In order to outsmart his advisors, the former US President Donald Trump (75) has resorted to an extraordinary means: He made private phone calls on the cell phone of his wife Melania (51).
This is what the investigative platform reports «Rawstory», which is based on Michael Bender’s book “To be honest, we won this election”. In it, the White House chief reporter for the Wall Street Journal shows how Trump tried to circumvent all security rules. One of those rules was that then Chief of Staff John Kelly (71) had to overhear all calls from Trump. But Trump wanted to prevent that.
Bender writes: “When John Kelly, a retired four-star general whom Trump had recruited for his administration, appealed to his chief of staff authority and wanted to overhear every call routed from the switchboard in the west wing to the president, Trump gave his Friends the number of Melania’s phone to bypass this official channel. “
His staff worried
The book describes how easy it was for people to have access to the president. As a rule, there are only a few who have this privilege. In Trump’s government, almost anyone could come to the administration at any time and put forward any theories and ideas. Trump’s helpers also tried to influence him with unoccupied articles on the right-wing portal Breitbart.
In interviews, Bender said that many of the people he spoke to during the Trump presidency were seriously concerned about the security and future of the United States. Many of Trump’s decisions, such as the order to deploy military troops trained for war operations instead of the National Guard against demonstrations, were only prevented by the intervention of his advisors at the last minute. (gf)