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Melania Trump Thought Her Husband Was ‘Screwing Up’

September 14, 2022 · 5:28 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“Former President Donald Trump’s top general feared he would authorize a strike on Iran as his presidency ended. His intelligence chief wondered what Russia had on him. A billionaire friend convinced him to try buying Greenland. A half-dozen top officials considered resigning en masse,” CNN reports.

“Even his wife, first lady Melania Trump, was ‘rattled by the coronavirus and convinced that Trump was screwing up,’ according to a forthcoming book from New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker and New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser set to publish on Tuesday.”

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Trump in the White House, 2017-2021
by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser · Vintage · 2022
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