Maggie Haberman has confronted numerous criticism for her new guide about Donald Trump — nevertheless it wasn’t for not getting the products!
The New York Times journalist has been getting dragged over the previous week after it got here out that in interviews she did for Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, the previous President hinted that he had taken some categorized paperwork. You know, the entire purpose the FBI raided Mar-A-Lago in August? The main criticism? Well, if she had info on this all these months in the past and mentioned nothing as a result of she was saving it for her guide… she might have endangered nationwide safety!
The one factor Haberman couldn’t be accused of when it got here to Trump was not getting actual entry. Sometimes it appeared she was on his payroll she was so shut! But a technique or one other she acquired there. So whereas there have been books written concerning the forty fifth President earlier than, this one must be a doozy!
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The newest to return out from the guide, which hits shops on Tuesday, is an anecdote about how Trump reacted behind closed doorways to the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell.
As our avid readers will most likely have heard, Trump was considered one of two presidents (together with Bill Clinton) who have been method, method too near accused teen intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Both rode on the “Lolita Express” a number of instances. Trump was mentioned to be Epstein’s wingman for years and was infamously quoted in a profile of the billionaire in New York journal — earlier than the underage intercourse accusations grew to become public:
“I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”
Just… saying it out loud.
After Epstein’s ridiculously mysterious dying it appeared that was the top of the investigation into the highly effective males he supposedly trafficked teenagers out to. But his proper hand girl nonetheless needed to face the music.
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Maxwell was arrested in 2020 on fees of intercourse trafficking and conspiracy to commit intercourse trafficking for her position in Epstein’s ring. In July of that yr, the New York Post revealed an article saying the socialite would possibly “name names” to get a deal. That article, writes Haberman, actually freaked Trump the eff out.
The then-president had bizarrely mentioned when requested about her arrest:
“I don’t know. I haven’t really been following it too much. I just wish her well, frankly. I have met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach, and I guess they lived in Palm Beach. But I wish her well, whatever it is.”
He really wished her effectively. They requested about intercourse trafficking fees, and he wished her effectively.
According to Haberman that odd response makes extra sense when he was quaking in his boots behind closed doorways! Weeks earlier than the well-wishing, she writes, he was within the Oval Office with prime advisers when he introduced up the article, asking:
“You see that article in the Post today that mentioned me?”
She wrote that Trump’s aides sat in stony “silence” as their boss requested them about what Maxwell had really mentioned:
“She say anything about me?”
According to Haberman’s reporting, nobody mentioned something. Sadly the identical could possibly be mentioned of Ghislaine. She ended up not naming any names in spite of everything, selecting to struggle the costs and dropping fairly badly. She was discovered responsible in December of final yr and sentenced to twenty years in jail.
So it seems Trump had nothing to fret about, per typical. But the very fact he was nervous is fairly damning in and of itself, as is any longterm relationship with Epstein, frankly. Sorry, Clinton and Trump and Prince Andrew, y’all could also be harmless till confirmed responsible, however you’re additionally suspicious till confirmed clear.
Obviously Trump is now the one slamming Haberman’s guide, calling her a “head case” with “made up stories.” Innerestingly although, we even have some corroboration on this one. Because one other journalist’s digging led to just about the very same story!
Remember Michael Wolff, who supposedly acquired unintended entry to the White House? Well, in his newest guide about Trump, Landslide, he wrote final yr that Trump had requested the identical query:
“‘Has she said anything about me?’ [Trump] openly wondered. ‘Is she going to talk? Will she roll on anybody?’”
Wolff went so far as saying Trump questioned aloud about pardoning her and even himself. But it’s humorous that two completely different reporters with an excessive amount of very actual entry to Trump heard the identical story, isn’t it?
Do YOU suppose Trump had purpose to fret? Do you belief ANYONE who was friends with Jeffrey Epstein??
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