Separations did happen under Obama, but not as a blanket policy and not at all after a judge intervened. Saying Barack Obama did the same thing is a common rightwing talking point. Donald Trump backed down but the effects are still felt by many families. The “zero tolerance” policy of separating migrant families caused huge controversy in 2018. I didn’t have a chance – needs to go through the process and through the law.” Where they were saying anything when Obama did that? I cannot go, I was trying to get the kid reunited with the mom. “OK,” the first lady says, “and then I do it and I say that I’m working on Christmas and planning for the Christmas and they said, ‘Oh, what about the children that they were separated?’ Give me a fucking break. Media figures were quick to remark on the irony of the first lady questioning her role in decorating the White House for the festive season, given her husband’s eager promotion of the so-called “ war on Christmas”, a rightwing saw much pushed on Fox News which says liberals want to take the joys of the holidays away.īut the conversation with Wolkoff, recorded in summer 2018, also assumes a darker hue. my ass off on the Christmas stuff, that you know, who gives a fuck about the Christmas stuff and decorations? But I need to do it, right?” I don’t say enough, I don’t do enough where I am. “They say I’m complicit,” Melania Trump says of critics of her husband. On Thursday, a little over a month from election day, she released such a recording to CNN. Before release, it was reported that Wolkoff had taped her former friend. Stephanie Winston Wolkoff is the author of Melania & Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship With the First Lady, a tell-all about her relationship with and work for Trump which was published in August. As James Comey once almost said – and Donald Trump might have repeated after Bob Woodward played their conversations to the nation – “ Lordy, there are tapes.”
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