who dominated Brooklyn politics when Trump joined his father's real-estate business. However, contrary to the hopes of her campaign, subsequent stories by Haberman about Clinton were much more critical of her than they had hoped for. Whatever beat Im covering I will do with an intensity, Haberman says. Maggie Habermann Dismisses Critics: Possible Future Nominee - Mediaite "Maggie Haberman is one of the finest journalists of her generation. I think even people who dont like him have a certain fascination, Stone told her in New York as he ate a lunch of linguini and white clam sauce. Brooklyn, New York, United States View. But his campaign has been low key, with no rallies, although he has reportedly polled supporters on where the first one should be held. Maggie Haberman graduated from Ethical Culture Fieldston School in 1991. But once the campaign began, Haberman became an indispensable reporter for the Times, contributing throughout the cycle to the coverage of both the Clinton and Trump camps the New York politics she had covered for years and now a presidential general election having turned into essentially the same beat. Women in journalism, and high-profile women at The Times, in particular, receive unending abuse on the platform. And she was just getting off. POLITICO's Maggie Haberman joining The New York Times I could hear only her end of the conversation, but it was obvious that the source was not at all pleased, and it was equally obvious Maggie Haberman was not having it. That is the nature of what we do. " [Trump] can't handle the concept of the label 'loser,' ". Rosenhas taken issue with Habermans characterization of Trump as a master of media manipulation: If you are a man, and you bite a dog, he wrote, that does not make you a master of anything. But Haberman, who tends to predict that Trump will express his worst impulses and cause maximum damage, told me she believed that he is more often underestimated than overestimated. The size of the land lot is 3,000 sqft. Throughout our conversation, she gave practiced, useful answers that slipped easily into anecdote, and she continually steered the topic away from herself. Is she, in fact, friendly to Trumps people? I remember thinking that the president-elect she was describing impulsive, unaware of the workings of government, with no real ideology was exaggerated, and that the office would change him, Ms. Bumiller said.