Secretly recorded tapes show Melania Trumps

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"They say I'm an accomplice. I'm like him, I support him. I don't say enough I don't do enough where I am," she said in a tape secretly recorded by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former friend and senior adviser to the first lady who wrote a book about their relationship, "Melania and Me."
The tapes were played exclusively on CNN's” Anderson Cooper 360 " Thursday night and were recorded by Wolkoff after he left the White House.

"I work... my damn on Christmas stuff, you know, who talks about Christmas stuff and decorations? But I have to, right?

She continued: "OK, then I do it and I say I'm working on Christmas and I'm preparing Christmas and they said,' Oh, what about the kids they separated?'Give me a break **. Where were they saying anything when Obama did that? I can't go, I was trying to reunite the child with his mother. I was not lucky – you have to go through the process and through the law. “

The policy Melania Trump was referring to was different from that of her husband, President Donald Trump. Under former President Barack Obama, children were separated from their parents only when authorities had concerns for their welfare or could not confirm that the adult was in fact their legal guardian, but not as a general policy as was the case under Trump – until a judge forced the administration to stop.

In a statement, Melania Trump's chief of staff, Stephanie Grisham, criticized Wolkoff for releasing the recording.

"Secretly recording the First Lady and voluntarily breaking an NDA to publish a salacious book is a clear attempt at relevance. The timing remains suspect – as does this endless exercise of self-pity and narcissism” " she said in a statement.

In another recording, Melania Trump focuses on the reaction of migrant children brought "by coyotes" as evidence of the quality of detention centers and "the way they care for them."

"The kids, they say,' Wow am I going to have my own bed? Shall I sleep on the bed? Will I have a wardrobe for my clothes?'It's so sad to hear it but they didn't have that in their own country, they sleep on the floor,' Melania Trump says on the tape. “We take good care of them there. But you know, yeah, they're not with their parents, it's sad. But when they come here alone or with coyotes or illegally, you know, you have to do something.”

The first lady also questioned the authenticity of some immigrants ' accounts of fleeing danger in their home countries.

"A lot of moms and kids, they're taught how to do it. They go further and they say, 'Oh, we'll be killed by a gang member, we'll be, you know, it's so dangerous, '" Trump said, imitating a dramatic voice. "So they are allowed to stay here.”

” It's not true that they would, you know what I mean, “Trump said, adding that " they're not professionals, but other people teach them what to say to come and you know, let them stay here. Because they could easily stay in Mexico, but they don't want to stay in Mexico because Mexico doesn't take care of them in the same way as America does. ”

Wolkoff told Cooper on Thursday that she thought Melania Trump may have felt maternal concern for children, but had overtaken her to fit into the administration's agenda.

“I think as a mother, those maternal instincts in her were triggered and she cared,” Wolkoff said. "But there is no husband to turn to, the leader of the free world, to discuss how she feels about it. So anyway, she's standing in line and she just decides that what she's heard and what she's been told is what she's got the rule of law in our country. “

Wolkoff added: "on the other hand, Melania, the traditions of the first lady and the president are gone with this couple and I think if there were – there would be so much to do but, again, no support. No understanding.”

A former Vogue magazine staffer who oversaw high-value events including the Met Gala, Wolkoff has known Melania Trump for more than a decade. The two women were close for several years while they both lived in New York and operated in similar social circles.

Wolkoff was Trump's first hired for the East Wing, acting as the first lady's senior adviser, writing speeches and helping create what would become the "Be Best"platform.

However, as investigations into inaugural activities unfolded, Wolkoff's relationship with Trump collapsed, driven by the amount of money Wolkoff and his events company allegedly pocketed during the planning and execution of the inauguration.

Wolkoff's business was paid more than $ 26 million, most of which went to subcontractors, but a large amount, believed to be $ 1.6 million, went directly to Wolkoff's business, according to documents reviewed by CNN. Wolkoff personally received about $ 500,000 for his role in the inauguration, according to The New York Times.
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