Maggie Haberman: Trump Has ‘Been Warned Repeatedly,’ Russians and Chinese Are Listening When He’s on His Cell
Maggie Haberman appeared on CNN’s New Day Monday to discuss her blockbuster New York Times story of Wednesday night — in which she and colleague Matthew Rosenberg reported that Chinese spies have been listening to President Donald Trump‘s private phone calls.
“He’s been warned repeatedly that the Chinese and the Russians are listening when he is on a cell phone,” Haberman said. “Whether it is the personal iPhone that he continued using until last year and has held on to primarily because it has phone numbers listed in it that he couldn’t store in the other one, or whether it’s the government one. All that they can do is strip it down as much as possible, a government phone. Those are not secure. You can still listen in. He was warned that this was a problem, and he has often ignored the warnings. He has gotten better about using the secure land lines and using the switchboard phones, that is true…But this has been a long and arduous process.”
Trump, on Thursday morning, panned Haberman and Rosenberg’s piece as “long and boring,” and “soooo wrong.”
The so-called experts on Trump over at the New York Times wrote a long and boring article on my cellphone usage that is so incorrect I do not have time here to correct it. I only use Government Phones, and have only one seldom used government cell phone. Story is soooo wrong!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 25, 2018
Haberman couldn’t help but notice that the president used the same terminology to criticize another recent Times blockbuster report.
“Boring is the same word he used about another not boring story in The New York Times, which was the two years in the making deep dive into his financial situation over decades,” Haberman said. “And the fact that his personal narrative claiming that he was a self-made man with a million-dollar loan from his dad was not true, and that his father had actually subsidized his life, certainly through questionable means, for many decades…He is perfectly entitled to his reaction, but we standby our reporting.”
Watch above, via CNN.
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