Former first Lady Melania Trump’s Chief of Staff Stephanie Grisham said in an interview this week that she witnessed former President Donald Trump sexually harass other staffers – especially one woman whose identity she is keeping private.
“He would request for her to be on constant trips when it wasn’t her turn, I would rotate the staffers to go on foreign trips especially, he one time had one of my other deputies bring her back so that they could ‘look at her ass,’ is what he said to him,” Grisham said in her Tuesday interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett provided by Grabien.
Grisham said that she wrote about the pattern of sexual harassment in her book, “I’ll Take Your Questions Now”.
“So, this is nothing new for me to be saying publicly, but she – you know, I sat down and talked to her at one point, asked her if she was uncomfortable,” Grisham said. “I tried everything I could to ensure she was never alone with him. I did take it to a couple of different chiefs of staff, including Mark Meadows.”
Burnett, who noted that she knew Trump for many years prior to his presidency said she found the claims “consistent.”
Grisham also referenced Alyssa Farah Griffin, now a co-host of The View, who shared her own experience working as Trump’s director of strategic communications. Griffin said she witnessed “a number of problematic behavior and comments” by the former president while he was in the White House.
“She said she went so far as to report it – but that nothing was ever apparently done about it,” said the Daily Beast of Griffin.
These comments come on the heels of Trump being found liable for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll. A Manhattan jury ordering him to pay her $5 million in damages, 1010 WINS reported. Trump denied sexually abusing Carroll this week during his town hall event with CNN.
“He would always comment on women’s looks,” said Grisham of Trump. “Every senior staff member knew it, everybody talked about it in our White House.”
Grisham also said the infamous Access Hollywood recording (detailed here by The New York Times) in which Trump said that stars could “grab ’em by the pussy,” referring to women made her particularly protective of the staffer she mentioned.
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