Before they were President Donald Trump’s cabinet members, Linda McMahon and Brooke Rollins had their sights set on an even bigger title: White House chief of staff.

To land the coveted post, the two women tried to undercut Trump aide Susie Wiles—who ultimately got the job—according to an excerpt from ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl’s forthcoming book Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America.

A day after Trump’s election victory, McMahon, 77, and Rollins, 53, reportedly rushed to Mar-a-Lago. Word had spread in Trump’s inner circle that he was preparing to meet with Wiles, then-67, to offer her the top job—and McMahon and Rollins were staging an intervention, according to the excerpt, published Thursday in Vanity Fair.

But Wiles had tricks up her sleeve. When

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