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On Tuesday, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Sean Parnell, a Trump ally now seeking a Pennsylvania Senate seat in 2022, is asking a judge to place a gag order on his estranged wife and her attorney to prevent them from discussing former protective orders she held against him.

"A judge in the case, filed in Butler County, heard arguments on the requests Tuesday morning. Parnell, asking for a seal on the case for a second time, argued that he was trying to protect his three children from media prying and being exposed to harmful information about their parents' dispute," reported Jonathan Tamari. However, "An attorney for his wife, Laurie Parnell, said the candidate is trying to protect himself and his political ambitions. She noted that in 2019 he sought permission to use the children's photos on social media, filing a motion that cited a brand strategist's advice to do so 'in order to harness the potential of his customer base, secure new followers,' and improve sales of his books."

President Donald Trump's final chief of staff, former Rep. Mark Meadows was one of the worst enablers of the president's "delusion and conspiracies," wrote former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham in her new book.

According to one of the many stories in I'll Take Your Questions Now, Grisham described Meadows as the worst of the White House chiefs because he "nursed Trump's worst instincts," particularly when it came to COVID-19.

According to New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire GOP state Rep. Ken Weyler is now facing bipartisan calls to be stripped of leadership — including from GOP Gov. Chris Sununu. According to the accusations, the state house Finance Committee chairman circulated a series of bizarre COVID-19 conspiracy theories laced with attacks on the Catholic church.

"Sununu's statement comes after Weyler, 79, emailed colleagues materials full of COVID conspiracy theories, including a discredited, false report that claims COVID deaths are driven by a plot orchestrated out of Vatican City, Washington D.C. and London," reported Josh Rogers. "'It's all one huge puppet theatre, where the majority of the people — even most of those who are complicit — haven't got the slightest clue what is going on, and how everyone is being played,' the report states. Among other false claims, the report says some COVID vaccines include 'living organism(s) with tentacles.'"

The new book by Stephanie Grisham makes no qualms about trashing Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner for running their own kind of "shadow presidency" and pretending as if they were American royalty.

In one bizarre exchange with Kushner, Grisham recalls how he would secretly brag to the staff about his ability to control President Donald Trump. He came to her office amid the first impeachment hearings and said that they needed a war room. Trump had vetoed the idea before, saying that it would make him look bad. Jared wanted the war room, however.

The Laundrie's family attorney revealed that they mistakenly gave the wrong information to the FBI about their son's escape while police were searching for his fiancée's body in Wyoming.

According to Brian Entin from News Nation, who has been following the story closely, lawyer Steve Bertolino released a statement saying that Laundrie left the house for his "hike" on Monday, Sept. 13, not Tues. Sept 14, as was previously stated.

The ongoing saga of the Trump family outlined in tell-all books continued this week as Stephanie Grisham released her work I'll Take Your Questions Now. One story she revealed was that the entire Trump family couldn't understand what the role of a press secretary was and why they couldn't control the media.

She explained that they thought that the White House press secretary was like a publicist and that the role was planting positive stories in the media just like Hollywood types do to promote themselves and their profiles. Melania didn't understand why Grisham wasn't planting short puff pieces in People or Page Six, as other celebrities had.

Stephanie Grisham's new book, I'll Take Your Questions Now, recalled the obsessive way in which President Donald Trump would focus on press briefings. From the beginning, she witnessed how Trump would force Sean Spicer to say word-for-word what Trump told him, even if he knew it was a lie.

"I know firsthand how much pressure he placed on you," she wrote. "He watched the briefings, commented on everything from what you wore and what you said to what reporter you took a question from and what reporter you ignored. He expected and demanded that you say certain things regardless of whether they were true or not. Sometimes he dictated things word for word for you to repeat."

Stephanie Grisham's new book, I'll Take Your Questions Now, begins with the first days of the Trump administration as Sean Spicer stepped to the podium and lied to the press for the first time when he claimed the inauguration size was larger than in 2008 and 2012.

She recalled being excited and proud, innocently waiting for Spicer's first briefing but as the time approached for Spicer to step out to the podium he was still with the president. That's when Grisham knew something was probably wrong.

Many of the post-Trump presidency books have searched for blame amid the COVID crisis, but former National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien made it clear, pinning it on Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

In Bob Woodward's book Rage, he describes President Donald Trump and his advisers linking his success over the COVID-19 crisis to the economy. Trump falsely believed that if the economy came roaring back that his presidency would be saved and his second term would be secured. Woodward made it clear that the former president never fully understood that to save the economy, he first had to fight the virus,

The latest tell-all book out from Stephanie Grisham focuses a lot of attention on her complaints with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.

Grisham, who worked as both communications director and chief of staff for Melania Trump, also served as President Donald Trump's press secretary. Stories have already surfaced from the book about Ivanka being referred to as the "princess" by the First Lady, as well as a slew of other backbiting details about their relationship.

I'll Take Your Questions Now , a new book by Stephanie Grisham, makes it clear that the former Trump aide didn't much care for Jared Kushner or Ivanka Trump -- and neither did the First Lady, Melania Trump.

For example, the new book describes a bizarre scene on Election Night, and the party planning that went into it.

In a campaign announcement video, North Carolina Assemblymember Charles Graham recalled his hometown's fight against the Klan in 1958. He compared it to the right-wing terrorism Americans faces more than 60 years later.

Graham said that the Klan announced a rally where they would terrorize the Blacks and Lumbee, which he described as nothing more than a poor farming community. His parents, like many others, were share-croppers along with other Black, White and Native people.

Former Vice President Mike Pence made it clear to Fox News host Sean Hannity that he and Trump are finished, but that it was an "amicable" parting, despite supporters calling for his death on Jan. 6, the Daily Beast reported Monday.

In the new book Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, Trump is quoted threatening the friendship with his then-VP if he didn't stop the certification of the 2020 election.