Melania Trump's office says she was 'confident' husband would win election
By Max Greenwood - 01/03/18 02:08 PM EST
First Lady Melania Trump was "confident" that her husband would win the 2016 presidential election, and, in fact, was "happy when he did," a spokeswoman for the first lady said Wednesday.
Stephanie Grisham, the communications director for the First Lady's Office, pushed back on the claim in an upcoming book that Melania Trump did not want her husband to win the election and mourned when he did, saying that she encouraged Donald Trump to run for office in the first place.
“The book is clearly going to be sold in the bargain fiction section," Grisham said in a statement, referring to Michael Wolff's upcoming book, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.
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