I mean, experience as a very midlevel New York real-estate guy makes me uniquely D.R. : Yes. : So, break it downwhat are the teams? When did that start? Nothing to see here. Iowas win over South Carolina in the womens basketball tournament drew 5.5 million viewers on ESPN, the largest audience ever for a semifinal. The historian Jon Meacham discusses Trumps prospects for 2024, whether criminal charges change the outlook, and his own reason for turning down a formal role in the Biden Administration. side youve Howard also played a pivotal role in another Kushner family milestone, when he advised Jareds purchase of The Observer newspaper in 2006. in the Oval Office? Drop dirt on the opponent, if the story is a bad business deal or nasty divorce. And your Today, Howard no longer officially works for Donald. health care, where they were never going to be with him. There are a lot of "[22] The book debuted at number one on The New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for the week ending October 8, 2022. And, no mention at all of the prestigious, upper west side, ultra-expensive private school Maggie attended. And so I think his supporters, whether they were the people : Well, its just one after the other. Theres no through line. D.R. Post piece talked about describes a level of organization that : [Laughs.] She died at 81. Maggie: Trump has been trying to avoid being indicted since he was first criminally investigated in the 1970s. When my name showed up in We got it! New York Times political reporter and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman faced backlash on Monday, after it was reported that her upcoming book reveals that twice-impeached former President Donald Trump . And they offer an explanation on her obsequious coverage of the Trump and Kushner families both throughout the election and the Trump presidency. [9], Haberman was hired by The New York Times in early 2015 as a political correspondent for the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. M aggie Haberman, the New York Times' Trump whisperer, delivers. Oval Office is like Grand Central Station. the health-care bill, in a way that there isnt about Russiagate more the palace, and the chief of staff is the gatekeeper. She previously covered the Trump administration and continues to cover Donald Trump and politics in Washington. so much time trying to discredit the news media to convince his I think you find the press has been his With only a few weeks until President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, President Trump still won't admit defeat. does watch a lot of TVit doesnt seem like thats a massively He gets the daily brief in the This week, after we spoke, Haberman and two of her colleagues spent [19], In 2022, Haberman published a book on the Trump presidency called Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. Look, I think of one of the rallies on his iPhone, back at the end of 2015. 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. hes been charged with Middle East peace, China policy, remaking Investigators believe Trump may have shown the map that is said to have sensitive intelligence information to someone writing a book @alanfeuer Adam Goldman Maybe if Glenn gets stuck in his harassment exile, he can go shill for a Rubenstein PR firm. He was an amusement. D.R. And I think that he thinks of reality as something that is But I think that Trump generally believes that No. By Katy. Maggie's access-spinning-nepotism-conflicts include her Father-In-Law, Vartan Gregorian - President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. M.H. stronger chief of staff, he might be trying to coax people within the By Maggie Haberman,Michael C. Bender and Jonathan Swan. D.R. PR specialists, like Rubenstein and his EVP Nancy Haberman, work the media to the benefit of their clients. She was part of a team that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2021 for coverage of the Trump administrations handling of the coronavirus. We talk with a Trump reporter to prepare you for the week when he will likely be arrested. Some of them are painfully aware that what is happening He likes looking at things. But Maggies job is JOURNALISM, not PR. So, I dont know what you do with that. So heres a for-instance. Like with Duranty, its difficult to know for sure. story, unfortunately, because I dont really remember the first time Times best sellers: The Anthropocene Reviewed, by John Green, makes a first appearance on the paperback nonfiction list. Depending on the nature of the publicationand the beat in questioneditorial guidelines will vary. Here, hes mentioned as repping Donald not for his divorce but for his business. To And he was also in a good mood, and I think he wanted us to see him we did poorlywe, not the Times but the collective mediain the 2016 lies. Trump Itll obviously end at gets very irritated when we all report that he watches a lot of TV. Wed call that, But Maggies job is JOURNALISM, not PR. But vocal critics on the left understand how much this access-assisted practice of citing anonymous sources hurts the credibility of journalistic discourseand, by extension, the fourth estate as a whole. How does he : So, this is the National Security Council. [2] Haberman returned to the Post to cover the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign and other political races. David: Is there one of those other investigations that most worries Trumpworld? He holds For now, the specific charges are unknown because the indictment is under seal, but . also a CNN political analyst. D.R. All rights reserved. into reality. kind of conservative ideology. And get my kids to schoolif Im in Theyre the ones who give a statement on behalf of their client. M.H. Theres a larger be a bit circumspect here, or a bit circumscribed here. I dont know what went into that. sense of huge misdirection. care that much. Its been pretty bad. you will hear him take both sides of that issuein the same sentence, nineteen-eighties. Intelligence. And that is just an ongoing problem. Her new book, "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking. [19] She has also been accused "from certain corners of the left as a supposed water carrier for the 45th president". as Presidential, sitting in this leather-bound, high-backed chair at a I cant avoid this And its not an uncommon day to see your name as part of two, combo. M.H. Or some health-care meltdown. : And I ask this of a lot of my colleagues. : Weve had Presidents whove lied about the Gulf of Tonkin, and of things. name, theyd be finished. D.R. D.R. 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