‘Explosive’ book about Melania Trump written by ex pal that ‘heavily trashes’ her to be released weeks before election
A FORMER close aide to Melania Trump has written an "explosive" memoir about her friendship with the First Lady which reportedly “trashes" her reputation.
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff’s book “Melania and Me: My Years as Confidant, Advisor and Friend to the First Lady” is due out in September, just before the Presidential election.
It promises a “revealing” look at the 15-year friendship between her and
The author was reportedly forced out of the White House in 2018, amid allegations that she had been profiteering from President Trump's inauguration.
But Winston Wolkoff has said she was "thrown under the bus".
She denied claims her company received $26 million in payments to help plan the 2017 inauguration ceremony and surrounding events, saying her firm "retained a total of $1.62 million".
"In her memoir, Wolkoff chronicles her journey from their friendship that started in New York to her role as the First Lady's trusted advisor to her abrupt and very public departure, to life after Washington," according to a description of the book published by Vanity Fair.
A summary posted on Google books says promises a “revealing and explosive portrayal of Stephanie Winston Wolkoff's fifteen-year friendship with Melania Trump and observations of the most chaotic White House in history”.
But the Daily Beast reports “people with knowledge of the project say that the content of the book is largely negative, and that the manuscript heavily trashes” the First Lady.
Winston Wolkoff is a longtime friend of Melania’s and was her first hire when she became First Lady.
Before she took over her inaugural event planning role, she worked as a special events planner for Vogue, helped stage the Met Gala, and was a fashion director for Lincoln Center
Melania Trump dismissed her from the East Wing with an email.
“I am sorry that the professional part of our relationship has come to an end, but I am comforted in the fact that our [friendship] far outweigh[s] politics,” the First Lady wrote in the email.
“Thank you Again! Much love.”
The book comes after National Security Adviser John Bolton's memoir “The Room Where It Happened” about his time serving Donald Trump in the White House.
In it Bolton portrays the president as ignorant of basic facts and whose decisions were frequently driven by a desire for re-election.
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He accuses Mr Trump of wanting help from China to win re-election, while offering approval for China's plan to build forced-labour camps for its Muslim Uighur minority.
The President’s niece Mary Trump, is due to publish “Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man later this month”.
An Amazon blurb for the book says the author shows how her uncle "became the man who now threatens the world's health, economic security and social fabric".
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