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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,170 posts)
Thu Aug 27, 2020, 08:17 PM Aug 2020

Melania Trump's Former Adviser Details First Lady's Rivalry with Stepdaughter: 'Operation Block Ivan

For the first time, the veil of privacy surrounding First Lady Melania Trump is being swept away by someone from her inner circle.

Mrs. Trump's friend and former adviser Stephanie Winston Wolkoff is about to release her highly-anticipated memoir, Melania & Me. In an exclusive excerpt featured in New York magazine's Intelligencer, Winston Wolkoff gives shocking details about the oft-reported rivalry between the first lady and her stepdaughter, Ivanka Trump.

Winston Wolkoff describes her "petty" attempt with Mrs. Trump to keep Ivanka (whom Mrs. Trump nicknamed "Princess&quot out of the best photo ops during Inauguration Day in 2016. They called their efforts "Operation Block Ivanka," writes Winston Wolkoff, a former producer of the Met Gala who was brought on to help organize the inaugural events. New York also described Winston Wolfkoff as thinking she was the first lady's "best friend."

In her book, she writes of the first daughter's blatant attempts to overtake the East Wing, according to the excerpt.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/melania-trump-s-former-adviser-details-first-lady-s-rivalry-with-stepdaughter-operation-block-ivanka/ar-BB18rcOK?ocid=msedgdhp

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Melania Trump's Former Adviser Details First Lady's Rivalry with Stepdaughter: 'Operation Block Ivan (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2020 OP
I'm not a Staffer, I'm a Princess Stallion Aug 2020 #1
It does seem inappropriate for Ivanka to be in many places JI7 Aug 2020 #2
Those aren't the ones that get me. GopherGal Aug 2020 #7
I really hope there are some dedicated NY attorneys working on throwing Ivanka and smirkymonkey Aug 2020 #3
So melania's "friend" is leaking petty shit about her & ivanka? So Cha Aug 2020 #4
If you've sacrificed all claims at personal integrity... GopherGal Aug 2020 #5
Yeah, and I thank them for their LEAKAGE! Cha Aug 2020 #6
Isn't she the one caught with her hand in the cookie jar Retrograde Aug 2020 #8
So many thieves.. she's the one who "masterminded the inauguration".. Cha Aug 2020 #9

JI7

(89,262 posts)
2. It does seem inappropriate for Ivanka to be in many places
Thu Aug 27, 2020, 08:33 PM
Aug 2020

and taking attention from the person that is supposed to be the spouse or partner of the president.

GopherGal

(2,009 posts)
7. Those aren't the ones that get me.
Thu Aug 27, 2020, 09:58 PM
Aug 2020

It's the ones where she's taking attention from actual qualified professionals. Ivanka "meets" with Angela Merkel. Ivanka Trump has Working-Mom Barbie photoshoot at international summit.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
3. I really hope there are some dedicated NY attorneys working on throwing Ivanka and
Thu Aug 27, 2020, 08:42 PM
Aug 2020

Jared in prison. Their will toward power really frightens me.

GopherGal

(2,009 posts)
5. If you've sacrificed all claims at personal integrity...
Thu Aug 27, 2020, 09:45 PM
Aug 2020

to be an employee of these people, and come to the end of your term-limited role, you have limited your future money-making opportunities. It's pretty much Faux Snooze and/or tell-all books. And the best time to strike with the tell-all books is election season, so we're seeing a lot of it now.

Retrograde

(10,152 posts)
8. Isn't she the one caught with her hand in the cookie jar
Thu Aug 27, 2020, 10:13 PM
Aug 2020

after the inauguration? I wonder if her book will talk about where about $20,000,000 of those donations went.

Cha

(297,574 posts)
9. So many thieves.. she's the one who "masterminded the inauguration"..
Thu Aug 27, 2020, 10:24 PM
Aug 2020

that is "under investigation".

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