In yet another excerpt from her forthcoming "I'll Take Your Questions Now," former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham described the work environment under former president Donald Trump as both a "hot mess" and an asylum where it was impossible to tell the "patients from the attendants."
According to a report from Business Insider, Grisham described her distaste for on-again, off-again Trump advisor Hope Hicks for taking a cushy job at Fox News after having to appear before special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators, but then admitted that the White House was not an easy place for anyone to work.
"I think she [Hicks] had been understandably stressed out by the communications director job and didn't like the fact that she had been subpoenaed and had had to testify in the Robert Mueller investigation (during which she admitted to congressional investigators that she had, in her words, told some tiny 'white lies' on behalf of the president)," Grisham writes in her book
Adding, "In my eyes and the eyes of others who had stayed to deal with all of the craziness, Hope had taken the easy way out. We all would have loved to take a cushy job somewhere else for two years so that we would be begged to come back to the White House to 'save' the administration," she also described the working conditions around the former president and his inner circle.
"I can give you endless metaphors to describe the Trump White House from a press person's perspective — living in a house that was always on fire or in an insane asylum where you couldn't tell the difference between the patients and the attendants or on a roller coaster that never stopped — but trust me, it was a hot mess 24/7," she explained. "How people did the job without going crazy was a question in itself."
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