'Don’t know how else you would define it,' Maggie Haberman says when asked if Trump is a racist

How often do I side-eye Maggie Haberman? Let me count the ways.

For some two years—until the release of her book, of course—The New York Times reporter buried knowledge that former President Donald Trump planned to stay in the White House after losing the 2020 election. Haberman did the same thing regarding information about Trump telling then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell about plans to overturn the election.

She’s been widely criticized and her journalistic ethics have been called into question for those decisions, and that’s perfectly fair criticism. However, Haberman was trending on Thursday morning specifically for a perceived unwillingness to call Trump a racist during an interview she gave while promoting her book. And that criticism just isn’t fair.  

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