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2021-10-03 Home Front: Politix
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Melania and White House aides called Ivanka and Jared 'the interns'
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 [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham's new book is packed with condemnations of power couple Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump — and claims they meddled and muddied the early response to the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic.
From the story content, it sounds like bitchiness on the part of the author.
 She writes in her new tell-all book that Kushner's 'arrogance and presumption had grown over the years, and he threw his power about with absolutely no shame.'
On the other hand, there's that Abraham Accords thing, just off the top of my head.
'He was Rasputin in a slim-fitting suit,' she writes of Trump's son-in-law, comparing him to the mystical and influential advisor to Czar Nicholas II of Russia before the 1917 revolution.
Hypnotizing the tsarina, causing the hemophiliac little prince to stop bleeding, that sort of thing. Killing him wasn't easy, and it only made him mad.
Grisham, a longtime Trump aide who later served as chief of staff to former first lady Melania Trump, writes that Kushner often took over meetings — even when Vice President Mike Pence was there — as the 'real' chief of staff.
"Jared, I'm busy with correcting Pelosi's spelling. How about going down there and stopping that meeting from turning into a clusterfornication?"
"Sure. What's the subject?"
"Peace in the Middle East."
"Okay. I can't make it come out any worse than John Kerry did, can I?"
"Heh heh. Good one!"
 But she and Melania Trump also sometimes dissed Javanka as 'the interns' for their tendency to jump into all manner of subjects in the White House. 'When I worked for the first lady in the East Wing, we had all come to call Jared and Ivanka "the interns" because they represented in our minds obnoxious, entitled know-it-alls,' writes Grisham in her new book, I'll Take Your Questions Now, with her musings on Javanka excerpted in Politico.
Is it just me, or does she sound like a "obnoxious, entitled know-it-all?"
Their involvement became problematic in the early days of the pandemic, as the White House struggled to come up with a policy and a communications response. 'Mrs. Trump found that nickname amusing and occasionally used it herself. Now, during one of the most important crises to hit the country in a century, the interns were behaving true to form,' she writes.
Ahah! Having ideas, were they? Tusk tusk, as the elephant once said.
'It was another example of Jared sticking his nose into things that weren’t his expertise.'
As far as I know, no one had expertise in COVID except the Chinese at that time.
One clash came in March, after the World Health Organization had declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Top aides were debating a partial travel ban — and whether Trump should address the nation to convey the seriousness of the pandemic. Grisham invited herself to one of the meetings as, she writes, 'just "happened" all the time.'
So lemme get this straight: Jared and Ivanka weren't supposed to go, but the first lady's social secretary was?
Dr. Anthony Fauci
 ...American epidemiologist with rotating opinions, warnings about the unlikely, and reassurances that if you wear a mask you won't get COVID, as long as you're wearing multiple masks, assuming wearing a mask is necessary in the first place...
and Dr. Deborah Birx were there, and advisors pitched closing the nation's borders to travelers from Europe. Another topic was whether Trump should speak to the nation amid growing alarm.
Okay. That's the setup.
'In the middle of all the discussion, Ivanka kept chiming in, "But I think there should probably be an address to the nation tonight." I let that pass because in my mind there was no way we could pull one off with no speech prepared, no communications strategy, no consensus on anything we had just started discussing, and only a few hours’ notice,' writes Grisham. 'We did a lot of random things in Trump World, but that just seemed too crazy even for us.'
Trump could wing it, and shutting down the borders is a big thing, outside of Democrat World.
Aides clashed over whether the nation should close borders (although the initial policy would take hits for being inconsistent). 'Finally, Ivanka turned to her most powerful ally besides her father. "Jared, don’t you agree?" Any guesses as to what Jared replied?' Grisham writes.
 "I agree, honey. Bite my ass, Grisham. And ditch the telephone. The Washington Post is closed this time of night."
She had her own doubts about a presidential address
Who did? Grisham or Ivanka?
— but admits she didn't share them at the time. 'In my mind I kept saying, "This is not a reality TV show.
Jab at Trump there. Missed him by that much.
We cannot address the nation with a bunch of mumbo jumbo just so he looks presidential. That’s not how this works,' she wrote.
No. It wasn't a reality teevee show. The lives of millions were on the line. Or so we thought at the time.
And Ivanka, the women’s rights / small-business / crisis communications / and now Covid expert, just kept repeating, "There should be an address from the Oval."
 Like she actually believed it or something.
Trump told aides to 'figure out what to do,' according to Grisham. That led to more interventions by the president's daughter, writes Grisham. Both Jared and Ivanka served as unpaid senior advisors to the president. 'Ivanka was also doing her "my father" wants this and "my father" thinks that routine, making it impossible for staff members to argue a contrary view,' she wrote.
Maybe because they had already discussed it with him before arriving at the meeting? When I was a chief of staff that's the way we did it, if it wasn't on a subject we'd already argued to death and come to an agreement.
She was 'outraged' by Kushner's behavior because 'he was not an expert' on borders, the economy, or health consequences of the moves Trump would announce.
He seemed to be on the Middle East. I understand he's a quick study. And I'll betcha he was way more of an expert on borders than the first lady's social secretary.
'After he wrote the speech, there was no time for fact-checking, vetting, or notifying friends and allies on the Hill or abroad. There was hardly any time for the president to read it and make changes to it. It was a total clusterf*** from start to finish because Ivanka and her crew wanted her father to be on TV.'
 There's always that danger when you have to do things on short notice. If Roosevelt had waited for his staffniks to work over his December 7th, 1941, speech they'd still be arguing, Roosevelt would be dead, and the nation left of the Mississippi would be speaking Japanese. Und der rrright zide vould be shpeaking Cherman!
'And of course the speech that night contained a number of misstatements and sloppy wording,' she wrote. But when Trump's speech and delivery led to some confusion and required cleanup, it didn't weight down the power couple. 'No, they were in the dining room off of the Oval Office, Trump’s usual hangout, congratulating themselves and telling the president how awesome he was.'
Maybe they were expressing their opinions?
Grisham quit the White House after the Capitol riot Jan. 6th.
That was... just just two weeks before Biden's inauguration, right?
Neither Ivanka Trump nor Jared Kushner have commented on the book, although former President Trump trashed it in a statement that went after Grisham's personal life (she previously dated former Trump White House aide Max Miller).
 It would have been unlike Trump not to swat at an annoying insect.
'Stephanie didn't have what it takes and that was obvious from the beginning. She became very angry and bitter after her break up and as time went on she was seldom relied upon, or even thought about. 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,' Trump said in a statement through his spokeswoman.
So Max Miller broke her widdle heart and she took her troubles to work with her?
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.
Easy enough to prove, but that would have led to a really long chapter titled "The President Drops His Drawers." Right or wrong, he would lose..
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.'
Well, that certainly sounds tasteful. Or tasty, if you're Stormy Daniels, represented by a Creepy Porn Lawyer©.
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.
"Boss," the press secretary replied, "you're trying to make me squirt coffee come out my nose, aren't you?"
Grisham also wrote that the former president once asked her former boyfriend, Miller, if she was good in bed.
"No. Why do you ask, boss?"
"I just noticed how fond she is of mushrooms and toadstools!"
The Daniels affair, Grisham wrote, 'unleashed' Melania's vengeance as she began trying to contradict her husband in public.
I'm sure her press secretary would be the first person my wife would tell if it was she and it was I...
The first lady told Grisham she didn't believe her husband's denials.
 "Well, it is kinda stubby, and the head's twice the size of the rest of it... Maybe more like an umbrella, only without the curvy handle?"
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.'
"What should I call it?"
"I don't know! Rearrange the furniture or something! An idea will come to you!"
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 is my age., which ain't young. I can sympathize with him a lot more than I can with a woman who tells tales, true or not, out of school.
'A couple of times I came close to telling Mrs. Trump about the president's behavior. I thought that if she would say one little word to him about it, she could make it stop. But I could never bring myself to say anything,' Grisham wrote.
 She could have titled her book "The Cowardly Cow."
Ultimately, she was too 'chickens***' to tell the then-first lady or 'maybe it wasn't my place or any of my business,' she noted.
Didn't want to lose her job before she was absolutely sure it was gone.
And she reveals Melania Trump may still not know about the former president's behavior.
"And why not?"
"Moo!"
Grisham revealed in her book that the former president took 'an unusual interest in a young, highly attractive press wrangler on my team.'
There are lots of girls I find uncommonly pretty. Looking isn't the same as touching. If you want touching, look in Delaware at the other end of the state from where I live.
She details what she called inappropriate behavior by Trump and noted she tried to protect the staffer, who she doesn't name.
Monica?
Grisham writes Trump would tell her to put the staffer 'on TV. Keep her happy, promote her.'
Implying it was Kayleigh McEnany, who should sue her for libel.
Trump, a former reality TV star, consider being on TV a great compliment and hired some of his staff and lawyers based on their appearances on Fox News. Grisham also reveals that on one Air Force One trip Trump asked that the staffer be brought to his cabin, saying: 'Let's bring her up here and look at her ass.' She said after that she tried to keep the staffer off trips: 'I needed to protect her and, frankly, the president as well.'
Never having seen either or both of Ms McEnany's buttocks, I couldn't say, but I can't think of a wittier and more solidly grounded press secretary. Certainly not Ms Grisham.
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But she and Melania Trump also sometimes dissed Javanka as 'the interns' for their tendency to jump into all manner of subjects in the White House. 'When I worked for the first lady in the East Wing, we had all come to call Jared and Ivanka "the interns" because they represented in our minds obnoxious, entitled know-it-alls,' writes Grisham in her new book, I'll Take Your Questions Now, with her musings on Javanka excerpted in Politico.
