Almost thrown out: Trump wanted to fire daughter and son-in-law
Created: 09/29/2022, 14:10
By: Stefan Krieger
Known for emotional decisions: Former US President Donald Trump.
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The former president had to be prevented from dumping his own relatives via Twitter by a close associate.
WASHINGTON DC – Former US President Donald Trump was known during his tenure for being dramatic when it came to laying off employees.
He preferred to use the short message service Twitter – at least until his account was blocked.
His own relatives were also reportedly about to be fired via Twitter.
According to a preview copy of
New York Times
reporter Maggie Haberman's new book obtained by
CNN
, the then-president was seconds away from tweeting about it.
The message already formulated would have informed Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner that their services in the White House were no longer desired.
Donald Trump: Kushner called 'little kid'
Both Ivanka and Kushner served as senior White House advisers.
Donald Trump - who was reportedly tired of his son-in-law's presence and referred to him as a "little kid" - chose not to fire her out of anger only after his then chief of staff, John Kelly, urged him not to do so.
Almost kicked out via Twitter: Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump © Saul Loeb/afp
Kelly reportedly discouraged the president from taking down the tweet and recommended that such a message be best delivered in person.
However, according to Maggie Haberman in her book, this conversation never took place.
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner remained in the White House until January 2021, when their boss, father, and father-in-law left office himself.
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There has been speculation in the past that the relationship between the couple and the then-president began to crumble in the weeks leading up to the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Kushner, who appears to have read the signs of the times, began his plans to leave the house even before Trump officially lost the election, the
New York Times
reports.
"We're moving to Miami," Kushner reportedly told his wife a little over a day after the last polling stations in Alaska closed at midnight on November 4, according to
New York Times
journalist Peter Baker.
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More recently, Ivanka has been publicly ostracized by her father after taped testimony of her was shown at a Jan. 6 public hearing of the House Special Committee on the incidents last summer.
During that hearing, Ivanka reinforced Attorney General William Barr's testimony that Trump's claims that the election was rigged were nothing but "bullshit."
(Stefan Krieger)
