During the Trump era, Maggie Haberman became an avatar of journalism’s promise as well as of its failures. “Both she and her subject navigate the public sphere as if they have something to prove,” xwaldie writes.
—whose “singular talent,” the book notes, was for “emotional terrorism.” From the remnants of Brooklyn’s Democratic machine he extracted lessons about the power that might be gained from pitting ethnic groups against one another.
The book is frank about Trump’s cruelty. It narrates how he and his siblings cut off medical funding for his brother’s infant grandson, who was born with a disorder that led to cerebral palsy, in order to punish some of his relatives during an estate dispute. And Haberman stresses the racism that has permeated Trump’s image since he and his father were sued for housing discrimination in the seventies.
“I think that there’s a misunderstanding among certain aspects of our readership about what it is we do,” she said. “They’re outraged by what we’re covering, and they don’t understand why it’s not having the effect it should. So it must be that we’re doing it wrong.” I noted that the idea of silver-bullet journalism—of the one article that levels the Trump White House—is deeply bewitching.
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