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Stephanie Grisham Says a Text from Melania Trump on January 6th Led Her to Resign

I know, I know, you are getting sick and tired of hearing about Stephanie Grisham and her new book revealing all the palace intrigue from the days of the Trump Administration. I get it. After all, if the woman actually cared about the country, she would’ve resigned long before January 6th, right?

Still, this is some juicy info. And I’d rather people read it here, than actually buy her book and put a dollar in her pocket.

As you well know by now, Grisham was a trusted adviser to the First Lady for years but resigned after the January 6th Capitol riots. Grisham told CNN in an interview that after the riots she tried to get Melania to condemn the riots but instead received a one-word text that pushed her to resign.

“I wanted her to say…’To assemble is the right of every American but there is no room for v1olence or hatred’.

“Nothing political, just please let’s take the temperature down. I thought she would because when Charlottesville happened she was one of the first to put something out… when she wrote back ‘no’ – one word ‘no’, I just stared at the phone, I was shocked and I was kind of waiting for a follow up of ‘Maybe we should say this’ but there was just nothing,” she told CNN.

I mean, this isn’t surprising to me, so how could this be surprising to Grisham? It was January 6th…Melania was mentally packed and gone from the White House. She didn’t care when she was the First Lady, did Grisham actually expect her to suddenly change? If there is one thing we know about Melania Trump, it’s that Melania cares about Melania, and ONLY Melania. Period.

In her newly-released memoir “I’ll Take Your Questions Now’, Grisham said after she resigned she received a vague and “cold” letter from her former boss.

“After they left the White House, Mrs. Trump sent all of her employees personalized letters thanking them for their service, along with a candid photo with them that she had signed. I know that because the gift was my idea and I wrote the letters which were filled with personalized details as well as their job titles,” Grisham wrote.

“Not that it matters at this point, but I received no gift, and my letter was so vague and cold that a doorman would have been offended. It read, ‘Dear Stephanie, Thank you for your service to the American people as a member of the office of the First Lady. I hope you look back on your time at the White House as cherished, knowing you helped serve our country. I send my best wishes to you on your next endeavour.'”

Grisham said in her book she felt slighted by the letter and its impersonal tone. Which again, really Steph? You were beside this woman for four years. You know exactly what she’s capable of, and what she’s not capable of.

“It’s the equivalent of a ‘Dear John’ letter for the workplace. I’m not sure that was done because I resigned on January 6 or because my resignation went public in the press and she felt betrayed.”

Grisham said she knew Melania well enough to know she “knew what she was doing with that letter”.

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