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. Habermans own sense of Trumps spooky potency continues to shape her coverage. Her expertise wasn't just Trumpit was the Trump psyche. 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. Intense is one of the words friends and colleagues most often use to describe her. But I do think that he needs whatever he doesn't have, and whatever that might be in any given moment. Pictures of the incident show Haberman talking nonstop as an uncharacteristically silent Koch stares at her, slightly astonished. Because Haberman has known Trump for so long she has been derided as a schill. "I'm wearing a sweatshirt, and my hair is in a bun," she told the producer. In her work, Trumps actions dont appear special or mysterious; they emerge as a clear consequence of his background. Sensitive subject, but we know there are a number of incidents that happened during his presidency that led people to say he is racist. [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? This purple frame wouldn't be complete without the intricate temple detail, a distinct touch to help you stand out from the crowd. "[22] The book debuted at number one on The New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for the week ending October 8, 2022. NEW --> Declassified after-action reports support U.S. military commanders who said Biden team was indecisive during the Afghanistan crisis The White House said Friday that no such reports exist. By Sean Piccoli,Jonah E. Bromwich,Ben Protess and William K. Rashbaum. Haberman joined Judy Woodruff to discuss the book. She's "wickedly competitive," says Gregg Birnbaum, the former Post editor (now senior political editor at NBC News Digital) whom Haberman credits with drilling into her head, "Do not get beat, do not get beat. Ppl don't change." I don't know if you're familiar with the children's book "Harold and the Purple Crayon," but it's about a child named Harold who literally has a purple crayon, and he draws a whole world at night one night. From Eisenhower to Biden, questions of age have persisted. Her measured stance infuriates Trump's detractors, who harangue her on Twitter for "normalizing" the president. 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. 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. "The Triborough and Empire State view of Trump is very different from the national view of Trump," she points out. 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. There is also the question of what prolonged exposure to Trumpa man who profanes and corrupts everything he toucheshas done to Haberman herself. Are you doing an interview?" 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. Habermans assessment was grimmer. Her new book, "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America," chronicles where he came from and how his experiences in New York City impact our nation's politics today. In the midst of his second divorce, from Marla Maples, Trump was a maestro of controlling his tabloid image, calling in tidbits about himself. Further introspection on the subject of stifling her emotions did not seem to interest her, perhaps because she sees no alternative. Congratulations on the book. Haberman described how delighted he was when the New York Post headlined a piece about him with a possibly erroneous quote from Marla Maples: Best Sex Ive Ever Had. She would repeat versions of these same answers and stories at her book event later that evening. Her. Haberman and Thrush again, with their colleague Matthew Rosenberg. "There has been a very protracted shocked stage in Washington, and I think people have to move past that. [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. 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? Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent for the New York Times, stops midsentence to stare at his back as he gesticulates broadly and shouts at his dinner companions over the already considerable din at BLT Steak in Washington, DC, downstairs from the offices of the Times' bureau. Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. . Do you think, at his core, that he is racist? Passantino, her lawyer at the time, was in a taxi with her on the way to a restaurant. What Trump tries to do, Haberman told me, is create realities for himself and everyone else. But his conjuring is notshe searched for the right wordfriendly; theres a malevolence to it. "This is a very precarious moment, in terms of what anyone can believe in. 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. There was a lot of duking it out, she said. She glanced at it, then apologized. Is she, in fact, friendly to Trumps people? (But, she says, Melissa McCarthy's Sean Spicer portrayal more accurately captures him.) On this evening, she is recovering from the flu and has been up for the better part of two days, racing back and forth on Amtrak between her family and an Oval Office interview with the president, and speaking engagements at New York's Lincoln Center and DC's Newseum. 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). "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America" by Maggie Haberman (Penguin Press), in Hardcover, Large Print, eBook and Audio formats, available October 4 via Amazon . I first met Maggie Haberman in 2014. Trump is 70. For the next decade, she worked for both the Post and the other tab in town, the New York Daily News, covering Hillary Clinton's senate campaign, Michael Bloomberg's mayoralty, and Clinton's first presidential campaign. Glass ceiling: Tishby, an Israeli native who now calls Los Angeles home, joined the podcast to discuss her new book . This past November, by the end of the candidates meandering, hour-long campaign announcement, she had tweeted about the speech more than twenty times. During Rudy Giulianis second mayoral term, Haberman covered City Hall, a notoriously cutthroat beat. Haberman says she'd had no interest in journalism up to this point. She was, however, one of the most relentless and consistent. She wrote about Donald Trump for those publications and rose to prominence covering his campaign, presidency, and post-presidency for the Times. She says they were talking about infrastructure when, "out of nowhere," he raised the This Week laugh. It would look like him. The tale concerns a boy named Harold who goes for a walk in the evening and draws things from his imagination, including an entire city, with his enchanted crayon. [4], Haberman's career began in 1996 when she was hired by the New York Post. ", Trump has also sent her his famous press clippings with Sharpie notes on them, mostly with criticisms, but at least once with praise. Thank you. Some of his aides laughed. But I do think he figured out personnel, which is often what he's focused on. Hutchinson had just finished her third deposition with the committee. 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. 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. (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. "Speak of the devil," she said into the phone. Because she was literally talking to 16 people within our campaign at the same time.". "This is a president who is always selling. 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. "His whole thing has always been to be accepted among the New York elites, whom he sort of preemptively sneers atthat thing that people do when they are not really sure if they will be completely validated, where they push away people whose approval they are seeking. "She's like Michael Corleone," Thrush says, "sucked into the family business." And so it is easy for people to convince him that something is true, when it is not. Yes, I can! "She came into the Page One conference room, and there was this huge round of applause," Parker says. For his first term, Haberman has said, he wanted to campaign more than he wanted to be elected; now he wants to be elected without all the travails of campaigning. [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. One communications staffer after another told me that they appreciate the fact that she never blindsides them. Haberman heard rumors of colleagues fielding calls from the magnate during which hed dangle gossip items. "Part of the reason" Haberman is so read in the Times "is because she is writing about Donald Trump. The man with the orange hair is making a scene. Would she tell the man to "stop screaming"? 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. He confesses that he is drawn to her, like a moth to a flame. But that's what he said. I used that metaphor to describe him in 2017. The former presidents lawyers cited executive privilege, a tactic they have used with other ex-Trump aides. The debate is set for August, in the same city that will host the partys 2024 convention. He's called him a weakling. he asks, uncertainly. Its the crashing. Trump, apparently, does not get fazed by planes: on Air Force One, Haberman said, hed sometimes continue talking during rocky landings, while reporters slid around on their seats. Is there anyone in political life he truly admires? 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. This book is her most sustained attempt to pin him down. She's called me as she was drivingswearing and running latebetween an errand at the American Girl doll store and a dinner party. 2023 Cond Nast. newsletter for analysis you wont find anywhereelse. Mediagazer Must-read media news. "Okay, wellfist bump?" She believes in the power of breaking incremental newsnot holding every-thing back for a long read. He noticed right away that Haberman had talent. "Maggie's whole career has been about grabbing people by the lapels," Burns says. I also think he's extremely suggestible and I think he's extremely paranoid. She said that she had never approved of anything Trump had doneevaluating him is not her job. Lately he's gone digital (sort of): He'll write the note on the clip, and then have White House Director of Strategic Communications Hope Hicks take a picture of the note and e-mail it to her. Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads. She had a story that was about to go live on nytimes.com. 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. A few minutes later, here he comes. Ad Choices. Like the president she covers, Haberman, 43, is a born-and-bred New Yorker and slightly ill at ease in Washington. There are briefing-room tantrums, incredulous generals, and off-color mutterings. ", When I tell Haberman what her colleagues say about her, she shrugs, like she's being complimented for breathing. As her book tour began, in October, Haberman and I met for an interview in Washington. ", [youtube ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPME4VCNmyc&t=79s[/youtube]. Dont worry, Passantino allegedly reassured her. I mean, we know it is not true. 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. I mean, does he just create a different factual universe? How does he see the truth? He was shaped by how to attract those stories.. "The news was something my dad did." 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". The Times hired her to cover the 2016 election five months before Donald Trump declared his first Presidential campaign. It narrates how he and his siblings cut off medical funding for his brothers infant grandson, who was born with a disorder that led to cerebral palsy, in order to punish some of his relatives during an estate dispute. All Rights Reserved. She previously worked as a political reporter for the New York Post, the New York Daily News, and Politico. She was texting, taking calls, e-mailing, and Gchatting with colleagues and sources. It was a story about Mar-a-Lago." he yelps like a sixth grader sent our way on a dare, and dashes off. She covered his real estate business when she was a New York tabloid reporter before moving to Politico and later The Times. 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. He draws buildings. He gives off a hint of reality TVwith his mirages, his come-ons, his brazenness, his feintsand a dash of the Devil. 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. 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. Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent for the New York Times, stops midsentence to . ", Haberman is careful, even in the current free-for-all, to avoid the snide attitude many of the New York intelligentsia have taken toward Trump and his administration. I just want to go back to the psychiatrist line. 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. But Confidence Man is among the first to seriously consider its subjects backstory, how he sprang from the overlapping scenes of New York real estate, city government, and media celebrity. When Haberman demurs, politely but without apology, he is momentarily stumped. Its possible that all of the jurors votes recommended against indictment, but it isnt sounding like it. [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'". "You can offer perspective, you can offer insight, you can offer details, but they've got to be locked down. 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." No one suggests her male colleagues are "wooing" Trump. 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. she says she told him. What erodes that is very dangerous." births and plastic surgeries), and the funerals of firefighters and civic luminaries. "Short fiction, always somewhat curiously resembling my own life," she says. (Nancy worked on projects for Trump's business but says she never met him.). I dont want this out there, she remembers saying. 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. Like, Maggies friendly to us. Donald Trump reading The New York Times at his Greenwich, Connecticut home in 1987. 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. 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. Collect, curate and comment on your files. "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. "I'm actually not trying to be funny," Haberman said, correcting them, and, when they continued to laugh, insisting, "Again, I'm not doing a comedy line. By Kenneth P. Vogel,Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt. Friends and colleagues say this is her standard operating procedure. As we were talking, her phone buzzed. But my question to you is, what do you think he cares about the most or whom? The quick-hit rhythm that Trump and Haberman were both fine-tuning teed them up perfectly for today's Twitter-paced news environment. [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." During the Trump era, Haberman became an avatar of journalisms promise as well as of its failures. She's former transportation secretary. 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. Plus: each Wednesday, exclusively for subscribers, the best books of the week. Haberman, a White House correspondent for . Sister Sites: Techmeme Tech news essentials. She leaves it hanging for a momentpanic flashes across his facebut then gives him a bump. 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). ", "Maggie's magic is that she's the dominant reporter on the [White House] beat, and she doesn't even live in Washington. Most recently, just in the last few days, he put out a statement about Elaine Chao, the wife of Senator Mitch McConnell. And that's going to mean certain situations are fraught. "I love being with her," he says. Trumps performative macho is scaring voters in both parties away from women candidates. " 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.). The instant #1 New York Times bestseller. He learned showmanship from the former mayor Ed Koch, the Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, and the McCarthyite lawyer Roy Cohnwhose singular talent, the book notes, was for emotional terrorism. From the remnants of Brooklyns Democratic machine he extracted lessons about the power that might be gained from pitting ethnic groups against one another. [14], In October 2016, one month before Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the US presidential election, a stolen document released by WikiLeaks outlined how Clinton's campaign could induce Haberman to place sympathetic stories in Politico. ", 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. By Shane Goldmacher,Michael C. Bender and Maggie Haberman. Haberman has spent a good part of the past seven years immersed in Trumps deranged fantasia of American life. An essay by Toni Morrison: The Work You Do, the Person You Are.. 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. Since 2015, Habermans career has revolved around the most untrustworthy man in national politics. "And so he will take this chair and say to you, 'This is actually a table.' Adds Haberman, "Some Ed Koch. Haberman countered that such soap operas have been happening for years. And I think, sometimes, he seems less clear. "But I also know he can't allow himself to ever quit." She previously covered the Trump administration and continues to cover Donald Trump and politics in Washington. The aides and advisers who spoke to Haberman for the book - she writes that she interviewed more than 250 people - offer a damning portrait of a commander in chief who was uninterested in. Stu Marques, then metro editor of the paper, hired Haberman and oversaw her early training. These words were spoken in 2008 by an unlikely film critic named Donald Trump. "[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". He said that to me in one of our interviews. Her multitasking and compartmentalizing, which the press has covered tirelessly, almost seem like necessary steps in the quarantining of orderindividual and psychic as well as shared and politicalfrom chaos. 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. My job, she said, is to provide as much information on a topic as possible that is significant and relevant and related to events. What a President does, she noted, will always get coverage. 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