With only a few weeks until President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, President Trump still won’t admit defeat. White House correspondent Maggie Haberman, who has reported on Trump over the past 20 years, sheds light on his refusal to concede.
“[Trump] can’t handle the concept of the label ‘loser,’ ” Haberman says. “He has never before encountered a problem that he couldn’t sue away through the court system or spin away. … This is just an objective fact that he can’t do anything about. It is roiling him.”
Haberman has covered Trump for The New York Times for more than four years. Before then, she wrote about him for the New York Post, New York Daily News and Politico. She describes the president as a “self-destructive” individual who tends to crave most what he does not — or cannot — have.
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