She was no longer my friend and she was willing to let them take me down.” “At that moment in time, that’s when I pressed record. But Melania and the White House had accused me of criminal activity and publicly shamed and fired me and made me their scapegoat,” Wolkoff said. If she was my friend, it would be horrible. “I’ve been accused of taping my friend, as the White House said, and how horrible of a human being I am for doing that.” In an interview on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show on Tuesday, Wolkoff also defended her decision to make recordings of her conversations with the first lady, saying she needed evidence to protect herself amid questions about the costs of Trump’s inauguration. In her memoir, Winston Wolkoff corroborates claims that Melania Trump has a strained relationship with Ivanka Trump and provides other insights into the first lady’s calm reaction to revelations that her husband said he liked to “grab” women “by the pussy”. She was forced out of the White House following reports that she and her firm were paid $26m to help plan the inauguration ceremony and other events in 2017.
Winston Wolkoff helped oversee Trump’s inauguration address and was appointed as an unpaid adviser to Melania Trump after the 2016 elections. The first lady’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Guardian, nor did Winston Wolkoff’s publisher Simon & Schuster. The commerce secretary Wilbur Ross has also used private email while in official capacity. The House oversight committee last year issued subpoenas for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s business-related personal emails and text messages. The president’s emphasis during his campaign on the FBI investigation into Clinton’s emails gave rise to the chat “Lock her up”, which became a common refrain at Trump events. The claims, if true, would make Melania Trump the latest member of the Trump administration and family to face scrutiny over the use of private email, despite Donald Trump’s insistence that his 2016 rival Hillary Clinton should be prosecuted over her use of a private email server. Melania Trump used a private Trump Organization email account, email from a domain, iMessage and Signal to communicate even after she became the first lady, Winston Wolkoff told The Post. In the interview, which follows the recent publication of her memoir, Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady, Winston Wolkoff said “Melania and I both didn’t use White House emails”. According to the Post, the messages discussed official business including “government hires and contracts (including Winston Wolkoff’s), detailed schedules for the president and first lady during the Israeli and Japanese state visits, strategic partnerships for the first lady’s Be Best initiative, the logistics of the Easter egg roll, and finances for the presidential inauguration”.
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