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VietPress USA (Sept. 11, 2018): After Op-Ed published by The New York Times, some White House officials are actively working against President Donald Trump’s agenda, Donald Trump Jr. told ABC News the number of people in the White House that his father can trust is smaller than he’d like.
President Trump urged Department of Justice to investigate the Op-Ed writer. Trump also said he was considering taking action against the Times, whose shares moved briefly lower after his comments were made public.
President Trump's elder son Trump Jr. said “I think there are people in there that he can trust, it's just -- it's a much smaller group than I would like it to be,” Trump Jr. said in an interview aired Tuesday on ABC’s "Good Morning America."
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President trusts 'much smaller' group of WH aides after op-ed, Trump Jr. says
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| Trump only trusts 'much smaller' group of aides in White House after op-ed, Donald Trump Jr. says (ABC News) |
Amid explosive allegations that some White House officials are actively working against President Donald Trump’s agenda, Donald Trump Jr. told ABC News the number of people in the White House that his father can trust is smaller than he’d like.
“I think there are people in there that he can trust, it's just -- it's a much smaller group than I would like it to be,” Trump Jr. said in an interview aired Tuesday on ABC’s "Good Morning America."
“It would be easier to get things done if you’re able to fully trust everyone around you,” he said. “I think that’s a shame.”
Donald Trump Jr. said he believes the controversial New York Times op-ed penned by an anonymous senior administration official was written by a “low-level person,” and that the Justice Department should investigate the author.
“This is very low level person who will throw their name on an op-ed, and basically subvert the vote of the American people who elected my father to do this job,” Trump Jr. said, calling the editorial “pretty disgusting” and “sad.”
“Listen, I think you're subverting the will of the people. I mean, to try to control the presidency while not the president. You have millions and millions of Americans who voted for this,” he said when asked whether any laws were broken.
The president’s eldest son, who now runs the Trump Organization with his brother Eric, and has been campaigning aggressively for Republicans ahead of the midterms, dismissed Bob Woodward’s book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” which was released Tuesday.
“People who are well respected in this administration have come out and denied it,” he said.
“If Gen. [James] Mattis had an issue with my father he would say it to his face,” Trump Jr. said of of the defense secretary, who, according to Woodward’s book, compared Trump to a “fifth or sixth grader.”
Mattis, and multiple other administration officials, have denied the comments attributed to them in “Fear.” Woodward has said that senior Trump administration officials have not told the truth in responding to the book.
Trump Jr., 40, who is entangled in special counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, said he’s not worried about his potential legal exposure.
“I’m not because I know what I did and I’m not worried about it,” Trump Jr. said.
He again denied that he spoke to his father about his June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer promising dirt on Hillary Clinton, saying that he “testified to that ad nauseum.”
“That doesn’t mean they won’t try to do something,” he said of investigators, adding that he would “deal with it as it comes.”
But, Trump Jr. acknowledged the investigation has been difficult on him personally.
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