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House Republican Whip Steve Scalise called former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham 'pathetic' after she claimed that Melania Trump refused to visit him at the White House in 2017 after he'd been shot.
Grisham wrote in her salacious new tell-all 'I'll Take Your Questions Now' that Scalise and his family had taken an impromptu trip to the White House shortly after the Louisiana Republican recovered from being hot at a baseball practice in 2017.
Grisham, who also worked as the first lady's press secretary, wrote that staff asked Mrs. Trump if she wanted to visit the Scalises, gathered in the Blue Room.
'No, I already said hello,' Melania said, apparently referring to when she and the president had visited Scalise in the hospital.
Grisham said that Trump's response had become an inside joke among staff. 'Whenever the first lady said no to something, we would say to each other, 'Well, she already said hello!''
'This is how the fake news media machine against President Trump and @MELANIATRUMP works,' Scalise wrote on Twitter in response. 'This never happened. My family went to visit the White House while I was still in the hospital and were graciously given a tour by President and Mrs. Trump.'
The congressman included photos of both Trumps along with his wife and kids at the White House.
Scalise sounded off: 'This is another pathetic attempt by a disgraced
