TFG almost fired Ivanka and Jared in a tweet, said the latter spoke like a child

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Washington
CNN
—
Then-President Donald Trump nearly fired his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner from the White House via tweet, according to a new book from New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman.

Trump raised the prospect of firing Ivanka Trump and Kushner, who were both senior White House aides, during meetings with then-chief of staff John Kelly and then-White House counsel Don McGahn, Haberman writes. At one point, he was about to tweet that his daughter and son-in-law were leaving the White House – but he was stopped by Kelly, who told Trump he had to speak with them directly first.

Trump never had such a conversation – one of numerous instances where he avoided interpersonal conflict – and Ivanka Trump and Kushner remained at the White House throughout Trump’s presidency. Still, Trump often diminished Kushner, mocking him as effete, Haberman writes.

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https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/28/politics/donald-trump-confidence-man-haberman/index.html

[Karadeniz]

1. Coward.

[Jim__]

2. Trump called Kushner "effete"? Hard to believe that word is part of his vocabulary.

[raccoon]

4. You beat me to the post! Nt

[NowISeetheLight]

5. Yes...

That word certainly isn't in his fourth-grade level vocabulary.

[brush]

7. Have to agree. Makes me question Haberman's credibility even more...

than I already have. Everyone knows trump never said "effete".

And then there's the spectre of considering whether she's just another avaricious journalist—see Bob Woodward— who saved choice, little nuggets for her book instead of leaking them long ago to help defeat trump and trump-vote denying candidates?

[newdayneeded]

11. I'm sure the slimebag

used other words to describe Kushner

[Walleye]

3. They got around Bobby Kennedy nepotism law by not taking a salary

So now I think we need to make a law that everyone who works in the White House takes a salary. How do we know they are working for us when they don’t even take a paycheck and would rather make money on the side

[Demovictory9]

6. Lol 😀

[gratuitous]

8. Maggie Haberman again

All these little stories she never wrote for her main job at the New York Times, but that she's more than happy to tell the public in her book. For which she's also getting paid. Sweet gig, huh?

[leftstreet]

9. +1

Her. Woodward, etc

It's all just a game to them

[gratuitous]

10. Can't help but wonder

Why does the Times put up with this? Their reporters (and Haberman is just one of them) withhold pertinent information from the stories they file so they can cash in later. Doesn't seem like an optimal system for the newspaper that styles itself as the Paper of Record, where all the news that's fit to print is to be found. Atrios has a post about this. One little pull quote:

My big problem with the practice of sitting on bombshells is, how does a reporter actually report stories while pretending not to know lots of things they actually know? A minefield of their own making.