The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman firmly dismissed Donald Trump’s repeated claim that his is the most transparent administration of all time.
It’s nothing more than a “spectacle,” she said, of the spin, to MS NOW’s Alex Witt, who’d aired a montage of Trump and his officials boasting just that.
Witt asked Haberman if she sees “a pattern of secrecy on display in this White House.”
Witt said to the co-author of the new Trump tell-all “Regime Change”: “Is this a form of gaslighting? Is this a line that everybody has been fed, say this over and over and over again?”
Haberman replied, “Yes, it’s not even a close call. They know that he likes that line. They know that that will be a way to evade questions.”
She continued, “It is a display of transparency, a spectacle of transparency,” noting how the White House is “very good at keeping secrets, not just when they want to, but for reasons that are not necessarily in the public’s interest.”
She cited Trump’s “self-enrichment” during his return to office, the decoy airplane controversy and questions surrounding his health as examples, saying she could list many more.
“Objectively, this is an incredibly nontransparent administration,” she concluded. “It is how the president likes it; the tone comes from the top.”