Melania Trump Used Several Private Email Servers, According To Former Friend

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who is helping plan events for events for the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, leaves Trump Tower on December 5, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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Stephanie Winston Wilkoff, a former friend and adviser to First Lady Melania Trump who helped plan President Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2016, stated on Tuesday that the first lady had used private email accounts while in the White House.

“Melania and I both didn’t use White House emails,” Winston Wilkoff, who recently published a memoir titled “Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady,” told the Washington Post.

During the interview, Winston Wilkoff provided “what appeared to be extensive digital and physical archives of emails and emoji-laden texts” between her and Trump, in the Post’s words.

Private email servers the first lady had used while in the White House, according to Winston Wilkoff, included a Trump Organization email account and one using a MelaniaTrump.com domain.

In both her book and in interviews as part of her book tour, Winston Wilkoff alleges that Trump was involved in handling the inaugural committee’s expenditures, which are currently under federal and state investigation. Winston Wilkoff stated that she is assisting the investigators, which include the U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, along with the attorneys general in New Jersey and Washington, D.C.

“I’m working with three different prosecutors, and it’s taken over my life,” she told ABC News in a pre-taped interview that aired on Tuesday.

D.C. Attorney General spokesperson Marrisa Geller confirmed to TPM that Winston Wilkoff “received and responded to a pre-suit subpoena from our office.”

Stephanie Grisham, Trump’s spokesperson, claimed that Winston Wilkoff’s allegations are false and “clearly based on some imagined need for revenge.”

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  1. Probably a necessity when you’re hoping to flee an abusive relationship.

  2. Why does the phrase “Lock her up” ring a bell?

    AND

    Lordy, there are Melania tapes…
    Video :point_down:

    "Melania and the White House had accused me of criminal activity, and publicly shamed and fired me, and made me their scapegoat. At that moment in time, that's when I pressed record." -Stephanie Winston Wolkoff on whether she has recordings of the quotes in her new book pic.twitter.com/LpXyWg0MWR

    — Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) September 2, 2020
  3. Lock 'er up!!!

  4. Avatar for nycabj nycabj says:

    If I recall, Early on it was reported Jared and Ivanka were using private emails, and possibly even Trump, but I don’t recall that it was ever investigated and/or stopped.

  5. Plus, Jared wanted a special server at a Russian embassy.

    But, absolutely no collusion.

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