'Beautiful' and 'Lovely': Trump Tweets Reflect Fixation on Women's Appearances

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‘Beautiful’ and ‘Lovely’: Trump Tweets Reflect Fixation on Women’s Appearances


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/12/us/politics/trump-tweets-lisa-page-nellie-ohr.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news





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Lisa Page, the former F.B.I. lawyer, who worked on both the Clinton email and Russia investigations.CreditErin Schaff for The New York Times

By Maggie Haberman

Aug. 12, 2018

When President Trump took to Twitter to complain about two women with connections to the Russia investigation, he affixed special descriptions to both.

“Beautiful,” he said of Nellie Ohr, the wife of a Justice Department official who worked for Fusion GPS, the research firm that commissioned a dossier that made salacious claims about Mr. Trump.

In a separate tweet, Mr. Trump used the word “lovely” to describe Lisa Page, the former F.B.I. lawyer who worked on both the Clinton email and Russia investigations and whose text exchanges with another bureau official, Peter Strzok, included repeated criticism of Mr. Trump during his candidacy.



The descriptors Mr. Trump used for the two women reflected his intense interest in physical appearances and his clear disdain for both. Ms. Page has been featured repeatedly in Mr. Trump’s tweets, which he has used to highlight her extramarital affair with Mr. Strzok.................................

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1. So, I don't really care about this fixation. But Maggie Haberman? Why is she quoted?

I like the NYT but reserve the right to not like a whole bunch of their wordspouters.

Is Maggie Haberman a true reporter or does she inject opinions into conversations to disrupt?

Your opinion is worth a lot more than mine. Thanks.