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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Io Dodds

Ex-White House aide shares fateful text from Melania Trump ‘refusing to calm Capitol rioters’

Stephanie Grisham via Twitter

A former White House aide has shared a text message allegedly sent by Donald Trump’s wife Melania Trump in which she refused to call on rioters at the US Capitol to stop all violence.

Stephanie Grisham, a longtime Trump loyalist who served as the former president’s press secretary and as Mrs Trump’s chief of staff, resigned within hours of the text exchange on 6 January 2021, when a crowd of Trump supporters stormed the seat of Congress to reverse his election defeat.

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