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In a new book, the recently resigned Liberal leader discusses the so-called January 2018 cornfield case, which exploded while Grande was in government negotiations with the Conservatives and the Progress Party in Jeløya.
He describes the case in one of the chapters entitled “A storm of the extreme right”, where he claims that the publication was motivated by “a strong desire of the extreme right to keep the left out of government.”
“It is not necessary to be particularly conspiratorial to understand that when this comes up, right during the government negotiations, there is a political agenda behind it,” Grande wrote in the book “Upright,” due to be released on Friday in Aschehoug.
I won’t mention gossip
Grande writes that she does not want to write about the story itself, which is about intimate relationships with a young man in a cornfield during the wedding party of SP deputy leader Ola Borten Moe in Trøndelag in 2008.
This is because he believes that these types of stories do not belong in the public eye and that he does not want to “help legitimize that rumors and gossip stories should be treated as something other than what they are.”
The case was first published on the Resett website, while the mainstream media stayed away at first. Grande describes that the rumors on social media eventually grew so strong that she decided to give Aftenposten an interview to try to “park the worst accusations against me.”
However, he states that the interview was a mistake, because it led to an opening for the rest of the press to write about the case, something that Grande describes as “the worst movement I have ever experienced.”
I do not agree with Grande’s presentation
The man, who is now 29, tells TV 2 that he strongly disagrees with Grande’s presentation of the incident and also with the attention it received.
– The wedding story was the truth. But it was Trine herself who brought the case public. That she still refers to it as rumors today and calls it a political game is incomprehensible, says the man.
Grande regrets doing the interview with Aftenposten, but says there was nothing about the man in that interview.
– Post regardless of the party
Resett editor Helge Lurås says the website would publish the case regardless of party and gender.
– I realize that Trine Skei Grande still does not reflect on why this became such a big media problem, writes in an email to NTB.
He believes that the incident, which occurred while she was a parliamentary representative, demonstrated that Grande had poor judgment and was therefore highly relevant when she was relevant to intervene as Minister of State. Lurås believes that the story would make Grande vulnerable as a minister, so she had to inform the prime minister before taking office.
– Resett probably opened up some new ground in the way we pressed in this case, but when we first got a hole in the boil, the other media hit the field. It clearly showed that this was a matter of public concern, writes Lurås.
Ola Borten Moe Critic
Grande also reaches an agreement with the SP deputy, Ola Borten Moe, whom she accuses of having kicked life again in the case to divert attention from an unpleasant case that he himself had received: the so-called “travel case in the cabin “Leader Liv Signe Navarsete had received a rude message from someone on a cabin trip where he was one of the participants.
Borten Moe wrote a lengthy Facebook post about the case the same day Grande was to hold a press conference before the national meeting of the Liberal Party.
Ola Borten Moe flatly denies that the Facebook post was an attempt to distract from the Liv Signe Navarsete case.
– It was necessary to defend someone in the family about whom false and discrediting rumors had been spread. Beyond that I have no comment, Borten Moe tells NTB.
