Trump's closest confidants didn't believe his election lies. That could be a massive legal problem for him. (via MaddowBlog)
In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat, Jared Kushner seemed to have little interest in sticking around the White House. In fact, the then-presidential son-in-law took on a peripatetic schedule, making multiple trips to the Middle East, and meeting with officials whom he would soon hit up for investments in his new private-sector venture.
No matter how vociferously Mr. Trump claimed otherwise, neither Mr. Kushner nor Ivanka Trump believed then or later that the election had been stolen, according to people close to them. While the president spent the hours and days after the polls closed complaining about imagined fraud in battleground states and plotting a strategy to hold on to power, his daughter and son-in-law were already washing their hands of the Trump presidency.
Kushner also reportedly concluded that the then-president “would not listen even to family members urging him to accept the results.” This is part of Baker’s upcoming book, “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021,” which the writer co-authored with The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser. Yesterday’s report added:
One of the most striking realizations that emerged from the book research was how many people around Mr. Trump did not believe the election had been stolen but kept quiet or checked out, including White House officials and campaign aides. Hope Hicks, long one of his closest advisers, told him it was time to move on. “Well, Hope doesn’t believe in me,” Mr. Trump responded bitterly. “No, I don’t,” she replied. “Nobody’s convinced me otherwise.
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