![]() Gates cooperated with the special counsel and was sentenced to 45 days in jail.Īmong clashes described by Wolkoff are attempts to gatecrash the inauguration, leading Wolkoff and Melania to run “Operation Block Ivanka” a tussle over seating for Donald’s first address to Congress the “snakes” episode, over a job offer to Kayleigh McEnany, who later became Donald Trump’s press secretary and the first lady’s fury over a leak about a family viewing of the film Finding Dory while protests raged over Trump’s first travel ban against some Muslim-majority countries. Ivanka is portrayed as determined to steal her stepmother’s fire at official events, even using Gates, who was ultimately convicted of conspiracy and lying to the FBI during Mueller’s investigation of Russian election interference, as an “inside source” on the first lady’s plans. Of Donald Trump, regarding his alleged extramarital relationships and his boast of grabbing women “by the pussy”, Wolkoff quotes the first lady as saying “I know who I married” and insisting her first priority is her son, Barron. On Monday, citing unnamed sources, the reporter Yashar Ali said Wolkoff made use of taped conversations which contained “harsh comments” about Ivanka Trump and “even some negative remarks about husband, President Trump”. ![]() Simon & Schuster says Melania & Me is a response to a “betrayal” that “nearly destroyed Wolkoff”. The first lady declined to defend her friend. Wolkoff left the White House shortly after that, according to the New York Times because of fallout from its report, which included a government watchdog group accusing the inaugural committee of “fiscal mismanagement at its worst”. Wolkoff personally received $1.62m, the paper said, of which she banked $500,000. In February 2018, the New York Times reported that from $107m raised to pay for the event, about double what Barack Obama raised in 2009, an events company started by Wolkoff was paid nearly $26m. The special counsel Robert Mueller and authorities in New York, New Jersey and the District of Columbia have all investigated alleged self-dealing around those events, on which Gates also worked. Wolkoff went to work for Melania Trump in the White House unpaid, hiring staff, organizing events, writing speeches and creating policy initiatives.īut first she helped plan Donald Trump’s inauguration. ![]() One instance of internecine warfare detailed by Wolkoff concerns suspicions that the former Trump deputy campaign chief Rick Gates was behind a scandal over plagiarism from Michelle Obama that dogged Melania Trump’s speech to the last Republican national convention, in Cleveland in 2016.Īn aide to Melania took the blame for the fiasco, but Wolkoff writes: “If Ivanka controlled Rick, and Rick had allegedly written Melania’s convention speech, did that mean Ivanka was behind that major faux pas/sabotage?”Īccording to publisher Simon & Schuster, Wolkoff, an events planner in New York high society, has known Melania Trump since 2003, their friendship formed “over lunches at Manhattan hot spots, black-tie parties, and giggle sessions in the penthouse at Trump Tower”. Melania & Me, by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, will be published on 1 September, in the turbulent wake of a tell-all bestseller by Trump’s niece Mary Trump. ![]() Ivanka is scheduled to introduce her father as he accepts the party’s nomination for his re-election, on Thursday. The latest news of dysfunction in the nation’s first family comes as Melania Trump prepares to speak in support of Donald at the Republican national convention in Washington on Tuesday night. After one such fight, over interference in the first lady’s attempts to appoint a new chief of staff, Melania referred to her stepdaughter and her allies as “snakes”. ![]()
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