Why Trump's Former Press Secretary Worries About His Influence In 2022

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🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham was part of the Trump administration from the beginning and, in a conversation with Tamara Keith, offers a clear picture into what she used to actively obscure: the chaos, pettiness, and mismanagement that characterized his four years in power. Her book is I'll Take Your Questions Now.

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith and White House correspondent Ayesha Rascoe.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:05.4	I'm Tamer Keith.
0:06.4	I cover the White House.
0:07.4	And I'm Aisha Roscoe.
0:08.4	I also cover the White House.
0:10.4	So today we are going to hear from a former Trump administration senior official about
0:15.8	what things were really like inside the Trump White House.
0:19.5	And I mean, we saw chaos from the outside, but it turns out there was even more going
0:24.2	on that we didn't see at least according to this new book.
0:28.0	So Aisha set it up for us.
0:30.1	This is Stephanie Grisham, a former press secretary who wrote this new book called I'll
0:34.6	Take Your Questions Now.
0:36.4	Yeah, she was with the Trumps from the start.
0:39.9	She worked on the campaign.
0:41.6	Then she went to the White House.
0:43.6	She is the only one of the press secretaries that people probably didn't really know very
0:49.1	well.
0:50.1	The public didn't know that well because she never gave a press briefing.
0:53.3	But she worked very closely with President Trump because she was his press secretary.
0:57.8	And she also worked very closely with the first lady, Melania Trump, which also made her
1:02.8	very rare because there were a lot of people that were dealing with Melania Trump on a regular
1:08.4	basis.
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