Author of Anti-Jared Kushner/Ivanka Trump Book: ‘Rubbish’ I Didn’t Contact Them

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STEPHANOPOULOS: How about their point on the fact checking? The White House is maintaining that you didn’t call Jared or Ivanka’s offices in the White House for a response?

WARD: That’s rubbish. That is absolute rubbish. I called – I actually – it took me a long time to even get Abbe Lowell on the phone. He wouldn’t respond to several e-mails. I finally got him last summer and he said that he would, on behalf of Jared and Ivanka, respond to fact-checking questions. When I then sent the fact-checking questions – there were like seven or eight of them which basically had – they needed yes or no answers. And they then delivered their rather ludicrous statement that it would take too much time.

So look, it is what it is. I mean, this White House is known for knocking down anyone who reports about it and I think Jared and Ivanka are obsessed with public relations, more so than anyone else. And I think that, you know, there’s been this myth out there, I think the theme of the book is that these are two people who are not what we hoped they would be. They’re not the moral center of this administration. They’re not the moderating influence …