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Meet Melania Trump's enforcer. It's not her husband
Washington Post ^ | 12/10/2018 | Sarah Ellison

Posted on 12/10/2018 9:40:17 AM PST by simpson96

WASHINGTON — Staffers in President Donald Trump’s White House are measured by longevity.(snip)

Few in Trump’s White House have a history with him that dates as far back as Stephanie Grisham. For nearly two years, she served as communications director for first lady Melania Trump. A few weeks ago, she received a promotion to deputy chief of staff for communications and has become one of the more powerful figures in the ever-evolving Trump White House. Back in the summer of 2015, she was a lowly press wrangler on Trump’s campaign.

On a hot July day 3 1/2 years ago, Grisham — who had long lived in Arizona — was the person tapped to handle press for the candidate’s early and pivotal rally in Phoenix. Trump was a month into his run for president and ranked seventh in the Republican field.(snip)

Before joining Trump’s long-shot campaign, Grisham was a local political operative who had worked on Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign for president. She’s seen now as one of the “unbroken threads,” says Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, referring to campaign staffers who stuck with Trump and are now working in the White House. (By this measure, Grisham’s thread is about a year longer than Conway’s, who joined the campaign in July 2016.)

“During the campaign she developed a good relationship with the president and that’s carried through,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders says. “She has developed a great amount of trust from both the president and the first lady, which is a pretty high commodity here,” Sanders adds. “There aren’t a lot of people who have a lot of regular interaction with both of them.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...


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1 posted on 12/10/2018 9:40:17 AM PST by simpson96
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To: KC_Lion

*ping*


2 posted on 12/10/2018 9:40:31 AM PST by simpson96
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To: simpson96

I’m with her.


3 posted on 12/10/2018 9:53:25 AM PST by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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To: simpson96

No one is completely loyal in everything or in any situation, but for what she is needed to do, I’m glad Melania has another professional woman
to work with and confide in.

As Michelle Obama said, the White House can be ‘a very nice prison’ to live in due to all the necessary confinements.
This is one of the few times, I think Michelle is believable.


4 posted on 12/10/2018 9:59:17 AM PST by lee martell (AT)
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To: lee martell

Well, the Dems, academia, and the press are trying to gang rape Trump, so I guess it kind of is like prison.


5 posted on 12/10/2018 10:06:47 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: SoCal Pubbie

There’s a whole lot of Tag-Teaming going on.


6 posted on 12/10/2018 10:10:50 AM PST by lee martell (AT)
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To: lee martell

Some prison. She managed to travel the world extensively with an entourage, and spend our tax dollars without concern.


7 posted on 12/10/2018 10:24:27 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Guess this is the first volley at Grisham. The msm will tear her from limb to limb.

Does Melania ever take a bad picture?


8 posted on 12/10/2018 10:30:13 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bgill
"Does Melania ever take a bad picture?"

Apparently not --

9 posted on 12/10/2018 10:40:59 AM PST by Baynative ("A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." - John Barrymore)
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To: simpson96

Those hands on the bald male agent are obviously fake.


10 posted on 12/10/2018 10:57:07 AM PST by gaijin
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To: bgill
Does Melania ever take a bad picture?

Even a pix of Melania in blue jeans, showing plumbers crack, would be sinfully delightful. {Go ahead, do a mental view}.

WOW, I didn't think it would be that naughty, and just before Christmas.

11 posted on 12/10/2018 11:01:39 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke all mooselimb terrorists, today.)
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To: gaijin

“Those hands on the bald male agent are obviously fake.”

So are the woman’s. Would someone tell Michelle that’s how you wear a belt?


12 posted on 12/10/2018 11:02:19 AM PST by suthener
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To: simpson96; hoosiermama; Salvation; Right_in_Virginia; reformedliberal; Jane Long; HopeandGlory; ...
Thank You for the ping and post simpson96.

Ping to the First Lady's List.


13 posted on 12/10/2018 11:25:30 AM PST by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: mass55th

Fat ugly grifter from the getto. I see that dumpy house in Chicago is still sits empty.


14 posted on 12/10/2018 11:28:07 AM PST by angcat (THANK YOU LORD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!!!)
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To: gaijin

Why would they be fake?


15 posted on 12/10/2018 11:30:59 AM PST by Guenevere
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To: Guenevere

I understand that the fake hands are a provision so that in high-risk places their hands can be ON their weapons, ready to draw already.


16 posted on 12/10/2018 11:35:16 AM PST by gaijin
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To: angcat
"Fat ugly grifter from the getto. I see that dumpy house in Chicago is still sits empty."

Maybe Obama will leave it to Tony Rezko in his Will for services rendered.

17 posted on 12/10/2018 11:44:11 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: gaijin

That’s interesting. The fingers look unnaturally long.


18 posted on 12/10/2018 11:50:07 AM PST by GnuThere
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To: simpson96

My God. What man woudn’t be in Heaven with this woman?


19 posted on 12/10/2018 11:53:23 AM PST by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: gaijin; simpson96; suthener; Guenevere; GnuThere
Those hands on the bald male agent are obviously fake.

People have been speculating about this since the Inaugural Parade (above); but I've seen at least one video of him opening a door for her using his so-called fake hands. Notice in the pic above the fingers change positions on both hands. It appears that it's just a habit he has. His entire build is a bit unusual.

I do see that in all the photos of him on this post, his coats are cut very wide around the midsection, which is where the holster(s) may be strapped.

20 posted on 12/10/2018 1:03:04 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("The word 'racist' is used to describe 'every Republican that's winning'" --Donald Trump)
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