Maggie Haberman: Trump 'backed himself into a corner,' need to run in 2024

Jenny Goldsberry

October 02, 06:49 PM Oct 02, 06:49 PM

Reporter Maggie Haberman shared her ideas on the probability of former President Donald Trump working for reelection in 2024.

Haberman has included Trump for at the very least 11 several years, accumulating in a new reserve she's releasing shortly on the previous president identified as "Assurance Guy." CBS Information Anchor John Dickerson questioned Haberman in an interview that aired Sunday for her look at on whether or not Trump will operate once again. Haberman warned that she did not know the respond to for specific, she thought the former president experienced put himself in a placement wherever he has no option but to run.

“I feel he’s backed himself into a corner the place he has to operate,” Haberman stated. “I imagine that he demands the protections that operating for president [he thinks] would afford him in combating investigations that he calls a ‘witch hunt.'”

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Trump has reportedly referred to Haberman his "psychiatrist," regardless of his preceding public outbursts decrying her reporting. Most just lately, Haberman claimed Trump threatened to acquire her telephone information to expose her sources. In spite of the disagreements with Haberman and other reporters, the former president has not turned down an prospect to sit down with distinguished journalists writing publications on him.

“[Politics are] the way that he fundraises and can make dollars. So considerably of his id now is about being a politician," Haberman explained. "So, I expect that he will run. That doesn’t imply that even if he declares a candidacy, that he will stay in the complete time.”

"It’s noticeable to me he noticed the presidency the top car or truck to fame."

Trump held a rally in Michigan Saturday evening, where by he created headlines for thanking Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who instructed the Home Jan. 6 pick out committee in testimony this 7 days that she still believed the 2020 election was stolen via popular voter fraud.