News Pictures — Letter Gary Cohn stole from Trump’s desk to stop him signing it appears in Woodward book

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A letter stolen from Donald Trump’s Oval Office desk by his top economic adviser to stop him from ending a trade deal with South Korea is published in full in Bob Woodward’s bombshell book on the president.

Woodward also obtained a copy of the astonishing note that President Trump wrote in the margins of a speech he was poised to deliver: ‘TRADE IS BAD.’

The president never uttered the words, but Woodward says the phrase is the ‘truest expression’ of Trump’s ‘protectionism, isolationism and fervent American nationalism.’

Bob Woodward obtained a copy of the astonishing note that President Trump wrote in the margins of a speech he was poised to deliver: ‘TRADE IS BAD’

Trump planned to make the assertion during a speech that Woodward says he was working on en route to the United States from the G20 summit in 2017. 

It’s not clear from the book why he never did, unlike the formal notification to South Korea that Trump was unilaterally ending its trade deal, which Cohn and ex-staff secretary Rob Porter are said to have kept away from the president.

The unsigned letter to South Korea and the note Trump made about trade, in what appears to be his handwriting, are included in Woodward’s book in an astonishing breach of White House security.

Woodward uses the documents to bolster the narrative that aides were engaged in an elaborate campaign that is outlined in the book to sometimes shield information from Trump – and at other times keep the president from doing things his aides thought would be disastrous.

Cohn has been silent since Bob Woodward named him in an except of his new book as someone who tried to thwart the president from within. The White House ignored a request for comment on Thursday on the newest revelations.

Woodward’s book, which officially hits shelves on Tuesday, Sept. 11, includes a draft copy of a memo withdrawing the United States from its trade agreement with South Korea that the president never signed.

That’s because Cohn ‘stole it’ off the president’s desk, Woodward writes.

Cohn is said to have boasted to a colleague, ‘I stole it off his desk….I wouldn’t let him see it. He’s never going to see that document. Got to protect the country.’

Director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn is described in Woodward’s book as swiping a letter from Trump’s desk that would start a pullout of a trade deal

Trump told a news outlet this week just after the release of the except that no one removed anything from his desk. 

‘That’s false,’ Trump said of the document removal excerpt. ‘It’s just made up.’ He told The Daily Caller flatly: ‘There was nobody taking anything from me.’

A copy of the book obtained by DailyMail.com includes a scan of the letter, however. And the White House did not immediately slap it down as a faked document.

The documents stated that the current trade deal was ‘not in the overall best interest of the United States economy.’

The letter provides notice of the president’s desire to ‘terminate the agreement.’

It contained lines for salutations by Trump and trade representative Robert Lighthizer but was left unsigned.

Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs boss, is quoted in the book stating privately: ‘It’s not what we did for the country. lt’s what we saved him from doing.’

Porter told an associate, according to Woodward’s book, that there were multiple iterations of the letter, because Trump kept coming back to the topic. 

‘I’m tired of these arguments!’ Trump said in one meeting. ‘I don’t want to hear about it anymore. We’re getting out of KORUS.’

Woodward included an image of the draft letter in his book

Porter and Cohn are depicted as ignoring Trump’s orders to submit additional drafts, with the president’s former economic adviser roping in Pentagon head James Mattis.

‘We’re teetering on the edge,’ Cohn told Mattis. ‘We may need some backup this time.’

Mattis, for his part, told Trump: ‘Kim Jong Un poses the most immediate threat to our national security. We need South Korea as an ally. It may not seem like trade is related to all this, but it’s central.’

Trump ultimately saw things his aides’ way and did not shred the trade agreement. 

Woodward calls it part of a widespread ‘administrative coup d’etat,’ with Cohen recalling, ‘A third of my job was trying to react to some of the really dangerous ideas that he had and try to give him reasons to believe that maybe they weren’t such good ideas.’ 

Porter, who stepped down amid allegations of spousal abuse that he denied, is cast as part of the effort to head off catastrophes in the making.

Once compared by Trump the likes of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, the book claims that Porter lost respect for the president after he castigated his first chief of staff, Reince Priebus, as a ‘rat’ in his presence.

Porter, whose pedigree includes Harvard Law and being a Rhodes Scholar, described efforts to manage Trump by working the tempo beyond swiping of documents. 

‘But slow-walking things or not taking things up to him, or telling him-right away, not just as an excuse but this needs to be vetted, or we need to do more process on this, or we don’t have legal counsel clearance-that happened 10 times more frequently than taking papers from his desk. It felt like we were walking along the edge of the cliff perpetually,’ he said.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders did not respond to a request for comment via email on the document that was dated Sept. 5, 2017.

Trump said in the letter that he would terminate the existing pact in 180 days, the required amount of notice, because it did not benefit the United States’ interests. He committed in the letter to negotiating a new trade deal with the close, security ally of the United States.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders did not respond to a request for comment about the letter

The date of the letter indicates that it was drafted just before Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in met for bilateral talks at the United Nations. At the summit the president also called North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un ‘Little Rocket Man,’ escalating tension between South Korea and its autocratic neighbor. 

Trump made his distaste for the trade deal with Korea, a key U.S. ally, in a White House meeting.

«I’m tired of these arguments! I don’t want to hear about it anymore. We’re getting out of KORUS,’ he is quoted as saying in the Woodward book, using the jargon for the trade deal.

Trump ordered son-in-law Jared Kushner to draft the order. The book describes a scene where Kushner took dictation. Porter heard about what Kushner was up to, and later told him: ‘Send me the draft. If we’re going to do this, we cannot do it on the back of a napkin. We have to write it up in a way that isn’t going to embarrass us.»

They prepared a draft, but it was described as part of a ‘subterfuge’ tactic. After a formal meeting on the topic, and following a debate, Trump asked for changes.

 ‘Well, let’s keep working on the letter,» Trump said. «l want to see the next draft.»

Cohn and Porter didn’t produce a follow-up. The issue disappeared for a while.   

Cohn had not commented on anecdotes of quotes that included him in the book as of Thursday afternoon, unlike other current and former Trump administration officials, suggesting the letter and the story about him snatching it off Trump’s desk were authentic. 

The globalist whose worldview clashed with the president’s left the White House earlier this year. Despite his run-ins with Trump, the president maintained that they had a good relationship until the end. He even suggested that Cohn could return one day in a higher-level position such as Cabinet secretary or chief of staff.

All of that was in question this week as Woodward’s book went drip, drip, drip. Trump raged on Twitter, and in remarks, about the journalist and the disgruntled current and former employees who provided him with the juicy material. 

Trump’s spokeswoman had said that the Woodward book, which included damaging characterizations of the White House as ‘crazytown’ and the president as ‘unhinged,’ couldn’t possibly be true when asked it about it at the White House on Wednesday.

‘I don’t think you can have the type of success that we’ve had in this White House under this president if that book was an accurate reflection of what is taking place,’ she told reporters after blasting the book on two morning shows.

Sanders denied that current aides to Donald Trump believe he is an imbecile, as the president is portrayed in excerpts from the book that emerged as the White House was focused on another fight — the one to get Brett Kavanaugh on the high court. 

She said a series of matching accounts across bombshell books that have humiliated the White House are works of ‘fiction’ from anonymous sources with axes to grind against the president.

Sarah Sanders said in a new rebuttal of Bob Woodward book on Wednesday that a damaging characterization of the White House as ‘crazytown’ and the president as ‘unhinged’ can’t possibly be true

Sanders avoided calling Woodward himself a liar, avoiding a trap laid by the president in an interview when he suggested the respected journalist ‘made up’ anecdotes in his book that is based on hundreds of hours of recorded interviews.

The president in a Wednesday tweet encouraged Congress to take a fresh look at libel laws as he desperately searched for ways to retaliate. 

Sanders wouldn’t take the bait, telling a reporter who asked if the book was met the current standards, ‘I think we have to see the rest of the book. 

‘We’ve seen a few excerpts that have been pretty widely pushed back on by some of the most-respected people in our country,’ Sanders said. ‘We’ll see what happens.’  

Sanders on ‘GMA’ said the book is based on the claims of anonymous sources and disgruntled former staffers. ‘This is just another repeat of pure fiction.’ 

‘I don’t think there are that many current staffers that are painting that picture,’ she asserted to assembled journalists later.

She told reporters after the interview that Woodward’s sources were sharing the same rehearsed stories they’d shared with other authors writing shock-and-awe books about the sitting president.

‘Certainly, just because they keep getting told doesn’t make them more true,’ she said of the pattern of degrading comments. ‘I think that’s a ridiculous accusation.’

She said the fact that the ‘same people keep writing the same type of books’ about Trump proves nothing.

Trump slammed Woodward’s book as a ‘fraud’ and labeled him a ‘Dem operative’ after the famed Watergate journalist wrote that John Kelly called the president ‘an idiot’ and James Mattis compared him to a ‘fifth grader’.

The president said in a tweet on Tuesday night: ‘The Woodward book has already been refuted and discredited by General (Secretary of Defense) James Mattis and General (Chief of Staff) John Kelly. Their quotes were made up frauds, a con on the public. Likewise other stories and quotes. Woodward is a Dem operative? Notice timing?’

Mattis and Kelly both dismissed claims they had questioned Trump’s intellect.

The president personally denied a claim in the book that he used a slur to describe Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

‘The already discredited Woodward book, so many lies and phony sources, has me calling Jeff Sessions “mentally retarded” and “a dumb southerner». I said NEITHER, never used those terms on anyone, including Jeff, and being a southerner is a GREAT thing. He made this up to divide!’

Donald Trump tweeted on Tuesday to accuse famed Watergate reporter Bob Woodward of fabricating quotes and information in his new book, Fear: Trump in the White House 

At 11pm [ET] Trump went on to deny another claim in the book regarding slurs he allegedly made against Attorney General Jeff Sessions

Trump (left) dismissed as ‘made up frauds’ quotes from James Mattis and John Kelly which were deeply critical of Trump. Woodward is pictured on the right 

Trump has repeatedly ripped into Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia probe.

In addition to calling him a ‘traitor,’ the president allegedly said, ‘This guy is mentally retarded. He’s this dumb Southerner. … He couldn’t even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama.’ 

Woodward also said that Kelly castigated Trump as ‘an idiot,’ saying, ‘It’s pointless to try to convince him of anything. He’s gone off the rails.

The White House chief of staff allegedly said, ‘We’re in Crazytown. I don’t even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I’ve ever had.’

Kelly denied making the claims in a statement put out by the White House.

‘The idea that I ever called the President is not true, in fact it’s exactly the opposite,’ he said. ‘This is both a pathetic attempt to smear people close to President Trump and distract from his many successes.’

In another episode, Trump is said to have questioned the utility of U.S. early warning systems in Alaska to identify a nuclear attack from North Korea.

Mattis is said to have schooled him. ‘We’re doing this in order to prevent World War III,’ he reportedly said.

The Pentagon chief is said to have told colleagues after the incident that Trump had the mental ability of ‘a fifth- or sixth-grader.’

On Tuesday he denied the account, saying in a statement of his own: ‘The contemptuous words about the President attributed to me in Woodward’s book were never uttered by me or in my presence.

‘While I generally enjoy reading fiction, this is a uniquely Washington brand of literature, and his anonymous sources do not lend credibility.’ 

A Pentagon spokesman, Col. Rob Manning, said Mattis was never interviewed by Woodward.

‘Mr. Woodward never discussed or verified the alleged quotes included in his book with Secretary Mattis’ or anyone within the Defense Department, Manning said. 

Previous accounts during Trump’s first year had former secretary of state Rex Tillerson calling Trump a ‘moron,’ and Tillerson did not explicitly deny it. This would mean three of Trump’s most senior advisors have ridiculed his mental capacity.   

Woodward also reported that after Syria’s Bashar Assad launched a chemical weapons attack on civilians in April 2017, Trump called Mattis and said he wanted the Syrian leader taken out, saying: ‘Kill him! Let’s go in.’ 

Mattis assured Trump he would get right on it but then told a senior aide they’d do nothing of the kind, Woodward wrote. National security advisers instead developed options for the airstrike that Trump ultimately ordered.

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley denied Tuesday that Trump had ever planned to assassinate Assad. She told reporters at U.N. headquarters that she had been privy to conversations about the Syrian chemical weapons attacks, ‘and I have not once ever heard the president talk about assassinating Assad.’

She said people should take what is written in books about the president with ‘a grain of salt.’

Defense Secretary Mattis (left, at the Pentagon on August 28) and Kelly, White House chief of staff, (right, in the White House on August 27) both questioned quotes attributed to them

Trump also tweeted official statements from Kelly and Mattis as part of a barrage of posts on Tuesday evening

Highlights: The most searing quotes in Bob Woodward’s book

WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT TRUMP:

JOHN KELLY, CHIEF OF STAFF: ‘He’s an idiot. It’s pointless to try to convince him of anything. He’s gone off the rails. We’re in Crazytown. I don’t even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I’ve ever had.’

JAMES MATTIS, DEFENSE SECRETARY:  ‘Fifth- or sixth-grader’

REX TILLERSON, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: ‘He’s a f***ing moron.’

JOHN DOWN, FORMER PERSONAL ATTORNEY: ‘F***ing liar.’

JOHN DOWD ON HOW TRANSCRIPT OF A MUELLER INTERVIEW WOULD BE DESCRIBED BY FOREIGN LEADERS: ‘I told you he was an idiot. I told you he was a goddamn dumbbell. What are we dealing with this idiot for?’

GARY COHN, FORMER CHIEF ECONOMIC ADVISER: ‘A professional liar’  

ROB PORTER, FORMER STAFF SECRETARY WHO QUIT WHEN BOTH EX-WIVES ACCUSED HIM OF ABUSE: ‘A third of my job was trying to react to some of the really dangerous ideas that he had and try to give him reasons to believe that maybe they weren’t such good ideas.’

WHAT THEY SAID TO EACH OTHER:

STEVE BANNON TO IVANKA TRUMP: ‘You’re nothing but a f***ing staffer! You walk around this place and act like you’re on charge, and you’re not. You’re on staff!’

IVANKA TRUMP TO STEVE BANNON: ‘I’m not a staffer!  I’ll never be a staffer. I’m the first daughter and I’m never going to be a staffer!’

JOHN KELLY TO GARY COHN:  ‘If that was me, I would have taken that resignation letter and shoved it up his a** six different times.’

DOWD TO ROBERT MUELLER: ‘He just made something up. That’s his nature.’     

WHAT TRUMP SAID ABOUT THEM:

BARACK OBAMA: ‘Weak d**k’ 

RUDY GIULIANI, PERSONAL ATTORNEY: ‘Rudy, you’re a baby. I’ve never seen a worse defense of me in my life. They took your diaper off right there. You’re like a little baby that needed to be changed. When are you going to be a man?’ 

WILBUR ROSS, COMMERCE SECRETARY:  ‘I don’t trust you. I don’t want you doing any more negotiations. You’re past your prime.’  

H.R McMASTER, FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: ‘Dresses like a beer salesman.’

REINCE PRIEBUS, FORMER CHIEF OF STAFF: ‘Like a little rat. He just scurries around.’

AFTER EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT FATAH AL-SISSI ASKED IF HE WAS GOING TO BE AROUND: ‘Like a kick in the nuts.’

BASHAR AL-ASSAD, SYRIAN DICTATOR: ‘Let’s f***ing kill him! Let’s go in. Let’s kill the f***ing lot of them.’

In a taped phone call with Trump that the journalist released hand-in-hand with excerpts from the forthcoming book on Tuesday, Woodward recounts how he tried to reach the president to fact-check claims he had made.

Trump says he wished he had known about the book – which was already coming out at the time of the call. 

‘I never got a call. I never got a message,’ the president said at first. ‘Who did you ask about speaking to me?’

Woodward told him he had lunch with counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway where he pressed her on getting a Trump interview – prompting Trump to admonish his former campaign manager while she was in the room.

At one point during the back-and-forth, Conway walked into the room where Trump was speaking, and he invited her to jump on the call.

‘You and I spent a whole lunch on it, Kellyanne … And you said you would get back to me. Nothing,’ Woodward told her.

Conway then told Woodward, ‘yeah. So, I did. I presented it to the people here who make those decisions,’ without naming names.

‘Who are the people?’ Woodward asked, but he received no response. At that point, without answering, Conway jumped off the call, and Trump hopped back on.

Trump then faulted Woodward for not calling him directly.

‘But you never called for me. It would have been nice, Bob, if you called for me in my office,’ Trump said.

‘Kellyanne went to somebody, but she didn’t come to me. And she should have come to me,’ Trump said.  

The president noted that the book was almost certain to contain embarrassing information about his administration — and that it would probably be ‘very inaccurate’ as he geared up for the coming bloodbath.

Woodward assured him that it wouldn’t, and the two ended the call that took place in August amicably. 

MAYBE HE MADE IT UP: That was Trump’s charge on Tuesday as he tried to get out from under Woodward’s damaging allegations. Ari Fleisher, the former press secretary to George W. Bush, said in a tweet that the charge didn’t add up

Trump was once a fan of Bob Woodward — but now the president says he might be a liar

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders dismissed the work of the famed journalist as ‘nothing more than fabricated stories’

The president was singing a different tune on Tuesday, hinting that Woodward could have ‘made up’ anecdotes in his book, including a story about Gary Cohn absconding with an order to end the United States’ trade deal with South Korea to keep Trump from making an international mess.

‘That’s false. It’s just made up,’ Trump told The Daily Caller in a furious response to the book. ‘There was nobody taking anything from me.’

Trump suggested that ‘disgruntled employees’ may have made the claims — or that they could have been falsified Woodward in their entirety.

‘It could just be made up by the author,’ Trump said of the journalist he once defended on Twitter against slights levied against him by the Obama administration.

The damaging statement about the widely respected journalist had former President George W. Bush’s White House Press Secretary Ari Fleisher shaking his head.

Extracts from veteran Watergate reporter Bob Woodard’s new book set off explosions across the political world

‘I’ve been on the receiving end of a Bob Woodward book. There were quotes in it I didn’t like. But never once — never — did I think Woodward made it up,’ Fleisher said. ‘Anonymous sources have looser lips and may take liberties. But Woodward always plays is straight. Someone told it to him.’

Trump’s press secretary piled on with a statement that said: ‘This book is nothing more than fabricated stories, many by former disgruntled employees, told to make the President look bad.’

In the response to Woodward’s book, Sanders argued that ‘sometimes’ Trump’s approach to the office is ‘unconventional’ but it ‘always gets results.’

‘Democrats and their allies in the media understand the President’s policies are working and with success like this, no one can beat him in 2020 – not even close.’ 

The White House did not hold a televised question and answer session with reporters on Tuesday, choosing instead to respond to the explosive book that hits shelves on Sept. 11 through written statements.

Trump held off on eviscerating Woodward on Twitter, as well, responding to him in the interview with The Daily Caller before lashing out at him later on Twitter.

The book recounts efforts by Cohn to try to head-off what he considered rash or ill-advised policy moves by Trump.

Cohn ‘stole a letter off Trump’s desk’ to prevent the president from executing a planned withdrawal from the United States-South Korea trade pact.

Mattis told colleagues Trump had the mental ability of ‘a fifth- or sixth-grader’, according to the book 

It even ventures into the advice Trump received from his former lead lawyer on the Russia investigation, John Dowd.

‘Don’t testify. It’s either that or an orange jumpsuit,’ he advised Trump, according to the book. 

Dowd is also said to have explained to special counsel Robert Mueller face-to-face that he didn’t want his client to testify, because he feared that Trump would be cast as an imbecile.

He reportedly told him: ‘I’m not going to sit there and let him look like an idiot. And you publish that transcript, because everything leaks in Washington, and the guys overseas are going to say, ‘I told you he was an idiot. I told you he was a goddamn dumbbell. What are we dealing with this idiot for?»

According to Woodward, Mueller replied: ‘John, I understand.’ 

Trump insists Bob Woodward’s book interview request never made it to the Oval Office

President Donald Trump complained on a recorded phone call no one ever contacted him about veteran journalist Bob Woodward’s interview request – then complained advisor Kellyanne Conway should have come to him directly.

The Washington Post released a recorded August 14 phone call between the famously well-sourced author and the president soon after the paper reported on a copy of ‘Fear,’ Woodward’s forthcoming book on Trump.

Trump does admit at one point during the call that a senator had passed along Woodward’s request for an interview, but at other times says he had no idea about it.

The call begins with Woodward, after alerting the president he was recording, regretting the two hadn’t been able to connect and Trump saying he wished he had known about the book – which was already coming out at the time of the call.

‘She should have come to me,’ Trump said of Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, (seen at the White House on August 29) during a conversation with Bob Woodward about an interview request Trump claims he never was told about

‘I never got a call. I never got a message,’ the president said at first. ‘Who did you ask about speaking to me?’

Woodward told him he had lunch with counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway where he pressed her on getting a Trump interview – prompting Trump to admonish his former campaign manager while she was in the room.

At one point during the back-and-forth, Conway walked into the room where Trump was speaking, and he invited her to jump on the call.

‘You and I spent a whole lunch on it, Kellyanne … And you said you would get back to me. Nothing,’ Woodward told her.

Conway then told Woodward: ‘Yeah. So, I did. I presented it to the people here who make those decisions,’ without naming names.

‘Who are the people?’ Woodward asked, but he got no response. At that point, without answering, Conway jumped off the call, and Trump got back on.

Trump then faulted Woodward for not calling him directly.

‘But you never called for me. It would have been nice, Bob, if you called for me in my office,’ Trump said.

‘Kellyanne went to somebody, but she didn’t come to me. And she should have come to me,’ Trump said.  

Dowd said Tuesday in emails to the Washington Examiner that anecdotes and quotes attributed to him – including a claim that he called Trump a ‘f**king liar’ and that a mock session with Trump in advance of a potential interview with Mueller revealed the ‘full nightmare’ he was dealing with – are not true. 

‘I have not read Bob Woodward’s book, which appears to be the most recent in an endless cycle of accusations and misrepresentations based on anonymous statements from unknown malcontents,’ he told the outlet. 

‘I do not intend to address every inaccurate statement attributed to me – but I do want to make this clear: there was no so-called ‘practice session’ or ‘re-enactment’ of a mock interview at the Special Counsel’s office. Further, I did not refer to the President as a ‘liar’ and did not say that he was likely to end up in an ‘orange jump suit.’ 

The email from Dowd concluded: ‘It was a great honor and distinct privilege to serve President Trump.’

‘This guy is mentally retarded. He’s this dumb Southerner,’ Trump reportedly said of his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, who recused himself from the Russia probe. He is pictured in DC on August 31

Trump said his former chief of staff, Reince Priebus, (pictured in DC on February 7) scurries around ‘like a rat’

Former director of the U.S. National Economic Council Gary Cohn snatched a letter off Trump’s desk to keep him from precipitously moving to pull out of a trade deal. Cohn is seen on the right next to Jared Kushner on March 8

Woodward also described an argument between Ivanka Trump and then chief White House strategist Steve Bannon.

‘You’re a goddamn staffer!’ Bannon allegedly screamed at her, explaining she had to work through Priebus like other aides. ‘You walk around this place and act like you’re in charge, and you’re not. You’re on staff!’

Ivanka replied: ‘I’m not a staffer! I’ll never be a staffer. I’m the first daughter.’ 

According to another anecdote, Trump told former staff secretary Rob Porter that former chief of staff Reince Priebus was ‘like a little rat. He just scurries around.’

Porter in turn allegedly said on Trump: ‘A third of my job was trying to react to some of the really dangerous ideas that he had and try to give him reasons to believe that maybe they weren’t such good ideas.’ 

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, 80, a billionaire investor, wasn’t spared Trump’s criticism, either.

‘I don’t trust you. I don’t want you doing any more negotiations. … You’re past your prime,’ Trump reportedly told him. 

Trump also reportedly called his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani a ‘baby’, and compared former National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster to a ‘beer salesman’. 

Ivanka Trump ‘got into an expletive-laden screaming match with Steve Bannon’

By Ariel Zilber  

Woodward described an argument between Ivanka Trump and then chief White House strategist Steve Bannon.

‘You’re a goddamn staffer!’ Bannon allegedly screamed at her, explaining she had to work through Priebus like other aides. ‘You walk around this place and act like you’re in charge, and you’re not. You’re on staff!’

Ivanka replied: ‘I’m not a staffer! I’ll never be a staffer. I’m the first daughter.’ 

Ivanka Trump reportedly was offended when she was told by strategist Steve Bannon she was merely a White House ‘staffer’ by answering: ‘I’m not a staffer! I’ll never be a staffer. I’m the first daughter,’ it has been claimed. She is seen outside her Washington, D.C. home last month

Bannon was said to have been upset with Ivanka’s reported tendency to bypass the standard chain of command and take up issues directly with her father.

Every other White House aide was required to report to the chief of staff at the time, Reince Priebus.

But the reported exchange apparently highlighted the fact that Ivanka felt she was not bound by the same rules.

Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, are senior advisers to the president even though they have no previous experience in government.  

The book follows the January release of author Michael Wolff’s ‘Fire and Fury,’ which led to a rift between Trump and Bannon, his former chief strategist, who spoke with Wolff in terms that were highly critical of the president and his family. Wolff’s book attracted attention with its vivid anecdotes but suffered from numerous factual inaccuracies.

Woodward’s work also comes weeks after former White House aide and ‘Apprentice’ contestant Omarosa Manigault Newman published an expose on her time in the West Wing, including audio recordings of her firing by Kelly and a follow-up conversation with the president in which he claimed to have been unaware of Kelly’s decision.

While White House aides have become increasingly numb to fresh scandals, the latest book still increased tensions in the West Wing, especially given the intimate details shared and the number of people Woodward appeared to have interviewed. 

Some White House officials expressed surprise at the number of erstwhile Trump loyalists willing to offer embarrassing stories of the president and his inner circle.

White House aides on Tuesday coordinated with other officials quoted in the book to dispute troublesome passages. But insiders speculated the fallout could be worse than that from ‘Fire and Fury,’ given Woodward’s storied reputation.

Woodward’s book was already ranked the top-selling book on Amazon on Tuesday.

Trump has been increasingly critical of anonymous sources used by reporters covering his administration. Woodward’s account relies on deep background conversations with sources, meaning their identities are not disclosed. 

 

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