‘Get rid of my kids’: New book reveals Donald Trump instructed chief of staff to fire his daughter Ivanka as adviser
WASHINGTON — When Gary D. Cohn was considering resigning as the top White House economic adviser after U.S. President Donald Trump blamed “both sides” in a deadly white nationalist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, his first stop was a meeting with Trump’s children.
Cohn, who did not respond to a request for comment, ultimately did not resign over the Charlottesville episode, instead leaving after losing a battle over trade policy last year. But the incident permanently changed his view of Ivanka Trump and Kushner, who are often painted as moderating influences on the president, according to “Kushner Inc.,” by journalist Vicky Ward.
She portrays Ivanka Trump and Kushner as two children forged by their domineering fathers — one overinvolved with his son, one disengaged from his daughter — who have climbed to positions of power by disregarding protocol and skirting the rules when they can. And Ward tries to unravel the narrative that the two serve as stabilizing voices inside an otherwise chaotic White House, depicting them instead as Donald Trump’s chief enablers.
Over the past two years, Donald Trump has waffled on whether he wanted his children serving in his administration. When he hired John Kelly as his chief of staff, a move that Ivanka Trump and Kushner supported at the time, he gave an early directive: “Get rid of my kids; get them back to New York.” If there is sympathy in Ward’s book for her protagonists, it is found in explaining how they grew up. Ivanka Trump, she wrote, was wealthy but isolated. When she went to tour Choate Rosemary Hall, the elite Connecticut boarding school where she would attend high school, Trump arrived in a white stretch limousine. But she emerged from the car all by herself. “No one was there with her,” said her tour guide, who remained anonymous in the book.
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