The New York Instances’ Maggie Haberman on Tuesday pushed again on the Trump administration’s repeated declare that Donald Trump is essentially the most clear president in historical past.
Talking on C-SPAN alongside her Instances colleague Jonathan Swan in regards to the reporting course of behind their new Trump tell-all, “Regime Change,” Haberman acknowledged that Trump has made “revealing feedback” and damaged information by taking direct calls from reporters on his cellphone.
However they didn’t use that strategy for the tome, they mentioned.
“On the whole, these calls, when folks make them, they final about two and a half minutes,” Haberman mentioned. “He dictates the phrases of the dialogue, and it’s a technique to seem and make a show of transparency.”
“I imply, this administration is superb at making reveals of transparency,” she continued.
The journalist then pointed to White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s repeated assertion that Trump is “essentially the most clear president in historical past.”
“Which is simply merely not true,” she mentioned. “Not score him in opposition to different presidents. This isn’t a clear administration. However, so, these calls permit him to take care of that veneer whereas actually dictating the phrases and never answering a lot in any respect.”