This Tuesday it went on sale in the United States Confident man (Confidence Man), the latest book on Donald Trump. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maggie Haberman, the exceptional fact is that she devotes almost as much space to her presidential term as to his life before politics.
According to a review in New York Times, it’s impossible to understand Trump if you don’t understand where he came from and how he got there. In this sense, the book is an attempt to portray the rise of the former US president within the brutal New York political culture while a outside the box forged in Queens with a deep distrust of the elite.
The book then examines how Trump “formed” in an environment shaped by rapacious politicians, shady lawyers and the omnipresence of Mafiaa fertile ground that has left him key lessons when it comes to navigating between power and media.
Among the teachings cited is his superlative ability to know “reading” and manipulating public opinionfrom tabloids to social networks, and his talent for always being one step ahead of the law.
“The dynamic that defined 1980s New York City stayed with Trump for decades,” writes Haberman. “Many times he seemed to have stayed frozen at that moment“.
Although Trump has given Haberman at least three interviews, two to Mar a Lago and a third to the golf club that the former president owns in New Jersey, in recent days he has come out to criticize Confident man on its networking platform, accusing it of being a book “invented without any fact check“.
The part of the book dedicated to his presidency is full of anecdotes and stories that are already habitual material for this type of publication. The novelty is that Haberman has decided to also include episodes on his mistreatment of public documentsan issue that has come back to the fore after the Mar a Lago raids and the discovery of what Trump has stolen from the White House.
Next, five “pearls” of Trust Man
1. Trump was about to kick out his daughter and son-in-law on social media
In the book, Haberman relates that after a meeting with his chief of staff, John Kelly, Trump was about to announce on Twitter that his daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, both officials of his administration, would they leave their positions in the White House.
Apparently it was Kelly who stopped the president in time and advised him to speak to Ivanka and Kushner in person about his decision before going public. Trump never spoke to them and his decision to kick them out seems to have led nowhere.
In his release in response to the network’s book, Trump said this is a lie and he never considered kicking the couple out.
2. The severity of Trump’s COVID framework has put the government at risk
Despite being one of the biggest skeptics of the pandemic, Trump has captured COVID and his own the cadres forced him to be hospitalized.
His health conditions worsened to such an extent that his deputy chief of staff, Tony Ornato, informed him that if the situation continued like this, his obligation would be to start procedures to ensure the functioning of the government.
Apparently, Trump’s rejection of the pandemic was due to the fact that he feared it would have a negative impact on his image. Inside the White House, the emphasis of him on no one wearing a mask it was total and even told Cuomo to stop making a lot of fuss about it.
3. He asked the British Prime Minister to block a project that would damage his property
A substantial part of the book is dedicated to Trump’s meetings and ties with foreign leaders, a topic at the center of the scene after it became known in recent weeks that among the confidential material that the former president brought with him after leaving office meets the White House letters sent by the North Korean leaderKim Jong Un.
An episode narrated by Haberman refers to a meeting with the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, where Trump apparently made a strange reference to abortion.
“Some people are pro-life, others pro-abortion. Can you imagine some tattooed animals raping your daughter and she got pregnant?” were her words.
It was in the same meeting that Trump broke off an argument they were having about Northern Ireland and immediately complained about a wind power generation that would damage your propertyand I started talking about different ways I could prevent it.
4. He threw the official papers in the cabinet
As White House sources told Haberman, it was common for staff members to find official documents in the bathrooms Trump frequented.
He also apparently tore up official documents, which is expressly forbidden by a regulation that states that every document the president receives is owned by the United States governmentand it should be delivered to your records once the deadline is up.
5. Trump thought minority ethnic staff were maids
In a meeting with members of Congress held shortly after its inauguration in 2017, Trump apparently confused people of ethnic minorities by a team of Democrats with the waiters, asking them to go get canapés and drinks.
According to Haberman, Trump made these comments to staff members of Rep Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer.
Source: Clarin
