Journalist Maggie Haberman has known former President Donald Trump for years. As a presidential candidate, Trump developed a close-knit relationship with Haberman, whereby he and his team confided in the New York City-based reporter more than one might expect.
One reviewer dubbed her “The New York Times' Trump whisperer.” During the Trump administration, her star rose, and she became known as the “most-cited journalist in the Mueller report.”
On Wednesday, Haberman was back. This time, on CNN, to discuss the target letter the former president – and current GOP frontrunner – received from Special Counsel Jack Smith.
Haberman told her colleagues that Trump universally views every legal challenge as a legitimate threat, especially federal cases. Moreover, his inner circle has concluded that being elected president in 2024 is his best chance of avoiding prison. (RELATED: Violent Offender Freed By Top Dem Linked To Spine-Chilling Discoveries)
As Mediaite reports:
“He is looking at this broadly as a political threat,” said Haberman. “The documents case, in particular, had very much upset them for a variety of reasons; because it was an FBI search on his home, it was a different type of thing. In this case, he is upset about it.”
Haberman went on to report that Trump was “not in a great mood” on his plane ride to Iowa yesterday for his town hall with Fox News' Sean Hannity. Haberman also explained that “even if it's not the thing that voters say that they are voting on… Republicans are aware that in 2022, candidates who espoused Trump's election lies ended up basically paying the price at the ballot box in November.”
At the moment, he is seeing this broadly as a threat to his freedom, and his advisers have been — in private conversations — pretty blunt that they see it as he has to win the election, and that is how he guarantees that he does not face jail time.
Now, again, it only takes one juror in any of these cases. He has not been convicted of anything. But the fact that they're looking at an election to the highest office in the land as some kind of an insurance policy or an out for him, really affects and, I think, colors the entire presidential race.
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Can U with these new charges???
ALL OF THE WORST CROOKED POLITICIANS WANT TRUMP IN PRISON FOR THINGS HE DID NOT DO BUT IS BEING ACCUSED OF DOING. BUT THEY ARE IGNORING ALL THE TRUE EVIDENCE THAT HAS BEEN UNCOVERED ABOUT BIDEN,HIS COKE SMOKING SON AND THE ENTIRE BIDEN MOB OF CROOKS ARE STILL GETTING AWAY WITH DESTROYING AMERICA EACH AND EVERY DAY. DO THEY THINK THIS WILL GO ON FOREVER BEFORE THE AMERICAN PATRIOTS HAVE HAD ENOUGH?
WHY DO THE DUMARATS HATE AMERICA SO MUCH? THEIR COFFRES ARE OVER FLOWING WITH THE MONIES THEY HAVE STOLEN OVER THE YEARS BEING IN OFFICE AND STILL THEY WANT MORE. GREED WILL BE THEIR DOWNFALL AND IF BY CHANCE,GOD FORBID AMERICA IS TAKEN OVER BY CHINA OR RUSSIA,DO THEY THINK THEY WILL BE PUT IN AN EXECUTIVE POSITION TO RUN AMERICA? THEY WILL BE THE FIRST TO BE SHOT AS BOTH COUNTRIES WILL NOT WANT TRAITORS OF AMERICA AROUND AS THEY WOULD ALSO BETRAY THE NEW REGIME. WAKE UP YOU A HOLE POLITICIANS THAT WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA, BEFORE YOU GET TO MEET YOUR MAKER BEFORE YOUR TIME IS UP. GOD HELP AMERICA SEEMS THE ONLY WAY WE WILL SURVIVE.!
And that’s exactly what Biden is trying to accomplish with his persecution of Trump!