Checking out of efforts to persuade Donald Trump to concede defeat in the 2020 election, Jared Kushner instead took an online MasterClass from the bestselling thriller writer James Patterson before “batting out” 40,000 words of his own White House memoir, the authors of a new Trump book reported. Baker and his wife, Susan Glasser of the New Yorker, will publish The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021, in September. The House oversight committee is investigating whether Kushner used his White House position to seal a $2bn investment from a Saudi Arabian wealth fund. Kushner’s book, Breaking History: A White House Memoir, is due out on 23 August. As Trump insisted he would serve a second term, the Times said, “Mr Kushner set about chronicling the first.

Source: The Guardian June 08, 2022 23:55 UTC