Melania Trump Cuts Ties With Adviser Paid $1.6 Mil By Inaugural Committee

First Lady Melania Trump visited Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C., where she joined military families for the Marine Corps' annual Toys for Tots event. First Lady Trump made remarks and helped sort and box toys with the kids, on Wednesday, December 13th, 2017. (Photo by Cheriss May/NurPhoto)
First Lady Melania Trump visited Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C., where she joined military families for the Marine Corps' annual Toys for Tots event. First Lady Trump made remarks and helped sort an... First Lady Melania Trump visited Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C., where she joined military families for the Marine Corps' annual Toys for Tots event. First Lady Trump made remarks and helped sort and box toys with the kids, on Wednesday, December 13th, 2017. (Photo by Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Melania Trump ended her professional relationship with unpaid adviser Stephanie Winston Wolkoff after a report revealed that the Presidential Inaugural Committee paid Wolkoff $1.62 million, the New York Times reported Monday night.

Stephanie Grishman, Melania Trump’s spokeswoman confirmed to the New York Times that the first lady had “severed the gratuitous services contract with Ms. Wolkoff.”

Two people with knowledge of the situation told the Times that Wolkoff’s contract ended last week. Wolkoff was an unpaid adviser to Melania Trump.

A New York Times report revealed two weeks ago that President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee paid Wolkoff’s firm $26 million and $1.6 million personally to Wolkoff.

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  1. Interesting, I suppose, but apropos of what? Is there some hidden message here? Some deeper insight that this brings to the surface? It’s not exactly a Kafka short story.

  2. Grifters don’t take kindly to becoming griftees.

  3. $26M or so to a contractor who skims $1.6M and then says she had other bills to pay, coincidentally right around the time tRumpU had a $25M settlement.

    nothing to see here folks, please move along.

  4. They had a video on the TV.of her talking about how adults should be “encouraging positive habits on social media and technology,” to set an example for children.
    It was just painful to watch . Seriously painful, in addition to the irony meter going off the scale and twirling several times before blowing up.
    She needs to find a quiet spot and just stay out of the limelight.
    Looks like dearest Donnie set her and her bud up as fall guys .
    Was that in the prenup Melania?

  5. Avatar for fgs fgs says:

    Yeah but why isn’t the whole Clinton Foundation in jail yet?

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