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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReport: Trump Friends Go Through First Lady Melania
FIRST LADY MELANIA CONTROLS WHOM PRESIDENT TRUMP TALKS TO DESPITE JOHN KELLYS WHITE HOUSE RULESBY GREG PRICE ON 12/6/17 AT 10:41 AM
First lady Melania Trump reportedly has become an important political adviser to her husband, President Donald Trump, and now serves as a means for the Republican billionaires friends to go around the restrictions put in place by chief of staff John Kelly.
Melania Trump, who was once chastised for a lack of activity or even importance within the administration, took on a much bigger role as a sort of gatekeeper who can reach the president after she and son Barron moved to the White House from New York in June, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. The report overall focused on how Kelly, a former general who took over Reince Priebuss role in July, tried to institute more discipline in the Trump administration and how the president had found loopholes, including summoning aides to his private residence and giving them assignments behind Kellys back.
The first lady, evidently, is one of the so-called loopholes exploited by Trumps associates and friends, according to the Journal, which cited two unnamed sources. If I dont want to wait 24 hours for a call from the president, getting to Melania is much easier, one source told The Journal. Its unclear exactly whom Melania vets and allows to reach the president.
A spokesperson for the first lady, however, dispelled the Journals report as fake news. These are more anonymous sources peddling things that just arent true. The first lady is focused on her own work in the East Wing, the unnamed spokesperson told the Journal.
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Report: Trump Friends Go Through First Lady Melania (Original Post)
DonViejo
Dec 2017
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louis-t
(23,296 posts)1. And just what is "her own work"?
LAS14
(13,783 posts)2. What's a Trump "friend?" nt
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. Adelson,Wynn,Rifkin,
Barrick,Ichan,see a pattern.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)4. And exactly what work is that? eom