Haberman: Trump’s Lying When He Claims NYT Didn’t Ask For Comment For Story

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New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman on Wednesday said President Donald Trump was lying when he tweeted that “writers” — presumably the authors of the Times’ latest rundown of his interference with the Justice Department — “don’t even call asking for verification.”

“That’s not true,” Haberman said of the tweet in a CNN interview Wednesday morning. 

“That’s a lie, and I don’t know whether he knows it’s a lie or whether he is telling himself this is true, whether his staff doesn’t tell him that we have reached out, but I find that awfully hard to believe that his staff did not brief him, once again, that this kind of a report was coming.” 

Earlier in the interview, Haberman “open[ed] up the door to the reporting process on dealing with his White House.”

The Times reached out with questions on Friday, Haberman said, with several emails “that went unanswered until yesterday.”

“They chose not to engage and then afterwards the President acted surprised,” she said.

Haberman left open the possibility that Trump’s aides didn’t tell him about the Times’ impending report, but she said it was also possible that “this is a game [to Trump] and he knows what it is and he’s pretending that he doesn’t.”

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H/t Mediaite.

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