Former President Donald Trump has denied claims that he wanted to fire his daughter and her husband from the White House, calling it “pure fiction.”
A book written by reporter Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, notes that Trump considered firing Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, who were White House aides at the time, several times throughout his presidency, even going so far as to wanting to announce their departure from the White House on social media.
The former president said the story was false and that Haberman’s book contained stories “with zero fact checking or confirmation by anyone who would know, like me,” he wrote on Truth Social.
“In one case she lies about me wanting to fire my daughter, Ivanka, and Jared,” Trump wrote. “WRONG, pure fiction. Never even crossed my mind. Just have to fight trouble making creeps like Maggie, and all the rest!”
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According to the book, Trump shared his thought of firing the two with then-chief of staff John Kelly and then-White House counsel Don McGahn, both of whom resisted the idea. Ivanka Trump and Kushner remained in the White House throughout Trump’s term.
Haberman’s book also contains other stories about the Trump administration, including one that details how Trump internally threatened to gain access to her phone records in order to identify possible leakers inside the White House. Another story in the book claimed that the former president had engaged in bizarre conversations in preparation for candidate debates in 2016.
Trump called Haberman’s book “another Fake book” that is “supposedly very boring and stale.”
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Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America is scheduled to be released next Tuesday.
