The New York Times’s Maggie Haberman and Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) engaged in a back-and-forth discussion on Twitter Friday…
The New York Times’s Maggie Haberman and Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) engaged in a back-and-forth discussion on Twitter Friday about media coverage of new White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci.
“Mooch isn’t a comms professional. But his messaging is smooth and level-headed, ” read Haberman’s initial tweet, which sparked Schatz to reply.
“I don’t know if this is true or not but given what’s happening to the country this strikes me as not the point, ” Schatz said.
Haberman was one of The Times’s reporters who interviewed President Trump earlier this week. Trump said in that interview that he wouldn’ t have chosen Jeff Sessions Jeff Sessions NYT reporter, Dem senator go back-and-forth on Scaramucci coverage Trump brings terrorism suspect to US for trial in break from rhetoric What will happen if Trump fires Mueller or pardons Putingate suspects? MORE as his attorney general if he knew he would recuse himself from the investigation into Russian election interference.
“Sessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else, ” Trump said in the interview.
Schatz also responded to the interview in a series of tweets, calling on reporters to ask Trump basic questions about healthcare policy after Trump appeared to claim in the interview with the Times that people can obtain health insurance for $12 a year.
