Former First Lady Melania Trump is making former President Donald Trump”quite worried” ahead of his hush money payment, scheduled to begin next week, said former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg last year charged Trump on a 34-count indictment for allegedly making the payment to adult film actor Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. His office has accused Trump of paying Daniels to prevent her from making public comments about her allegations of an affair with the former president, which he has denied.
Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has maintained his innocence in the case, as he has each of the criminal cases he faces. He pleaded not guilty to all charges and has accused Bragg of targeting him for political purposes.
The trial is set to begin on Monday, April 15, marking the first time the former president will be tried for criminal charges.
Grisham, who served in the Trump White House in various positions including press secretary and Melania Trump’s chief of staff, weighed in on how the former first lady may be dealing with the trial during an interview on CNN this week.
“I would imagine that she is pushing him to make this stop. I would imagine that she would push him to go on the stand and defend himself because this is very, very embarrassing for her. It’s humiliating for her, and I can guarantee you that she’s not happy right now and that he’s quite worried about that,” she said.
Newsweek reached out to Trump’s campaign via email and Grisham via Instagram message for comment.
While the trial may not be the most high stakes legally, these specific charges are “very personal to him,” Grisham said.
She said the allegations are an “embarrassment to him with his family, and more importantly with his wife Melania,” reflecting on how she responded when Daniels first made these accusations public.
“She didn’t take it lightly at all. We went to the State of the Union separately. She refused to walk out to Marine One with him because she didn’t want to be like Hillary Clinton and standing by her man. She’s a very independent and strong woman,” Grisham said.
Grisham has become increasingly critical of her former boss in recent years following the January 6, 2021, riot, when a group of Trump supporters violently protested the 2020 election results at the United States Capitol building. She resigned from her position as Melania’s chief of staff the same day.
She has since grown critical of Trump, in January issuing a warning about what a second term for Trump would mean for democracy.
“It’s important for people who were like me or who are like me now, who really believe in him, to understand how another Trump presidency will be,” Grisham said on CNN. “So what is democracy? That’s people having the freedom to act and speak freely. I think under Trump, you’re not going to be able to do that, or you are going to be able to do that as long as you’re talking about him just in positive ways.”
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This traitor is nothing more than a well established RINO, who has a bone to pick and decided to pick OUR FIRST LADY . PURE BULL SHXT!
The true traitor is in office right, and the rest of his administration. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is going after Trump for paying hush money to Stormy Daniels, while saying nothing at all about Bill Clinton paying hush money to Paula Jones. Have to be blind not to see that this all a witch hunt against Trump! Biden kept his classified documents in well, secured place…..in his garage next to his Corvette.
because of people like yourself, our Country is in real trouble.
why is it when you mention something the current president is doing , people start mentioning what other presidents did ..
Such a dishonestly worded article… makes NextGen look like more of the LameStreamMisleadia FAKE NEWS LIARS!
BTW, USA is a REPUBLIC, not a “democracy”…
it is a Republic based on Democratic values and system…that is what they meant
Do you instead suggest we change our system to a Republic dictatorship? OR an olyghargic?
Maybe a Theography turning Trump into a Religious Cult Leader?
“It’s important for people who were like me or who are like me now, who really believe in him, to understand how another Trump presidency will be,” Grisham said on CNN. “So what is democracy? That’s people having the freedom to act and speak freely. ”
Didn’t a certain Mr. Elon Musk buy Twitter(X) for that very reason?
Sounds like somebody got to this bitter shrew, or she’s writing a book and needs some spicy fodder on her White House years!
I hope visa thief and her parents get deported quickly.
As for the orange conman, rapist he sees a lot of jail time. 👍🙏🏻
Whatever money Clinton may have paid Paula Jones , IF he did, was not from Campaign Funds and was not just before an election and there was never any proof or evidences that Clinton had any sex with Paula Jones.
You guys are the kings of false equivalence….
Oh yeah, also Clinton did not tried to overturn a legitimate election, or found to be guilty of any financial impropriety in the very public WhiteWater investigation and when the Republicans tried to impeach him for lying to Congress about Monica even a Republican controlled Congress decided it was not worth it.
If it was not for whatever is in their prenup agreement, I am sure Melania would have been long gone and taken her son away from the noxious influence of this criminal family.
“He who is without sin among you, cast the first stone”
I will be happy to see tRump in prison.
Tom D. If you would give me a few minutes for I am searching for the biggest stone I can find.
I would like to see Biden in prison he is a criminal.
Democrats will try anything to get elected. The Americans are waking up and realizing that the dems have no pro American policies. So the communist puppets prosecute with our tax money and compromised judges are in lock step. President Trump could run this country better than Biden and his team of incompetents from jail.
How many years ago did we go through this Stormy travesty? Let it go. The Trump family doesn’t need to be reminded of the past every time they turn around. Almost every president we have had has some kind of black mark on their name.