A former White House aide has vigorously denied claims that Donald Trump boasted to friends about having an affair with her, describing the allegations as 'absurd' and 'unhinged from reality'. The accusation emerged from a 2019 email sent by author Michael Wolff to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as part of a draft manuscript, now released amongst 23,000 documents handed to Congress by Epstein's estate.
Madeleine Westerhout, who served as Trump's personal secretary and later Director of Oval Office Operations from 2017 to 2019, was named in Wolff's unpublished book draft, which claimed Trump told friends he was 'banging' the then-28-year-old assistant during the 2018 Christmas shutdown when he remained at the White House rather than joining his family at Mar-a-Lago.
