Stephanie Grisham Paints an Unflattering Picture of Jared Kushner and Ivanka During CNN Interview

Former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, whose memoir, “I’ll Take Your Questions Now,” comes retired today, told CNN that erstwhile President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter, Ivanka Trump, saw themselves arsenic a “shadow president and archetypal lady.”

“He would dive into these areas wherever I cognize helium had perfectly nary expertise. And, you know, assertion to prevention the time and past helium would leave. And, you know, determination was a moving gag successful the White House that erstwhile things were getting truly pugnacious they abruptly disappeared connected vacations,” Grisham said of Kushner, whom she described arsenic “heady with power.”

“He was pugnacious to woody with and I deliberation helium got truly heady with power. I bash not deliberation helium near determination the champion mentation of himself,” she added.

Grisham noted that portion she believes Kushner is “intelligent,”  Ivanka is “the brains” and “the smarter one” who is able, dissimilar her father, to task a calm and controlled image.

Kushner and Ivanka besides often inserted themselves into overseas processions successful an inappropriate manner, recalling that connected the administration’s last overseas travel to India, Ivanka and Kushner were negotiating what stops the medication would marque and were portion of the circuit that Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave Trump and erstwhile First Lady Melania Trump.

“They were ever close determination and it was truly inappropriate. And that would marque Mrs. Trump upset due to the fact that she is simply a large regularisation follower successful presumption of protocol and whatnot, and it was conscionable truly inappropriate,” Grisham said.

Jared Kushner "would dive into these areas wherever I cognize helium had perfectly nary expertise and … assertion to prevention the day, and past helium would leave," ex-Trump Press Sec. Stephanie Grisham says. "I judge that helium and Ivanka benignant of thought they were a shadiness president and archetypal lady." pic.twitter.com/0cGX68JxTg

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In her book, Grisham describes Kushner as “Rasputin successful a slim-fitting suit.”

She recalls that erstwhile it was decided that Trump should code the federation successful respect to Covid-19, that Kushner had worked with Trump’s speechwriter and “dictated” what Trump would say.

“Katie Miller, an adjutant to the vice president, was joined to speechwriter Stephen Miller. So she went into Stephen’s bureau and sat determination portion Jared Kushner frantically dictated the code to Stephen, who wrote thing out,” Grisham wrote, adding that she grew progressively “outraged” astatine Kushner’s behavior.

“He was not an adept connected immoderate of those things — shutting down borders, the economical consequences, the wellness consequences — yet helium unsocial seemed to beryllium deciding the nation’s archetypal actions to code 1 of the astir devastating crises successful our history,” she wrote.