Aides would cheer up Trump by having Matt Gaetz call and tell him 'how awesome he was': Stephanie Grisham

According to Business Insider, former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham will reveal in her upcoming tell-all book that former President Donald Trump's aides would always put Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on the phone to suck up to him whenever he was depressed and needed an ego boost.

"Grisham said Trump's aides would get Gaetz on the phone to give the president pep talks or run interference on news shows," reported Eliza Relman. "'We all knew that whenever Trump needed someone to defend him on TV on anything, Gaetz was our boy,' Grisham wrote in 'I'll Take Your Questions Now.' She went on, "He would do anything for Trump and a TV hit — though not necessarily in that order. When the president needed someone to tell him how awesome he was, the staff would get Gaetz on the line and he'd sing for his supper."

Gaetz is currently under federal investigation as part of a probe into federal sex trafficking probe involving a Florida county tax official who has admitted transported a teenage girl over state lines for sex acts.

Grisham, who served as the third White House press secretary to Trump, has made a number of lurid claims in her book, including that Trump and his wife Melania didn't care at all about abuse allegations against a former staffer and that Melania believed that Grisham could order the press what to write.