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Maggie Haberman

@maggieNYT

Trump has been telling a number of people he’s in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August (no that isn’t how it works but simply sharing the information).

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Maggie is Clyde's daughter, an old-school newspaperman at (surprise!) the New York Times.  Back in the day, unless your sources were willing to go on the record or you could independently collaborate something, you held your "story".  (and yes Maggie, dropping a bomb in a Twitter tweet is indeed publishing a "story" these days... Did you tun this by the NYT editors, and they signed off on that this a.m.? Hm.  Dangers of social media indeed...)

To graphically illustrate this,

picture Ms. Haberman dressed in a Little Red Riding Hood outfit traipsing about in the woods with a round red bomb in her basket, fuse lit. (I'm into simple graphics, here).  Then the bomb drops out of the basket in dry tinder of the forest, igniting a wildfire that spreads out of control... "Caption:  Whoops-- did I cause that?  I was just told to deliver this package to Grandma!"