It was his daughter-in-law who held the real influence in the Trump circle, who delivered the blow. In the revised death-of-Chris-Christie story, it is not the deferential Jared who strikes back, but-in some sense even more satisfying for the revenge fantasy-Charlie Kushner himself who harshly demands his due.

Jared Kushner, like sons-in-law everywhere, tiptoes around his father-in-law, carefully displacing as little air as possible: the massive and domineering older man, the reedy and pliant younger one. But other accounts offer a subtler and in a way darker picture. It was a kind of perfect sweet-revenge story: the son of the wronged man (or, in this case-there’s little dispute-the guilty-as-charged man) uses his power over the man who wronged his family. Various accounts, mostly offered by Christie himself, make Jared the vengeful hatchet man in Christie’s aborted Trump administration career. Charlie Kushner, pursued by the feds for an income tax cheat, set up a scheme with a prostitute to blackmail his brother-in-law, who was planning to testify against him. But when he was the federal prosecutor in New Jersey, Christie had sent Jared’s father, Charles Kushner, to jail in 2005. So Christie got the job of leading the transition and the implicit promise of a central job-attorney general or chief of staff. But if the Republican establishment had not wanted Trump, they had not wanted Christie almost as much. 7 on USA TODAY's Best Selling Books List.“It had personally pained Trump not to be able to give it to him.

Trump would deny Wolff’s claims that he permitted him access to the White House and tweeted in 2018 that “Fire and Fury” was “full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist.” A Trump lawyer sent the publisher a cease and letter and threatened to sue for libel, a response which helped raise interest in “Fire and Fury.” (Wolff had far fewer sales, and less access, with the 2019 book “Siege: Trump Under Fire,” though 'Siege' debuted at No. Critics questioned details of Wolff’s reporting, but his underlying narrative of a chaotic White House and a volatile, easily distracted chief executive has held through numerous bestsellers which followed, from Bob Woodward’s “Fear” to John Bolton’s “The Room Where It Happened.” 1 on the USA TODAY Best-Selling Books list, spending a total of 13 weeks on the list. Wolff’s first book on Trump, published in January 2018, was an immediate sensation and went on to sell more than 2 million copies, debuting at No.

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