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NYT’s Maggie Haberman frantically stiff-arms CNN’s Kaitlan Collins over special ‘relationship’ with Trump

October 9, 2022 | | Print Article

The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman copped a bit of an attitude this Friday then CNN’s Kaitlan Collins accused her of having a special relationship with former President Donald Trump.

As previously documented, Haberman is a veritable Trump whisperer who’s written  and “reported” almost exclusively about Trump since the day he stepped off the escalator in 2015.

In fact, she even wrote a book about him — “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America” — that dropped earlier this month.

And she’s known to be his favorite interviewer — so much so that during a previous interview, he told her that he viewed her as his veritable psychiatrist.

Yet when Collins questioned her about this seemingly special relationship during a book event in Washington, D.C. this Friday, she chafed.

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“How has your relationship to and with Trump — how does that come through in your reporting? Because you have a relationship with him like very few other people do,” Collins asked her.

“So I actually I disagree with you there. I think he’s a subject who I cover. I covered Hillary Clinton. I covered Mike Bloomberg. I covered Rudy Giuliani in his final term in office at city hall and then his presidential campaign and then versions of him in the last several years,” Haberman replied.

“I covered at more of a remove, Presidents Clinton, Obama, W. Now he [Trump] just interprets coverage differently. I don’t, I just, the word relationship I think is not the right one,” she added.

“Well, relationship to, I think, I think he thinks of you in a certain, singular way that separates you from other reporters,” Collins replied.

Haberman didn’t care for this.

“I just don’t think that’s true. I don’t. I don’t! I mean, I think he’s obsessed with the Times, and I think that’s, that’s a lot of it,” she exclaimed.

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“I think some Times reporters would disagree with you. Times reporters who wish they had a book,” Collins quietly responded.

“Lots of times reporters with a book, we’re doing okay,” Haberman said.

In fairness to Haberman, Trump’s response to her latest book hasn’t been cordial or special:

“Here we go again! Another Fake book is out, this one, supposedly very boring and stale, by self appointed head case, Failing (unfunded liability!) New York Times writer, Maggie Hagerman,” he wrote in an angry Truth Social post earlier this month.

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“In it she tells many made up stories, with zero fact checking or confirmation by anyone who would know, like me. In one case she lies about me wanting to fire my daughter, Ivanka, and Jared. WRONG, pure fiction. Never even crossed my mind. Just have to fight trouble making creeps like Maggie, and all the rest!” he added.

In an additional post, he referred to her as “Maggot Hagerman.”

That doesn’t sound like a very special relationship, does it?

Haberman’s relationship with Trump has nevertheless made her an enemy to some particularly virulent Trump haters who resent her taking her findings and stuffing them into a book instead of just reporting them outright.

Such as the finding that Trump had initially intended to not leave the White House if he lost the 2020 presidential election.

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“New York Times political reporter and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman faced backlash on Monday, after it was reported that her upcoming book reveals that twice-impeached former President Donald Trump was planning to outright refuse to leave the White House after losing the 2020 election,” The Wrap reported last month.

“‘I’m just not going to leave,’ Trump told one aide, per [an] exclusive excerpt from Haberman’s upcoming book. … Another aide claimed that Trump told a separate staffer after the 2020 election was called in President Joe Biden’s favor that ‘we’re never leaving. How can you leave when you won an election?'”

Trump haters were furious that she’d “withheld” this information not only from the public but from the Jan. 6th commission as well:

Haberman has defended herself from this particular line of attack by arguing that she’d learned about Trump’s original intentions long after he’d already left office.

“Haberman said she worked with the Times and her publisher to get the news out when it was most relevant. In the case of the Trump quote about hunkering down at the White House, for example, the author said that if she’d nailed it down around the time it was uttered, she would have published it,” according to The Washington Post.

“As it turned out, she got it during her reporting for the book — ‘well after’ the conclusion of Trump’s second impeachment trial, in which it would have been a relevant item,” the Post reported Friday.

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