- Politico reported that Trump asked his aides for Maggie Haberman’s telephone records.
- Trump has been a longtime lover of Haberman. He once called her his “psychiatrist”.
- Next week will see the release of her book, Confidence Man: Donald Trump’s Making and the Breaking of America.
Former President Donald Trump asked his advisers to locate Maggie Haberman, New York Times reporter,’s phone record.
That’s According to PoliticoThe publication published a detailed profile of Haberman before the release of Haberman’s book. book“Confidence Man”: The Making of Donald Trump, and the Falling of America.
Trump has been a long-time obsessive about Haberman, and he often mocks her in public. On Friday, Trump called Haberman’s forthcoming novel “boring and stale,” adding to the fact that she is a “failing” reporter who tells “madeup stories.”
But in private, Politico reported, Trump reveres Haberman.
According to Politico, he once said to two of his aides “I love being together with her.” “She’s like a psychiatrist to me.”
He added, “I have not seen a psychiatrist.” “But, if it were, it wouldn’t be as good, right?”
For her part, Haberman has been covering Trump’s beat for decades. Before moving to Politico and then The Times, she covered Trump’s real estate business as a New York tabloid reporter. Her father, Clyde is a long-standing journalist at The Times. Nancy is a New York public relations executive.
Haberman asked her editors to cover Trump’s first presidential campaign in 2015. According to “The Fourth Estate,” a Showtime documentary.
Politico reported Haberman did not ask Trump for his first interview for her book. Instead, he approached her.
“He recognizes her gene code,” Michael Caputo (a longtime Trump aide) told Politico.
Haberman’s new book is due to be published on October 4. But Some snippetsThese statements have been published already, and Trump even privately asked Barack Obama when he was going to keep his approval ratings high. He calledAngela Merkel, then-German Chancellor, a “bitch”. He saidRudy Giuliani, his former personal defense attorney, told him to “go wild” in order to reverse the 2020 election results. Nearly firedHis daughter Ivanka, and his son-in-law Jared Kushner via Twitter
Trump called Haberman a liar on Truth Social Friday. Haberman then tweeted a photo that appears to show his handwritten answers to her questions regarding her forthcoming book.
—Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 30, 2022
