Donald Trump condemned the “failure” New York Times in a late-night Real Social rant, apologizing for “irrelevant” coverage of her and singling out host Maggie Haberman for criticism.
“Will the failed New York Times apologize to its readers for getting years of Trump’s speech wrong,” the president-elect wrote in the post.
“They write such false ‘nonsense’, knowing full well that it is wrong, just to show contempt.”
Referring to Haberman, Mr. Trump mocked the reporter’s name as he wrote: “Maggot Hagerman, third-rate writer and fourth-rate intelligence, writes story after story, always terrible, but I’ve never spoken to him.”
“They don’t look at the truth, because the truth doesn’t matter to them.
“I don’t believe I’ve had a legitimately good story in the NYT for years, HOWEVER I HAD, IN RECORD FASHION, THE MOST PRESIDENT’S CLASSES IN DECADES. WHERE’S THE COURSE?”
The Independent it came to The New York Times something to say.
Contrary to what Mr. Trump is saying, this newspaper has a long history of fact-checking and has been at pains to explain its methods to readers for the sake of transparency.
Donald Trump (left) hit out at Maggie Haberman (right) calling her a ‘third party writer’ (Getty)
It’s not clear what really upset Trump on Monday night.
However, the rant came shortly after the release of the new one NYT The report, from Haberman and his colleague Jonathan Swan, revealed that Trump’s aide, Natalie Harp, had sent him a series of love letters, declaring in one: “You are everything to me.”
Harp, a former right-wing television personality, has been on Trump’s radar since 2019 after his cancer survivor story caught his attention and he invited him to speak at the 2020 Republican National Convention (RNC). He later joined his staff in 2022 as a dedicated assistant, though without an official title. It is also unclear what role, if any, Harp will have in the upcoming administration.
Source told the The time that Harp, 33, sent a series of letters to Trump in 2023 that raised eyebrows among some in the Trump camp. “I don’t even want to offend you,” read one of the letters, which also thanked Trump for being a “Guardian and Protector in this life.”
Steven Cheung, Trump’s spokesman, said The time that Harp was “trusted and valued” and credited her “work ethic and dedication” for helping Trump win the 2024 election.
The same night the report came out, Haberman also appeared on Kaitlan Collins’s CNN show Where it came fromwhere he speculated about Trump’s prospects of finding a replacement for Special Counsel Jack Smith once he enters the Oval Office in January.
Natalie Harp follows Donald Trump in Manhattan’s federal court for his money laundering trial. Sources said Harp sent a series of letters to Trump in 2023 that raised eyebrows (The Washington Post).
Smith dismissed two federal lawsuits accusing Trump of tampering with the election and illegally keeping documents filed on Monday.
On Monday night’s show, Collins asked Haberman how Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, would respond if the incoming president called on her to investigate Smith, as she had previously threatened to do during an interview with Fox News last year.
“I think you can expect that Pam Bondi and others will be heard and questioned by the Democratic senators about this information,” Haberman responded.
“And it will be interesting to see what he says.
“I mean, to your credit, there was a lot of partying about Matt Gaetz not being in that position — and for good reason. Matt Gaetz was vetted by that department and has all kinds of baggage. But it’s not like the ‘I’m going to clean this all up’ vow from Pam Bondi is any different.
He continued: “There are so many unanswered questions, Kaitlan. But if the idea is that there are a lot of people around Mr. Trump and the White House who are trying to stop him from doing this, I think people are very misguided. “
Haberman has had many run-ins with Trump in the past and has often been the subject of his Social Truth attacks for his comments. He recently said he had “no idea who he was in front of or who he was talking to” when he reprimanded contestant Kamala Harris at a dinner for billionaires and said he was struggling with “anxiety” after the effort. on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, this spring.