'Disengaged' Melania Trump Was Asleep On Election Night, New Book Says
3 years, 2 months ago

'Disengaged' Melania Trump Was Asleep On Election Night, New Book Says

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In her forthcoming book, “I’ll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House,” Grisham, who famously never held a press briefing during her nine-month stint as White House press secretary, claimed that Melania Trump was furious over reports of her husband’s affair with Stormy Daniels. “I don’t believe any of that.” Melania Trump’s detachment grew to the point where she was asleep on the night of the Nov. 3 election, Grisham wrote. Grisham, who was the first lady’s chief of staff after leaving her job as White House press secretary in April 2020, resigned from the Trump administration on Jan. 6. Ultimately, the first lady backed her husband: She expressed doubt over the election results, aligning herself with his false narrative that the election was rigged against him, and reportedly told Grisham, “Something bad happened.” Donald Trump released a statement attacking Grisham on Tuesday, claiming the former staffer was “angry and bitter” about a break-up during her tenure and was getting “paid by a radical left-leaning publisher to say bad and untrue things.”

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Melania faces four more years in the White House: Trump's embattled wife must now face a return to DC as First Lady after spending past years trying to avoid limelight
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Melania faces four more years in the White House: Trump's embattled wife must now face a return to DC as First Lady after spending past years trying to avoid limelight

Daily Mail  

As Donald Trump took to the stage in Florida's Palm Beach Convention Center to declare victory in the US elections, Melania Trump was the model wife. The former First Lady is likely on her way back to the White House as Donald Trump hailed a new 'golden age of America' - during which she is expected to be by his …

Melania Trump’s one-word text that caused ex-aide to quit shared during fiery DNC speech
4 months ago

Melania Trump’s one-word text that caused ex-aide to quit shared during fiery DNC speech

The Independent  

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'Behind closed doors': Ex-Trump aide spills former boss' secrets to packed DNC
4 months ago

'Behind closed doors': Ex-Trump aide spills former boss' secrets to packed DNC

Raw Story  

A former White House press secretary for Donald Trump delivered a stinging rebuke to her former boss at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday. Stephanie Grisham told Democrats on Tuesday night she wasn't just a Trump supporter, she was a "true believer" and one of his closest advisers, spending Easter, Christmas and Thanksgiving with the Trump family at Mar-a-Lago. "Behind …

Former Trump press secretary to speak at DNC and label her old boss a 'threat'
4 months ago

Former Trump press secretary to speak at DNC and label her old boss a 'threat'

Raw Story  

Democratic National Convention attendees will receive a warning about Donald Trump's "extremism" from one of his own former press secretaries, according to a new report. Stephanie Grisham is one of several Republicans who will mount the stage and speak at the Chicago convention this week, according to an exclusive NBC News report. Grisham served as 2016 campaign, press aide, chief …

Former White House press secretary tells DNC: Trump called own supporters ‘basement dwellers’
4 months ago

Former White House press secretary tells DNC: Trump called own supporters ‘basement dwellers’

LA Times  

Former President Trump’s onetime White House press secretary told delegates at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday that Trump, when out of the public eye, would mock his supporters and refer to them as “basement dwellers.” Stephanie Grisham, who said she would be voting for Vice President Kamala Harris, began her remarks at the United Center in Chicago by saying, …

Melania 'distancing herself' from Trump and probably won't return to White House: report
6 months ago

Melania 'distancing herself' from Trump and probably won't return to White House: report

Raw Story  

Melania Trump won't likely spend much time in Washington, D.C., if her husband gets re-elected to a second term, according to those who follow her activities. The former first lady was so reclusive during Donald Trump's first term in office that many wondered whether she lived at the White House or with her parents in the suburbs, and Melania-ologists surveyed …

"She's distancing herself": Melania Trump unlikely to ever move back to the White House
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"She's distancing herself": Melania Trump unlikely to ever move back to the White House

Salon  

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Former aide insists Melania’s marriage to Trump is just a ‘mirage’ dreamed up by TV producers
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Former aide insists Melania’s marriage to Trump is just a ‘mirage’ dreamed up by TV producers

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'She's complicit': Melania Trump's ex-aide releases texts of reaction to affair
7 months, 3 weeks ago

'She's complicit': Melania Trump's ex-aide releases texts of reaction to affair

Raw Story  

Former First Lady Melania Trump had an unconventional reaction to reports of Donald Trump's sexual misconduct allegations, according to a former senior aide who released text messages Thursday. Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former senior aide to Melania, said the wife of Trump "knows who she married," and that the affair news involving Stormy Daniels didn't rock her the way it …

'Extremely concerned': Ex-Melania aide dishes on how Trump handled adultery allegations
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'Extremely concerned': Ex-Melania aide dishes on how Trump handled adultery allegations

Raw Story  

A White House aide to Melania Trump Sunday recalled on MSNBC how Donald Trump once called from Air Force One to find out how angry his wife was about allegations of adultery. Grisham said, "Everybody was extremely concerned and internally people in the West Wing were nervous about what us in the East Wing would be doing." "Melania often came …

Is Stormy Daniels hush money case causing more stress in Trump and Melania marriage? Ex-aide reveals…
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Is Stormy Daniels hush money case causing more stress in Trump and Melania marriage? Ex-aide reveals…

Hindustan Times  

Amid Donald Trump's looming trial in the Stormy Daniels hush money case, Melania Trump's ex-aide shed light on the 45th US President and his spouse's marital life. Calling Melania a "very independent and strong woman", Stephanie Grisham described an incident when the former first lady refused to walk out with Donald Trump. She refused to walk out to Marine One …

Melania aide spills on how 'humiliated' former first lady handled hush money allegations
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Melania aide spills on how 'humiliated' former first lady handled hush money allegations

Raw Story  

Of all the cases Donald Trump is defending against, the hush money case is seen as the least damaging to impede his ambitions for a second presidential term. "This is very personal to him," said Stephanie Grisham, who served under the 45th president as White House press secretary and appeared on CNN's "Out Front." Grisham, who also served as Melania's …

'Enigma wrapped in Valentino': columnist shreds idea that Melania is Trump's secret weapon
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Raw Story  

A new op-ed asks readers wondering if Melania Trump is a secret campaign weapon to envision the former first lady wrapped in a luxurious bathrobe staring at photo albums as her husband faces criminal accusations that he paid hush money to an adult film star. The Guardian's Arwa Mahdawi Tuesday posed the question of Melania Trump's "secret weapon" status as …

Former Melania aide claims Trump shut down government to distract from separate scandal
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Former Melania aide claims Trump shut down government to distract from separate scandal

Raw Story  

Former Melania Trump aide Stephanie Winston Wolkoff is alleging that Donald Trump's 2018 government shutdown was a ploy to hide a separate scandal from the American public. In a recent post on Twitter, Wolkoff claimed that "the Trump White House coordinated their nefarious activities using government resources and shutdowns to the detriment of the American people. Wolkoff elaborated on this …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Young staffer reportedly at center of Trump White House sexual harassment claims pushes back

Raw Story  

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1 year, 8 months ago

Melania angry about Donald Trump's 'affairs' but ‘her silence is…’

Hindustan Times  

Melania Trump is furious about her husband Donald Trump's alleged affairs but “lives in an ivory tower of denial” and uses her silence as a “protective armour”, a former aide said as per The Mirror after the ex-US President faced charges over hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Melania Trump did not accompany Donald Trump for the …

'This is his problem': Former aide claims Melania is staying 'far' from Trump as indictment looms
1 year, 9 months ago

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Raw Story  

Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday afternoon, former Melania Trump chief of staff Stephanie Grisham suggested her former boss is keeping her distance as Donald Trump faces multiple indictments, with one expected next week. Speaking with host Alex Witt, Grisham, who also briefly served as White House press secretary, claimed the former first lady has a history of staying clear of …

Experts concerned 'nightmare' Melania Trump was in Situation Room during ‘major military operation’
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Raw Story  

National security and legal experts are expressing concern over a report revealing that then-First Lady Melania Trump had been present in the White House Situation Room during a "major military operation," according to a new book by former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller. Melania Trump in October 2019, "sat in and watched the U.S. raid that led to the death …

Melania Trump says she would've spoken out on Jan. 6 but she was busy working ‘on behalf of our nation’
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Melania Trump says she would've spoken out on Jan. 6 but she was busy working ‘on behalf of our nation’

Raw Story  

Melania Trump on Thursday offered a new rationalization for why she did not speak out as her husband's mob was attacking the Capitol on Jan. 6 as part of his unsuccessful coup attempt. Fox News reported, "Former first lady Melania Trump said Thursday that she was 'fulfilling' her official duties as first lady of the United States of America on …

Donald Trump called up Melania to complain about mean tweets from ‘nasty’ George Conway: new book
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Donald Trump called up Melania to complain about mean tweets from ‘nasty’ George Conway: new book

Raw Story  

On Wednesday, Business Insider reported former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway alleges in her new book that former President Donald Trump called his first lady to whine about Conway's husband's tweets criticizing him. "In her new book 'Here's the Deal: A Memoir,' Trump's former senior counselor Kellyanne Conway described how Melania Trump once defended her to Trump as he fumed …

Trump held 'secret meetings' before Jan. 6 in White House residence: ex-press secretary
2 years, 11 months ago

Trump held 'secret meetings' before Jan. 6 in White House residence: ex-press secretary

Raw Story  

Donald Trump hosted secret meetings in the White House residence in the days ahead of the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to statements from his former press secretary to the the House select committee. Only a small number of aides knew about the off-the-books meetings in the White House residence that were mostly scheduled by former chief of staff Mark Meadows, …

Here’s what the Grisham book tells us about the Trump era (assuming it’s true)
3 years, 2 months ago

Here’s what the Grisham book tells us about the Trump era (assuming it’s true)

The Independent  

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Melania Trump’s secret service nickname was Rapunzel for never leaving the White House, Stephanie Grisham’s book claims
3 years, 2 months ago

Melania Trump’s secret service nickname was Rapunzel for never leaving the White House, Stephanie Grisham’s book claims

The Independent  

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Takeaways from Trump aide’s account of chaotic White House
3 years, 2 months ago

Takeaways from Trump aide’s account of chaotic White House

Associated Press  

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Melania Trump took quiet revenge on her husband by being escorted by handsome military aides, new book claims
3 years, 2 months ago

Melania Trump took quiet revenge on her husband by being escorted by handsome military aides, new book claims

The Independent  

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Trump hits out at ex-aide as bombshell book claims obsession with penis shape and that he eases rage listening to show tunes
3 years, 2 months ago

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The Independent  

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First Lady Melania Trump releases farewell message
3 years, 11 months ago

First Lady Melania Trump releases farewell message

Al Jazeera  

The first lady and her husband, Donald Trump, will leave the White House when his term ends on Wednesday. First Lady Melania Trump, in a video, has given a “farewell message” to the United States, two days before the end of the term of President Donald Trump, her husband. “My fellow Americans, it has been the greatest honour of my …

Melania Trump in discussions about writing her own memoir, reports say
4 years ago

Melania Trump in discussions about writing her own memoir, reports say

The Independent  

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Melania Trump launches fiery attack on aide who leaked 'salacious' secret tapes
4 years, 2 months ago

Melania Trump launches fiery attack on aide who leaked 'salacious' secret tapes

The Independent  

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Melania Trump secret recordings: ‘I’m driving the liberals crazy’
4 years, 2 months ago

Melania Trump secret recordings: ‘I’m driving the liberals crazy’

Al Jazeera  

The US first lady is also caught on tape complaining about being asked about immigration while planning for Christmas. First Lady Melania Trump expressed support for the care that migrant children separated from their families received in US detention centres, suggesting the facilities were better than what they had at home with their parents, in a series of recordings that …

Mrs. Trump’s ex-adviser says she taped calls for protection
4 years, 3 months ago

Mrs. Trump’s ex-adviser says she taped calls for protection

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A former friend and adviser of Melania Trump said Tuesday that she made recordings of her conversations with the first lady because she needed evidence to protect herself amid questions about the costs of President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, whose book “Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady,” was …

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