Checking out of efforts to persuade Donald Trump to concede defeat in the 2020 election, Jared Kushner instead took an online MasterClass from the bestselling thriller writer James Patterson before “batting out” 40,000 words of his own White House memoir, the authors of a new Trump book reported.
The New York Times chief White House correspondent, Peter Baker, included the detail in an examination of how Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, tried to distance themselves from efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s victory which culminated in the deadly attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.