EXCLUSIVE: Melania Trump's former friend reveals White House secrets | 60 Minutes Australia

Just as the world has never seen a president of the United States like Donald Trump, we have also never seen a first lady like Melania Trump, despite being one of the most photographed women on the planet, she remains practically unknown even to her own husband. , has been unkindly suggested. Tonight, however, that changes. Stephanie Winston Walkoff says she was Melania's best

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for 15 years because of it, she was named a trusted advisor to the first lady and even helped organize Donald Trump's inauguration, but then their

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ship turned really sour, so... What did Stephanie do next? Well, her. wrote a tell-all book that really tells all about

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and donald for outsiders analyzing donald and

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Melania has been the first lady of the United States for almost four years, but unlike her husband, she is still a mystery. Melania doesn't want people to know who she is or what. She and Melania remain mysterious, maintaining that steel wall. She doesn't have to answer to anyone. Stephanie Winston Walkoff is one of the few who is close to the real Melania Trump, since you will see that they are not friends now. but for 15 years, starting in the early 2000s, they were inseparable more than anyone else. She understands Trump's complicated love. This is not a typical marriage nor a typical relationship.

They are there for each other. They have a reason for being together that is beyond anyone's understanding. um except for being able to present herself in a way that she brings or brought some humanity to the presidency, it's easy to see how growing up as a child in Slovenia, which was under the communist regime at the time, I always heard about an amazing place. It's called America, yes, in many ways Melania's story is the American dream. At the age of 26, she arrived in the United States as a model and soon caught the attention of the ambitious and bold Donald Trump.

When they married in 2005, Melania became his third wife. I was actually supposed to meet someone else and there was a big supermodel sitting next to Melania. I was supposed to meet the supermodel and they were like, look, there's so-and-so, I said, forget about her, who's the one on the left? and he was one you liked immediately. great chemistry and energy, all for you, what she got was a treat for her arm, a decade later, she ends up, you know, being the first united states of america. Yes, can you imagine yourself as the first lady? Yes, it would be very traditional like Jackie Kennedy. but it is fair to say that jackie kennedy never looked like that at least not in public they were a little risky but nothing more than what is seen every year in sports illustrated stephanie winston walkoff says that despite melania's important exposure she has never been an open book and while you may not like Donald's embarrassing faux pas.

Grab it by him. I could do anything. He knows his wife will always look the other way. He surprised me because that's not the man I know. Would you agree in public? She really looks happy if she is. She is not unhappy, she is an accomplice, she is no different from her husband, what is her relationship? I mean, is it a marriage made in heaven with these two calculating people? You know, I've been saying it's a transactional marriage and it's because I started to realize that everything they did was um strategic, well what you're talking about is an incredibly cynical marriage, but if she knew who she would marry and was happy with what she got from him, where is that for public shame?

We have a woman who is married to a guy who is having an affair with a Playboy model and then a porn star and we are talking just a few weeks after her child is born and she is still recovering. They were made for each other. What woman? What what what? a normal woman could really handle that for her, it was just politics, it's just liberal media, it is what it is, I know who I'm married to, certain things don't need to be explained with an explanation, I mean, those are his words, he wanted Spotlight he is a showman and she was willing to do what he needed for her which was be by her side so all these speculations about her heart and how she feels and melania and melania should all stop because there is nothing there to feel what she looks like.

Having this habit of dodging Donald's public displays of affection and we've seen it a few times is a little strange so I think what people are forgetting or missing is that Donald and Melania and the Trump family are masters of the dark and I think that every time he needs something to take his mind off of something else, Melania plays a role in it and then suddenly everyone's talking about his slapstick, which to me is literally, again, they're aligned in a way that everything It's done. for a reason nothing just happens ah you think it's on purpose 100 so there has to be again you have to understand who they are to understand what they're trying to do, which is to fleece the nation, which completely makes you think one thing because that machine behind them is so powerful I'm very strong people don't really know me people think and talk about me like that oh melania oh poor melania don't feel sorry for me don't feel sorry for me I can handle it all for years stephanie worked at the magazine vogue in new york was where he met the model melania they hit it off immediately melania and our friendship was based on her ability to stay calm her ability to have the most general common sense it was a very experience You know, our ideologies were not discussed, There was no talk of politics, it was just the two of us, so I always felt great after I left seeing her, I felt safe, I felt safe, I mean, she really gave me that boost of, you know, energy.

Their friendship turned into a working relationship when Melania became first lady. Stephanie was announced as her senior advisor, but with him out of touch, business and pleasure don't always mix, and the friendship disintegrated. Stephanie, is there still a small part of you that likes him? Not Melania, not at all, you knew this woman as a genuine friend for 15-odd years, how could you get it so wrong? I know I gave him the benefit of the doubt. I wanted to believe that Melania didn't have anyone she knew she was dipping into. a pool of sharks and how everything turned out well people didn't like me asking questions about politics and power is ivanka jealous of her stepmother inside a fucking

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when donald trump was sensationally elected president four years ago, new first lady melania turned to her close friend stephanie winston walkoff to help coordinate her husband's $100 million takeover.

Stephanie's connections in the fashion world, as well as her years of experience producing New York clothing. The famous Met Gala made her the perfect choice for the job. It was her first glimpse into the colliding worlds of the Trump family and Washington politics when I was first asked to produce the inauguration. I did it with honor while doing this. I realized that Melania had no one and I mean no one to help her and I was her friend for 15 years. He was someone she trusted and someone she knew would take care of her and when I saw what was going on during the planning of the presidential inauguration committee, um.

She knew she was diving into a shark pool and then she needed to get her back because, according to Stephanie, no one else would do it in the first place. Melania Trump was pushed aside and often ignored. It quickly became apparent that there was a challenger for the role of Ivanka, First Lady Donald's daughter, no one cared about taking care of Melania Trump. People were only interested in making sure Ivanka Trump was taken care of. Is there normal communication between Melania and Ivanka? Do you ever sit and talk to each other in a room? about what's happening that day not very often you know it used to be more cordial when the kids were younger they looked up to melania um but now you know that power takes its place and it plays a very important part, you know, everything is being Now and yet you listen Ivanka just wanted to usurp the first lady her interests were hers is what Ivanka can get out of this for herself why is Ivanka jealous of her stepmother or is Melania a little bitter because she knows that?

Ivanka is Donald's favorite daughter. Melania accepted the fact and accepted it and she kept telling me that's the way it is because you care so much and I kept banging my head against the wall because it's not just the way. It should be, but it's ironic, right? Because you're telling me that you really wanted to make a difference, a genuine difference, and here you are working for a so-called friend of yours who doesn't seem to care at all. At first she did care and that's the difference. This is what has succumbed to her stepdaughter's ability to crush her as the first lady to do anything effective to bring about change. um and she's just going to tough it out this time and um, that makes you an accomplice then.

If not, you get up and leave, so when people talk about this cold war between Melania and Ivanka, it's over, in my opinion, Ivanka has won. Yes, if Donald had to choose between marking Ivanka or Melania, well, he's already shown us. who he has branded as right and the fact that he is literally grooming ivanka to become president and already putting that in people's minds is just crazy since melania trump's senior advisor stephanie winston walkoff held a privileged position for almost the first two years of Donald Trump's presidency, but This outspoken and opinionated woman was increasingly seen as a problem.

She really had a lot of questions and people didn't like her asking questions. I was a problem. They wanted me out of the White House. They saw me as someone who was divisive because I wanted to help. First Lady They were seeing me as devices, since Melania told me that people were jealous because I stayed the night. They were ideating me because I was very close to her and understood what she needed to do, but also had the experience to help her execute everything she needed. our country needed to do this, like so many other Trump staffers, tears were inevitable, they came when an official investigation was launched into why the presidential inauguration Stephanie had helped organize was so incredibly expensive, information was leaked to the media and she was accused of pocketing $26 million, but instead of defending her, her friend, the first lady, quickly and publicly abandoned her.

Stephanie is convinced that she was the victim of a political coup. They said at one point they paid her company 26 million dollars, I mean it's about 34 35 million Australian dollars. and then we heard that eventually they only paid you 480,000, I mean, is that figure correct? That's right, 490,000. Yes, but that also includes, you know, again, planning the inauguration, working for Melania during the inauguration for free, bringing all my relationships, my contacts. and working 24/7 for her and then also the year and a half in the

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, did melania know about the money? Melania knew everything I knew because we talked about it all the time.

Yes, could she have publicly defended you if she wanted to? a billion percent yet she said that because of the investigation she couldn't due to the fact that she wasn't a private citizen she couldn't and you know that's a cop out oh I know that's a cop out and I have all the evidence to prove that it is an escape that you are currently sharing with the investigators, that I am currently sharing with the investigators, they destroyed my character once I will not let them do this again and Stephanie Winston Walkoff is not only sharing what she knows with the investigators. she is also sharing it with the world again like with many other exes in the Trump administration.

She has written a revealing book. It is said that Donald and Melania are not very happy. I want to talk to you about the truth because the White House says that the First Lady is angry with you because you exaggerated your relationship with her to write a book full of falsehoods. Yes, I read that what did you expect them to say? The book has some falsehood. The book has none. falsehood I can back up every single thing in this book by one form of transmission or another and I mean everything you secretly record melania trump I secretly recorded milan trump after I was accused of almost being he was accused of being a criminal criminal activity he He is no longer my friend.

They threw me to the wolves. Are you suggesting that she took advantage of your trust one hundred percent? She no doubt stabbed me in the back, slit my throat and threw me under the bus. What about your motivation for writing this book? I needed to clear my head I needed clarity I've been living in my house for three years I've gone out maybe a handful of times I have three kids I'm sorry, okay, my life was taken away in a matter In a matter of seconds, the life I built for myself, my children,my husband and my family was crushed by this machine, a false narrative and no one had any desire to even want to find out what the truth was, what it was, where the rest of the money is.

On the list of scandals that have defined this president's first term, whether money is missing from his inauguration celebrations probably doesn't rank that high, but Stephanie Winston Walkoff says that with an election to decide whether Donald Trump gets a second term just a few weeks away, yes it is. It is vital to discover the truth. There's something very interesting about the way that when you take a big step back and stop focusing on the moments, you realize that America and the people are just playing and we're all on a reality show right now and we really are. if donald trump loses in november what will happen to melania she will be in the south of france on a really big yacht with a really big brimmed hat doing what she has always wanted to do nothing hello, I'm liam bartlett, thanks for watching to be here up to date with the latest news from 60

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