'You have to understand who they are to understand what they're trying to do, which is fleece the nation... She's no different from her husband.'
The first lady of the United States is fully complicit in Donald Trump's actions and is "no different from her husband", according to a former friend and adviser of Melania Trump and the latest ex-White House insider to write a tell-all book.
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff first met Melania Trump in 2003 while she was special event director at Vogue magazine.House of CardsHowever, unlike Claire Underwood, Melania Trump has few policy or political aspirations and does not covet power herself. "She was happy at Trump Tower. She loved Trump Tower. She was thrilled at her life," Wolkoff says.
"Melania looks unapologetically, authentically skin-deep... The reality is she is not unhappy, she is complicit."Vogue "I pressed record for my safety, my protection and my validation, because of course they were going to turn around and say none of it was true," Wolkoff tellsThe former White House insider says the relationship between Mrs Trump and her stepdaughter Ivanka is genuinely strained, with the two rarely sitting down to talk face-to-face.
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