Ivanka seeks US presidency in new Trump book
WASHINGTON — The publication on Wednesday of excerpts from a new book on the Trump administration has brought to light a host of explosive reports of organizational chaos at the heart of the US presidency, according to a report in The Guardian.
“Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” by the former Guardian columnist and Rupert Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff, will be published in full next Tuesday.
In December, Wolff said that in his approach to researching the book, he had been “not particularly hostile.”
“That allowed me to get them to be relatively open,” he said.
Even before publication, the book has had a dramatic impact.
Among other things, the book reveals that former Trump campaign chair and White House strategist Steve Bannon believes an infamous June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort and Russians offering incriminating information about Hillary Clinton at Trump Tower was “treasonous” and “unpatriotic.”
The president’s daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, reportedly made a deal about which of them would one day run for president.
Wolff writes: “The first woman president, Ivanka entertained, would not be Hillary Clinton; it would be Ivanka Trump.”
Of Bannon’s activities after leaving the White House, Wolff writes: “Bannon was telling people something else: he, Steve Bannon, was going to run for president.”
“The locution, ‘If I were president …’ was turning into, ‘When I am president …’.”
Wolff also writes that Bannon has courted top Republican donors, “doing his best, as he put it, to ‘kiss the ass and pay homage to all the grey-beards.’”
Infighting among staff reportedly often featured a group, including Kushner, Ivanka and the economics adviser Gary Cohn against a faction led by Bannon.
Wolff quotes Richard Nixon’s national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, as saying: “It is a war between the Jews and the nonJews.”