As if the US President's coronavirus infection wasn't making enough headlines: Secret tapes cast a questionable light on Melania Trump.
Donald Trump
and his
wife Melania
have tested positive for the coronavirus
Meanwhile, another
scandal
weighs on the
first lady
In secret recordings,
Melania
makes
questionable statements about the
media, migrant children
and the
Christmas decorations
in the
White House.
Washington - It's been an exciting week in the
Trump
house
.
The
US president
and his
first lady
tested positive for the corona virus * in the
middle of the
election campaign
.
But that's not the only message that
casts
another shadow over the
White House
.
Another
revelation book
causes critical voices, but this time the
embarrassment
does not
focus
on
Donald Trump
himself, but on his
wife Melania
.
So far, she was considered a rather reserved first lady *.
So far she has been portrayed more as a
victim of her husband
.
For example, in a discovery book by
the former lawyer and
Trump confidante
Michael Cohen, he
wrote about his role in the
married life of the Trump
: “I cheated on contractors for him, pulled off his business partners,
lied to
his wife
Melania
to hide
his
infidelities
, and bullied everyone yelled
at that
threatened
Trump's path
to
power
. "
NEW: Secretly recorded tapes show first lady Melania Trump's frustration at criticism for family separation policy and her bashing of Christmas decorations https://t.co/XnbOFReeBN pic.twitter.com/Lljp2HlwIK
- CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 2, 2020
"Melania Tapes": explosive statements by the first lady in conversation with a confidante
But regardless of her
husband
Donald,
Melania Trump
seems
tired of
her role as
first lady
.
Their frustration with a lack
of public appreciation
is
evident
in a secretly recorded
telephone conversation
*.
The former confidante and chief advisor of the first lady
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
published the tapes from
July 2018
in an interview on CNN.
The blasphemy of the
first lady
revolves around
refugee children
on the
border with Mexico
and the Christmas decorations of the White House.
She is fed up
with decorating
for
Christmas
and always being
asked about
the
migrant children
who have been separated from their parents, says
Melania Trump
.
After all, decorating the White House would be work too, she stresses.
"Give me a damn break".
However, her statements become really questionable when she
comments
on the
children in the emergency shelters
on the
border between Mexico and Texas
.
The conversation with
Winston Wplkoff,
who later
kicked
her out of the White House on charges of fraud, took place just weeks after a controversial border visit by the
first lady
.
There was a hail of negative
headlines here
because
Melania
wore a jacket when visiting the accommodations that said: "I really don't care, do U?".
Remember when her office eyerolled, mocked, & insisted relentlessly there was no msg behind the jacket?
That was a lie, as @FLOTUS makes crystal clear here.
https://t.co/rahHBNALAd
- Sarah Boxer (@Sarah_Boxer) October 13, 2018
Melania Trump with questionable statements about migrant children on the border with Mexico
The background is the
immigration policy of
her husband,
Donald Trump
.
In 2018, the government separated immigrant families from their children and eventually kept them in temporary shelters.
In the “
Melania Tapes
”
in
July 2018
,
the
First Lady
emphasized
that she had made every effort and finally tried to reunite a child with his parents and only failed because of the law.
The “
liberal media
” simply don't want to
write
a
positive story
, she complains to her former friend
Winston Wolkoff
and tells about the local children: “They say: 'Wow, I'll have my own bed?
Will i sleep on the bed?
I will have a closet for my clothes? '
It's sad to hear that, but they didn't have that in their own countries.
They sleep on the floor
. ”Here in the
USA
they are after all fine,
Melania
emphasizes
repeatedly.
But she goes one step further: Many of them
would lie anyway
, she accuses the refugee
children
: "They are trained by others to say: 'Oh, we are being killed by gang members, it's so dangerous'.
They could just as easily
stay
in
Mexico
, but they don't want to because Mexico doesn't care about them.
The
US takes
care of them. "
Full Melania Trump video: “They said, 'Oh what about the children that were separated?'
Give me a fucking break. "
pic.twitter.com/FQF3AJshXP
- Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) October 2, 2020
Former confidante of Melania Trump publishes disclosure book: "Melania and Me"
The conversation with
Melania Trump
originated
in
July 2018
and was recorded by
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
.
The former
chief advisor to
the
First Lady
released the tapes shortly after the publication of her reveal book "
Melania and Me
".
The friendship between the two had lasted for fifteen years and came to an abrupt end when Melania kicked Winston Wolkoff
out of the White House in
2018
on
charges of
fraud
.
The
First Lady's
chief of staff
,
Stephanie Grisham,
defended Melania on the charge that
Winston Wolkoff
only published the tapes as a marketing strategy for her book.
Still, the footage sheds
new light on Melania Trump's views
.
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