Confidence Man: The Making of Trump and the Breaking of America review – the vain sadist and his 'shrink'
Oct 09, 2022
4 minutes
Donald Trump has always alternated between snarling at reporters and fawning over them. During his time in the White House he defamed Maggie Haberman as a third-rate drudge or a and tried to hack her phone to unearth the sources for her revelations about him in the . He once tweeted an unflattering photograph of her; whenever he saw her on CNN he sneered at her smudgy specs. His animosity amounted, in Haberman’s opinion, to a “fixation”. Yet although Trump knew she was writing a book about his ignorant, incompetent and often insane conduct as president, he welcomed her to his Florida country club and during their
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