without his top aides.

The president appeared to want people to believe he had, in an act of strength, taken down the FBI director for personal reasons, according to Wolff.

The president, in order to avoid embracing conventional process… merely eliminated everybody else from his process. For most of the day almost no one would know that he had decided to take matters into his own hands. In presidential annals, the firing of FBI director James Comey may be the most consequential move ever made by a modern president acting entirely on his own. (pg 214)

3)Trump boasted about engineering a coup in Saudi Arabia

In Mr Trump's first foreign trip abroad, he visited Saudi Arabia where he secured a $110bn (£81bn) arms deal for the US. The Saudis threw a $75m(£55m) party in his honour and drove the first family around in gold golf carts, according to the book.

Despite a long-standing relationship with then Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Nayef (referred to as MBN in the book), Mr Kushner developed a relationship with 32-year-old Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), according to Wolff.

Mohammed bin Salman was invited to visit the White House in March.

MBS was using this Trump embrace as part of his own power play in the kingdom. And the Trump White House, ever denying this was the case, let him.

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mohammed bin Salman visited the White House in March

Mohammed bin Salman allegedly promised Mr Trump that deals that would be announced during his scheduled visit to Saudi Arabia, a few weeks later.

Within weeks