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Former President Donald Trump has criticized Kim Kardashian over comments she made in a new book from journalist Jonathan Karl shortly after Trump's daughter, Ivanka, attended a party hosted by the star.
"Failed ABC Fake News reporter Jonathan Karl just wrote another bad book. He works sooo hard, but has sooo little talent - Some people have it, and some people don't. In the 'book' he has the World's most overrated celebrity, Kim Kardashian, supposedly telling me that she 'would leverage her celebrity to get football stars to come to the White House,' if I would commute the sentences of various prisoners. This story is Fake News in that she would be the last person I asked to get football players," Trump wrote on TruthSocial on Wednesday.
"I did help with prisoner commutation, but only if deserving, and much more so for Kanye West than for Kim, who probably voted for Crooked Joe Biden, and look at the mess our Country is in now. Many other false stories in Karl's very boring book, but nothing worth mentioning!" Trump added.
Last month, Ivanka Trump was featured in one of Kardashian's Instagram posts about her birthday party.
"So blessed to have hit the jackpot of friends! I couldn't have ever dreamed I would be so lucky to call these girls my friends," Kardashian wrote as a caption which included several slides of photos with Ivanka Trump in one of them. "Thank you for all the birthday love and Kourt I'm jumping in bed with you next week for our bed rest picnic."
Axios obtained a portion of Karl's book, Tired of Winning which included a portion where he detailed past conversations between Kardashian and Trump.
"A source familiar with the conversations tells me Trump listened to her requests and demanded a straight-up quid pro quo. He would grant the commutations, he told Kardashian, if she leveraged her celebrity connections to get football stars who were friends of hers to come visit him at the White House," Karl wrote, according to Axios.
"Kardashian actually tried to do what Trump demanded, seeing it as a small price to pay to get justice for people she believed were serving unjust sentences. But all the players she approached declined. Trump had become too toxic."
Karl also wrote in his book that Trump hung up on Kardashian after the former president left the White House, claiming that she had voted for Biden.
Newsweek reached out to Trump's spokesperson and reps for Kardashian via email for comment.
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