昨晚，川普前白宫发言人 Stephanie Grisham 在 DNC 大会上的发言，可谓醍醐灌顶，振聋发聩，直接打在川普那张厚颜无耻的老脸上，啪！啪！啪！三大巴掌，一个比一个狠！ 第一个大巴掌：川普背地里嘲笑支持他的红脖子们是“basement dwellers”。 第二个大巴掌：Covid 期间，川普去医院访问。因为采访中没有把他当中心，而是对准了ICU病房濒死的病人，他很不高兴。He has no empathy, no morals and no fidelity to the truth。 第三个大巴掌：国会山暴乱前， Stephanie Grisham 恳求川普，让他规劝川粉们和平示威，千万不要诉诸暴力。她得到的回答是一个字：NO。 Former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham on Tuesday evening disavowed her former boss and voiced support for Kamala Harris for president in remarks at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. In her brief speech, Grisham said that she used to be not just a Trump supporter but also a "true believer" who became part of Trump's family and spent major holidays with him. "I saw him when the cameras were off, behind closed doors. Trump mocks his supporters. He calls them basement dwellers," she said. Grisham shared a few anecdotes about her experience working with Trump, including a story about a hospital visit Trump made during the Covid pandemic and she said people were dying in the ICU. "He was mad that the cameras were not watching him. He has no empathy, no morals and no fidelity to the truth," she said. "He used to tell me, 'It doesn't matter what you say, Stephanie — say it enough and people will believe you.' But it does matter — what you say matters and what you don't say matters." Representatives for Trump's campaign did not immediately return a request for comment. 
Former Trump White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham on stage during the second day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center, in Chicago, on Aug. 20, 2024.Andrew Harnik / Getty Images Grisham said that on Jan. 6, 2021, she asked then-first lady Melania Trump if they could tweet out that while peaceful protest is the right of every American, "there's no place for lawlessness or violence."
"She replied with one word: 'No,'" she said. "I became the first senior staffer to resign that day. I couldn't be part of the insanity any longer."
Grisham explained that she was criticized when she served as press secretary because she never held a White House briefing in that role.
"It's because, unlike my boss, I never wanted to stand at that podium and lie," she said. "Now here I am behind a podium advocating for a Democrat, and that's because I love my country more than my party. Kamala Harris tells the truth. She respects the American people, and she has my vote."
Grisham served as Trump’s White House communications director and press secretary from July 2019 to April 2020 and then went on to be Melania Trump’s press secretary and chief of staff.
In an interview on MSNBC after her remarks, Grisham said that if she can reach any undecided voters, she wants to convey that she understands what it's like to believe in Trump. But she praised Democrats for pushing a message of unity and said people may not agree on policies, but it's important to "talk to each other like humans again."
She said that the Harris campaign has been "brilliant" at communicating that people's freedoms are being taken away — that it's not just abortion rights, but also access to birth control.
"I really believe, a lot of people — especially Republican women — are going to vote for Kamala but maybe not tell their husbands," said Grisham, who called Trump and Vance "short-sighted" and "misogynistic."
Soon after Jan. 6, Grisham distanced herself from Trumpworld and eventually cooperated with the House committee that investigated the insurrection. In Oct. 2021, she told NBC's "Meet the Press" that she tried to resign from the White House "a couple of times" but Melania Trump convinced her to stay.
“In fact, I had a resignation letter written out with some very specific points in it that I was ready to hand over at any moment,” she said. “Jan. 6, of course, was my breaking point. And I was really proud that I was, well, the first in the administration to resign.”
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