Wednesday 29 June 2022 12:15 AM Ex-aide shares Melania Trump's refusal to say there is 'no place' for violence ... trends now
First Lady Melania Trump's former Chief of Staff Stephanie Grisham had her own receipts to show off Tuesday after Cassidy Hutchinson testified about resistance from the president and his advisers to call off the January 6 Capitol attack.
Grisham, who also served as White House press secretary, shared what appeared to be a text exchange between she and a 'MT' - Melania Trump - in which she asks: 'Do you want to tweet that peaceful protests are the right of every American, but there is no place for lawlessness & violence.'
'No,' Grisham's texts show the first lady responded.
First Lady Melania Trump's former Chief of Staff Stephanie Grisham had her own receipts to show off Tuesday after Cassidy Hutchinson testified about the resistance from the president and his advisers to call off the January 6 Capitol attack
Stephanie Grisham (left) had previously detailed how that exchange with now former First Lady Melania Trump (right) compelled her to quit her job on January 6. Grisham said she finally saw the first lady as the 'doomed French queen. Dismissive. Defeated. Detached'
Grisham had detailed this interaction with the then first lady in her book, I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House, explaining how it compelled her to leave.
She wrote that she 'finally saw the doomed French queen. Dismissive. Defeated. Detached.'
Melania Trump was in the middle of a photoshoot, capturing some of the White House's rugs when the Capitol was being assaulted by the pro-Trump crowd.
'It broke me,' Grisham wrote. 'I took a breath and waited another minute. You learned to do that in the Trump White House: make sure you are grounded and not acting out of the moment. Then I resigned.'
'I sent her an email and cc-ed her senior adviser so I couldn't take it back or be talked out of it. I was done,' Grisham said.
In January 2022, Grisham appeared in-person to speak with members of the House select committee on January 6.
Melania Trump 's ex-Chief of Staff Stephanie Grisham met behind closed doors in January 2022 with the House select committee on January 6. She is seen arriving at the meeting held at the O'Neill House Office Building in Washington
Stephanie Grisham tweeted out her exchange with Melania Trump after former Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson spoke of her own 'frustration' in getting Meadows to care about the angry pro-Trump crowd approaching the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6
Hutchinson, a 25-year-old former White House aide who was working under Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the attack, detailed some of President Donald Trump and Meadows' behavior during the MAGA riot to the House January 6 committee.
She said she was 'frustrated' by her own boss' ambivalence - even pointing out to Meadows that one of his close friends, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, was likely still in the Capitol Building as the angry crowd neared.
'I remember thinking in that moment, Mark needs to snap out of this and I don't know how to snap him out of this. He needs to care,' she told the House committee.
'And I just sort of blurted out, "Do you know where Jim's at right now?"' she said. 'And he looked up at me at that point. "Jim?" I said Mark, he was on the floor a
