Maggie Haberman is, of course, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who's covered the political rise of Donald Trump for the New York Times...and her new book, CONFIDENCE MAN: The Making of Donald Trump & The Breaking of America became an immediate best seller. In this conversation, Maggie dives into all things Trump...from his formative influences in the New York City of the 70s and 80s, to his political ascent, time in the White House, her take on the likelihood of another Trump run, what a Trump White House restoration would look like...and much more from perhaps the most authoritative voice on the Trump political phenomenon.
IN THIS EPISODE…
Maggie breaks down the influences that explain Trump’s political persona…
The member of Congress with whom has had a decades-long feud…
Maggie talks Trump’s ethos of “hate as a civic good”…
Why Trump never wanted to be Mayor of New York City…
Maggie talks the rise of Trump as a credible candidate in 2015…
How Trump leveraged Twitter so successfully…
Maggie on the connection between Trump and the National Enquirer…
How Trump has recently lost allies among the conservative media…
Why Trump as the “deal maker” fell flat in the White House…
Maggie’s thoughts on Trump’s various legal entanglements, old and new…
How Maggie thinks about the challenge of covering candidates who lie…
Maggie’s instincts on a Trump 2024 campaign…
The faces Maggie would expect to see around Trump in a second term…
What it’s like to have 1-on-1 conversations with Trump…
What’s surprised Maggie most about Trump’s behavior over the past year…
The status of Trump relationships with names like Giuliani, McConnell, Bannon, Roger Stone...
Some of Maggies favorite books and authors covering NYC politics...
AND avenging angels, Bill Barr, Wayne Barrett, birtherism, Mike Bloomberg, E. Jean Carroll, catch-and-kill, the Central Park Jogger, Hillary Clinton, Michael Cohen, Roy Cohn, James Comey, conspiracy theories, convention speeches, covfefe, Andrew Cuomo, Mario Cuomo, Ron DeSantis, the Dobbs decisions, Meade Esposito, the favor economy, Fox News, Stanley Friedman, Ric Grenell, Sean Hannity, instinctive racial paranoia, Andrew Kirtzman, Ed Koch, Jared Kushner, the Lavender Scare, Rush Limbaugh, low-interest federal loans, Donald Manes, John McCain, McCarthy acolytes, Mark Meadows, Andrew Meier, Robert Morgenthau, Rupert Murdoch, Muslim bans, Jack Newfield, NewsMax, Richard Nixon, OAN, George Pataki, Kash Patel, David Pecker, permanent enemies, Jeanine Pirro, Vladimir Putin, John Ratcliffe, rejecting objective reality, Seth Rich, rubber chicken dinners, Eric Schneiderman, Doug Schoen, Time Magazine, transactional media, Allen Weisselberg, white noise…. & more!