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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Lynn Sweet

Maggie Haberman’s new Trump book: How Rod Blagojevich got really lucky

Maggie Haberman’s book, “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America,” is a deep look at the Trump phenomenon by one of the journalists who knows him the best. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for The New York Times)

Maggie Haberman’s book, “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America,” released on Tuesday, reveals how ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich lucked out in getting Trump to commute his sentence when he did, with the then president ignoring the advice of his advisor in 2020.

Haberman, who shared a Pulitzer Prize with her New York Times colleagues for their coverage of the Trump administration, has been chronicling Trump since his early days as a New York developer.

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