John Kelly secretly listened to all of President Trump’s phone calls, Kushner alleges in book
August 4, 2022 | Todd Jaquith
Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former advisor, had some interesting things to say about his time in the West Wing in his upcoming memoir Breaking History: A White House Memoir.
In the book, which is set to be released later this month, Kushner explains that Trump’s former chief-of-staff John Kelly surreptitiously listened in on all of Trump’s phone calls. According to The New York Post, which published excerpts from the memoir, Mick Mulvaney—Kelly’s successor in the role of chief-of-staff—told Trump about what his predecessor was doing.
“Before we departed, Mulvaney and I met with the president to discuss his upcoming schedule. Then Mulvaney handed Trump a document to sign,” Kushner writes, speaking of events at a December 2018 dinner at former Vice President Mike Pence’s official residence.
“This will end the practice Kelly started of listening to all of your phone calls,” Mulvaney explained, and Kushner goes to write “that Kelly had given himself the ability to listen surreptitiously to the president’s calls.”
Trump’s reaction to being spied upon—an apparent obsession with swampy DC politicos that further indicates how far our Republic has fallen—was predictable.
“Kelly did what?’ the president asked, stunned at the invasion of privacy,” Kushner writes, adding that Trump gave the order to “[e]nd that immediately.”
It’s no secret that there’s little love lost between Kushner and Kelly, especially after the latter revoked Kushner’s top secret security clearance in early 2018. This incident allegedly stemmed from Kelly’s desire to prevent Trump’s eventual decision to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem—a move for which Kushner was one of the principal advocates.
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