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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrew Feinberg

Ex-Trump aide reveals why Melania ‘didn’t trust’ Mark Meadows in new Jan 6 transcripts

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Former first lady Melania Trump did not trust her husband’s final chief of staff and was angered by the way he’d allow “harmful” people access to him and the White House’s private family quarters, according to her long-serving ex-spokesperson and former top White House aide.

A transcript of ex-White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham’s sworn deposition before the House January 6 select committee reveals that Ms Trump told Ms Grisham — who served as the then-First Lady’s spokesperson during the entire Trump administration — that she “didn’t trust” Mark Meadows, who left a North Carolina congressional seat to join the White House as Mr Trump’s top aide in April 2020.

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