With President Donald Trump "punk drunk" and "hit so hard he doesn't know what to do," his family advisers in the White House, daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, are pointing their fingers at chief of staff John Kelly for "destroying your presidency" and directing The New York Times editorial mole, according to Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman.
The accounts from Bob Woodward's upcoming book "Fear: Trump in the White House" have been tied to Gen. Kelly and his aides by President Trump's family advisers, a source told Sherman.
"He's destroying your presidency," Ivanka told her father about Kelly, the source briefed on the conversation told Sherman.
Three sources told Sherman, Ivanka and Kushner theorized Gen. Kelly directed deputy chief of staff Zachary Fuentes to write the scathing "I'm the resistance" op-ed in The New York Times, but a White House spokesperson told Sherman this is "untrue" and Fuentes has denied being the author of the op-ed.
"We told Vanity Fair three times that its reporter or whatever anonymous source he claimed to have, said this was flat out wrong," Kushner's attorney spokesman, Peter Mirijanian, wrote in an email to Vanity Fair. "Jared and Ivanka never said this to anyone because the idea never crossed their mind. This is Vanity Fair's latest chapter of fiction that should never have been published as 'news.'"
Ivanka and Kushner have have had a long-running feud with Gen. Kelly, according to Sherman, and have pushed the theory to President Trump, who has disagreed with it, but worried firing Gen. Kelly would make him "even more dangerous as an outside critic," according to the report.
Sherman's report also speculated U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman as a possible mole, because of "three strikes" of having served in former President Barack Obama's administration, having been very close to the late Sen. John McCain, and having his own political ambitions.
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