Melania Trump's alleged secret audios where she talks about migrant children
The recordings broadcast by CNN come from Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former assistant to the first lady.
First lady Melania Trump reportedly voiced her support for the care that migrant children separated from their families receive in US detention centers, suggesting that the facilities were better than those they had at home with their parents, in a series of recordings that aired Thursday.
The recordings broadcast on CNN come from Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former assistant to the first lady who released a book last month titled "Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady."
Winston Wolkoff is promoting the book in interviews and released footage to CNN of some of her private conversations with Mrs. Trump. In one of her audios, the first lady spoke about her opinion on the conditions that migrant children face in the US after being brought in by "coyotes."
Both NBC News and Telemundo have not been able to independently confirm the content of the recordings.
According to CNN, the first lady "was secretly recorded in the summer of 2018 expressing her frustration at being criticized for her husband's policy of separating families who crossed the southern border illegally while at the same time needing to perform traditional duties. first lady, how to prepare for Christmas ".
“Children say, 'Will I have my own bed? Will I sleep in bed? I'll have a closet for my clothes. ' It's very sad to hear it, but they didn't have that in their own countries. They sleep on the floor, "she said in an excerpt from the alleged conversation.
"They take good care of them there. But you know, yes, without parents. It's sad. But when they come here alone or with coyotes or illegally, you know, you have to do something," she hears herself on the recording.
At another point, Melania allegedly opined that some immigrants seeking asylum in the US were instructed on what to say. "They come up and say, 'Oh, we'll be killed by a gang member, we'll be, you know, it's so dangerous.' So they're allowed to stay here." She added: "Some of them are using that script."
In the audio, revealed on CNN's Anderson Cooper show, the first lady is allegedly heard saying that immigrants "could easily stay in Mexico. But they don't want to stay in Mexico. Because Mexico doesn't take care of them the way the United States does." .
Wolkoff left the White House in February 2018 when his contract was terminated. He helped produce Trump's inauguration and later worked for the first lady as an unpaid White House adviser.
The White House has dismissed her book as "full of falsehoods and paranoia."
At the release of the tapes on Thursday, the first lady's chief of staff and spokesperson, Stephanie Grisham, said that Wolkoff's "only intention was to secretly record the first lady so that he could sell himself and her book. lewd of her. "
“There is no way to know if these recordings have been edited and it is clear that the clips were hand selected and presented without context. The first lady remains focused on her family and serving our country, "Grisham said.
