She commutes to DC several times a week from her home in Brooklyn, where she lives with her husband and three young children. She's e-mailed me from the NYPD tow pounda place she said she'd already visited twice that month. And she clearly knows the family dynamic and knows him and all of these family stories very, very well, better than anyone. Read Maggie Haberman", "New York Times Staffing Up For 2016 Election With Maggie Haberman Hire", "How Tabloids Helped NY Times' Maggie Haberman Ace Trump White House", "Maggie Haberman leaves huge hole at Politico, moves to New York Times", "Politico's Senior Political Reporter Maggie Haberman Joins New York Times", "The leakiest White House I've ever covered", "Maggie Haberman Hits Back In Twitter Spat With 'Trump Adviser' Sean Hannity", "Biden 'is planning to run again' in 2024", "The Trump Presidency Is Ending. 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. What is he at his core, what does he care about? Born to a publicist and a newspaperman, she grew up in the kind of privileged Manhattan set that Trump spent his early days envying. There are briefing-room tantrums, incredulous generals, and off-color mutterings. And thank you for having me to talk about the book. 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. 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. Haberman heard rumors of colleagues fielding calls from the magnate during which hed dangle gossip items. The next day, I called himhe's an old family friend of the Habermans and has known Maggie since she was about three days oldto ask him to elaborate. 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. Do you think he knows what's real and what isn't? Boards are the best place to save images and video clips. Maggie Lindsy Haberman (New York, 30 oktober 1973) is een Amerikaans journaliste.. Haberman is Witte Huis-correspondent voor The New York Times en politiek analist voor CNN.Daaraan voorafgaand was zij als politiek verslaggever werkzaam voor Politico en de New York Daily News.. Afkomst en opleiding. 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. Stu Marques, then metro editor of the paper, hired Haberman and oversaw her early training. 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. A reader wondering whether to be surprised by such carelessness, such corruption, gets her answer: yes and no. Donald Trump reading The New York Times at his Greenwich, Connecticut home in 1987. Haberman, for her part, has been on the Trump beat for decades. None of this is to say that the Habermans and Trumps were showing up at the same dinner parties, but Manhattan can be a provincial place, among a certain inside crowd. Haberman argued that she did not learn this until after Joe Biden took office. 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. COVID-19 at Three: Who Got the Pandemic Right? "My enduring image of her is, she's standing outside the [press] van, she has a cigarette already lit in one hand, she's lighting a second one because she's forgotten that she has the first one lit, right? 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. I don't believe that he learned how to be president more astutely. When Their Book Deal Blew Up After Sexual Misconduct Allegations, Glenn He mentioned Nixon unprompted in one of our interviews. Three years later, she moved to the Times as it beefed up its political staff in advance of the 2016 campaign. He treats everyone like they're his psychiatrist, because he's working everything out in real time. This book is her most sustained attempt to pin him down. She is a native New Yorker, a competitive advantage given her subject. 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He said that to me in one of our interviews. ", Her father, Clyde, says he likes to think that honest journalism is "hardwired" into her. She's called me as she was drivingswearing and running latebetween an errand at the American Girl doll store and a dinner party. 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. Is it the claustrophobia that bothers her? You're going to see if people were killed," Marques says. 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.. An essay by Toni Morrison: The Work You Do, the Person You Are.. Like the president she covers, Haberman, 43, is a born-and-bred New Yorker and slightly ill at ease in Washington. Because she enjoyed good access to him on the campaign trail and during his presidency she has been called a "Trump. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/maggie-habermans-new-book-confidence-man-details-trumps-rise-to-prominence, Donald Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in Mar-a-Lago dispute, Rex Tillerson testifies at corruption trial of Trump adviser, Trumps embrace of QAnon raising concerns about future political violence, How Trump may have violated the Presidential Records Act, "confidence man: the making of donald trump and the breaking of america". 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. The scene underscores a question that has shadowed Haberman for the past several years. In late April, Haberman spoke on (yet another) panel, this one at the 92nd Street Y, with her colleague Alex Burns. Hutchinson asked her counsel not to take the call. Trump, Haberman writes, was usually selling, saying whatever he had to in order to survive life in ten-minute increments. He was interested primarily in money, dominance, power, bullying, and himself. In Herman Melvilles novel The Confidence-Man, from 1857, the title character is a shapeshifter who remakes himself in the image of others desires. We see many compliments in your future with Maggie, a rectangular frame with a metal construction and vibrant violet hue. Pictures of the incident show Haberman talking nonstop as an uncharacteristically silent Koch stares at her, slightly astonished. "You can change her mind," Madden says. 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. 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. Is she, in fact, friendly to Trumps people? Habermans particular way of contextualizing often seems intended to puncture or undermine. Haberman was not the only reporter to see the underlying logic in the daily bedlam emanating from Washington. Habermans own sense of Trumps spooky potency continues to shape her coverage. I think, sometimes, he does. And this is one of the things that makes establishing a baseline of discernible truth around him so incredibly hard. But she also acknowledges Trumps seductiveness, recognizing that he was mesmerizing to watch, his speech fast and cocky and self-assured, with the ability to be both funny and cutting, both charming and derisive, often in the same sentence. Trumps gestures, Haberman insisted, have a metaphysical hollowness. It made me more able to take a punch. This worlda soap opera of excess and corruption playing non-stop through the New York of the ninetieswas Trumps, too. Haberman and Thrush again, with their colleague Matthew Rosenberg. We know he does this. Confidence Man by Maggie Haberman: 9780593297346 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books. (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. Dhruv Khullar examines what strategies worked to control the virus, and talks to the C.D.C.s director, Rochelle Walensky, about the issue of misinformation. births and plastic surgeries), and the funerals of firefighters and civic luminaries. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Throughout our conversation, she gave practiced, useful answers that slipped easily into anecdote, and she continually steered the topic away from herself. This would be a profound shift in the shape of the federal government. 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. President Xi Jinping of China, he has been praising repeatedly since he left office. [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. Haberman, one of the main conduits of Oval Office drama, came under particular fire for her handling of anonymous sources. Theyre outraged by what were covering, and they dont understand why its not having the effect it should. In her work, Trumps actions dont appear special or mysterious; they emerge as a clear consequence of his background. ", 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. When Haberman demurs, politely but without apology, he is momentarily stumped. "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. The man with the orange hair is making a scene. Access the best of Getty Images with our simple subscription plan.Millions of high-quality images, video, and music options are waiting for you. Ppl don't change." penguinrandomhouse.com. 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. All Rights Reserved. I can't think of anyone whose behavior in typical U.S. political fashion he admires right now. Daily Kickoff: Maggie Haberman, Noa Tishby join JI's podcast + The new She previously worked as a political reporter for the New York Post, the New York Daily News, and Politico. "Part of the reason" Haberman is so read in the Times "is because she is writing about Donald Trump. 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 . What Did We Learn About the Georgia Grand Jurys Findings? By Kenneth P. Vogel,Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt. He was constantly looking for a relationship with him in the past and kept it going out of office still, this admiration. I just wanted to make the point that we were engaged in some revisionist history. The book is frank about Trumps cruelty. But I do think he figured out personnel, which is often what he's focused on. The former presidents lawyers cited executive privilege, a tactic they have used with other ex-Trump aides. Prosecutors have asked a federal judge to set aside any claims of executive privilege that former Vice President Mike Pence might raise to avoid answering questions.