Melania Trump Attacks Ex-Friend’s Book About Her As ‘Salacious,’ Distorted

Melania Trump Attacks Ex-Friend’s Book About Her As ‘Salacious,’ Distorted

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First Lady Melania Trump tore into former friend and advisor Stephanie Winston Wolkoff in a blog post on the White House website Friday, blasting her recent tell-all book as “salacious ... idle gossip” and accusing Wolkoff of “tearing things down” for her own gain.

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In the blog post, her second in a few days, the First Lady did not mention her former advisor or the book by name and said she “hardly knew” her.





In the first time the first lady has addressed the book directly, Trump portrays Wolkoff as