The new book that ‘burns’ Donald Trump – From almost firing Ivanka to destroying documents in the toilet

New details and revelations from Donald Trump’s administration come to light in the long-awaited book by the journalist of New York Times Maggie Haberman with title “Confidence Man”, which is released on Tuesday.

The book, which is based on interviews with more than 200 sources, including former associates, as well as three interviews with Mr Trump himself, according to the BBC, “burns” the former US president as he reveals that during the presidential campaign of tenure he almost fired even his daughter and systematically threw documents down the toilet.

The former president attacked the book’s author Haberman, writing on the social networking platform that the book contains “a lot of made-up stories with zero fact-checking.”

In particular, the book states that Trump arrived one step earlier fire his daughter Ivanka and his son-in-law Jared Kushner. He was very close to tweeting that they were both leaving their positions, but was stopped at the last minute by then-chief of staff John Kelly. The book also reveals that Mr Trump often spoke disparagingly of his son-in-law and once commented that Mr Kushner “sounds like a child” after listening to a public speech by him in 2017. Mr Trump has denied ever wanting to fire Ivanka and her husband. “Pure fiction. It never even crossed my mind,” he said.

Also, the book makes another revelation. Haberman writes that Trump raised several times the prospect of bombing Mexican drug labs – a proposal that surprised former US Defense Secretary Mark Esper. The idea came from a conversation Trump had with Brett Giroir, a public health officer and admiral of the US Public Health Service. Mr Giroir entered the Oval Office wearing a uniform – as is customary for the corps’ public health officers – and told Mr Trump that illegal drug production facilities in Mexico should be dealt with by putting “lead in the target” to stop them. illegal substances to cross the border. Mistaking Mr Giroir for a military officer, Mr Trump then suggested bombing drug facilities. In response, the White House asked Mr. Giroir to stop wearing his uniform.

But the revelations about Donald Trump do not stop here. Apparently Trump was very afraid of it die of coronavirus when he fell ill in October 2020. At one point, his deputy chief of staff, Tony Ornato, warned the president that if his health worsened further he would have to set in motion processes that would ensure continuity of government.

Also, Maggie Haberman reveals in her book that the Trump flushed documents down the White House toilet. Specifically, White House staff occasionally discovered that the toilet was clogged with printed paper that Trump believed to have flushed down the toilet and then flushed. He also allegedly shredded documents, which violates the Presidential Records Act – a law that says documents created or received by a president are the property of the US government and must be managed by the US National Archives once the presidency ends.

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