‘You’re blowing this’: New book reveals Melania Trump criticized her husband’s handling of Covid
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‘You’re blowing this up’: New book reveals Melania Trump criticized her husband’s handling of COVID – and his top general feared he’d authorize an attack on Iran if the presidency ended
- Two Journalists’ Upcoming Book Is Titled “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021”
- Authors describe Melania as ‘shocked by the coronavirus and convinced Trump screwed up’
- Trump reportedly dismissed her fears by telling her to ‘forget it’
- The ex-president also reportedly left a holiday party in early 2020 because he feared Iran would commit an assassination attempt on him.
- Trump’s own former head of the intelligence community expressed concern that Vladimir Putin had harmful information about the then president
- Trump also told the book’s authors that his former vice president, Mike Pence, “committed political suicide” by upholding the 2020 election results.
- He compared his earlier plan to buy Greenland with a real estate development project
- “I look at a corner and say, ‘I have to have that store for the building I’m building,’ etc. It’s not that different,” Trump said.
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Melania Trump told her husband he was “ruining” the United States’ COVID-19 response, a new report suggested Wednesday.
The former first lady was ‘devastated by the coronavirus and convinced that’ [Donald] Trump was screwing up,” the book said, according to CNN.
In a phone conversation with former Trump ally Chris Christie, Melania reportedly recalled telling her husband, “You’re screwing this up.” Apparently, she begged Christie to help Trump take the pandemic more seriously.
She told Trump, “This is serious. It gets really bad, and you have to take it more seriously than you take it.’
But according to the book, he didn’t do much more than brush her off.
“You worry too much,” Trump replied. ‘Forget it.’
That and other explosive revelations of the Trump presidency are being revealed in an upcoming book by Peter Baker, the New York Times chief White House correspondent and New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser, “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021′.
Also among the bombings were concerns from Trump’s top general, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, that the ex-president would order an attack on Iran on his way out the door of the White House.
And according to the authors, it was one of Trump’s associates who gave him the idea.
Milley told his staff at the time that it was a ‘What the hell are these guys talking about?’ moment,” the book claims.
Melania Trump reportedly told her husband about the pandemic: “This is serious. It gets really bad, and you have to take it more seriously than you take it”
Trump was reportedly so paranoid that Iran would retaliate for the US assassination of its top general, Qasem Soleimani, that he told guests at a Mar-a-Lago holiday party that he would be leaving early for fear of an assassination attempt by Tehran.
But that’s not the only time the ex-president has scared his advisers for national security.
After Trump publicly sided with Russia’s Vladimir Putin over US intelligence agencies accusing the Kremlin of meddling in the US election, the director of national intelligence privately asked “associates” about the relationship between the two leaders.
‘I’ve never been able to come to a conclusion. It begged everyone to ask: what does Putin have on him that makes him do something that undermines his credibility?’ then DNI Dan Coats reportedly said.
Trump also invoked his National Security Council after a billionaire friend of his suggested buying Greenland from Denmark, a plan that eventually fell apart after public ridicule.
The former president himself told the authors of the forthcoming book that buying the area wouldn’t have been “so different” from his high-profile real estate purchases for the Trump organization.
‘I said, ‘Why don’t we have that?’ Trump said about Greenland.
‘You look at a map. I’m a real estate developer, I look at a corner, I say, “I need to have that store for the building I’m building,” etc. It’s not that different.”