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A revealing memoir by a former associate of First Lady Melania Trump has revealed unflattering details about the White House as her husband seeks re-election.
In Melania and Me, published Tuesday, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff claims that she witnessed “deceptions” and “deceptions” throughout their long-standing friendship.
The White House has denounced the book as a “strange distortion of the truth.”
On Monday, the author said she was working with authorities on a financial investigation into Trump’s inauguration.
Mrs. Winston Wolkoff, a longtime Vogue magazine event organizer, also describes the widely publicized tensions between Mrs. Trump and her stepdaughter Ivanka Trump, who Mrs. Trump allegedly refers to as “princess.”
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The author and her husband on the left pictured at a 2008 fundraising gala with the Trumps
Ms. Trump, she writes, is a fan of emojis and once texted him describing Ms. Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, both senior advisers to the White House, as “snakes.”
On Monday, Ms Winston Wolkoff, who was a main organizer of Trump’s inauguration, told ABC News that she was cooperating with investigators who are looking at financial crime allegations related to the event’s expenses.
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What else does the book describe?
Ms Winston Wolkoff says her 15-year friendship with Ms Trump ended two years ago after the first lady “betrayed” her by refusing to publicly defend her and an unpaid aide to the White House from the allegations. of financial mismanagement while planning the opening.
She describes feeling “stabbed in the back” by someone who has changed a lot in the time they have known each other.
“I witnessed the transformation of Melania from gold plate to 24-karat gold,” writes Ms. Winston Wolkoff, adding, “Looking at her now and seeing that only the gold shell remains, I wonder if that’s all that once was, and I was the fool who bought the fake clock on the corner. “
A spokeswoman for Mrs. Trump replied: “The book is not only full of falsehoods and paranoia, but it is based on an imaginary need for revenge … Sadly, this is a deeply insecure woman whose need to be relevant defies logic.” .
The author reveals surprising nuggets about the Trumps’ private lives when the now president ran for office and won the White House. In one episode, Ms. Winston Wolkoff describes how the future first lady reacted in 2016 after hearing the Access Hollywood tape in which her husband brags about being able to “grab” women because of his fame.
“He was beaming, he was smiling,” writes Ms. Winston Wolkoff. “It was as if nothing had happened.”
“She knows who she married … She knew what she was getting into, and so did he,” says the author, adding that she never voted in the presidential election before 2016.
Ms. Winston Wolkoff says that one of the lines Ms. Trump repeats frequently is “pleasing others is not my priority,” and then writes, “Always pragmatic, she reasoned that since she had no control over thoughts of people, why should he care what they believe? “
The book, which is dedicated to Mrs. Trump, states that the first lady refused to move into the White House for five months until the shower and toilet used by the Obamas were renewed, and that Trump canceled the chosen color. for wall painting. .
