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Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former aide and friend of Melania Trump, revealed the then-first lady’s alleged reaction to reports of Donald Trump’s affair with Stormy Daniels in 2006.
Wolkoff said Melania told her that Annie Leibovitz was photographing Daniels, whom Melania referred to as a “Porn-Hoooker,” for Vogue magazine.
“Melania Trump called me 3/28/2018 three days after the Stormy Daniels 60 [Minutes] Interview. You think Melania ever mentioned Donald? Nope! Melania wanted me to know that, ‘Annie Leibovitz was photographing the “Porn-Hoooker” {Stormy} for Vogue,’ she said. That’s Melania,” Winston Wolkoff wrote.
Donald Trump is on trial for falsifying business records related to a $130,000 hush money payment to Daniels ahead of the 2016 election to conceal the alleged affair.
His allies have denounced the trial as a political effort to undermine Trump as he ramps up for another presidential run.
His lawyer criticized limits on questioning potential jurors’ political views and voting history, arguing it hinders Trump getting a fair trial given the venue in a Democratic-leaning state.
“Pure evil,” Donald Trump Jr. wrote on X.
“Judge Merchan is truly heartless in not letting a father attend his son’s graduation,” Eric Trump wrote.
“You’re not allowed to ask who they voted for,” lawyer Alina Habba stated. “You’re shot in the foot right there.”
“They’re going to try to get the best jury pool they can,” Habba said.
“What is troubling in this case is that when we (she is not on this case) are doing jury selection starting today, one of the things that the judge here, Judge Merchan, would not allow us to ask was whether or not they voted Republican or Democrat, whether or not they voted for President Trump,” Habba said.
“This judge has eliminated many of those questions. You’re not allowed to ask who they voted for (you never are), you can ask what news they watch, but I watch CNN, and I watch Fox because I like to know what my opposition is saying … So when you are sitting with a president and current nominee for the GOP, and you can’t ask how you vote, you’re shot in the foot right there. That hindrance is in of itself problematic right from the get-go,” she added.
Melania Trump called me 3/28/2018 three days after the Stormy Daniels 60 Minute Interview.
You think Melania ever mentioned Donald? Nope!
Melania wanted me to know that, “Annie Leibovitz was photographing the ‘Porn-Hoooker’ {Stormy} for Vogue,” she said.
That’s Melania.
— Stephanie Winston Wolkoff (@SWinstonWolkoff) April 14, 2024
