Trump tears into New York Times reporter ‘Maggot’ Haberman for claiming he still speaks to Kim Jong Un and calls January 6 committee a ‘Marxist exercise’ following claims he flushed papers down the toilet and swiped top secret White House files
- Ex-President Donald Trump slammed New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman for reporting he’s told people he’s still in touch with Kim Jong Un
- ‘Yet another fake book, by a reporter who knows nothing about me, Maggot Haberman of the New York Times,’ he said, giving the reporter a new nickname
- It was unclear in the statement if he was denying that he still spoke to Kim or that he had cut ties with other world leaders
- Haberman’s reporting was shared by Axios Thursday and revealed that the White House residence staff would find wads of printed paper clogging the toilets
- Now, the Department of Justice and Congress are looking into the matter, on top of the existing investigation by the House into the events of January 6
- In another Friday statement, Trump called the work of the January 6 House select committee ‘a totally illegitimate and Marxist exercise’
Former President Donald Trump slammed New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman – and gave her a new nickname – for reporting that he’s told people he’s still in touch with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
‘Yet another fake book, by a reporter who knows nothing about me, Maggot Haberman of the New York Times, is making up stories about my relationship with foreign leaders,’ Trump said in a statement Friday. ‘She claims I speak with Kim Jong Un of North Korea, but not other world leaders. Wrong!’
Trump’s message came after Haberman’s reporting was shared by Axios Thursday and also revealed that the White House residence staff would find wads of printed paper clogging the toilets.
Trump made headlines this week for having to turn over 15 boxes of documents to the National Archives and Record Administration that he took from the White House to Mar-a-Lago.
Now, the Department of Justice and Congress are looking into the matter, on top of the existing investigation by the House into the events of January 6.
In another Friday statement, Trump called the work of the January 6 House select committee ‘a totally illegitimate and Marxist exercise.’
Ex-President Donald Trump (left) slammed New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman for reporting that he’s told people he’s still in touch with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un (right). The two leaders are pictures in the DMZ in June 2019
In a statement out Friday, Trump assigned Maggie Haberman with the nickname ‘Maggot.’ The statement left room for interpretation – as it was unclear if he was denying that he spoke to Kim or that he had cut ties with other world leaders
New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman (pictured) is working on a forthcoming book called Confidence Man, with Axios teasing some of her reporting in a story Thursday. She later went on CNN to discuss the revelations
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman’s upcoming book Confident Man
‘The Unselect Committee and Nancy Pelosi are completely out of control, harassing innocent people, seizing private phone and bank records, and using the Capitol Police to spy on members of Congress,’ Trump also alleged.
Trump’s statement about Haberman’s reporting left room for interpretation – as it was unclear if he was denying that he spoke to Kim or that he had cut ties with other world leaders.
Haberman is working on a forthcoming Trump book entitled Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.
The cover art was also released this week.
It comes out October 4.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked Friday what the administration thought about Haberman’s reporting that Trump was still in contact with Kim.
‘Well, former President Trump is not the president. And we – President Biden is the president and he is the one who conducts diplomacy on behalf of the United States,’ Psaki said.
The Logan Act criminalizes an American citizen having an unauthorized negotiation with a foreign official.
Psaki also said it was accurate that the Biden administration hadn’t heard back from the North Koreans despite reaching out to government officials in the so-called ‘Hermit Kingdom.’
On Thursday, Trump also expressed outrage over Haberman’s anecdote that staff was finding documents in the White House residence’s toilets.
‘Also, another fake story, that I flushed papers and documents down a White House toilet, is categorically untrue and simply made up by a reporter in order to get publicity for a mostly fictitious book,’ Trump said.
‘The Democrats are just using this and the Unselect Committee of political hacks as a camoflauge for how horribly our Country is doing under the Biden Administration,’ the former president added.