Trump doesn't believe in 'no comment' concept, set to give a dozen interviews for books: Ex-aide Omarosa
As news of his son-in-law and former administration aide, Jared Kushner's rumored book takes off, looks like former President Donald Trump isn't staying far behind from the spotlight. As of now, Trump is reportedly preparing for a sit down with 12 different interviewers in the six weeks to follow to help pen books being written, about his time as president.
Based on what former White House official Omarosa Manigault Newman told Politico, "Donald doesn't believe in the concept of 'no comment.' He feels like there will always be one side of the audience who sympathizes with him. So it's not surprising to me that every one of these book interviews he's going to sit through and think he has the power to manipulate the authors and try to influence them." Omarosa's bestseller 'Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House' followed her exit from the West Wing in Trump's first year in the office, after she was ousted.
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Sources have also revealed to the outlet that Trump's Senior Advisor Jason Miller and his spokesperson Margo Martin will most likely be monitoring these individual interviews. "It's important for him to control his own narrative and utilize these mediums to share his thoughts and correct the record," a former Trump aide told the outlet. But Trump allies are also concerned that giving so many accounts to other books might lessen maximum monetization from Trump's own memoir, should he ever choose to write one.
Trump is scheduled to meet reporters who have extensively covered his political career, his single-term presidency, and the reelection efforts which didn't work to his benefit. "We are not discussing particulars of any individual book interviews that President Trump is giving but it's safe to say that he remains the hottest name in politics and he's the interview that everyone wants," Miller said, adding: "We're tracking nearly three dozen post-presidency books where he will be the star."
New York Times' political campaigns reporter Jeremy Peters and White House correspondent Maggie Haberman, The Wall Street Journal's White House reporter Michael Bender, ABC News' Chief Washington Correspondent Jon Karl and The Washington Post's White House Bureau Chief Philip Rucker and investigative journalist Carol Leonnig will all be interviewing Trump in the coming six weeks, reports the outlet. Sequels to 'Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House' by author Michael Wolff, are also expected to profit as he too is in the Trump-interviewers line up.
People familiar with Trump told the outlet that someday he might write his own account of his time in the White House. Although there aren't any immediate plans of the same, the ex-POTUS has already written 12 different books on business. Talks of him penning a memoir might keep him in the political conversation, say those people. His previous books might have been mostly by ghostwriters, but those who say they know his thinking claim Trump is enthusiastic about the upcoming interviews.
Trump's time in the White House surely has seen some tell-alls from disgruntled employees and critics. Trump's National Security Advisor John Bolton's memoir 'The Room Where it Happened', former FBI Director James Comey's book 'A Higher Loyalty', and 'A Warning', originally published by 'Anonymous' and later revealed to be Trump Homeland Security appointee Miles Taylor, were among those books. Outsider books have seen the likes of Bob Woodward's 'Fear: Trump in the White House' and 'Rage' and Michael Wolff's original 'Fire and Fury'.
Trump allies like Press Secretaries Sean Spicer and Sarah Sanders, Trump campaign aides David Bossie and Corey Lewandowski, former White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway and the former president's eldest son Doanld Trump Jr are also believed to be working on books of their own.