A WashPost story on Maggie Haberman and Trump --- from last August

[ificandream]

For those on her case about the new Trump revelations, here's a story about her history with Trump. And from his end, it's not a nice view.

Maggie Haberman and the never-ending Trump story]

An excerpt: (and remember this is from a competing newspaper):

Her loudest social media critics are often on the left — readers convinced that she has gone soft on Trump, that her prolific coverage amounts to dutiful amplification. (“From the right it is, ‘You are all evil,’ ” Haberman told The Washington Post, “and from the left: ‘Maggie, you are uniquely evil.’ ”)

Then again, throughout the Trump years, the loudest voice on the right taking her name in vain was none other than the president himself.

“A third rate reporter named Maggie Haberman . . . who I don’t speak to and have nothing to do with,” Trump tweeted in 2018, after she co-wrote a story speculating that his former lawyer Michael Cohen might turn on him. (He did.)

“This was a Maggie Haberman,” he ranted during a coronavirus news briefing last year, detouring at length from the subject at hand to address her story about his chief of staff Mark Meadows seeming emotional and overwhelmed in the job. “A terrible, dishonest reporter.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/maggie-haberman-trump/2021/08/25/87374bbe-efbe-11eb-81d2-ffae0f931b8f_story.html

[WA-03 Democrat]

1. It's just Punch and Judy

Hit me, no i hit you harder. It is an act to build her book buzz. She wrote 250+ articles about Sec. Clinton’s emails and zero about Trump being reckless with state secerts.

Fuck you Maggie

[ificandream]

2. The link I posted was six months ago. SIX MONTHS AGO!

[WA-03 Democrat]

3. I believe that was their plan from the beginning and am familiar with the series and

Sequence of events. It is like the fake fight between the Beatles and the Stones or pro wrestling. It is theater for the stupid.

[brooklynite]

12. And by "I believe" you mean "I have no actual evidence"

Accusing a journalist of an INTENTIONAL AGREEMENT with Trump is pretty serious claim.

[WA-03 Democrat]

13. It is not a feeling

Between 2015 and 2016 Maggie wrote over 250 “news” stories (or was credit in the byline) in the NYT about Sec. Clinton’s emails. Number of stories about Trump destroy national archive by Trump is zero. She knew a real crime was being committed and this serious journalist report it zero times. Granted she did write a book.

What evidence does Maggie give you that either story is true?

Her Emails!

[ificandream]

11. Funny, then ...

.... that Trump called her a "Hillary flunky."

[JohnSJ]

4. When the reporter becomes the story, the reporter isn't a reporter anymore

[ificandream]

7. When a reporter is criticized ...

... by both sides, it's a good thing.

[edhopper]

8. Or maybe both sides

see she is a bad reporter.

[ificandream]

10. She's an excellent reporter. She won a Pulitzer with the Times for her Trump work.

[edhopper]

14. Then why

did she hold back this damning information while Trump was President and saving it for a book?

[ificandream]

16. How do you know she did?

It could have been something a source told her after he left office. How can she report something she doesn't know?

[dalton99a]

5. Trump: "Great job, Maggie. But I'll pretend I hate your guts, okay?"

[orleans]

6. of course he talks shit about her--she might write something he doesn't like

and then he can yell about FAKE NEWS!

"who i don't speak to and have nothing to do with"

yeah, sure--because that douchebag never lied

[gulliver]

9. Haberman's an excellent writer, journalist, and commentator

She routinely has or shares the NYT byline on stories that reveal Trump's lowness, classlessness, and criminality.

[gratuitous]

15. Kayfabe

Like when the former guy got all grrrr mad! at Sean Hannity:

Trump turns on Hannity over Capitol-riot texts advising him to stop claiming the election was stolen