NY Times' Maggie Haberman 'surprised' by Trump foes missing from 'enemies' list
President-elect Donald Trump's latest "enemies list" was conspicuous for the names that he forgot to include, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman told CNN's Jake Tapper on Thursday afternoon.
'Trump's pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, told senators on Wednesday that there will be no enemies list," said Tapper. "But then Trump posted on social media just a few hours later, naming 11 people who I guess he feels have wronged him, that if you worked for them, you can't work in his administration, including a number of people who worked for him in the last administration, including Mark Milley and James Mattis and Mark Esper."
"I mean, does that undermine the no enemies list? That looks like something of an enemies list," Tapper said.
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"I think there's a difference between we're not going to hire certain people and we're going to prosecute certain people," said Haberman. "And I think that that is the distinction there. I also would argue that Trump missed a few people who we know were on that list of his personally. It becomes unrealistic at a certain point to say, I am not going to hire anybody who ever might have had an interaction with certain people or said certain things, but the Trump team has made loyalty, in their terms, a pretty top-of-mind focus as they are doing these hires."
"You said he missed some people," said Tapper. "Who did he miss?"
"I think [former Secretary of State] Mike Pompeo was one of the people I was surprised," said Haberman. "I don't think he considers him an enemy, but he's been — he's generally not been embracing of him and made a point of saying that he was not rejoining the administration."
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