President-elect Donald Trump lashed out at Maggie Haberman on Tuesday, hurling a string of insults on the New York Occasions journalist and her employer.
“Magot Hagerman, a third rate writer and fourth rate intellect, writes story after story, always terrible, and yet I almost never speak to her,” the Republican posted simply after midnight, accusing the newspaper of getting its protection of him “so wrong.”
“They do no fact checking, because facts don’t matter to them. I don’t believe I’ve had a legitimately good story in the NYT for years, AND YET I WON, IN RECORD FASHION, THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN DECADES. WHERE IS THE APOLOGY?”
Trump has referred to as Haberman names up to now. He additionally referred to her as “Maggot” in August, when he raged at her for her protection of a doubtful story he’d informed about as soon as being in a harmful helicopter touchdown; and in October 2023, when he fumed over her reporting on his civil fraud trial.
Haberman has coated Trump extensively for years. She’s the creator of a biography about him and received a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for her reporting on his first administration.
It’s not clear what set off Tuesday’s tirade. Haberman and her colleague Jonathan Swan authored two articles about Trump that have been revealed by the Occasions on Monday.
One was about Boris Epshteyn, a high Trump adviser who allegedly tried to revenue from his position within the president-elect’s orbit. A number of experiences instructed he sought retainer charges from potential appointees to be able to increase them for jobs in Trump’s administration.
Reached for remark by the Occasions, Epshteyn referred to as the allegations “false and defamatory.”
One other article centered on Natalie Harp, a Trump aide and former far-right cable host who reportedly writes the president-elect “devotional letters” and acts as “an instant enabler of his impulses.”
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The Occasions additionally approached Trump’s group for remark about that report. The marketing campaign offered a number of character references about Harp, and Trump’s spokesperson Steven Cheung stated Harp was a “trusted and valued” member of the group.
Haberman additionally appeared on CNN Monday evening, the place she speculated about how Trump’s Justice Division may search to research prosecutors who labored with particular counsel Jack Smith, who led two federal investigations in opposition to the president-elect.
