Putin brought ‘attractive’ translator to distract Trump during G20 meeting where he ‘pretended to act tough for the cameras,’ former WH Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham claims in new book
- Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham sheds new light on ex-President Donald Trump’s 2019 meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin
- In her forthcoming book, she said Trump told Putin he would act ‘tougher with you for a few minutes,’ but then added ‘it’s for the cameras’
- Grisham also wrote that Russian expert Fiona Hill told her Putin brought along an ‘attractive’ brunette translator to distract Trump during their meeting
- The meeting, held on the sidelines of the G20 in Japan, came about a year after Trump and Putin met in Helsinki
- Grisham’s book, I’ll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw in the Trump White House,’ also includes bizarre details about Trump’s behavior
- She said Trump cut his hair with a ‘huge pair of scissors that could probably cut a ribbon at an opening of one of his properties’
- Grisham also said an aide, revealed to be her ex Max Miller, would play Memories from the musical Cats to soothe Trump when he was having a tantrum
Russian President Vladimir Putin brought an ‘attractive’ translator with him to distract former President Donald Trump at their 2019 meeting – and Trump told Putin he would act tough in front of the cameras and then play nice privately, former White House official Stephanie Grisham reveals in her forthcoming tell-all.
‘OK, I’m going to act a little tougher with you for a few minutes. But it’s for the cameras, and after they leave, we’ll talk. You understand,’ Trump had told Putin when they met in June 2019 in Japan at the G20, Grisham recounted.
Copies of Grisham’s book – I’ll Take Your Questions Now, What I Saw at Trump White House – were obtained by The Washington Post and The New York Times. It hits bookshelves on October 5.
President Donald Trump (right) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan in June 2019. Stephanie Grisham’s forthcoming book sheds more light on this meeting
Stehanie Grisham wrote that she was told by Russia expert Fiona Hill that Russian President Vladimir Putin (center) had brought along an ‘attractive’ translator (left) to distract President Donald Trump (right) during their 2019 meeting
Stephanie Grisham, Melania Trump’s spokeswoman and chief of staff, as well as White House press secretary, said Trump told Vladimir Putin: ‘OK, I’m going to act a little tougher with you for a few minutes. But it’s for the cameras, and after they leave, we’ll talk. You understand’
I’ll Take Your Questions Now: What I saw at the Trump White House by Stephanie Grisham comes out on October 5
Grisham was a 2016 campaign aide who became First Lady Melania Trump’s spokeswoman, before being elevated to White House press secretary and communications director from July 2019 to April 2020.
She then returned to the East Wing to serve as the first lady’s spokesperson, again, and chief of staff.
The new book fills in some blanks about some of the most memorable moments from Trump’s one term.
The Putin meeting in question came 11 months after the infamous Helsinki summit where Trump seemed to side with the Russian president over American intelligence agencies on whether Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
At the July 2018 meeting, Trump said Putin offered an ‘extremely strong and powerful’ denial.
At their 2019 meeting in Japan, Trump playfully scolded and wagged a finger at Putin in front of the cameras telling the Russian leader, ‘don’t meddle in the election,’ before they met behind closed doors for 90 minutes without journalists present.
According to The Times, Grisham conversed with Fiona Hill – the administration’s Russia expert turned impeachment 1.0 witness – who explained what Putin was doing to throw Trump off.
‘As the meeting began, Fiona Hill leaned over and asked me if I had noticed Putin’s translator, who was a very attractive brunette woman with long hair, a pretty face, and a wonderful figure,’ Grisham wrote. ‘She proceeded to tell me that she suspected the woman had been selected by Putin specifically to distract our president.’
A brunette woman with a blue dress can be seen following Putin into the room as the Russian leader greets the American delegation in Osaka.
Trump, upon hearing the Stormy Daniels description of his penis, called his press secretary from Air Force one to assure her his penis was neither small nor shaped like a toadstool, Grisham, in her new salacious tell-all ‘I’ll Take Your Questions Now’
Trump would cut his hair with giant scissors and tunes from his favorite musicals would calm him down
Grisham’s includes bizarre details about Trump’s behavior.
For instance, she claims he cuts his hair with a ‘huge pair of scissors that could probably cut a ribbon at an opening of one of his properties.’
She also writes that one of Trump’s aides – later revealed to be Grisham’s ex-boyfriend Max Miler, who is running for an Ohio Congressional seat and has been endorsed by Trump – would play him his favorite show tunes, including ‘Memory’ from Cats, to calm him down during tantrums.
Grisham described Trump’s temper as ‘terrifying.
Trump continued the womanizing behavior he was known for as a brash Manhattan real estate tycoon at the White House, Grisham revealed, writing that he repeatedly invited a young press aide to his Air Force One cabin – one time to look at her behind.
Trump instructed Grisham to ‘keep her happy.’
Grisham tried to keep the staffer away from the president, she wrote.
The ex-press secretary also recalled how Trump insisted his penis was not shaped like a toadstool – responding to comments made by porn star Stormy Daniels.
Daniels wrote in a 2018 book on her affair with the former president: ‘I lay there, annoyed that I was getting f***ed by a guy with Yeti pubes and a d*** like the mushroom character in Mario Kart.’
Trump, upon hearing the allegation, called his press secretary from Air Force one to assure her his penis was neither small nor shaped like a toadstool, Grisham said.
Grisham also wrote that the former president once asked her former boyfriend, Miller, if she was good in bed.
Melania ‘Unleashed’
The Daniels affair, Grisham wrote, ‘unleashed’ Melania’s vengeance as she began trying to contradict her husband in public.
The first lady told Grisham she didn’t believe her husband’s denials.
When Grisham drafted a tweet requesting privacy at the time of the affair, saying that Melania would focus on being a first lady, wife and mother, the first lady asked Grisham to scrub the tweet of the word ‘wife.’
And at the 2018 State of the Union, Melania Trump broke protocol and took her own motorcade to the Capitol Building – largely seen as a dig at her husband.
At the time, Grisham told DailyMail.com that Mrs’ Trump was ‘honoring her guests for the true heroes they are,’ referring to those seated in the first lady’s box at the presidential speech. ‘In addition to holding a White House reception and photo opportunity for them and their friends and family, she is accompanying them to the Capitol,’ Grisham said.
In the book, Grisham said Melania Trump’s moves were by design, as the first lady walked arm-in-arm with a handsome military aide hand-slected by Grisham because the floors of the Capitol were ‘slippery.’
‘I laughed to myself because I’d seen the woman navigate dirt roads in her heels,’ Grisham wrote.
As coverage of Trump’s romp with Daniels wore on, Grisham said
‘This is Donald’s problem. He got himself into this mess. He can fix it by himself,’ Melania Trump said, according to Grisham.
Team Trump fires back
‘This book is another pitiful attempt to cash in on the President’s strength and sell lies about the Trump family, said Trump spokeswoman Liz Harrington.
Harrington termed Grisham a ‘a disgruntled former employee’ – a term has applied in the past to aides who have written tell-alls. She said the book’s publishers ‘should be ashamed of themselves for preying on desperate people who see the short term gain in writing a book full of falsehoods.’
Publisher Harper Collins calls the book ‘The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet.’
Grisham resigned from her post on Jan. 6th, the day of the Capitol riot.
Trump went after Grisham personally in a statement to the New York Times.
‘Stephanie didn’t have what it takes and that was obvious from the beginning,’ Trump said. ‘She had big problems and we felt that she should work out those problems for herself. Now, like everyone else, she gets paid by a radical left-leaning publisher to say bad and untrue things.’
White House staff called Ivanka ‘the princess’ and claim she and Jared tried to push their way into meeting the Queen, Stephanie Grisham claims in new book
Aides to former President Donald Trump referred to his daughter Ivanka as ‘the princess,’ according to a new tell-all book – which describes Ivanka Trump’s efforts to insinuate herself into a meeting with the Queen in 2019.
Former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham includes the detail in her new book, I’ll Take Your Questions Now – a title that references her failure to hold a press briefing during her tenure.
Grisham, who went on to serve as first lady Melania Trump’s top aide, writes that Melania also referred to Ivanka by the name.
Ivanka, who served as an unpaid senior advisor to the president, regularly referred to him as ‘my father’ in meetings, she writes. Ivanka sometimes used the term in public.
Ivanka Trump (second right) and Jared Kushner (R) looks out of the window at Buckingham Palace during the visit of US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump on June 03, 2019 in London, England
White House aides called Ivanka Trump ‘the princess,’ writes former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham in her new book. She terms Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner (c) the ‘Slim Reaper’
Grisham terms her husband, former White House aide Jared Kushner, ‘the Slim Reaper’ for getting involved in projects designated for others, she writes, according to a copy of the book obtained by the Washington Post.
Grisham also writes that the power couple tried to get themselves into a meeting with Queen Elizabeth II during Trump’s visit to the UK in 2019.
Only Trump and the first lady attended. It would have been a ‘wild breach of protocol,’ according to the post. Jared and Ivanka did attend a state dinner.
Grisham writes that the situation was resolved when they couldn’t fit into a presidential helicopter.
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