Melania Trump’s spokeswoman is launching a full-scale defense of the first lady following an op-ed bashing her for hosting a “pity party” over negative media coverage of her White House tenure. These days, the consistent negative coverage that Mrs. Trump gets, it’s not fair. Stephanie GrishamGrisham then decried bad press that sometimes surrounds her boss, arguing that many inquiries she receives as a spokeswoman “have nothing to do with the substance of her work.” “These days, the consistent negative coverage that Mrs. Trump gets, it’s not fair. And I know I’m going to be attacked for saying it’s not fair, that I’m whining, but we’re defending ourselves.” Brower’s Thursday column ripped into Trump’s recent interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity in which the first lady accused journalists and others of being “opportunists” and using the president’s name to boost their careers, citing that as the single hardest thing about her position. That, Brower contended, was Trump’s way of “again making the job about herself and her family instead of taking the opportunity to talk about the challenges she sees other people facing.”ASSOCIATED PRESS Melania Trump's spokeswoman is firing back after a CNN op-ed.

Source: Huffington Post December 17, 2018 15:56 UTC