If anyone is able to poll the back of the first girl’s riddle, Melania Trump, it’s Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, her close, loving friend and nearly two-decade-old emoji who wrote a “I was betrayed!” ebook to beat everything.
“Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship With the First Lady” (Gallery Books, available Tuesday) joins the Trump family’s recent collection of books on repression in the run-up to November’s election, “Too Much and Never, “The Best-Selling Mental Dissection of Mary Trump’s Uncle, President Donald Trump.
Wolkoff’s eBook is not a mental painting of 50-year-old Melania Trump, the reader can leave with a greater understanding of the character and personality of the first evasiveest girl in the United States since the 1940s.
Wolkoff adored Melania Trump (the eBook is littered with text emojis and “I love you” exchanges, as well as many exclamation points). She sought so much to show the “special” of her friend who took on Herculean duties (helping to organize the first lady’s inauguration and workplace, staff, FLOTUS projects and White House residential neighborhoods) for which she was not fully prepared and ended up in the hospital with a terrible back illness aggravated by stress.
And then she “got the license,” even though she was an unpaid, UNpaid FLOTUS counselor, and “pulled under the bus,” in her remarkable words to the New York Times, through enemies in the West Wing who sought to make her the only scapegoat for incompetence. and alleged corruption in the development of plans and expenses for the inauguration.
Wolkoff believes his reputation and integrity have been permanently broken through the Trump White House, aided by “inaccurate” media reports and Melania Trump’s inability to protect her. At the time, you may not even be fully protected because you had signed a NOA, which explains why signing non-disclosure agreements can be risky.
So this e-book is a revealing revenge. But note: Wolkoff still cares about Melania Trump to dedicate the eebook to her.
It revolves around 3 main themes: Who is Melania Trump? Who in Trumpland translated Wolkoff and why? And what’s the gossip about the relationship between Melania Trump and her stepdaughter Ivanka Trump, her father’s favorite who despised he was a “princess” through her mother-in-law?
As Wolkoff says, the scale, despite everything, has disappeared from her eyes: Melania Trump is proving to be as mysterious to her as it is to many Americans, someone she thinks she knows. She paid the value of her mistake.
She’s been notified. Wolkoff, 50, a component of new York’s fashion, arts and charity scene, worked for another enigmatic woman, Anna Wintour of Vogue, and helped organize nine met Galas annually. She first met Melania Trump through Vogue and without delay appreciated her.
But after the 2016 election, his other friends in New York were continually telling him not to paint with the Trumps, none of them. “RUN!” HE SAID. the message he received.
“My sixth sense warned me not to accept as true with the Trumps. By heart, I said, ‘Melania is not one of them. He’s one of us.'”
It was a bad evaluation, Wolkoff writes, emotionally, mentally, physically, financially, socially and professionally. “I think she had an amazing friend. But when it mattered, Melania wasn’t there for me. Suddenly, I have become painfully genuine that she was not my friend, in the true sense of the word.”
Remember the “I don’t care, do you?” Jacket? That may just be his motto, as Wolkoff says. The first girl tells Wolkoff that she does not give a concept of what her critics say about her, her clothes or shoes, her speeches and the Be Best initiative, her common absences, her resolve to remain in New York for the first five. months of management, her refusal to interact with the media, her husband’s tweets, nothing.
“This is my life, it’s nobody’s business,” he tells Wolkoff, in Melania Trump’s “impenetrable, impenetrable, inexplicably quiet” style.
“Why do you care so much? Melania Trump asked Wolkoff when she was frightened by something in the media, which was the case. Melania Trump has never panicned about anything.” You can’t win, ” he shrugged.
But Wolkoff’s idea that she could convince the media and the public to “love Melania” the way she did. Melania Trump isn’t interested.
“The secret of his happiness is to be authentic and braabed,” Wolkoff writes. “Her habit has not replaced since her days as first lady; it’s more visual now.”
Wolkoff is so apolitical that she had never voted in a presidential election before 2016 (she voted for Trump because he was her friend’s husband), so of course with the strengths, she is the best at helping produce the opening festivities organized until the 58th presidential election. Committee. And it was Ivanka Trump and “the family” who introduced him to the work.
She took it, she said, because it was her “patriotic duty” and to protect Melania Trump’s interests: or she feared Ivanka Trump’s alleged preference for being Trump’s most productive woman on D-Day. Wolkoff Melania Trump is the “spy” of the photo, and much of the e-book is true to the countdown to the 69-day nightmare through January 20, 2017: a farragosa of failures, missteps and confusion, as she describes it.
She anathema to the other members of the committee, headed by trump billionaire Thomas Barrack’s friend, continually complaining about how the committee worked and what she saw as “irregularities” in the budget and accounting of millions of dollars.
Will the eight-day charge at the Trump International Hotel in Washington be $3.6 million? I’m sure you don’t, you thought. Wouldn’t Trump donate an area or rate a very low price? “There is no way for this to be the existing rate. The amount appeared to be 4 times higher than the popular price. Apart from the problematic lens, it seemed ethically incorrect.”
Now, three state and federal investigations have been introduced to investigate imaginable irregularities. Wolkoff cooperates with the investigations, having submitted his bulky documents and earned his time for the committee.
Wolkoff believes it was created through his enemies (read: Ivanka Trump) in the West Wing to be in the midst of public outrage when the committee, despite everything, revealed its figures in February 2018: $107 million raised, adding $26 million to Wolkoff’s. business association. It seemed that Melania Trump’s “best friend” had gone with a massive change. But in fact, he says, the cash went to dealerships hired through his company, which were not discussed in the White House statement. Only his call was discussed.
Soon, the New York Times published a story and title, based on White House “sources,” which left the impression, according to Wolkoff, that the first girl had entrusted her boyfriend with a mimeed “party organizer”, and that she had raked mions and was fired accordingly. In fact, he had already resigned because of tiredness and health.
Worse, the East Wing issued a statement that Melania Trump had no involvement in the committee and did not know how the budget had been spent.
The facts, as Wolkoff writes: “Melania knew every detail, every single detail,” from the salmon rags served at dinner, from budget inconsistencies to the inability to attract top artists. “I don’t think Donald likes Kenny Rogers,” Melania Trump told Wolkoff about the pursuit of skills.)
The flickering story on his computer sent Wolkoff to a lot of regrets on the floor of his kitchen. In her melodramatic way, for which Melania Trump has criticized her, Wolkoff felt “publicly ashamed” that her “egoism” was being demolished. “What a fool, I think I can make a difference in the middle of this cave of thieves,” he writes.
Some of Wolkoff’s goals come with New York Times White House reporter Maggie Haberman and CNN’s Kate Bennett, who covers full-time FLOTUS. Wolkoff believes that sloppy and erroneous stories are published about her and Melania Trump, and explains in detail how.
Stephanie Grisham, who was the spokeswoman for the first girl who later became president and now returns with the first girl as staff leader, is described as “bad” and “horribly disrespectful” to the media, Wolkoff and others in the east. Wing staff. If Melania Trump had a technique for arguing with the press, Grisham had an attitude of finger discussion, which harms the first girl, Wolkoff thought. In addition, he convinced Ivanka that Grisham was Trump’s maid in the East Wing and placed her in the post while Wolkoff was in the hospital to keep an eye on Melania Trump.
Rick Gates, the second-in-command of the PIC, was another of Ivanka Trump’s alleged henchmen, according to Wolkoff. She describes him as an unworthy trusted colleague and scorer in inaugural planning, and apparently notes that the Republican lobbyist was charged (and eventually pleaded guilty) to conspiracy and to make false statements in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Michael Cohen, the president’s former lawyer and “repairman” who paid an adult film actress to close on an overnight affair with Trump (and also publishing some revealing memoirs), in his apartment in the depths. of her depression to convince her, and records her in secret to “make a note to exonerate her and erase her name,” she later told her.
The tape ended up in the hands of federal prosecutors after Cohen’s office search. Wolkoff’s not happy. Cohen pleaded guilty to tax evasion and breaches of the crusade’s finances in relation to the reward of the porn star, sentenced to 3 years in federal prison and recently released due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Right now, much of the gossip in the e-book about Melania and Ivanka’s tense quotes with Trump has come to light, much of Trump’s critics. There is nothing new about it; they are not the most productive friends and this has been discussed in previous e-books. But Wolkoff is kinder to the extent and intensity of hostility from those emotionless faces.
Wolkoff believes Ivanka Trump tried to undermine and restrict Melania Trump’s position as first lady. She says the West Wing has tried to limit the work area on the east wing to the West Wing workforce; potential wing workers are poached poached for the West Wing; attempted to resume historically organized occasions through FLOTUS; called Wolkoff to the meetings to give him some facts about what Melania Trump could do; and has swallowed the highest-paid staff positions so that the East Wing can’t hire the most productive staff (one of the reasons Wolkoff says he didn’t take a salary as Melania Trump’s first adviser). He thinks all this was done after Ivanka Triumph. Handle.
Ivanka Trump, Wolkoff says, had a reputation for being a well-known fugitive, especially the stories that made her and her husband, Jared Kushner, look good and “everyone looked bad.”
“Operation Block Princess,” in which Wolkoff and Melania Trump controlled to plan to save Ivanka Trump’s face from being too close to her father at the “disordered” swearing-in ceremony, Wolkoff admits. But they think Ivanka Trump shouldn’t be the center of attention at her father’s inauguration.
The screening of the film “Finding Dory” at the White House Family Theatre 10 days after the opening was Ivanka Trump’s last drop for Melania Trump and Wolkoff. The story leaked at a time when the president signed the debatable Ban on Muslims, so the film, about a fish separated from his parents who is detained by the government while seeking to meet them, is deaf. But Melania Trump and her son Barron Trump were back in New York; The first girl did not order the film for her family, but believed Ivanka Trump had commissioned it from her, and was furious.
“Melania to draw a line in the sand,” Wolkoff writes. “No one would be allowed to enter the residence, her home (possibly) without the first lady’s prior approval, adding Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.” This is my house, ” said Melania to Wolkoff.” They come into my apartment? in New York whenever you want? “
No, as FLOTUS would say in his text messages to Wolkoff.