CBS News' John Dickerson asked New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, who has become the chronicler-in-chief of the Donald Trump era, "How long has Donald Trump been in your head, or you in his?"

"At least 11 years for this level of intensity," she replied.

"And what's it like to have Donald Trump in your head, or be a part of his thinking, for 11 years?"

"I had one of his old friends say to me, 'He doesn't wear well over time.' And I think that the collective we have experienced that at various points."

Haberman has been covering Trump since the late 1990s, as a metro reporter for the New York tabloids. In 2016 alone she had 599 bylines or co-bylines in The Times – more than one a day – and that pace has slowed only slightly in the years since.

Now, she's written a book about him: "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America" (published Tuesday by Penguin Press).

Dickerson asked, "I want to read from something you wrote: 'To fully reckon with Donald Trump, the presidency and his political future, people need to know where he comes from.' What do you mean, where he comes from?"

"New York in the 1960s, '70s, '80s, was a very, very unique setting," Haberman said, "because of this combination of dysfunctional and sometimes corrupt forces that touched on media, that touched on City Hall, that touched on the political party system in the various boroughs, that touched on how real estate projects got done, and which touched on racial tribalism, John, and that is a big piece of what he took from his life in New York."

The current incarnation of that racial tribalism shows up in some of Haberman's scoops about Trump's presidential years. Like other books of the Trump era, "Confidence Man" has gotten attention for new revelations: Trump considered firing his son-in-law, and engaged in casual transphobia. But Haberman's larger goal is to put the scoops in the book, and her Times coverage, in an archeological framework, to chart a 50-year, steady, unchangeable DNA.

She said, "Donald Trump is generally the same, depending on the context. And he tended to treat the White House as if he was still in a real estate office dealing with local county leaders, as if it was still 1980."

"What are the elements in the Donald Trump playbook that he's had his whole life?" asked Dickerson.

"He has a handful of moves that he has used forever. And people tend to impute a ton of strategy to what he's doing. But really, there are these moves. And it's the quick lie, it's the backbiting with one aide versus another, it is the assigning blame to someone else. All of this, again, is about creating a sense of drama, a sense of chaos, and often, John, about keeping the responsibility off him."

Haberman's reporting has irritated and embarrassed Trump. Yet, he agreed to sit down with her three times this past summer.

Dickerson asked, "Were you surprised he talked to you for your book?"

"No; he talked to everybody for their books," she replied. "It's an almost reflexive need to sell himself."

"He said at one point to somebody else, but with you in his presence, [that] you were like his psychiatrist?"

"He treats everyone like they're his psychiatrist. This is not a specific-to-me thing. This is what he does. He works everything out in real time with everyone."

Haberman offers new detail about Trump's refusal to accept defeat in 2020, quoting sources who heard Trump say, "We're never leaving."

Dickerson asked, "Donald Trump's reluctance to leave office, was that part of that playbook that developed so many years ago, or is that something new?"

"It was both," she said. "It was part of the theme of him believing that everything was always going to work out with him, because it always had. Whether it was his father helping navigate systems for him or helping him financially, or elected officials lining up for him, he always believed things would work out. And after November 3, 2020, it became clearer with each passing day that that was not going to happen, and he did not know how to handle it."

When he did leave the White House, he wasn't empty-handed, as FBI agents found in that search of his Florida home.

"When Donald Trump referred to things in the White House as his possessions, there was a long history of him doing that," Dickerson said. "Do you then think that that's why he took those classified documents?"

"I do, actually. I think it's also possible he took them for another reason, and we don't know what that is. He sees everything in terms of leverage, whether he can have an edge over someone else. He definitely likes trophies."

Trump is facing legal peril in multiple jurisdictions: A fraud suit in New York; election interference charges in Georgia; the January 6th riot investigation; and then those documents from Mar-a-Lago, where he's mostly holed up these days.

Dickerson asked, "You write that when you saw him after he left the White House, that he seemed shrunken?"

"In one of the interviews, he had very visibly lost weight, and so that was certainly physically shrunken, but he just seemed diminished," said Haberman. "And one of the things that I discovered as I was talking to people through the course of the last year is that he became this almost Charles Foster Kane-like figure who was sort of roaming around his club and existing in his own world and having to be reminded of when holidays were, someone totally out of the rhythms of normal daily life."

"What's your view of whether he'll run again?"

"With the caveat that I don't know and that I could be proven wrong, I think he's backed himself into a corner where he has to run," said Haberman. "I think that he needs the protections that running for President (he thinks) would afford him in combating investigations that he calls a 'witch hunt.' And it is the way that he fundraises and makes money. So much of his identity now is about being a politician. So, I expect that he will run. That doesn't mean that even if he declares a candidacy, that he will stay in the whole time."

Whether he runs or not, Trump has left his mark on the GOP, whose national party labeled the January 6th riots "legitimate discourse," and where a third of the Republican candidates running for election in 2022 have adopted his lie that the 2020 election was stolen.

"Has he essentially transferred the skills of the New York real estate world, as strange as that is, into a political party?" asked Dickerson.

"He has transferred how he views the New York real estate industry into the Republican Party," Haberman replied, "and not just the New York real estate industry, but the New York political system. We've seen it in ways that are overt with the Republican Party in terms of comments that get made at rallies, and we have seen it in subtler ways in terms of how candidates deal with journalists or how they engage with basic facts sets."

"Not everyone has reacted in some form of emulation to Donald Trump, but most of them have."

Haberman writes that Trump told her how much easier his life would have been if he'd never run for President. And he looked back not on what he'd accomplished, but on what the presidency had meant for Donald Trump.

Dickerson said, "When Donald Trump asked himself in your presence 'If I had to do it all over again,' what did he say?"

"What he said was the answer is yes," Haberman replied, "because the way he looks at it is, he has so many rich friends and nobody knows who they are. And it was very evident that he saw the presidency as the ultimate vehicle to fame."

BARACK OBAMA •Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama by David J. Garrow (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Barack Obama: The Story by David Maraniss (BOOK | KINDLE) •A Promised Land by Barack Obama (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Obama's Wars by Bob Woodward (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •The World As It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

DONALD TRUMP •The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Rage by Bob Woodward (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump by Bob Woodward (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control by Steven Hassan (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

JOE BIDEN •The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama by Gabriel Debenedetti (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future by Franklin Foer (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House by Chris Whipple (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Joe Biden: A Life of Trial and Redemption by Jules Witcover (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

after Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, he declared, “I’m just not going to leave.” And some Trump critics are wondering why Haberman didn’t report that statement earlier.

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currently reading: working through maggie habermann's "confidence man: the making of donald trump and the breaking of america". it's a genuinely fascinating read

favorite color: reddish-pink

last song: "thunderstruck" by ac/dc

last movie: the muppet christmas carol! my family and i watch it every christmas

sweet/savory/spicy: depends on my mood, but probably sweet

currently working on: a 3d art project for my grad school portfolio, a 3h longfic, and very dumb CR arts

tagging @blorbologist, @katia-dreamer, @rightpastnowhere, and @essayofthoughts

Remember when Trump said the LGBT+ community had a friend in him?

Maggie "Hagerman" hopped on Twitter to prove that she had gone to Trump with a list of questions for the book. Jayar Jackson, Cenk Uygur, and Lance from The Serfs discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live Read more HERE: https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-lashes-out-at-maggie-hagerman-with-whom-he-granted-three-interviews-very-boring-and-stale-book/ "Former President Donald Trump appeared to lash out at New York Times’s Maggie Haberman, though he misspelled her name as “Hagerman,” leading some to wonder if it was a typo or intentional diss. Haberman is, of course, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who has covered Trump extensively and is about to drop a highly anticipated book about the 45th president titled Confidence Man, The Making of Donald Trump and Breaking of America. If one needs evidence of her talents in this strange extremist political media ecosystem in which we find ourselves, know that Haberman gets equal criticism from both ends of the political spectrum. (Salut!) *** The largest online progressive news show in the world. Hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian. LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. Help support our mission and get perks. Membership protects TYT's independence from corporate ownership and allows us to provide free live shows that speak truth to power for people around the world. See Perks: ▶ https://www.youtube.com/TheYoungTurks/join SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theyoungturks FACEBOOK: ☞ http://www.facebook.com/TheYoungTurks TWITTER: ☞ http://www.twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM: ☞ http://www.instagram.com/TheYoungTurks TWITCH: ☞ http://www.twitch.com/tyt 👕 Merch: http://shoptyt.com ❤ Donate: http://www.tyt.com/go 🔗 Website: https://www.tyt.com 📱App: http://www.tyt.com/app 📬 Newsletters: https://www.tyt.com/newsletters/ If you want to watch more videos from TYT, consider subscribing to other channels in our network: The Watchlist https://www.youtube.com/watchlisttyt Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey https://www.youtube.com/indisputabletyt Unbossed with Nina Turner https://www.youtube.com/unbossedtyt The Damage Report ▶ https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport TYT Sports ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytsports The Conversation ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytconversation Rebel HQ ▶ https://www.youtube.com/rebelhq TYT Investigates ▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNJt9PYyN1uyw2XhNIQMMA #TYT #TheYoungTurks #BreakingNews 220930__TB03Hagerman by The Young Turks

Peachy!! im so sorry i completley forgot i wanted to ask about your reward aka the book trolley :D First off what was the best and worst book of last year? What was the easiest to listen to and the hardest, and with the trolley itself are you going to leave it as it is or are you gonna maybe add stickers or something to it? I had a random thought you could do some quilting inserts for the books to sit on, or something to put around the edge. I'm happy you reached your goal. what about this year?

hello!! I'm currently going to leave the Book Cart as is. I already have a drop off spot for stickers I get for free from random places, and I like the clean look of the cart currently. I do like the idea of quilting something for it, but I think that's just because I like the idea of a bookshelf quilt (but I uhhhhh have too many UFOs to start something big and new like that right now). Inspired by a coworker, my goal for 2024 is to read 105 books, and I've read 5 so far! I found another library that does free non-resident cards so Libby is my lifeblood right now for audiobooks.

best book(s) of 2023:

how the word is passed by clint smith

kill anything that moves by nick turse

this is how you lose the time war by Max Gladstone & Amal El-Mohtar

yellowface by r.f. kuang

salvation day by kari wallace

worst books of 2023:

Animal by Lisa Taddeo

a court of thorns and roses by sarah j. maas

hardest to listen to:

Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman (it was good, just so fucking long. and maggie haberman narrates the book, and she's very much a journalist rather than a voice actor, so it's so monotone)

America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything by Christopher F. Rufo (conservatives are just...so dumb and wrong about things, to a degree that is legitimately painful)

best to listen to:

killers of a certain age by deanna raybourn (it's about assassins, so there are tons of accents, and the voice actors did an excellent job with all of them)

my brother and Christina and dad love following in the big man's footsteps

"The former president frequently mocked gay men or men that were seen as weak by calling them "queer" or "faggot", former Trump employees told Haberman, according to The Daily Beast"

don't let cucks into your life, kids

they disgust me. i don't give a shit that all 3 of them and Bruce too think they're great forces of good in the world. think how good every Nazi soldier in Germany surely found himself, and every mother sending her son off to war.

that's how being a cuck of empire works.

you don't know you're a cuck

you feel very good and like you're doing the world a service for being so strong

empires don't want weaklings. they want STRONG people to send to war for them.

empires don't want queers and faggots

empires don't want everything Bruce, Dad, Christina and Bro don't want. it's a royalist mindset and it is very compliant, disgusting and blind.

Just read: Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

I'm interested in hearing any new reading suggestions or updates on what you've been reading lately?

My reading tastes have been all over the place during the last two months, but here's what I've been reading since Labor Day or so:

•The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama (BOOK | KINDLE) by Gabriel Debenedetti A fascinating look at one of the closest relationships between a President his Vice President in American history, why their dynamic was so successful, and how the Obama-Biden partnership was sometimes much more complicated than we realized.

•Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America (BOOK | KINDLE) by Maggie Haberman It's no surprise that Maggie Haberman was able to fashion her top-notch reporting and unparalleled access into one of the better overall biographies of who Donald Trump is and has been his entire life -- and how it has helped tear our country apart.

•The King: The Life of Charles III (BOOK | KINDLE) by Christopher Andersen

•United and Independent: John Quincy Adams on American Foreign Policy (BOOK | KINDLE) by Patrick J. Garrity & Ben Judge [Editors]

•The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson (BOOK | KINDLE) by Jeff Pearlman Pearlman's sports books are always difficult to put down, and it was easier to tackle the legendary Bo Jackson in Tecmo Bowl than it was to put down this in-depth biography about him.

•James K. Polk and His Time: Essays at the Conclusion of the Polk Project (BOOK | Kindle not available) by Michael David Cohen [Editor]

•War Songs [Library of Arabic Literature] (BOOK | KINDLE) by 'Antarah ibn Shaddad

•Salman's Legacy: The Dilemmas of a New Era in Saudi Arabia (BOOK | KINDLE) by Madawi Al-Rasheed [Editor]

•Nasser: The Last Arab (BOOK | KINDLE) by Saïd Aburish

•The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World (BOOK | KINDLE) by Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Nuwayri

•A Gift of Joy and Hope (BOOK | KINDLE) by Pope Francis

Beginning in July, I also decided to try to read as much of Sir Richard Francis Burton's complete works, in unabridged form, as I possibly could. Last year, I read the three-volume, unabridged edition of his Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah -- originally published in 1855 -- and it was pretty challenging, but also an extremely captivating account of his journeys and observations, and finishing the series felt like an accomplishment along the lines of climbing a mountain or something. So, I set out to try to read as many of his other (many, many, many) books. I've finished a couple of them over the past couple of months, but let's just say that the overall goal is a work-in-progress. As long as "progress" isn't defined as actually completing my goal anytime soon.

HBO Real Time Nov. 4, 2022

Guest List: November 4, 2022

The Interview:

Richard Reeves is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of the book Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It.

Twitter: @RichardvReeves

The Panel:

Maggie Haberman is the Senior Political Correspondent for The New York Times and author of Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.

Twitter: @maggieNYT

Fareed Zakaria is a columnist for The Washington Post and host of CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS."

Twitter: @FareedZakaria

Tag your questions for this week’s guests with #RTOvertime and watch them answer after the show on the Real Time YouTube channel!

"This Week" Listings: Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, and Dr. Anthony Fauci Sunday on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos”

Media Advisory for Sunday, October 16, 2022 

SECRETARY PETE BUTTIGIEG, REP. ADAM KINZINGER & DR. ANTHONY FAUCI SUNDAY ON “THIS WEEK WITH GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS”

Secretary Pete Buttigieg

Transportation Secretary

Rep. Adam Kinzinger

(R) Illinois

January 6 Committee Member

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Dr. Anthony Fauci 

Chief Medical Adviser to President Biden 

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THE POWERHOUSE ROUNDTABLE

Chris Christie

Former New Jersey Governor

ABC News Contributor

Donna Brazile

Former DNC Chair

ABC News Contributor

Maggie Haberman

New York Times Senior Political Correspondent

Author of, “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America”

Julie Pace

Associated Press Executive Editor

Plus, ABC News Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas brings in depth reporting on police funding in America

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cw: transphobia JFC dude “In one practice session at Trump Tower during the first week of October, Priebus tried to broach the topic of how single-sex school bathrooms should accommodate transgender students. He played a character, the young head of the transgender student association, who identifies as female. Priebus asked Trump his position on whether someone like her could use the girls’ bathroom. Earlier in the campaign, Trump got tangled up when he criticized a controversial North Carolina bill banning transgender bathrooms, and walked it back a day later after Republican blowback. The hope at the session was that Trump would respond with an empathetic opening, acknowledging the student’s personal experience before addressing the underlying policy issue. Instead, Trump replied, “I have a question.” The rest of the room, filled with people, waited and glanced at one another. Then he went ahead with it. “Cocked or decocked?” he asked. The group looked back blankly. Decocked? Trump started making a chopping gesture with his right hand. “With cock or without cock?” he said. Slowly it dawned on his coaches that he was asking if the student had gone through a surgical procedure. What difference does that make? someone asked. Trump looked around the room. “Well, I think it matters a lot,” he said. He wasn’t done. What if a girl was in the bathroom and someone came in, lifted up a skirt, and “a schlong” was hanging out, he said.” — Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman https://a.co/2gVhbsX https://www.instagram.com/p/CjjvoyQjBjA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Decryption | "Dr. Maggie" and Mr. Trump

Decryption | “Dr. Maggie” and Mr. Trump

(New York) “I like being with her. She’s like my psychiatrist. » Donald Trump made the remark to advisers in the middle of one of the three interviews he gave to the journalist of the New York Times Maggie Haberman for her highly anticipated book, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. In this 600-page book released last Tuesday and preceded by the most…

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The mainstream media is ready to bury Donald Trump, but he's not going anywhere yet. Cenk Uygur, Ben Gleib, and Brian Tyler Cohen discuss on The Young Turks. Watch TYT LIVE on weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live Read more HERE: https://www.mediaite.com/news/maggie-haberman-piles-on-brutal-news-for-trump-donors-fleeing-probes-churning-and-the-only-play-trump-had-is-used-up/ "New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman expanded on her recent reporting with a devastating litany of bad news for former President Donald Trump that includes fleeing donors and roiling criminal probes — and declared he’s already shot his only shot. Haberman, a well-known conduit for Trumpworld reporting and Trump-Whisperer analysis, has dropped scoop after scoop since the bombshell search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort home and her controversial but much-buzzed-about book Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America has clearly gotten under Trump’s skin. But she’s also a renowned Trumpologist, getting in Trump’s head with reporting on his state of mind — most recently on his rage at a midterm election that has been viewed as a failure. On Friday, Haberman expanded on her reporting about Trump’s vulnerability post-midterms with a brutal bit of analysis in a series of posts on Twitter: A few thoughts related to next week: yes, Trump is more vulnerable than he’s been in a long time.But that has happened before and he’s survived. The party, as telegraphed in @MichaelCBender and me story, is in the cusp of a broader internal war and not clear how that plays out 1/ 2/ And in a lot of ways it’s anger deferred from immediately after J6. Trump is still facing possible action from DOJ,but the department, despite all the interest in whether they pause for the midterms, was still engaged in grand jury activity in recent weeks Re J6 and boxes case 3/ Trump has extremely few major donors who want to do anything for him right now and a number of them are having active conversations about the best way to stop him. But. Again…sound familiar? 4/ Trump has made clear he’s willing to burn it all down if he doesn’t get what he wants, which is maintaining his grip on the product line he’s been developing for six years: the Republican Party. So a lot of electeds will have to make a choice theyve not had to before. 5/ And/but, some of the electeds DJT world sees as significant assets politically are fairly meaningless in terms of ability to sway others. But they have a number who have sway, and that hasn’t changed. 6/ Finally, anyone not a pros who claims to know definitively what DOJ is going to do on either J6 or documents case is pushing a line. The special master was the only play Trump had, and it’s brought some short term embarrassment. But also bought him time." *** The largest online progressive news show in the world. Hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian. LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. Help support our mission and get perks. Membership protects TYT's independence from corporate ownership and allows us to provide free live shows that speak truth to power for people around the world. See Perks: ▶ https://www.youtube.com/TheYoungTurks/join SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theyoungturks FACEBOOK: ☞ http://www.facebook.com/TheYoungTurks TWITTER: ☞ http://www.twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM: ☞ http://www.instagram.com/TheYoungTurks TWITCH: ☞ http://www.twitch.com/tyt 👕 Merch: http://shoptyt.com ❤ Donate: http://www.tyt.com/go 🔗 Website: https://www.tyt.com 📱App: http://www.tyt.com/app 📬 Newsletters: https://www.tyt.com/newsletters/ If you want to watch more videos from TYT, consider subscribing to other channels in our network: The Damage Report ▶ https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey ▶ https://www.youtube.com/indisputabletyt Watchlist with Jayar Jackson ▶ https://www.youtube.com/watchlisttyt TYT Sports ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytsports The Conversation ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytconversation Rebel HQ ▶ https://www.youtube.com/rebelhq TYT Investigates ▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNJt9PYyN1uyw2XhNIQMMA #TYT #TheYoungTurks #BreakingNews 221111__TB01_Trump_Has_His_Back_Against by The Young Turks