“I thought I was having a heart attack,” Abdullah II recalled to an American friend in 2018, according to a new book on the Trump presidency being published next week. “He’d do anything to get Bezos,” a senior Trump official told the book’s authors. And when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit blocked one of his policies, Trump told Nielsen he wanted to eliminate the court altogether. “Let’s just cancel it,” he told her, according to the book, adding that they should “get rid” of the judges and using a profanity. Trump thought he would be doing the Jordanian king a favor, not realizing that it would destabilize his country, according to the book.

Source: Washington Post September 16, 2022 00:23 UTC