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Donald Trump openly mocked Jared Kushner in front of aides during a 2020 election campaign strategy meeting, according to Maggie Haberman’s upcoming book, the HuffPost reports.

Trump was talking about a camping trip his daughter was hoping to take in an RV when he said of Kushner, who was in the room: “This skinny guy wants to do it. Can you imagine Jared and his skinny ass camping? It’d be like something out of ‘Deliverance.’”

Trump then mimicked “the banjo theme song from the 1972 movie about four men vacationing in rural Georgia who are attacked, pursued and in one case brutally raped by a local resident.”

Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
  • Amazon Kindle Edition
  • Haberman, Maggie (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 607 Pages - 10/04/2022 (Publication Date) - Penguin Press (Publisher)
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