Posted on 10/02/2021 9:26:23 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Stephanie Grisham, White House press secretary to first lady Melania Trump, is out with a book that paints a deeply unflattering picture of Donald Trump — a man with a “terrifying” temper who ogled a young aide and tried to impress dictators while president, she writes.
Grisham describes Melania as a Marie Antoinette figure who refused to condemn the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as Trump's supporters stormed the building to halt certification of 2020 election results.
Grisham writes she texted Melania Trump as the scene unfolded. “Do you want to tweet that peaceful protests are the right of every American, but there is no place for lawlessness and violence?" she asked. "Literally one minute later Melania Trump sent me back a one-word response: ‘No.’”
“Trump's temper was terrifying. He questioned people’s confidence, their looks, their intelligence — whatever he thought would do the most damage to someone’s psych."
Trump had particular contempt for the White House lawyers. “He didn't like them telling him that things he wanted to do were unethical or illegal."
Staff tried to temper his impulses by stalling or distracting in a White House “where everything was like a clown car on fire running at full speed into a warehouse full of fireworks."
“He always seemed to want dictators to respect him,” Grisham writes, pointing in particular to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom staff suspected of arranging for an attractive interpreter and coughing to throw Trump off-guard.
Grisham also writes that Trump “frequently said insane things to foreign leaders.”
One reason, Grisham writes, that she didn’t want to hold formal press briefings was that she knew that ”sooner or later the president would want me to tell the public something that was not true or that would make me sound like a lunatic.”
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What kind of person does this? I imagine a “friendship “ existed. Trusted advisor? I can’t imagine anything on this earth worth selling your soul. Your integrity. They say the path to heaven is narrow. I never imagined so many people becoming ... I don’t know what to call them.
I have seen that guy before.
Sounds like she handled this exactly as she should have.
And this idiot should have been fired on the spot.
Perfect description of the Biden White House.... Afghanistan, the border, printing money.
Steph was married twice???
What a loser. She was so unimpressive that I forgot who she was when the “book” came out.
Losers always hate winners.
Didn’t Melania come out recently and said this woman was fired? iirc?
And yet she succeeded in doing both in writing this bottom-scraping book.
If he ever got back into power, which he WON’T because he FAILED to secure the election process, and it is lost FOREVER...He should NOT be allowed to pick ANY personnel. So I guess it’s a moot point.
Neither could Trump.
Well, isn’t that special that you contributed that info.
This “book” goes in the STFU file.
She should take up writing pulp fiction romance novels.
Sounds like Grisham realizes more $$$ comes from trashing the former first couple than being complimentary of them.
Did she compare notes with Mary T. ?
I doubt she has the talent for that either.
Working for a person like Melania requires someone who is
very ethical. She should never betray the trust Melania
put in her, to hire her.
There no loyalty from these people.
The Trumps both deserved better from their staff.
For someone who was renowned for the art of the deal he seems to have made a tremendous amount of bad personnel choices going back for years before he got into politics. With friends like his...
She’ll get rich from this garbage and I’m sure that’s all that matters to her.
In all the years she worked on the Trump campaign and in the White House she had nothing but praise for Trump, until January 6th.
Somebody with ties to Harper publishing must have tipped her off that there was money to be made in a Trump hatchet job.
I wonder who her ghostwriter is.
More shameful for a woman.
Lying b*tch.
Most of the violence at the Capitol was caused by BLM and Antifa infiltrators, along with FBI instigators.
What a back-stabbing, worthless creep.
I feel sorry for her two ex-husbands.
She can choke on her royalties.
Says the damaged psycho.
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