![]() Ivanka told her father that Christie’s appointment as chief of staff or to any other high position would be extremely difficult for her and her family, and it would be best that Christie be removed from the Trump orbit altogether. It was his daughter-in-law who held the real influence in the Trump circle, who delivered the blow. In the revised death-of-Chris-Christie story, it is not the deferential Jared who strikes back, but-in some sense even more satisfying for the revenge fantasy-Charlie Kushner himself who harshly demands his due. Author Michael Wolffwhose 2018 book Fire and Fury the Trump Administration sought to block from being publishedis releasing a new book next month detailing former President Donald. Trump warns that North Korea will be met with fire and fury if it. Jared Kushner, like sons-in-law everywhere, tiptoes around his father-in-law, carefully displacing as little air as possible: the massive and domineering older man, the reedy and pliant younger one. Timeline examines foreign policy milestones from Donald Trumps first three years in. But other accounts offer a subtler and in a way darker picture. The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Fire and Fury President Trump warned that North Korea 'will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen' if it continues to threaten the United. Listen to ‘The Daily’: ‘Fire and Fury’ in the White House President Trump defended his fitness for office days after a new book raised questions about his mental health. The new Trump exposé Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House officially released today ahead of schedule despite opposition from the administration and others involved. It was a kind of perfect sweet-revenge story: the son of the wronged man (or, in this case-there’s little dispute-the guilty-as-charged man) uses his power over the man who wronged his family. Various accounts, mostly offered by Christie himself, make Jared the vengeful hatchet man in Christie’s aborted Trump administration career. Charlie Kushner, pursued by the feds for an income tax cheat, set up a scheme with a prostitute to blackmail his brother-in-law, who was planning to testify against him. But when he was the federal prosecutor in New Jersey, Christie had sent Jared’s father, Charles Kushner, to jail in 2005. Shell-shocked White House aides scrambled to control the fallout of 'Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House' this week as excerpts were published ahead of the books scheduled Jan. ![]() So Christie got the job of leading the transition and the implicit promise of a central job-attorney general or chief of staff. But if the Republican establishment had not wanted Trump, they had not wanted Christie almost as much. “It had personally pained Trump not to be able to give it to him. ![]()
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