The former president weighed bombing Mexican drug labs and nearly fired his daughter, a new book claims.
Former US President Donald Trump nearly fired his daughter and routinely flushed documents down the toilet.
At a meeting with then-Chief of Staff John Kelly and then-White House counsel Don McGahn, Haberman writes that Mr Trump was close to tweeting that his daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law Jared Kushner - both senior White House aides - were leaving their positions. The idea stemmed from a conversation that Mr Trump had with Brett Giroir, a public health officer and an admiral with the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
This fear existed despite several attempts by Mr Trump to minimize the pandemic, as he worried the virus was negatively impacting his image and political motivations. Haberman writes that he asked aides around him to take off their masks, and that he advised then-New York governor Andrew Cuomo to not talk about the virus on TV.
"Okay, Rudy, you're in charge. Go wild, do anything you want. I don't care," Mr Trump said, after other lawyers refused to go as far as he has requested in his bid to overturn the election results.
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