{"id":1588858,"date":"2022-08-04T11:12:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T15:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1588858"},"modified":"2022-08-04T11:12:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T15:12:58","slug":"trumps-chief-of-staff-was-secretly-listening-to-all-the-presidents-calls-kushner-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-chief-of-staff-was-secretly-listening-to-all-the-presidents-calls-kushner-alleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Chief Of Staff Was Secretly \u2018Listening To All\u2019 The President\u2019s Calls, Kushner Alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrumps-chief-of-staff-was-secretly-listening-to-all-the-presidents-calls-kushner-alleges%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1588858&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Donald Trump\u2019s former Chief of Staff John Kelly was secretly \u201clistening to all\u201d the former president\u2019s phone calls, according to an excerpt in first son-in-law Jared Kushner\u2019s new book obtained by the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was informed by his incoming Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney prior to a dinner at Vice President Mike Pence\u2019s home on Dec. 28, 2018 that Kelly was eavesdropping on his calls, Kushner\u2019s book, \u201cBreaking History: A White House Memoir,\u201d says, the Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/03\/john-kelly-was-secretly-listening-to-trumps-calls-kushner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. Kelly\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/12\/08\/trump-john-kelly-leaving-white-house\/\">last<\/a> day in the Trump administration was on Jan. 2.<\/p>\n<p>After learning about Kelly allegedly listening to his calls, Trump issued an order drafted by Mulvaney to prohibit senior White House staff from doing so in the future, according to the Kushner book excerpt obtained by the Post. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/07\/john-kelly-would-invoke-25th-amendment-remove-trump\/\"><strong>(RELATED: John Kelly Says He Would Vote To Invoke 25th Amendment To Remove Trump If He Were Still In Cabinet)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore we departed, Mulvaney and I met with the president to discuss his upcoming schedule,\u201d said Kushner in his book, the Post reported. \u201cThen Mulvaney handed Trump a document to sign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will end the practice Kelly started of listening to all of your phone calls,\u201d Mulvaney allegedly told Trump, telling him \u201cKelly had given himself the ability to listen surreptitiously to the president\u2019s calls,\u201d according to Kushner.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7493736\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7493736\" class=\"wp-image-7493736 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-824839160-scaled-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-824839160-scaled-1.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-824839160-157x120.jpeg 157w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-824839160-620x474-1.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-824839160-768x588-1.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-824839160-1536x1175-1.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-824839160-2048x1567-1.jpeg 2048w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7493736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 JULY 31: (AFP-OUT) President Donald Trump (R) speaks to the press after the new White House Chief of Staff John Kelly (L) was sworn in, in the Oval Office of the White House, July 31, 2017 in Washington, DC. Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general and formerly secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, replaces Reince Priebus. (Photo by Mike Theiler-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump was allegedly \u201cstunned at the invasion of privacy,\u201d according to Kushner, telling Mulvaney, \u201cKelly did what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnd that immediately,\u201d Trump allegedly told Mulvaney.<\/p>\n<p>One source familiar with Kushner\u2019s eavesdropping allegation told the Post that it \u201cwas possible and was happening.\u201d However, a former White House official told the outlet it is \u201ccrazy\u201d to think Trump would be unaware of other people listening in on his phone calls from his landline.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly, who replaced Reince Priebus as chief of staff in 2017, has <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/news\/521507-john-kelly-called-trump-the-most-flawed-person-hes-ever-met-report\/\">openly<\/a> feuded with the president since leaving his administration. Kushner has been critical of Kelly and also alleged in his book that the former chief of staff \u201cshoved\u201d his wife Ivanka Trump in \u201crage\u201d after <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/28\/jared-kushner-john-kelly-shoved-ivanka-trump\/\">meeting<\/a> in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I terminated John Kelly, which I couldn\u2019t do fast enough, he knew full well that he was way over his head,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/02\/13\/donald-trump-john-kelly-114861\">said<\/a> Trump in February 2020. \u201cBeing Chief of Staff just wasn\u2019t for him. He came in with a bang, went out with a whimper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Trump did not respond to a request for comment. Kelly did not respond.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s former Chief of Staff John Kelly was secretly \u201clistening to all\u201d the former president\u2019s phone calls, according to an excerpt in first son-in-law Jared Kushner\u2019s new book obtained<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":381,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1588858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}