US First Lady Melania Trump courted controversy Thursday when her former senior adviser released secretly recorded tapes in which she is heard railing against the criticism she received in 2018 for her husband President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration policies, which separated refugee children from their parents at the US-Mexico border.
Hours before the US President announced that he and Melania had tested positive for Covid-19, the First Lady’s former confidante and senior adviser Stephanie Winston Wolkoff shared the series of incriminating tapes during the CNN show ‘Anderson Cooper 360
In the tapes, Melania is also heard bemoaning some of her duties as First Lady of the United States and airing her frustration over the flak she has faced from sections of the press over the years
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff is an author, event planner and former friend and trusted aide to Melania Trump. She first became friends with Melania in 2003 and was later hired as the First Lady’s unpaid senior adviser when Trump was elected President.She eventually resigned from her role after the fallout caused by the controversial Mueller report, which alleged that funds were mismanaged during Trump’s inauguration event, which Wolkoff had helped to organised, according to a New York Times report
