Melania isn’t having much of a better week than Donald. She’s already been taken to task by the New York Times and outlets repeating their story, that she put together a charitable event for April without a charity. That’s been quite the dust up. Then there was the issue with her buying her own NFT and “millinery masterpiece” for skads of money because nobody else wanted it. And now, how sharper than a serpent’s tooth is her ungrateful former friend and author of Melania and Me, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff shoving it in her face that the illegalities surrounding the inauguration are going to trial and she’s right there to blow the whistle. Insider:
The civil lawsuit, filed by DC Attorney General Karl Racine in January 2020, accused Trump’s Presidential Inaugural Committee of misusing funds and paying the Trump International Hotel in DC more than $1 million to use event spaces for the inauguration — thereby violating the city’s laws that govern nonprofit organizations.
It cited the Trump Organization, the Trump International Hotel, and the inaugural committee as defendants.
It gets juicier still. The Trump Organization had been dropped as a defendant and then they were added right back in again. Ouch. Things were already horrid with the Mazars USA betrayal and now this.
Big news: The judge added the Trump Org in NY back into our lawsuit against the Presidential Inaugural Committee. Our lawsuit is moving forward fully intact & full steam ahead. We sued the inaugural committee for misusing funds to enrich the Trump family. Now we’re going to trial
— AG Karl A. Racine (@AGKarlRacine) February 15, 2022
Melania asked Wolkoff to join the inauguration committee as an unpaid advisor and then, lo and behold, there was the matter of the $26 Million, which Wolkoff says she never saw. That’s some gap, isn’t it, from pro bono to twenty-six mill? Sheesh. This is the testimony that everybody is on the edge of their seats waiting to hear, it goes without saying. Here’s the backstory from 2018, the New York Times:
WASHINGTON — The first lady, Melania Trump, has parted ways with an adviser after news about the adviser’s firm reaping $26 million in payments to help plan President Trump’s inauguration.
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who has been friends with Mrs. Trump for years, had been working on a contract basis as an unpaid senior adviser to the office of the first lady.
Stephanie Grisham, Mrs. Trump’s spokeswoman, said the office had “severed the gratuitous services contract with Ms. Wolkoff,” who Ms. Grisham said had been employed as “a special government employee” to work on specific projects. “We thank her for her hard work and wish her all the best.”
The contract was terminated last week, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation. […]
Mr. Trump, who is notoriously tight with money, was also enraged to learn that Ms. Winston Wolkoff brought on an associate, David Monn, to help plan inaugural events, according to people who spoke to him. Mr. Monn’s firm was paid $3.7 million, according to a tax filing by the nonprofit group, the 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee.
Ms. Grisham said that the first lady “had no involvement” with the inaugural committee and that she “had no knowledge of how funds were spent.”
Ms. Winston Wolkoff, in an email, defended her work on the inauguration, denounced news coverage of it and challenged the characterization that her contract with Mrs. Trump’s office was terminated as a result of the news about payments from the inaugural committee.
If you ever have an opportunity to go to the White House and work for free, do it. Jump on it. Because Jarvanka got $82 Million for their pro bono services, Wolkoff, or somebody in her circle, got $26 Million and we don’t even know the full scope of what went on. But with any luck this trial going forward in Washington, D.C. will tell us exactly that.
Those aches and pains you feel, Stephanie, are just Melania sticking pins in your doll, not to worry. When she puts the doll in the microwave, however, now that might be something else.
All that money & his inauguration had less pizzazz than a neighborhood tailgate party. No big names. No real crowd. The money disappeared so quickly, one would think crackheads went on a binge. Oh. Sorry donny jr.
Jarvanka got a helluva lot more than 82 million for their years in the WH. A LOT more. Hell, the bailout of the 666 building that saved the Kushner family business was ten times that. All for his providing PDB level intelligence, a crime that the rest of us would spend life in prison for. And while that might be the biggest single example of their grift I’d be willing to bet when you add up all the rest it’s plenty more than that one massive bailout.
As always, ” bring me moose & squirrel”.