Former Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro said that the president attempted to oust flunkie son-in-law Jared Kushner from his re-election team in 2020, in favor of Steve Bannon, who was previously his Chief Strategist and ran the successful 2016 presidential campaign.

Navarro wrote in his new book, “Taking Back Trump’s America: Why We Lost the White House and How We’ll Win It Back,” that Trump supported a “coup d’état” meant to depose Kushner and replace him with Bannon, but it was thwarted and Kushner stayed in a key role throughout the entire campaign.

“And that was that. And the rest is a catastrophic strategic failure history,” Navarro wrote.

Navarro stated that Trump could not get rid of Kushner because what it would do to his family life. He said he would “family troubles if [he] himself had to deliver the bad news to … the father of his grandchildren.” Trump attempted to have Home Depot founder Bernie Marcus pressure Kushner, but after Kushner resisted, Trump would not take the matter any further.