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NYT’s Haberman: Time Will Tell How Much Revenge Trump Will Take On His Enemies

Charlie Kirk Staff

01/24/2025

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NYT’s Haberman: Time Will Tell How Much Revenge Trump Will Take On His Enemies

President Donald Trump is on his revenge tour and none of his enemies should get comfortable, so says a New York Times columnist.

After the persecution and prosecutions he face for the four years following his first presidency, Times reporter Maggie Haberman believes he is just beginning to get his vengeance.

She appeared on CNN, where she spoke to anchor Jake Tapper, who started by playing a clip from Fox News host Sean Hannity’s interview with the president.

“I went through four years of hell by this scum that we had to deal with. I went through four years of hell. I spent millions of dollars in legal fees, and I won,” Trump said in the clip.

“Fact check: true. He did win,” Tapper said.

“President Trump there talking about his last four years of legal drama. He’s charged in multiple criminal cases in New York, Georgia, two federal cases from the Department of Justice. But most of the most serious cases were essentially canceled. And then he wasn’t punished for the Alvin Bragg case involving hush money cover up,” he said before bringing Haberman on.

“Trump did ultimately emerge punishment-free. That’s not to say guilt-free, but punishment-free. And he’s clearly very upset that so much of the last four years were caught up in these legal entanglements. How much do you think that’s going to motivate what Trump does in his term?” the anchor said to Haberman.

“Look, Jake, time will tell. You know, he spent a number of months in the lead-up to Election Day insisting that success would be his retribution after initially suggesting retribution would be retribution and, at various points, posting on his social media website suggesting various people should be punished or jailed or so forth,” the reporter said.

“We won’t know until time goes on. So far, he is taking pretty aggressive moves that are clearly targeting people who he perceives as enemies, even if it doesn’t relate to the investigations he was just talking about. But for instance, stripping the protective security details from Mike Pompeo, John Bolton and another aide at the State Department. Those are, you know, hard not to see, as, you know, some form of retribution,” Haberman said.

“But we won’t know for a bit. He is clearly, as you say, very angry. And he is signaling that he believes somebody should pay,” she said.

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Charlie Kirk is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, a national student movement dedicated to empowering young people to promote the principles of free markets and limited government.

Charlie is also the host of “The Charlie Kirk Show” podcast, which regularly ranks among the top-10 news shows on Apple podcast news charts, and is the host of the nationally syndicated daily radio show on the Salem Radio Network live from 12 - 3 PM ET.
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