{"id":52242,"date":"2022-03-09T11:19:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T19:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52242"},"modified":"2022-03-09T11:19:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T19:19:39","slug":"trumps-wh-press-secretary-stephanie-grisham-reveals-he-envied-putins-ability-to-kill-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52242","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s WH Press Secretary, Stephanie Grisham, Reveals He Envied Putin&#8217;s Ability to Kill Critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The well documented evidence of Donald Trump&#8217;s seething sociopathy just got bolstered by one of his closest advisors. Trump&#8217;s former press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, worked for him starting with his 2016 campaign, and was promoted throughout his occupancy of the White House, eventually to communications director. She was a close and trusted confidant with intimate access to all of Trump&#8217;s activities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Trump's WH Press Secretary, Stephanie Grisham, Reveals He Envied Putin's Ability to Kill Critics%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52242\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-roses-putin.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38583\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, since Trump&#8217;s electoral loss in 2020, Grisham has reappraised her service to the twice-impeached megalomaniac. Her deliverance from the Cult of Trump began when she witnessed <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51717\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his real-time response to the January 6th insurrection<\/a><\/strong>, which was unbridled glee. Last year she <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3ukn14y\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published a tell-all book<\/a><\/strong> about her experiences in the cult.<\/p>\n<p>Grisham remains a staunch critic of Trump, and says she is now <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50860\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>&#8220;terrified&#8221;<\/em> by the prospect of him running for president again<\/a><\/strong>. She isn&#8217;t alone. She appeared on ABC&#8217;s <em>&#8220;The View&#8221;<\/em> Wednesday with some additional reasons to be afraid of Trump&#8217;s continuing aspirations for power. She spoke specifically of Trump&#8217;s infatuation with brutal tyrants in general, and Vladimir Putin in particular:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;He really admired Putin. And I saw that first hand. I saw him say to Putin, &#8216;Hey, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50813\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;m gonna be tough on you in front of the cameras<\/a>, you understand? And once the cameras are gone we&#8217;ll have a real conversation.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;[Trump] really admired Putin and I saw that firsthand,&quot; former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OMGrisham?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@OMGrisham<\/a>) tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheView?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheView<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think he feared him. I think he was afraid of him. I think the man intimidated him.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cVclFZQmjA\">https:\/\/t.co\/cVclFZQmjA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C8kMaNF0q5\">pic.twitter.com\/C8kMaNF0q5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The View (@TheView) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheView\/status\/1501331938413629443?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Grisham elaborated saying that Trump <em>&#8220;was afraid of&#8221;<\/em> Putin, and also that <em>&#8220;he admired him greatly:&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think that he wanted to be able to kill whoever spoke out against him. [&#8230;] He loved the dictators. He loved the people who could kill anyone, including the press.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Grisham isn&#8217;t the only one to reveal Trump&#8217;s craving to assassinate journalists. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41987\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump said so himself<\/a><\/strong> during a summit with Putin. After expressing his desire to <em>&#8220;get rid of&#8221;<\/em> those pesky reporters, Trump engaged in this exchange with with his BFF:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Trump:<\/strong> Fake \u2026 fake news. Great term, isn\u2019t it? You don\u2019t have that problem in Russia. We have it. You don\u2019t have it.<br \/>\n<strong>Putin:<\/strong> Yes, yes. We also have. It\u2019s the same.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump was obviously envious of what he thought was Putin&#8217;s freedom from having to deal with a free press. But Putin&#8217;s correction needs a little context. The only reason reason he doesn&#8217;t have the same problem with reporters in Russia is because he has any who are critical of him killed. Which is what Trump is so clearly jealous of. He wants unflinching devotion from everyone. And that includes the American people. He once articulated <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38209\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his wish that Americans would worship him<\/a><\/strong> like North Koreans worship Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s astonishing that, with all the documentation of Trump&#8217;s diseased mentality and malignant narcissism, that anyone could still support him. But that&#8217;s the nature of a cult. And his followers are fully indoctrinated. Which makes them imminently dangerous. They are also outnumbered by decent and sane citizens. We just need to be certain that they remain engaged and turn out to vote. The alternative is unthinkable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. 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Trump&#8217;s former press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, worked for him starting with his 2016 campaign, and was promoted throughout his occupancy of the White House, eventually to communications director. She was a close and trusted confidant with intimate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,1200],"tags":[554,1385,1072],"class_list":["post-52242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-stephanie-grisham","tag-vladimir-putin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-roses-putin.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-dAC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50813,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50813","url_meta":{"origin":52242,"position":0},"title":"Press Secretary Grisham: Trump Told Putin He Would Only &#8216;Act Tough&#8217; for the Cameras","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/28\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Throughout the single term presidency of Donald Trump, it was impossible not to notice his fawning affinity for authoritarian tyrants, and especially Russia's Vladimir Putin. 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