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Mar 23, 2022 13 tweets 8 min read Read on X
Today will be my final series of tweets on Access JOURNALISM and the deep rot that afflicts so much of the American political press. There is no democracy or freedom without a free press. I will give you a glimpse of the rot by releasing a series of emails between @maggieNYT
2/ and me. Please note a couple of things. (A) Haberman threatens me and then accuses me of menacing her. It’s ludicrous. (B) Haberman accuses me of threatening her with an affidavit. It’s mystifying (C) Both @TheRickWilson and I spoke to her in the referenced call
3/ This conversation was about John Weaver and a NY TIMES a story written by @dannyhakim and @Jo_Becker about John Weaver and the Lincoln Project. I want to be absolutely clear about a couple of things before I set the record straight. Here is the Weaver story in a nutshell.
4/ All of the stories written about this period essentially made this point. John Weaver texted men with sexual overtures. This was an open secret at the @ProjectLincoln and ignored because dealing with it would have ended the money flow which we were using to live large.
5/ In my case that was a house written about in an @AP story by @sppeoples. I have debunked those claims by releasing personal financial documents this week. It was never true. I spent hours on the phone answering the question about John Weaver. My answer has never changed.
6/ I didn’t know and would have no conceivable reason why I would. I have been called a liar by anonymous sources on this question. It is not true. What is true is @maggieNYT knew for at least three years. When we were on the phone she said it was 10 but denied this in the e-mail
7/ I was interviewed for hours about what month I found out in 2020. Did @maggieNYT ever step forward and say to a senior editor on a really big political/investigative story that the premise was wrong? Of course not. One last thing before the texts. No doubt @maggieNYT will
8/ position herself as some type of victim in all of this. She will be deeply affronted that I have released this to show the rot. The first attachment below was from the occasion where @maggieNYT righteously weighed in on the protocols of on/off the record attribution concerning
10/ Haberman also recently had this exchange with @TaylorLorenz at the @WashPost. Incredibly, during the exchange @maggieNYT, writing a Trump book and no doubt optioning it for a movie production criticizes Lorenz for fame seeking. Truth is supposed to be the business. Image
11. @maggieNYT wrote the first story saying I interviewed to be Trump’s campaign manager. She was at @politico at the time. There are no emails and no nothing that will refute what I have always said. I WOULD RATHER BE DEAD THAN WORK for Trump. It didn’t matter. Certainly my
12/ word and reputation weren’t given much weight by Maggie Haberman. She has deep family connections with the Kushner’s and she laid out the hit for something better later. That hit piece was the foundational piece for all the smearing that has followed. Pls read the texts. ImageImageImageImage
Summations. I NEVER INTERVIEWED TO WORK WITH TRUMP. MORE THAN 80 % of all the money raised by @ProjectLincoln in 2020 went to Voter programs. I DID NOT BUY A house with @ProjectLincoln $. I did not know about John Weaver’s issue but @maggieNYT did. It is all so corrupt.

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