Ex-Trump White House Press Secretary Details Harassment

Stephanie Grisham, who served as White Home press secretary beneath Donald Trump, mentioned she witnessed the then-president’s sexual harassment firsthand.

She instructed CNN that she needed to attempt to defend one staffer specifically that Trump would request accompany him on journeys.

“He one time had one among my different deputies carry her again in order that they may have a look at her ass, is what he mentioned to him,” she mentioned. “I sat down and talked to her at one level, requested her if she was uncomfortable. I attempted all the pieces I may to make sure she was by no means alone with him.”

She mentioned she spoke to some totally different chiefs of workers, together with Mark Meadows, about Trump’s conduct.

“I believe, on the finish of the day, what may they do aside from go in there and say, ‘This isn’t good, sir’?” she mentioned. “Donald Trump will do what Donald Trump needs to do.”

Grisham’s feedback got here hours after a civil jury discovered the previous president chargeable for sexual abuse and defamation in a case introduced by author E. Jean Carroll.

Grisham mentioned Trump would typically touch upon folks’s seems and cosmetic surgery and such.

“However with this one staffer, it was actually unhealthy, to the purpose that I used to be extraordinarily uncomfortable,” she mentioned, including that each one senior White Home staffers on the time knew concerning the scenario.

“I did all the pieces I may to maintain her off of journeys truly and to stick with her if she was with him alone as a result of I used to be actually nervous about what may occur,” she added.

She didn’t identify the staffer, however she has recounted the small print earlier than and wrote concerning the incidents in her e-book.

Critics slammed her for doing nothing when these and different alarming incidents passed off, however cashing in by writing a e-book about it afterward.

“I frankly see no redeeming high quality on this girl or any of the Trump accomplices who now need to clear their names and need to make a buck,” CNN political commentator Ana Navarro mentioned on the time.