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. 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. The quick-hit rhythm that Trump and Haberman were both fine-tuning teed them up perfectly for today's Twitter-paced news environment. Its the gesture of a writer who knows that her unsentimental view of the President anchors her credibility. She stared. ", 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. She was on her phone. (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.' [1] In 2022, she published the best-selling book Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. 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. "Part of the reason" Haberman is so read in the Times "is because she is writing about Donald Trump. Haberman has what can only be described as a wildly expressive poker face: her slender, Clara Bow-ish eyebrows lifting, her tired eyes widening behind her smudged glasses, a tiny pinpoint of a mole on her upper lip emphasizing the thin line she's pressed her mouth into, the dimple in her chin appearing and disappearing as her jaw muscles shift. "The Triborough and Empire State view of Trump is very different from the national view of Trump," she points out. CNN, for whom she is a political analyst, called. Taylor Lorenz now at Washington Post fights Maggie Haberman - Intelligencer "She grew up in an environment where journalism that was as accurate as humanly possible was practically a religion," he says. Haberman is famously formidable. She was, however, one of the most relentless and consistent. "The difference is, Maggie is in no sense carrying water for Trump," Greenfield said. And probably because her mother is a publicist, she doesn't view Trump's press flacks, or flacks in general, as the enemy. Maggie Haberman on Twitter: ">>>>" / Twitter There's that Felix Sater character, who was arrested and, I think, did time, for shoving a broken Martini glass in someone's face . Hutchinson asked her counsel not to take the call. She previously covered the Trump administration and continues to cover Donald Trump and politics in Washington. He confesses that he is drawn to her, like a moth to a flame. Haberman pressed her point: "It was two months ago. I reflexively tense up; she doesn't flinch. Not true, says Risa Heller, a spokesperson for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner: "She speaks to 100 people a day." Trump frequently complains about Haberman's coverage. "Maggie's whole career has been about grabbing people by the lapels," Burns says. It's titled "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.". 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". She commutes to DC several times a week from her home in Brooklyn, where she lives with her husband and three young children. Boards are the best place to save images and video clips. [9], Haberman was hired by The New York Times in early 2015 as a political correspondent for the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. With a tentative tour that would include stops in Iowa, Nevada and New Hampshire, the Florida governor is paving the way for a presidential run. Habermans assessment was grimmer. [8] She became a political analyst for CNN in 2014. He mentioned Nixon unprompted in one of our interviews. . Slate called her Trump's "snake charmer"; New Yorker editor in chief David Remnick recently likened Trump to her "ardent, twisted suitor." One communications staffer after another told me that they appreciate the fact that she never blindsides them. During the Trump era, Haberman became an avatar of journalisms promise as well as of its failures. They're going to lose [their access] anyway," she says. 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. "You can offer perspective, you can offer insight, you can offer details, but they've got to be locked down. A lot of people would let it go, but Haberman signals to the hostess. Her daughter was home sick from school with a fever. Some of his aides laughed. In the epilogue, Haberman describes a post-Presidential interview in which Trump cracked to his aides, I love being with her, shes like my psychiatrist. The next sentence reflexively brushes his statement aside, insisting, It was a meaningless line, almost certainly intended to flatter. Habermans point is that Trump rarely changes from context to context; he treats everyone like his psychiatrist. 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. "This is a president who is always selling. 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. "If you're going to come at her," says a Democratic operative, "you've got to come correct. She doesn't see any climactic resolution to the Trump saga coming anytime soon. . Is there anyone in political life he truly admires? 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 . She goes on to talk about a fragile ego that has to be constantly fed and so on. I mentioned her well-documented fear of flying. It would look like him. Most recently, just in the last few days, he put out a statement about Elaine Chao, the wife of Senator Mitch McConnell. Haberman was learning the same arthow to "punch through" in a daily news cycle, as New York Times political reporter and frequent collaborator Alexander Burns puts it. Stu Marques, then metro editor of the paper, hired Haberman and oversaw her early training. She believes in the power of breaking incremental newsnot holding every-thing back for a long read. "This is a symbiotic relationship," says an administration official. Habermans own sense of Trumps spooky potency continues to shape her coverage. She almost never turns her phone off. ", Haberman's bullshit detector is appreciated by partisans on both sides: Even if they can't spin her, they know the other side won't be able to spin her either. Like the president she covers, Haberman, 43, is a born-and-bred New Yorker and slightly ill at ease in Washington. "I do not think he is enjoying the job particularly, and that is based on reporting," she says. How Maggie Haberman Covers Trump Without Losing Her Mind I think, to quote someone who knew him years ago who said this to me a couple of months back, a second Trump presidency would be very heavily driven by spite. Haberman, one of the main conduits of Oval Office drama, came under particular fire for her handling of anonymous sources. "I love being with her," he says. Is a Woman Ever Going to Win the White House? I'm quoting now Mary Trump, his niece, who, among other things, said that she thinks he is he has what she calls narcissistic personality disorder. Amazingly detailed scenes here, including Jeffrey Clark, whose devices were recently seized by federal officials, holding court at an event in the spring 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. That [Trump] is unconcerned by that, I think, is the big issue," she says. He noticed right away that Haberman had talent. I just wanted to make the point that we were engaged in some revisionist history. And she clearly knows the family dynamic and knows him and all of these family stories very, very well, better than anyone. 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. She's so well-sourced and so well-connected that she doesn't need to," Karni says. Her measured stance infuriates Trump's detractors, who harangue her on Twitter for "normalizing" the president. [2] Haberman returned to the Post to cover the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign and other political races. Learn more about Friends of the NewsHour. Her. A revelation in Maggie Haberman's new book stirs debate about reporters Exclusive: See the Trump toilet photos that he denies ever existed - Axios I suggested that, once, reporters could vanish behind their facts. "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 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. He is very aware that, if you repeat something over and over again, it can turn it into something real. During the Trump Presidency, Habermans output and name recognition placed her at the center of debates over how journalists should cover his Administration. 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). The Getty Images design is a trademark of Getty Images. he asks, uncertainly. Over time, however, as Haberman did not get beat, did not get beat, he realized she was for real. Pictures of the incident show Haberman talking nonstop as an uncharacteristically silent Koch stares at her, slightly astonished. It was simply desperation for a job other than bartending that led her to newspapers. But effective salesmanship must be based in credibilityan area in which his administration has suffered significant set-backs in recent days. And she's got a BlackBerry and a flip phone going at the same time. [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. This would be a profound shift in the shape of the federal government. "Can I join you guys? 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. he says, holding out his fist. She has worked for the trifecta of local dailies The Post, The Daily News and, most. Haberman was not the only reporter to see the underlying logic in the daily bedlam emanating from Washington. Maggie Haberman on Donald Trump: "He saw the presidency as the ultimate "I didn't care for that metaphor," Haberman says. I mean, we know it is not true. 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.