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Business Insider said:Melania Trump launched 'Operation Block Ivanka' to minimize Ivanka's inauguration presence, according to a new book based on secret tapes recorded by the first lady's former friend
Eliza Relman and Jake Lahut Aug 27, 2020, 11:20 AM
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Melania and Ivanka Trump on election night at the New York Hilton Midtown on November 9, 2016. JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images
- Melania Trump's former close friend and adviser Stephanie Winston Wolkoff reportedly secretly taped the first lady making disparaging comments about her husband and stepdaughter Ivanka.
- Wolkoff drew on those tapes and years of friendship with Melania to write a book about their tumultuous relationship, "Melania and Me: My Years as Confidant, Advisor and Friend to the First Lady."
- In an excerpt of her book published Thursday, Wolkoff describes Melania's tense relationship with Ivanka and an effort by the first lady to minimize her stepdaughter's role in the inauguration.
- An administration official denied Wolkoff's account of Melania's efforts to block Ivanka's face from appearing on TV during the inauguration and accused Wolkoff of having an "odd obsession with the Trump family."....
Heard Maddow talk to her tonight; this is "just the tip", of a big orange™ ****berg! She has the recipts, this starts to unravel the grift of the innagural fund. Oh boy can we expect some RAGE tweeting, maybe a few more srokes! He will NOT like this! Good! Best lay off that adderal, the BP can't take it...