The conflicts that occurred between former President Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner behind closed doors while he was in the White House are now being made public in a new book.
Trump invested a lot of effort in promoting false claims and conspiracies that called into doubt the legitimacy of the election he lost to President Joe Biden in the days before the uprising in the U.S. Capitol.
According to Mediaite, Chris Whipple’s new book, “The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House,” contains information regarding Trump and Kushner’s spat.
Whipple argues that Kushner disagreed with many of the previous president’s attempts to rig the election, despite the fact that many of Trump’s fans and associates backed his allegations. Whipple went so far as to point out a few of the real “knock-down, drag-out screaming matches” Kushner engaged in with Trump.
“With all due respect, I’m not going to like what you are doing, and you’re going to be screaming at me,” Kushner reportedly told Trump during a heated argument about the claims of voter fraud.
Whipple claims that Kushner also once forewarned Trump about the potential consequences of the conspiracy-driven course he was on.
“Look, when you’re out of here, a lot of people will scatter,” Kushner reportedly said, adding, “I’m with you until you hit the dirt — so you may want to listen to what I’m saying.”
“Look, when you’re out of here, a lot of people will scatter,” Kushner reportedly said, adding, “I’m with you until you hit the dirt — so you may want to listen to what I’m saying.”
Per the news outlet, The Forward’s Jacob Kornbluh also highlighted key takeaways from the book with a brief overview of what happened prior to Biden’s inauguration, which Trump did not attend.
John Gans of The New York Times praised the author’s book and called it a “feat of a book,” drawing a lot of attention to it.
“Writing a book that quickly — and especially on these past two years — is no easy task,” Gans wrote, adding:
“The titular fight may be Biden’s, but Whipple must himself exhaustively cover President Donald Trump’s lame-duck struggle and accused sedition. At its best, Whipple’s comprehensive approach adds dimension to the news stream — for example, Biden’s discomfort with the Secret Service is both deeper and more dramatic than is widely understood. At its worst, the book’s iterative structure feels like scrolling a dated Twitter timeline in which the vaccination drive is defeating Covid-19, and Biden’s effort to curb climate change is doomed to failure.”
