Kushner lobbied against Trump using his presidential power to pardon himself before

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Former President Donald Trump talked of pardoning himself while in the White House but his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner "dissuaded" him, a forthcoming book by journalist Michael Wolff says.

"They say I can. Unlimited pardon power," Trump said, according to an excerpt of the book "Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency" published by The Times of London.

Kushner argued, however, that Trump giving himself a federal pardon - a president's only pardon power - might motivate states to go after him even more, Wolff writes.

"Still, with such a lot of people out there who wanted to hurt him, he should pardon the whole family, shouldn't he - even Barron?" Wolf wrote, referring to Trump's teenage son. "Kushner elided. (Other family members would note that Kushner did, though, grab a pardon for his own father.)"

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Trump also took a "sudden interest" in Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend who is awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in the Epstein scandal, the excerpt says.

"Has she said anything about me?" Trump asked about Maxwell, according to Wolff's book. "Is she going to talk? Will she roll on anybody?"
 
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