The unreported offer to Abdullah was described in Trump’s chaotic saga in The Divider: Trump in the White House 2017-2021, a book by New York Times White House correspondent Peter Baker and staffer Susan Glasser. One of the surprising new details about the presidency. New Yorker writer.
The book, a copy of which has been obtained by The Washington Post, is the latest in a long series of well-covered behind-the-scenes stories featuring or written by Trump administration insiders. and some claim they tried to suppress the 45th president’s worst instincts.
Baker and Glasser wrote that their books were based on reports they did for their respective outlets. I have obtained notes, emails, text messages, and other documents that shed new light on Trump’s tenure.”
The husband and wife journalists also conducted two interviews with Trump at the Mar-a-Lago estate.
One of the themes revealed in the book is Trump’s growing insistence on attacking his perceived enemies and the need to prevent Trump’s lawlessness and outrageous demands. This is a growing concern among senior officials in his administration.
Citing a message from then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kerstgen Nielsen to his chief of staff about encrypted app signals in October 2018, the report said several senior officials were “on the verge of quitting en masse.” It was.”
Chief of Staff John F. Kelly. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis. Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke wants to resign “all of them,” Nielsen writes.
At the time, Trump feared losing control of Congress and was keen to appeal to his base of supporters. In response, Trump told Nielsen, “to the point of making her take actions she was not authorized to take.” He demanded that the border be solidified.
Nielsen and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar even agreed to resign in protest if Trump resumed separating families at the southern border. set free,” he wrote.
Although these officials eventually left the government, they were not united on one issue.
“It was those in his room that most feared his reign,” write Baker and Glasser.
In November 2018, Democrats won a landslide victory in the House of Representatives, gaining a majority.
While he was in the White House, Trump tried to use his office to punish — see his own aide illegal, according to the book, and try to stop him.
Not only did Trump try to block the merger of CNN parent company Time Warner with telecoms giant AT&T, but his anger over the network’s coverage of him led him to buy a company owned by Jeff Bezos. They tried to prevent a contract from being made with the government. , founder of Amazon. (Bezos owns the Washington Post). “He would do anything to get Bezos,” a senior Trump official told the book’s author.
Trump has also targeted former intelligence officers James R. Clapper Jr. and John Brennan more than 50 times, demanding that they have their security clearances stripped. Trump told Nielsen that he wanted to abolish the courts entirely. According to the book, he told her to “let’s cancel,” adding that she should “remove” her judge and use her profane language.
Trump has ordered the bill to be drafted and submitted to Congress as soon as possible, the authors write. According to the book, Nielsen “did what she and many other government officials did when Trump made nonsensical demands – ignored it and hoped it would go away.”
Trump is eyeing a run in the next presidential election, but has also ruled out the possibility of nominating former Vice President Mike Pence as his vice presidential nominee, telling Baker and Glasser that it’s “totally inappropriate.” said.
Pence’s refusal to allow Congress to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election, despite Trump’s false allegations that the election was rigged, was a rift between the two men. Trump outraged what was seen as a betrayal of Pence, telling the authors, “Mike was politically ignorant for not voting he knew he was wrong.” committed suicide,” he said.
On Jan. 6, 2021, when a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol to stop counting Biden’s electoral votes, some of the president’s supporters chanted “Hang Mike Pence.”
The book also cites Trump’s wife, Melania, as expressing deep concern about her husband’s handling of the coronavirus. , spoke of the conversation to Governor Chris Christie, RN.J., whom the president regularly sought advice from.
“You’re blowing this,” she recalled telling her husband, according to the book. “This is serious. It’s going to get really bad and you need to take it more seriously,” she said. Trump “fired her,” they wrote. “You worry too much,” Melania recalled Trump telling her.
The proposal for Abdullah in the West Bank (which borders Israel and Jordan and could not be controlled by Trump) was made in January 2018. , according to the book.
An earlier excerpt from the book, published in The New Yorker in August, explains that Trump told his top adviser that he wanted a “fully loyal” general like the one who served Adolf Hitler. . leader several times.
Trump complained to Kelly, then his chief of staff and former Marine general, “Why can’t we be like German generals?” When Kerry asked which general he was referring to, Trump replied, “A German general during World War II.”
“Did you know they tried to kill Hitler three times?” Kelly said, according to the book.
Trump didn’t believe him, says the book. “No, no, no, they were totally loyal to him,” Trump claimed.
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