President Trump

President Trump once offered what he considered “a great deal” to Jordan's King Abdullah II: control of the West Bank, whose Palestinian population long ...

Trump thought he would be doing the Jordanian king a favor, not realizing that it would destabilize his country, according to the book. She spoke directly to Trump in the early days of the pandemic and, according to the book, recounted that conversation later to Gov. “Let’s just cancel it,” he told her, according to the book, adding that they should “get rid” of the judges and using a profanity. “You worry too much,” Melania recalled Trump telling her, according to the book. “You’re blowing this,” she recalled telling her husband, according to the book. Trump didn’t believe him, the book says. Trump, in response, urged Nielsen to “harden the border even to the point of pushing her to take action she had no authority to take,” according to the book. Trump ordered that legislation be drafted and sent to Congress as soon as possible, the authors write. Pence’s refusal to block Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election, despite Trump’s false claims that the election was rigged, opened a fissure between the two men. Trump not only tried to block a merger between CNN’s parent company, Time Warner, and the telecommunication giant AT&T, driven by his anger over the network’s coverage of him, but also tried to prevent a government contract from going to a company owned by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit blocked one of his policies, Trump told Nielsen he wanted to eliminate the court altogether. In fall 2018, she wrote to an aide, “The insanity has been loosed.”

The razor's-edge instability clouding Trump's four-year tenure in the White House led many of his senior-mo...

"Let's just cancel it," he told Nielsen, according to the book. Trump called the Danish leader "nasty" for rejecting his idea and canceled a trip to Copenhagen. The insanity has been loosed," she wrote in the messages. Instead, top National Security Council aides engaged for months in secret talks with Denmark's ambassador to the US about Greenland. The revelations could also foretell the presidency Trump might oversee should he return to the White House in 2025. "I never could come to a conclusion. It's not that different," Trump told the reporters for their book. But, as Trump told Baker and Glasser, he won't invite former Vice President Mike Pence to join his ticket after Pence refused to interfere in the certification of the 2020 election. "I said, 'Why don't we have that?' You take a look at a map. Concerns over Trump's behavior on the world stage began nearly as soon as he took office. The reporting for the book included two interviews with the former President at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. The tensions with Iran even permeated the walls of Mar-a-Lago.

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 ...

“Let’s just cancel it,” he told Nielsen, according to the book. Trump called the Danish leader “nasty” for rejecting his idea and canceled a trip to Copenhagen. The insanity has been loosed,” she wrote in the messages. Instead, top National Security Council aides engaged for months in secret talks with Denmark’s ambassador to the United States about Greenland. The razor’s-edge instability clouding Trump’s four-year tenure in the White House led many of his senior-most advisers to worry about the fate of the country. “I never could come to a conclusion. It’s not that different,” Trump told the reporters for their book. Concerns over Trump’s behavior on the world stage began nearly as soon as he took office. “I said, ‘Why don’t we have that?’ You take a look at a map. The tensions with Iran even permeated the walls of Mar-a-Lago. A billionaire friend convinced him to try [buying Greenland.](https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/15/politics/trump-buy-greenland-wall-street-journal) A half-dozen top officials considered resigning en masse. “Now, it seemed frighteningly possible.”

It was not mentioned whether Israel and then prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had any knowledge of Trump's proposal.

In a conversation with an American friend, the Jordanian king said he "thought he was having a heart attack" when presented with the offer by the former US president. Trump reportedly thought he "would be doing the Jordanian king a favor." [Donald Trump](https://www.jpost.com/tags/donald-trump) offered complete control of the West Bank to Jordan in 2018, The Washington Post reported early Thursday morning.

During his last days in office, former US president Donald Trump expressed concerns to friends that Iran would try to assassinate him as revenge for the ...

Sign in to stop seeing this](//crm.timesofisrael.com/sign-in) If so, please join The Times of Israel Community. Several days after the general’s death, Iran responded by firing ballistic missiles at two US bases in Iraq. This revenge will certainly happen at the right time,” Khamenei tweeted on December 16, 2020. The Pentagon said dozens of troops suffered traumatic brain injuries as a result. In private, however, he wasn’t so confident, according to Baker and Glasser’s book.

Donald Trump dismissed his wife's concerns. "'You worry too much,' she remembered him saying. 'Forget it,'" a forthcoming book says, according to CNN.

He held a September Rose Garden ceremony to announce Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court that became known as a [superspreader event](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/fauci-calls-amy-coney-barrett-ceremony-rose-garden-superspreader-event-n1242781). I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic." 'Forget it.'" "'This is serious. She shared her concerns with former New Jersey Gov. Former first lady Melania Trump worried that her husband was "blowing" the US response to COVID, but he told her she worried too much, a forthcoming book on Donald Trump's presidency reveals.

Trump said they shot down a drone sitting there with 150 dead people. Trump remarked at the time that this would have happened probably within a half-hour after ...

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday asked India Inc to shed its hesitation and start investing in the country that was seeing growing interest from foreign investors. [Suleimani](/topic/suleimani)was assassinated in a US drone attack in January, 2020. The head of its elite Quds (Jerusalem) force was murdered on January 3, 2020, as he left Baghdad airport. Trump remarked at the time that this would have happened probably within a half-hour after he said go ahead. He used to be one, however. Trump said they shot down a drone sitting there with 150 dead people.

Former President Donald Trump said Thursday the nation would face “problems ... the likes of which perhaps we've never seen” if he is indicted over his ...

6 select committee’s investigation into the president and his inner circle, with investigators using one of their summer hearings to make the case that Trump’s efforts to hold on to power resonated with extremist groups and brought them to the Capitol. Graham, one of Trump’s staunchest Capitol Hill allies, echoed concerns that the Justice Department may have overstepped in its dealings with the former president. Rhetoric that could be seen as alluding to violence is not out of character for Trump. “It was stunning the number of threats that have been cataloged since the Aug. “Inviting a mob to return to the streets is exactly what happened here on Jan. “There’s a belief from many on the right that the DOJ and the FBI have been less than unbiased when it comes to Trump. “I don’t know why they raided the former president’s house ... I don’t think the people of the United States would stand for it.” This president knew what he was doing...and we saw the results,” Durbin added. “If a thing like that happened, I would have no prohibition against running,” Trump said in an interview with conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt. Senators said the briefers didn’t specifically pinpoint a politician or political party when it comes to the threats, but they said the trend was clear. Former President Donald Trump said Thursday the nation would face “problems ...

Something you might have noticed over the last several years is that Donald Trump is a big fan of violence. Not directly getting involved in violence—he'd ...

[condemned](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/merrick-garland-donald-trump-fbi-warrant) the broadsides that right-wing commentators, GOP lawmakers, and supporters of the ex-president had been leveling at FBI agents since the raid. [interpreted](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/trump-impeachment-capitol-rioters-fight-like-hell) as much from his speech, as the ex-president encouraged his supporters to “fight like hell.” Asked by Hewitt how he would respond to “legacy media” calling him out for inciting violence this time around, Trump [said](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/15/trump-warns-of-problems-like-weve-never-seen-if-hes-indicted-00056911): “That’s not inciting. [Politico](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/15/trump-warns-of-problems-like-weve-never-seen-if-hes-indicted-00056911), an “uptick in threats against federal law enforcement in the aftermath of the Mar-a-Lago search,” which the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security committees were briefed on this week. “The men and women of the FBI and the Justice Department are dedicated, patriotic public servants. “It was stunning, the number of threats that have been cataloged since the August 8 search of Mar-a-Lago,” Senate Judiciary chair Dick Durbin said, noting the armed man who showed up at an FBI field office in Ohio in the days following the raid. “It’s a much more dangerous environment because of the political statements made by some individuals since August 8—it’s alarming to me.” Specifically calling out Trump, he said: “Inviting a mob to return to the streets is exactly what happened here on January 6, 2021. While Trump’s allies have insisted that he never explicitly told people to attack the Capitol on January 6, many of the rioters I don’t think the people of this country would stand for it.” Not directly getting involved in violence—he’d never dirty his hands in that way—but inciting people to engage in it on his behalf, the most famous example being the time he incited an insurrection at the US Capitol that left multiple people dead. “I just don’t think they’d stand for it. Something you might have noticed over the last several years is that Donald Trump is a big fan of violence. “I think they’d have big problems.

Former President Donald Trump weighed in on possible indictment against him as his legal problems mount.

I can't imagine being indicted I have done nothing wrong," Trump said on the Hugh Hewitt Show. Former President Donald Trump told a talk show host on Thursday that even if he is criminally indicted he would have "no prohibition" against running for president again in 2024. - Trump said he could run again for president even if he is criminally charged.

“Do you feel like the Department of Justice is trying to indict you, Mr. President?” Hewitt began, unleashing the inevitable torrent of Russia-infused verbal ...

[Sponsored](https://abovethelaw.com/2022/09/an-seo-crash-course-for-the-legal-field/) “I don’t think the people of the United States would stand for it.” “I’m just saying what my opinion is. “I think they’d have big problems, big problems. But Trump wanted to answer a different question, and that question was, how close can you get to inciting violence without actually satisfying the Brandenburg test. With the news that Durham’s [grand jury is disbanding](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/us/politics/durham-inquiry-trump-russia.html), even Hewitt can’t work up the energy to pretend to give a shit about Danchenko. And anyway, the subpoena which Trump ignored called for the return of all documents bearing classified markings, which are definitionally the property of the government. Also, let the record reflect that none of the statutes implicated in the warrant rest on the classification status of the government documents seized. And if you look at the presidential, if you look at the act that was passed, it talks about what you can do, what you can’t do, how you negotiate with NARA, and then if you look at what’s running NARA, it’s radical left run, radical, radical left, and then you take a look at Hillary with her 33,000 emails that were deleted, and you take a look at Obama and others, and people say Trump’s gotten treated very, very unfairly. “But I have the absolute right to declassify, absolute. “Well, the Russia Russia Russia story is over,” he said, attempting to steer the former president back on track. The people are not going to stand for this stuff.

Former president Donald Trump warned that if he were indicted on a charge of mishandling classified documents after leaving the White House, there would be ...

[told Fox News ](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/29/lindsey-graham-riots/?itid=lk_inline_manual_20)last month that there would be “riots in the street” if Trump is prosecuted. “It would not take you out of the arena,” Hewitt said, trying to clarify the former president’s position. After noting that five people died as a result of the attack and 149 law enforcement agents were injured that day, the senator said Trump’s “careless and inflammatory rhetoric has its consequences.” Trump’s lawyer has argued that the former president cooperated with federal authorities and that many of the documents were covered by executive privilege. I don’t think the people of this country would stand for it,” Trump said. [contributing columnist](https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/hugh-hewitt/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5) for The Washington Post, then noted that critics would describe the comment as inciting violence, and he asked Trump to respond to the claim.

Former President Donald Trump claimed on Hugh Hewitt's radio show Thursday that he declassified the government records that were taken to Mar-a-Lago -- an ...

But Plaintiff does not actually assert -- much less provide any evidence -- that any of the seized records bearing classification markings have been declassified." But his attorneys have not said outright that Trump declassified the materials. During the Thursday radio interview, Trump said he did not believe he would be indicted. But I have the absolute right to declassify, absolute -- a president has that absolute right, and a lot of people aren't even challenging that anymore." Trump added later in the interview that "everything was declassified." said the materials Trump declassified had to do with the Russia probe, the Ukraine impeachment proceedings and "major national security matters of great public importance."

On Thursday, in an interview with right-wing talk radio host Hugh Hewitt, former President Donald Trump appeared to issue a vague threat to the Justice ...

"They will not sit still and stand for this ultimate of hoaxes." "I think, if it happened, you'd have problems in this country the likes of which, perhaps, you have ever seen before," said Trump. This is not true.

John Kelly secretly consulted The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, according to new book by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser.

But it also [stoked controversy](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/08/donald-trump-violence-mental-health-dangerous-jan-6-fbi-mar-a-lago-civil-war-bandy-lee-psychiatry-goldwater-rule/) over its discussion of the mental state of a public figure. This month, a federal judge [dismissed](https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/09/02/bandy-lee-complaint-dismissed-by-federal-judge-lee-says-she-will-appeal/) a lawsuit in which Lee said she was wrongfully fired. In January 2018, after the publication of Michael Wolff’s tell-all book Fire and Fury, Trump memorably told reporters he was “ Baker and Glasser say the amendment was tentatively discussed by cabinet members “within months of Trump taking office”. The book Kelly bought, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, was a bestseller in 2017. more pathetic than anything else” and called Trump “the most flawed person” he had ever met. His struggles to impose order on Trump and his underlings and his virulent falling out with the president have been extensively documented. He doesn’t listen to anybody, and he feels like he shouldn’t. He got eaten alive. [hailed](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2017/11/17/the-most-enlightening-irritating-daring-and-disturbing-books-of-2017-and-the-best-one-too/) by the Washington Post as “the most daring book” of 2017. Indeed, we know far more about Trump in this regard than many, if not most, of our patients. The Guardian

Former US President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up as he departs the White House. Trump wants to run for President a third time, and he has little apparent ...

“They have not asked me.” But Trump was the one who said they had asked in the first place. He will find aides and advisers who will do his bidding, unlike the faithless traitors who surrounded him before. He will run the same plays again and again. Was he telling the truth the first time? Most starkly, from the start of his tenure, he sought to weaponize and politicize the institutions of the U.S. When we went to interview Trump in Mar-a-Lago for our book, a year after his defeat, the first thing he told us was a lie. But Trump somehow keeps challenging our ability to believe he will really do the things he openly says he will do. “I don’t think the people of the United States would stand for it,” he said, of an indictment. He wanted to get out of NATO and Afghanistan and to withdraw U.S. He has not retired to the ranch to paint portraits, like George W. The book, “ [The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021,](https://www.amazon.com/Divider-Trump-White-House-2017-2021/dp/038554653X)” began as an effort, with my husband, Peter Baker of the Times, to better understand the uniquely disruptive four years we’d just been through. Hewitt asked the former President, who was promoting a campaign rally this weekend for candidates he’s endorsed in Ohio, whether he feared being indicted by the Justice Department for bringing [top-secret classified documents](https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/exhibit-a-of-trumps-recklessness) with him to Mar-a-Lago when he left office and refusing to return them.