As just one of three top Trump aides to serve all four years, Peter Navarro of course has some interesting anecdotes to reveal in his new book, In Trump Time.
One is that he wouldn’t sit but pretend to surf when Air Force One took off. And, he said, former President Donald Trump played, too.
“As the Big Bird would shake, rattle, and roll down the runway and up into the red, white, and blue yonder, the leader of the Free World would just stand there holding court without holding on to anything. If the plane lurched a bit, it wouldn’t faze him,” he wrote.
- While traveling with the president in Europe last week, first lady Jill Biden took a detour to a Naples, Italy, school where she revealed that she’s quite the pasta cook. “I used to make homemade pasta all the time for dinner,” she told a cooking class. She probably learned from her grandmother. “She would cook the noodles, and then, they would hang in her kitchen,” Biden recalled.
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- Former Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Rick Santorum has joined Newsmax as a political analyst. He debuted on Election Day. The 2012 and 2016 presidential candidate climbs aboard as the cable network is experiencing explosive growth, leading all conservative outlets with a 104% surge in web traffic.
- Two days before Virginia’s gubernatorial election, losing candidate Terry McAuliffe joined in the annual Leesburg Halloween parade. But it might have hurt as much as helped. While other participants rode or walked the route without pausing, McAuliffe delayed it by as much as 15 minutes, greeting voters and handing out candy. Some parents and children peeled off thinking it was over early. A local policeman told a reporter, “Somebody had to stop and shake everybody’s hand.”
