New York Times correspondent and so-called “Trump Whisperer” Maggie Haberman took the media by storm in recent weeks with her brutally damning tell-all Trump book, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. The tea that was spilled in Confidence Man was plentiful and it was hot. But one thing in particular truly stuck out for us within the pages of Haberman’s bombshell book — Donald Trump’s tenacity for casual racism.
The pages of Habmeran’s damning opus tell the story of a man who is ripe with just about all of the “-isms” you could imagine — narcissism, sexism, and a monumentally heaping dose of racism.
Maggie’s revelations range from the time that Trump allegedly mistook congressional staffers of color for the “help” during a White House meeting and ended up asking them to “get the food,” to the time that he allegedly told his then-girlfriend that she got her intelligence from her father’s “white side.”
One of those revelations contained in Confidence Man has now been confirmed by the source.
In a recent appearance on an episode of Book TV, Haberman went into deeper detail regarding the time that Donald Trump allegedly told his then-girlfriend Kara Young that she got her beauty from her mother, but her intelligence came from her father’s “white side” of the family.
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Mediaite reports on Haberman’s Book TV interview:
JONATHAN ALTER: Really or not? I mean, some of the big public things like birtherism was pretty thoroughly racist. But there are detailed other details you have like. I didn’t know that he had a girlfriend before. Just before Melania.
MAGGIE HABERMAN: Overlapping with her. Overlapping with Melania.
JONATHAN ALTER: Half Black father was white. Mother was Black. And he, what did he say about her?
MAGGIE HABERMAN: He met her parents and he told her that she got her beauty from her mom and her brains from her dad or “the white side.”
They also note that, in her book, Maggie presents the story as a parenthetical:
(Weeks after meeting Young’s parents, Trump told her that she had gotten her beauty from her mother and her intelligence ‘from her dad , the white side.’ He laughed as he said it ; Young told him that wasn’t something to joke about.)”
On the heels of Haberman’s revelation, Tampa Bay’s Morning Blend, Inside Edition’s Monday morning episode saw a revelation from host Debra Norville, who told anchor Natalie Taylor that in her first interview with Kara Young regarding her time and relationship with the now ex-president, Young not only confirmed the story that Haberman included in her book but revealed exactly what Trump said to her and promised that there was more to come:
NATALIE TAYLOR: We’re actually talking about someone who dated former President Trump as well airing tonight, correct?
DEBRA NORVILLE: That’s right.
NATALIE TAYLOR: Yeah. Yeah.
DEBRA NORVILLE: Kara Young was a supermodel back in the nineties. She went out with Trump for a couple of years in between Marla and Melania, those two marriages. And she’s never talked about that time together. She’s biracial. Her mother was Black, is Black, her father’s white. And she sits down with me to talk about a comment that’s in the new Maggie Haberman — Haberman book called Confidence Man.
There’s a quote in there in which Trump is quoted as saying now he had met Kara’s parents that she gets her beauty from her mother and quote, her intelligence from her father, the white side, end quote.
I asked Kara, did he say that?
She said, ‘Yep. I was standing right there when he did.’
She says she admonished him. She said, ‘You can’t talk like that. That’s, that’s mean.’
And she also talks about some other situations that some point to as evidence that if Donald Trump were to decide to run for president again, some say among the many bits of baggage that he’d have to take into that contest would be the accusation that he’s racist. And there are moments that Miss Young talks about in our conversation in which she addresses that very question.
It is very interesting. The very first time that she has ever spoken about her time with the then-future president.”
Find the footage of Haberman’s interview and the episode of Tampa Bay’s Morning Blend from Mediaite here.
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