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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMaggie Haberman is tweeting Trump interview with NYT
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT 20m20 minutes ago
Trump is at NYT, says he has been treated unfairly during campaign. Says he'd like to improve relationship,that it would make his job easier
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT 20m20 minutes ago
Trump says he had added stops in Michigan in final days because their team had heard that Clinton was concerned about the state.
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT 19m19 minutes ago
Trump on the experience of the campaign: "It's been 18 months of brutality in a true sense."
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT 19m19 minutes ago
"We had a great victory," Trump says. "I'll see every once in awhile someone says, 'Well, the popular vote.'"
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT 19m19 minutes ago
"I'd rather do the popular vote," Trump says. "I think we'd do as well or better." Says he was "never a fan of the electoral college."
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT 18m18 minutes ago
Adds: "Until now." Also says Electoral College "gets you out to" see states you wouldn't otherwise.
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT 18m18 minutes ago
Without EC "You wouldn't leave New York," Trump says
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT 18m18 minutes ago
"The African-American community liked me. They liked what I was saying," Trump says.
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT 16m16 minutes ago
Trump on alt-right supporters: "It's not a group I want to energize. And if they are energized I want to look into it and find out why."
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT 13m13 minutes ago
Trump says "no" when asked if he is taking investigations off the table for Clintons but adds he doesn't want to "hurt the Clintons."
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT 14m14 minutes ago
Says he wants to move on and move forward. "I'm not looking to go back and go through this," Trump says.
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT 13m13 minutes ago
Trump on disappointing his supporters re Clinton: "I don't think they will be disappointed..." 1/2
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT 12m12 minutes ago
2/2 "I think I will explain it that we in many ways will save our country."
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Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT 10m10 minutes ago
"Clean air is vitally important," Trump says about climate change. Says he is keeping "an open mind."
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT 10m10 minutes ago
"I think there is some connectivity" between humans and climate change, Trump says.
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT 3m3 minutes ago
"My company's so unimportant to me relative to what I'm doing." Trump.
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT 40s40 seconds ago
"I don't care about anything having anything to do" with something other than the U.S., Trump says. "I don't want to influence anything."
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Big disconnect between Trump's actions and his words. Maggie Haberman is still tweeting but I figured this is long enough, lol.
kentuck
(111,102 posts)Bring it on!
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)And he refuses to admit that Bannon or Breitbart support white nationalism. Very troubling.
LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)I'm shocked, I tell ya SHOCKED
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT 2m2 minutes ago
Trump: "Breitbart is just a publication."
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT 2m2 minutes ago
Trump on Bannon: "I think it's very hard on him. I think he's having a hard time with it. Because it's not him."
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT 4m4 minutes ago
On Bannon:"If I thought he was a racist or alt-right or any of the things, the terms we could use, I wouldn't even think about hiring him."
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT 6m6 minutes ago
"I'd assumed that you'd have to set up some type of trust or whatever and you don't," Trump says.But he adds "I would like to do something."
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT 7m7 minutes ago
"In theory I could run my business perfectly and then run the country perfectly. There's never been a case like this,"he says of his tangles
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT 7m7 minutes ago
Trump says "in theory" he could continue signing checks at his company, but he is "phasing that out now" and giving to his kids.
Bobbie Jo
(14,341 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)I guess he's changed his mind on the whole Chinese hoax thing.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)It doesn't sound to me like he's really going to stop running his businesses.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)At the same time, it would be really, really, really hard for him to be as bad as, let alone worse than, Bush/Cheney on climate change.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)bigtree
(85,998 posts)...will they challenge his soft treatment of Bannon's white nationalist ties?
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT 1h1 hour ago
Trump on Bannon: "I think it's very hard on him. I think he's having a hard time with it. Because it's not him."
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)attitude is very disturbing. He also said that Presidents can't have conflicts of interest, which is just flat out bullshit.