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groundloop

(11,486 posts)
Mon Aug 31, 2020, 08:45 AM Aug 2020

Melania's ex-friend: Trump family tainted by 'deceit, deception'

Source: ABC News

A former adviser and close friend of first lady Melania Trump's is now blasting the entire Trump family as a callous clan tainted by "deceit" and "deception," and claiming she's still "working with investigators" to dig into potential financial crimes committed in connection with Donald Trump's inauguration in early 2017.

"It was amateur hour then, and it's amateur hour now, and I think it's really frightening for our country," Stephanie Winston Wolkoff said in an exclusive interview with ABC News's Linsey Davis, a day before the release of her new book, "Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady."

"Everyone does need to know what ... this presidency is doing and what this propaganda machine behind this man at the White House is doing," she added.

Winston Wolkoff refused to confirm or deny recent reports that she secretly recorded conversations with Melania Trump and even captured the first lady disparaging the president's older children.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/melanias-friend-trump-family-tainted-deceit-deception/story?id=72681296&cid=clicksource_4380645_3_three_posts_card_hed

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dameatball

(7,380 posts)
1. "Disloyal" and "Melania and Me" both due out in the next week. I think the Wolkoff book is a little
Mon Aug 31, 2020, 08:59 AM
Aug 2020

bit under the radar. Should be an interesting week.

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
2. Working with three prosecutors:
Mon Aug 31, 2020, 08:59 AM
Aug 2020
"I'm working with three different prosecutors, and it's taken over my life," she told ABC News, referring to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York and local attorneys general in New Jersey and Washington, D.C.


sarge43

(28,939 posts)
4. "Tainted"? They're all awashed in deceit, deception.
Mon Aug 31, 2020, 09:16 AM
Aug 2020

If it isn't nailed down, they steal it. If it is, they bring a crowbar.

PJMcK

(21,916 posts)
5. It's sort of obvious, isn't it?
Mon Aug 31, 2020, 09:58 AM
Aug 2020

I mean, Trump has been in the media for decades. His life has been an open book. His adulteries, bankruptcies, failed businesses and nasty personality have been front and center since at least the 1980s. Anyone with a brain could see how Trump was a walking disaster.

Wolkoff is a pretty naive person if she only realized how the Trump family is so corrupt after she was let go.

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
6. Trump kids probably treat her like a gold digger whore
Mon Aug 31, 2020, 10:14 AM
Aug 2020

Gee, I wonder why they would do that. Poor Barron, he probably gets insulted by them too.

 

Illumination

(2,458 posts)
11. Don't feel sorry for Barron. I hear the 3 of them are all out of the same mold you might say.
Mon Aug 31, 2020, 02:04 PM
Aug 2020

Melania calls Barron "little donald". So that will tell you something! However, just imagine having her as a step mother? Yuck! But loved her dress images @ the RNC. That was the crowing jewel
of the evening!

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
13. She's Barron's mother
Mon Aug 31, 2020, 04:09 PM
Aug 2020

I don’t think she has anything but a superficial stiff arm relationship with Trump’s adult kids.

SergeStorms

(18,882 posts)
7. Everybody is trying to cash in on the Trumps...
Mon Aug 31, 2020, 11:23 AM
Aug 2020

well after their associations with them are over. OK, make some money off the worst family in the world. For everyone else's sake though, why do none of these people say anything while they're experiencing the heinous actions of the worst family in the world? It's always months, years after their horrible experiences with the Trumps is over, but nothing at the immediate time so other people could be warned.

I'll not buy their tell-all books just to enrich them. They chose to work for the Trumps knowing of their reputation as complete and total assholes, and now you want me to feel sorry for you and buy your book? Fat chance.

llashram

(6,265 posts)
9. I'm with you
Mon Aug 31, 2020, 01:59 PM
Aug 2020

I wouldn't spend a dime on the drama they try to sell for their own enrichment. Two days after starting their jobs and associations with any member of this klan of American pox, they knew exactly what these cretins were about. And their associations show their politics regarding liberals and our left-wing politics. Hateful and as we have seen lately, violent.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,483 posts)
10. If only Trump's voters bothered to read books.....
Mon Aug 31, 2020, 02:03 PM
Aug 2020

or listen to news sources outside their isolated propaganda bubble.........

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