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Brian Niemietz

Trump nearly tweet-fired daughter Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner from White House, book says

Former President Donald Trump nearly fired his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner — via a tweet — according to an upcoming book about the 45th president’s administration.

Quoting from an advanced copy of Maggie Haberman’s “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America,” CNN said Trump complained that Kushner “sounds like a child,” when the 41-year-old adviser to the former president spoke publicly about testifying before Congress in 2017. The book reportedly notes that this was just one instance in which Trump spoke about Kushner in an unflattering fashion.

He reportedly considered announcing on Twitter that Kushner and Ivanka, who both served in the Trump administration, would be leaving the White House. Trump was talked out of unceremoniously dumping the pair by White House counsel Don McGahn and John Kelly, who was the second of four chiefs of staff to serve the administration.

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