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New York Times White House correspondent and rumor mill spigot Maggie Haberman joined the cast of ABC’s The View on Monday to peddle her book Confidence Man, the latest anti-Trump book to be hawked by a member of the supposedly objective press. During this interview, she was pressed on the media’s role in elevating former President Trump and helping him get into office and why the former President was obsessed with her.
The media responsibility question was posed by co-host Whoopi Goldberg at the very end of their two-segment sit-down. After calling Trump’s time in New York City a glorified “sideshow,” she asked Haberman: “How much do you think the media has to take responsibility for making him the person he is now?”
Instead of admitting that the media of 2015/2016 was doing Hillary Clinton’s bidding by elevating Trump above the rest of the GOP field because he’s who she wanted to go up against, thinking him the weakest option, Haberman blamed journalists from decades ago.
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