Maggie Haberman
The Strategist
The long view, patient, analytical, playing several moves ahead.
Maggie Haberman is a seasoned journalist known for her in-depth coverage of Donald Trump and the complexities of his influence on American politics. This interview reveals her ability to cut through the noise and articulate the underlying dynamics of power and media in the current political landscape.
“I mean, I can't answer why that question that's for other people. In terms of what I got wrong, I think in general, I think my coverage, I think the times coverage, I think the Washington Post coverage, I think our coverage was all really pretty rigorous in 2016.”
“Write about that crystallizing moment for me was the one what I write that sentence about was when he was reading Lindsey Graham's cell phone number. From a piece of paper at a rally in South Carolina in this dominance play, and I felt queasy watching this because it was, it's really invasive and potentially dangerous for Graham.”
“Some of them did, but I mean, there's It will not leave him for anything. What you have seen in the last year and a half is aspects of his base have gotten tired of certain things.”
“It is a bad word because it doesn't mean what people think it means. It is people assume that there's some kind of a transaction going on and that there's some kind of an agreement not to pursue certain things.”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 508 — Maggie Haberman
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