These audio tapes are hand-picked about nonsense and presented with no context. (For what it’s worth the new calls, published on NBC, elicited one of the best statements yet from Stephanie Grisham, the first lady’s spokesperson: “ narcissism knows no bounds, this woman is a fraud. And now, with a couple new tapes released, we’ve heard what she sounds like when she’s just shooting the shit with a confidant. We've heard her echo right-wing talking points and complain about unfair press treatment. We’ve heard her enraged (i.e., “Who gives a fuck about Christmas?”).
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From the more than six hours of calls, which Winston Wolkoff has rolled out over several weeks, we’ve gotten a sense of Melania when she is beyond the prying eyes of public and press. Scrutiny over spending during the inauguration, which she helped produce, was ratcheting up, and her self-preservation instincts kicked in. Winston Wolkoff began recording her calls with her former friend, the first lady, when the White House did not renew her contract.
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Biden’s files show that his dad, presidential nominee Joe Biden, loves him very much, and Melania’s calls show a woman who insists on her independence while parroting her husband’s favorite topics. Both sets of records don’t tell us anything new, really, but both deepen the public’s sense of a couple of semipublic people. Die-hard MAGA-heads have Hunter Biden’s laptop, and diviners of palace intrigue have the Stephanie Winston Wolkoff/ Melania Trump tapes.