Maggie Haberman: The Trump Whisperer Comes to Town

[MagaSmash]

[snowybirdie]

1. Had a free book

coming so I got her book. Just antidote after antidote about rtumps life and presidency. Nothing really new just a long, uninteresting readings of her notes. Way too long too. Thumbs down!

[Botany]

2. Fuck Maggie H. She helped to get us Trump as President by pushing the non story of HRC's emails

Hillary Clinton’s Long Road to ‘Sorry’ Over Email Use

Hillary Rodham Clinton, in Washington on Wednesday, had been reluctant to apologize for using a private email server while she was secretary of state.

By Maggie Haberman and Amy Chozick Sept. 11, 2015

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/us/politics/hillary-clinton-email-secretary-of-state.html

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And now she is talking smack about Trump's faults? And this is after doing the heavy lifting for Vlad Putin, Cozy Bear,
Facebook/Cambridge Analyitica, & Trump in spreading the Russian produced lie about HRC and her emails?

She should either have the good grace to either just go away or step in front of a bus.

[msfiddlestix]

3. I don't know about her book, but her trump smacking isn't what I'd consider much, in this interview

She did give herself a pass a number of times for not shining the light on his corruption (my words) in the years prior to 2015..

some examples of fairness one should also say.

However, the most important part of this interview is what she says about his prospects in 2024, it's a rather significant point.

Trump could easily win in 2024, and not one of us should doubt that for a moment.

Many of us here see that as a significant possibility, as long as he is able to breathe in the same air as we do, the more significant the threat.

She also mentioned that no ethics laws have been legislated in this term. I'm not sure ethics legislation will suffice.

But still, shoulda/coulda.woulda's. Is there time? Not likely.

[Botany]

4. "Trump could easily win in 2024" no he can't the 14th amendment makes it impossible

"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."

[msfiddlestix]

5. Except for major problem. He hasn't been charged, prosecuted, tried and found guilty in any court.

So long as none of these things have occurred, he is perfectly free to run for election and be installed regardless if he actually won electorally or not.





editing to add : To date, he hasn't stood in front of any judge and jury accused for any violation of the US Federal Crimes of Treason or Insurrection etc etc etc. It hasn't happened, until that happens and is then found guilty and sentenced accordingly, he is free to run for any office in the land including the office of the United States Presidency.

[ificandream]

6. I'm over halfway through the book (audio version) and it's well worth reading.

Those criticizing her reporting (and what they claim is her withholding stuff for the book) just don't get what journalism is. Journalism is a timely process. It's never ending. I've read some of the other Trump books and this one digs into him good. It's not a kiss-and-tell book and it shouldn't be. She's a journalist and that's what her book is. I recommend it. She tells the full story of Trump like no other book I've seen.

[tenderfoot]

7. "just don't get what journalism is"

Oh please.

Where her endless "but emails" dispatches "journalism"?