"I'm just trying not to get beat," she says. And then, by the second week, something had just switched, and he was insisting that he had won. In the course of reporting the book, she shared considerable . She goes on to talk about a fragile ego that has to be constantly fed and so on. She doesn't see any climactic resolution to the Trump saga coming anytime soon. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. The former President once told her that he found air travel spooky.. [3], Last edited on 16 February 2023, at 19:13, 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? 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. "I used to really cringe at the way my colleagues would talk to spokespeople," she said. But that's what he said. As a construction tycoon, Trump sought out unsavory accomplices, partnering on one project with a Soviet-born investor whod been convicted for both first-degree assault (shoving a broken margarita glass into a mans face) and fraud (a pump-and-dump penny stock scheme involving the Genovese crime family). He donated heavily to politicians who could grease the wheels of his business machinations. I think that theres a misunderstanding among certain aspects of our readership about what it is we do, she said. Do you think, at his core, that he is racist? Maggie Haberman - Wikipedia Like, floating in the sky.". He gives off a hint of reality TVwith his mirages, his come-ons, his brazenness, his feintsand a dash of the Devil. Confidence Man, which synthesizes years of reporting on Trump and his milieu, is, in some ways, a standard-issue Trump book. There was a lot of duking it out, she said. Photograph by Jeanette Spicer for The New Yorker, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. . A few minutes later, here he comes. Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, has been covering Donald Trump since the 1990s. And it's just hard to know how much is that vs. he's convinced himself of this. Confidence Man by Maggie Haberman: 9780593297346 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books. Haberman is famously formidable. Maggie Haberman - The New York Times "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. What he needs his attention. He noticed right away that Haberman had talent. Search instead in. Honestly, the first name that came to mind as you were asking that question was Richard Nixon, with whom who is obviously not alive anymore, with whom he had a huge fascination. I used that metaphor to describe him in 2017. 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. The instant #1 New York Times bestseller. I do not want you to come away with that impression. He is behaving in a racist way. Like, Maggies friendly to us. I can't think of anyone whose behavior in typical U.S. political fashion he admires right now. But no matter what Haberman writes about Trump, he has never frozen her out. "Maggie doesn't camouflage. "I'm wearing a sweatshirt, and my hair is in a bun," she told the producer. 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. Sign up for our daily newsletter to receive the best stories from The New Yorker. Would she tell the man to "stop screaming"? And probably because her mother is a publicist, she doesn't view Trump's press flacks, or flacks in general, as the enemy. She is a native New Yorker, a competitive advantage given her subject. She was texting, taking calls, e-mailing, and Gchatting with colleagues and sources. "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?' Her measured stance infuriates Trump's detractors, who harangue her on Twitter for "normalizing" the president. Stu Marques, then metro editor of the paper, hired Haberman and oversaw her early training. "But I also know he can't allow himself to ever quit." Haberman was not the only reporter to see the underlying logic in the daily bedlam emanating from Washington. (Both her brother, Zach, and her husband, Dareh Gregorian, work at the New York Daily News.). There's that Felix Sater character, who was arrested and, I think, did time, for shoving a broken Martini glass in someone's face . [15] Haberman was criticized for applying a double standard in her reporting about the scandals involving the two presidential candidates of the 2016 election. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Haberman reported and wrote it with her frequent collaborator, Glenn Thrush. I reflexively tense up; she doesn't flinch. And he makes that very clear. Both she and her subject navigate the public sphere as if they have something to prove. 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. I don't think he figured the office out. "Part of the reason" Haberman is so read in the Times "is because she is writing about Donald Trump. But, for all Habermans reticence, she maintains a combative Twitter presence, and is quick to press her case in replies when she believes that shes been mischaracterized. Like the president she covers, Haberman, 43, is a born-and-bred New Yorker and slightly ill at ease in Washington. She was wearing an evil-eye bracelet. And somewhat in connection with that, there's a long list of people he's belittled, people who've been loyal to him, like Lindsey Graham, Senator Graham, Kevin McCarthy. Perhaps he glimpsed himself as if in a mirror. The phone rang, and she started laughing when she looked at her iPhone display. 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. Are you doing an interview?" One attendee chastised another for looking at her phone, saying that its light was distracting, as though we were all at a cliffhanger movie. Through it all, she never missed a beat in our conversation. You don't even know where she isshe could be anywhere. But he and Haberman say it reminds them of New York politics; they see Trump's presidency more as a "national mayoraltyit's got that scale, it has that informality," Thrush says. Parts of Confidence Man seem to wrestle with its authors role in amplifying Trumps lies. [28], Journalists and authors criticized Haberman for allegedly choosing to withhold information about Donald Trump for the sake of her book, despite being aware of it ahead of the January 6 United States Capitol attack, although they presented no evidence of when she had learned of Trump's statements. "This place is so loud I want to put a bullet in my brain," she had said, matter-of-factly, when we first sat down for a late dinner, observing that so much hard-partying energy on a weeknight seemed more NYC than DC. "It's like she's in the building, but she's not even in the city. "There has been a very protracted shocked stage in Washington, and I think people have to move past that. Trump conceded this was true and the story was about an "8. The Times hired her to cover the 2016 election five months before Donald Trump declared his first Presidential campaign. Haberman argued that she did not learn this until after Joe Biden took office. And it's very hard to know now whether he really believes this or whether it is just something he is saying. Maggie Haberman, thank you, the reporter who has known Donald Trump longer than any other. . [12], Haberman frequently broke news about the Trump campaign and administration. 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). Well, we know that he I mean, and you have written this. And he is still surrounded by people who don't take him seriously, who he knows do not value him. Portions of the electorate learned to associate her with distressing updates about the country. He draws buildings. These days, in her profession, the truth is a demanding god. Part of what makes Haberman one of Trumps foremost contextualizers is her fluency in the worlds that formed him. There is also the question of what prolonged exposure to Trumpa man who profanes and corrupts everything he toucheshas done to Haberman herself. 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. It was simply desperation for a job other than bartending that led her to newspapers. 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. . Millions of high-quality images, video, and music options are waiting for you. In advance of its release, CNN published an excerpt that revealed that Trump planned to simply remain in the White House after his November 2020 election loss. And I think that the people who he would put into key jobs would be very alarming to a number of people across Washington. ", Haberman is growing weary of the DC establishment's seeming inability to metabolize the president's personality. Is she, in fact, friendly to Trumps people? 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. [5] In 1999, the Post assigned her to cover City Hall, where she became "hooked" on political reporting. (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.' Last June, Haberman got the tip that Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski had been fired while she was sitting in the audience at her son's kindergarten graduation. The New York Times reporter may be the greatest political reporter working today. By Sean Piccoli,Jonah E. Bromwich,Ben Protess and William K. Rashbaum. 'It's My Curse and My Salvation': Trump's Most Famous Chronicler Opens Is Trump-Whisperer Maggie Haberman Changing - Vanity Fair What erodes that is very dangerous." Guy Cecil has led Priorities USA since 2015 and will leave at the end of March, as outside political groups begin to make plans for the 2024 races. 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. Just as he didn't back down after being accused of sexual assault, she says he is unlikely to walk away from this fight or resign. 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. She had a story that was about to go live on nytimes.com. Trump Might Not See Out 2024 Presidential Bid: Maggie Haberman He is elated. 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). Trump Said NYT's Maggie Haberman Is Like His 'Psychiatrist': Book Haberman did not let it slide. She leaves it hanging for a momentpanic flashes across his facebut then gives him a bump. Sensitive subject, but we know there are a number of incidents that happened during his presidency that led people to say he is racist. I just wanted to make the point that we were engaged in some revisionist history. Please check your inbox to confirm. penguinrandomhouse.com. Maggie Haberman on Trump: 'He's become a Charles Foster Kane character Daily Kickoff: Maggie Haberman, Noa Tishby join JI's podcast + The new [8] She became a political analyst for CNN in 2014. She turned the phone over. Trump frequently complains about Haberman's coverage. But I do think that he needs whatever he doesn't have, and whatever that might be in any given moment. Maggie Haberman during a screening of The Fourth Estate at TheTimesCenter on May 9, 2018, in New York City. "Maggie's whole career has been about grabbing people by the lapels," Burns says. Tweets with replies by Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) / Twitter Born to a publicist and a newspaperman, she grew up in the kind of privileged Manhattan set that Trump spent his early days envying. Sister Sites: Techmeme Tech news essentials. But effective salesmanship must be based in credibilityan area in which his administration has suffered significant set-backs in recent days. Theyre outraged by what were covering, and they dont understand why its not having the effect it should. I first met Maggie Haberman in 2014. ", "Maggie's magic is that she's the dominant reporter on the [White House] beat, and she doesn't even live in Washington. 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. Haberman says her mirth had to do with the ridiculousness of talking momentum so early in the campaign; Trump took it as her mocking his chances of winning the Republican nomination. She says she does most of her work from her car, shuttling her kids around, dashing between the office in Times Square and her apartment. ", When I tell Haberman what her colleagues say about her, she shrugs, like she's being complimented for breathing. Haberman graduated in 1996 from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied creative writing and psychology. Maggie Haberman's new book 'Confidence Man' details Trump's rise to By 1999, Marques put Haberman on the City Hall beat, where she covered then-mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Trump friend. Meanwhile, Trump, still revelling in his defeat of Hillary Clinton, cast her as another antagonist, the embodiment of the Failing New York Times. She and the President invited doppelgnger comparisons: the flashy fabulist and the buttoned-down institutionalist locked in each others sights. Cruelty, pettiness and real estate: in Confidence Man, Maggie Haberman Can you believe what he just did?' They range from an extraordinarily intimate account of a "sour and dark" Trump berating his staff as "incompetent" to the revelation that Trump called Comey a "nutjob" in an Oval Office meeting with the Russians the day after his dismissal, telling them that Comey's ouster had relieved the pressure of the investigation into possible collusion between Russia and his campaign. She was on her phone. 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 . 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. Because he is the same person he was during the campaign.". Hicks echoed Conway, e-mailing me a few days later that Haberman was "a true professional. 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. Haberman pressed her point: "It was two months ago. She echoed the same thought to me in email dispatches as she and her colleagues furiously traded scoops with the Washington Post last week. Some passages unfold as groans of exhaustion: For all the intrigue that is part of the Trump mythos, Haberman writes, the irony, say those who have known him for years, is that he has had only a handful of moves throughout his entire adult life. Part of the work of Confidence Man is to source and taxonomize each of these moves, and to identify when Trump is drawing on any one of them. 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. In her work, Trumps actions dont appear special or mysterious; they emerge as a clear consequence of his background. She'll wake up in the middle of the night and, instead of rolling over and going back to sleep, pick up her phone and start working. She's former transportation secretary. I just want to go back to the psychiatrist line. She covered his real estate business when she was a New York tabloid reporter before moving to Politico and later The Times. ", While speaking on a New York Times Women in the World panel at Lincoln Center in April to a very Trump-unfriendly crowd (Nikki Haley, Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, was booed during her interview with Greta Van Susteren before Haberman came onstage), she kept repeating basic facts about Trumpthat he has been on both sides of most issues, that he's influenced by the last person he spoke toand getting huge laughs from the audience. he asks, uncertainly. She suggested a colleague to go on TV in her stead. [19], In 2022, Haberman published a book on the Trump presidency called Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. It was like watching someone juggle fire while standing on a tightrope. Premium Access. The phone buzzed again. Designed with adjustable nose pads for a custom fit. Haberman heard rumors of colleagues fielding calls from the magnate during which hed dangle gossip items. He "kind of chuckled" and replied, "It's like therapy. You know, he plopped himself down on Fifth Avenue"a reference to the 58-story Trump Tower"and he still was not treated seriously by New York's business elite. This would be a profound shift in the shape of the federal government. Haberman has spent a good part of the past seven years immersed in Trumps deranged fantasia of American life. ", The 1980s and '90s New York in which Haberman was raised is the same milieu in which Trump began his crusade to sand down his Queens edges and gild the Manhattan skyline. 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. She catches herself. The audience was, as always, hanging on her every word, hungry to have her translate Trump into someone they could understand. Trump responded, jokingly, "Really? Adds Haberman, "Some Ed Koch. He is very aware that, if you repeat something over and over again, it can turn it into something real. He has called you, essentially, like his psychiatrist, whether you agree with that term or not. "The Triborough and Empire State view of Trump is very different from the national view of Trump," she points out. In those days, the future president was a fixture in Page Six, the Post's gossip column. She's e-mailed me from the NYPD tow pounda place she said she'd already visited twice that month. Access the best of Getty Images with our simple subscription plan. 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.". Haberman, for her part, has become a front-page fixture and a Fourth Estate folk hero. Hutchinson asked her counsel not to take the call. In hindsight, Haberman was building a reservoir of knowledge and contacts that would make her probably the best-sourced reporter of the 2016 campaign. You're going to see if people were killed," Marques says. [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. he yelps like a sixth grader sent our way on a dare, and dashes off. Ashley Parker, now a Washington Post White House correspondent but then one of Haberman's colleagues at the Times, says Haberman confirmed the tip and wrote the story on her phone during the graduation. Haberman says she'd had no interest in journalism up to this point. All rights reserved. [2] They have three children and live in Brooklyn. [3] She is a 1991 graduate of Ethical Culture Fieldston School, followed by Sarah Lawrence College where she obtained a bachelor's degree in 1995. That must have been a long time ago. He's hitting on her. I know a lot of people have been waiting to see this. And I think, sometimes, he seems less clear. Lorenz's new classmates at the Post and a few of her old ones at the Times called her out-of-date self-empowerment-via-marketing-lingo "cringey" and basically labeled her a neo-journalism . 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. Well be fine.. She's called me as she was drivingswearing and running latebetween an errand at the American Girl doll store and a dinner party. "So much of his approach is bending others to the way he sees things," she says. "There's an enormous personal price that she pays, that people pay when they devote so much of themselves to this," Thrush says. Because Haberman has known Trump for so long she has been derided as a schill. 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. births and plastic surgeries), and the funerals of firefighters and civic luminaries. Yes, I can! As an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence, Haberman studied creative writing and child psychology. Her reporting, much of it written with other Times staffers, mingled Pulitzer-winning discoveries (Trump told Russian officials that firing James Comey relieved great pressure on him), palace intrigue (John Kelly clashed with Corey Lewandowski), and bathetic details (Trump watching television in his bathrobe). Greenfield said there are journalists who have been tight with presidents before; he cited Chalmers Roberts, a Washington Post reporter who'd been close to Kennedy and, later in life, admitted he'd compromised himself by giving Kennedy overly favorable coverage. Highlights from the week in culture, every Saturday. Maggie Haberman reacts to Trump grand jury foreperson's remarks: 'I've Trumps insistence on taking unnecessary flights kind of goes to what he will sublimate in the service of something else, Haberman said. Haberman, one of the main conduits of Oval Office drama, came under particular fire for her handling of anonymous sources. [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. Maggie Haberman's new book: Trump nearly fired Jared and Ivanka via She almost never turns her phone off. 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. Pictures of the incident show Haberman talking nonstop as an uncharacteristically silent Koch stares at her, slightly astonished. But my question to you is, what do you think he cares about the most or whom? The former President is not what he seems, she said, but hes not nothing. And this is one of the things that makes establishing a baseline of discernible truth around him so incredibly hard. [11], According to an analysis by British digital strategist Rob Blackie, Haberman was one of the most commonly followed political writers among Biden administration staff on Twitter. ", 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. Hutchinson had just finished her third deposition with the committee. A lot of Rudy Giuliani. "You can offer perspective, you can offer insight, you can offer details, but they've got to be locked down. By Damon Winter/The New York Times . 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. 2023 Cond Nast. Congratulations on the book. [19] She has also been accused "from certain corners of the left as a supposed water carrier for the 45th president". It's titled "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.". "She grew up in an environment where journalism that was as accurate as humanly possible was practically a religion," he says. Is there anyone in political life he truly admires? Over the years, she has honed a stable interpretation of Trump, evoking not a strongman but a showman, an egomaniac with shrewd instincts and bad opinions. What Did We Learn About the Georgia Grand Jurys Findings? So, what exactly is in his heart, I think, becomes irrelevant. I suggested that, once, reporters could vanish behind their facts. Some of his aides laughed. "She's like Michael Corleone," Thrush says, "sucked into the family business." I mean, does he just create a different factual universe? Subscribe to Here's the Deal, our politics newsletter. 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. So it must be that were doing it wrong. I noted that the idea of silver-bullet journalismof the one article that levels the Trump White Houseis deeply bewitching. [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. "The difference is, Maggie is in no sense carrying water for Trump," Greenfield said. "Speak of the devil," she said into the phone. "And yet Trump seems driven to connect with her.". "Part of it was for her son graduating kindergarten, and part of it was for Maggie for breaking this awesome scoop. "[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".
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