05/10/2020 - 18:01
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"Who the hell cares about Christmas decorations, but I have to do it,
" Melania Trump told her friend in a recorded telephone conversation broadcast by CNN on Thursday night, shortly before it was announced that the first lady had Covid. , covering the whole thing.
Frustrated, Melania keeps talking to her friend: "Then I do it, and I say I'm working on Christmas planning for Christmas, and they say, 'Oh, but what about the boys who broke up?'
(from their immigrant families, in detention centers) Give me a fucking break. "
On the tape, recorded in July 2018 by Melania's former assistant
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
, who recently posted an account about her friendship with Trump's wife, the first lady claimed that she was "trying to reunite the boy with his mom." , but "I did not have the slightest opportunity" because "he needs to go through justice".
In those same tapes, Melania expresses her support for the care received by migrant minors separated from their families in detention centers in the country, suggesting that these facilities are better than the ones they had at home with their parents.
Donald Trump and his wife in a Sept. 29 photo.
Photo: AP
"Guys, they say 'Wow, am I going to have my own bed? Am I going to sleep in bed? I'm going to have a closet for my clothes.' on the floor, "Melania says.
"They are very well cared for there. But you know, yes, they are not with their parents. It's sad. But when they come here alone or with coyotes or illegally, you know, you have to do something."
He then
continues to complain
that he was not getting credit from the press for allegedly trying to stop the Trump administration's systematized child abuse.
"They are not going to cover the news," he said.
“You won't believe it.
They don't cover the story because ... they are against us because they are liberal media. "
Wolkoff's tapes are being leaked to the press as part of this former Melania Trump aide's campaign to promote her book:
"Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady."
At another point in the recordings, Melania said that some of the migrants seeking asylum in the United States received
instructions
on what to say.
"They come and say: 'Oh, a gang member is going to kill us, and you know, it's very dangerous.'
So they are allowed to stay here. "
"Some are using that phrase," he continued.
Wolkoff left the White House in February 2018 when his contract was terminated.
She helped organize Trump's inauguration and later worked for the first lady as an unpaid White House adviser.
The White House said his book was "full of falsehoods and paranoia."
The First Lady's Chief of Staff and Spokesperson, Stephanie Grisham.
Photo: DPA
On the release of the recordings on Thursday, the first lady's chief of staff and spokesperson,
Stephanie Grisham
, noted that "(Wolkoff's) sole intention was to secretly record the first lady to sell herself and her wicked book. ''
"There is no way of knowing if these recordings have been edited and it is clear that the excerpts were selected and presented without context. The first lady remains focused on her family and serving our country," Grisham added.
According to "Slate", the language Melania uses
is very familiar
.
It's the kind of speech Americans are used to hearing from Donald Trump.
Since Trump's 2016 presidential campaign has heated up, a
lingering liberal fantasy
has been created
that even his own wife can't really accept the things he says, Slate says.
That fantasy, according to the magazine, puts Melania in the place of a victim, of "an unwilling participant in the president's authoritarian antics."
But these new recordings confirm the opposite.
And his own private reflections appear to be just as vicious and self-centered as Trump's own.
With information from AP
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