Jared Kushner has written a memoir about his time working at the White House. Entitled, “Breaking History: A White House Memoir”, excerpts have begun to appear in the press.
Yesterday, the Washington Post ran a chunk in which Kushner alleged then-President Donald Trump’s second chief of staff, John F. Kelly, “shoved” Kushner’s wife, Ivanka Trump as he stormed out of an Oval Office meeting.
Kushner says Kelly was seen as having a “Jekyll and Hyde” character by some White House staff.
“One day he had just marched out of a contentious meeting in the Oval Office,” Kushner writes. “Ivanka was walking down the main hallway in the West Wing when she passed him. Unaware of his heated state of mind, she said, ‘Hello, chief.’
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“Kelly shoved her out of the way and stormed by. She wasn’t hurt, and didn’t make a big deal about the altercation, but in his rage Kelly had shown his true character.”
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Kushner says that within an hour of the encounter, Kelly visited Ivanka to offer a “meek apology”, which she accepted.
Responding to the allegation, Kelly emailed the Washington Post an unequivocal denial.
“I don’t recall anything like you describe,” he said.
“It is inconceivable that I would EVER shove a woman. Inconceivable. Never happen,” Kelly wrote. “Would never intentionally do something like that. Also, don’t remember ever apologizing to her for something I didn’t do. I’d remember that.”
A spokesperson for Ivanka Trump said she confirmed her husband’s version of events.
History of friction
Kelly replaced Reince Priebus as Trump’s chief of staff midway through Trump’s first year as President. A retired four-star Marine general, observers believe Kelly tried to instilk some order and discipline upon the West Wing.
It seems he quickly began to rub up Ivanka and Kushner the wrong way. Kushner says in his book Kelly was privately dismissive of his wife and her “pet projects” while publicly showering her “with compliments to her face that she knew were insincere.”
An Associated News report from 2018 highlighted friction between Kelly and the couple. It said Kelly had questioned what Ivanka and Kushner did each day. He was reportedly also angry with them for speaking to President Trump and successfully changing his mind on policy matters at the last minute.
That report came after Kelly acted to limit Kushner’s access to sensitive information following a review of White House staffers’ security clearances.
Kushner’s memoir is set to be published on August 23.
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Cam
Every few months Ivanka and Jared’s P.R. team tries to put out some story or anecdote that either claims they quietly didn’t like what Trump was doing, or something else to rehab their image.
They’ve been trying to blast this out there hoping it will make Ivanka sound like a poor little victim. They supported Trump, they were part of January 6th, and they signed deals with the Saudi for billions while they were in office. The worst of the worst.
Neoprene
But are Jared and Ivanka worse than ELLEN, Cammie?
Cam
@Neoprene
Hi Mario, BarryM Jt, etc….
Nothing outrages the right wing troll account more than when the Trump family are exposed for the lying criminals they are….well except for Trans people or Black people.
As always, your trolling is sad and weak, but your obsession with me is Hilarious!
white-queer-african
@Cam, you ar being far too kind to @Neoprene the POS. The troll must just FO!
abfab
Neoprene. Is this the medication you use for the hemmoroids in YOUR BRAIN?
LumpyPillows
Jared and Ivanka actively participated in the Trump crime wave. They stand by Trump now, even after his treason. No sympathy.
Man About Town
I’m addicted to autobiographies but I don’t think I’ll have a problem passing on this one.
abfab
FYI it’s a memoir (however pathetic), not an autobiography.
Ronbo
Why must David and Queerty promote this book that has noting to do with our community?
abfab
Breaking Wind is more like it.
Mr. Stadnick
Available in the cut out bins in September
abfab
Cut out bins in Tel Aviv.
Fahd
Why isn’t anyone investigating the nepotism/corruption of Jared Kushner gathering megafinancing from the Gulf Arab Shiekhs while his father-in-law was president? A disgraceful character.
If I had to decide who was telling the truth between General Kelly and Jared(supported by Ivanka), I would pick General Kelly. Duh.
scotty
they need to be a lot more than shoved. as soon to be convicted felons in the usa, they will find out more about that in prison. cannot be too soon.
ScottOnEarth
Just wondering what this has to do with LGBTQ+ people???? Answer: nothing. Kushner and his vile, corrupt wife aren’t worth any attention, let alone on this site.
Dwight
First he claims Kelley shoved Ivanka. Now he’s claiming Bannon threatened him.
Really seems to have the victim thing down, doesn’t he? But doesn’t appear to understand the anger towards them.
johncp56
He should have pushed her off the balcony like her father did with America, con clan
Den
“She wasn’t hurt, and didn’t make a big deal about the altercation, but in his rage Kelly had shown his true character.”
Of course both Jared and Ivanka have shown their “true character” numerous times through their eagerness to lie and grift and exploit the nepotism of the Trump White House.
It is hilarious how the right refers to the Biden’s as a “crime family” with no actual evidence or court proceedings: yet Both Ivanka’s and Jared’s fathers have actual documented criminal pasts. The apples, in this case, were already too rotten to fall far from the tree!