The rest of the title: The Rise and Fall of my Friendship with the First Lady. Stephanie Winston Wolkoff was a friend of Melania Trump before DJT ever ran for President. Stephanie admits that she didn't like much of what she was hearing from Trump during his run but she also was not involved or paid much attention to politics--if I remember reading correctly 2016 was the first election she voted in & voted for Trump. Stephanie worked for Vogue magazine and also was a major events coordinator doing Met Galas. Once Trump won the election, she reached out to Melania and offered to help with the inauguration festivities and helped coordinate people and events. She then stayed on as an advisor to the first lady trying to help her start up what would be the focus of the first lady's project.
This being the Trump White House and the even before that leading up to the Inauguration, the grift was on. Shady dealings were happening and the author didn't realize it but thought things not quite right but figured she would be okay as a friend of Melania and really just helping out. Well about 2 years later she was pushed forward as the person getting the grift or not staying on top of the money when she had no role in the money side of this. She had signed a NDA so couldn't fight back on the bad press going out and reaching out & begging for help from her friend did nothing too. Really just a sad but not surprising happening. At least she was able to get this book written & out there to give her side--at least as much as she could--she mentioned with NDA she could only write about what was out in public already or something like that.
There is 1 copy on PBS already and don't see a reason on make a 2nd copy so will probably look to hand off or give away instead.
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