Friday, October 2, 2020

Leaked audio features Melania Trump complaining about range of issues

 

Leaked audio features Melania Trump complaining about range of issues

Former friend and adviser to Melania TrumpStephanie Winston Wolkoff, author of Melania and Me, appeared on Anderson Cooper 360 Thursday night, where she shared audio recordings of phone calls with the First Lady. The subjects ranged from Melania’s trip to the southern border to visit with children who had been separated from their parents and the jacket she wore when she left that read, “I Really Don’t Care. Do U?,” to her disdain for decorating the White House for Christmas.

“I’m working like a — my a** off at the Christmas stuff that, you know, who gives a f*** about Christmas stuff and decoration. But I need to do it, right?” Melania said. “And then I do it and I say that I’m working on Christmas, planning for the Christmas. And they say, ‘Oh, what about the children? That they were separated.’ Give me a f***ing break.”

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Melania claimed that while it was sad that the children were separated from their parents, they were better off in U.S. custody.

“The way they take care of them. It’s, you know, they even said, the kids, they said, ‘Wow, I’ll have my own bed. I will sleep on the bed. I will have a cabinet for my clothes.’ It’s so sad to hear it, but they didn’t have that in their own countries,” Melania said. “They sleep on the floor. They are taking care nicely there.”

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Melania also claimed that she tried to reunite children with their parents but was unable to and griped that the media wouldn’t run the story. But she refused to go to the friendly confines of Fox News.

“They will not do the story. We put it out. They would not do the story,” Melania complained. “They would not do the story because — they are not, they would not do the story because they, they, they are against us because they’re liberal media. Yeah, if I go to Fox, they will do the story. I don’t want to go to Fox.”

As for that infamous jacket Melania wore when leaving to visit the separated children at the southern border, Melania said, “I am driving liberals crazy, that’s for sure. And that’s, you know, that’s — and they deserve it. You understand? And everybody’s like, ‘Oh my God, this is the worst, this is the worst.’ After — I mean, come on. They are crazy.”

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Putin says Trump's 'inherent vitality' will see him through COVID-19

 

Putin says Trump's 'inherent vitality' will see him through COVID-19

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin wished Donald Trump a swift recovery on Friday after the U.S. president tested positive for COVID-19.

"I am certain that your inherent vitality, good spirits and optimism will help you cope with this dangerous virus," Putin wrote to Trump in a telegram, pledging his support during "this difficult time", according to the Kremlin.

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Russia's ties with the United States remain strained over many issues, from arms control to the conflict in Syria, as well as allegations of Russian interference in U.S. politics, something Moscow denies.

On social media, many Russians wished Trump well but others responded with derisive comments, or with jokes. Some took the opportunity to highlight Russia's COVID-19 vaccine.

"Let's treat him with the Russian vaccine and medication," wrote Alex Korolyov on the social media platform VK. "Then he will be our Trump."

With hundreds of potential vaccines in various stages of development around the world, Russia was the first country to license its vaccine for public use and alongside China has been deploying the shots before full efficacy trials are complete.

Sergei Vlasov, another VK user, wrote that Trump should be airlifted to Russia for treatment.

"We need to urgently bring Trump to Moscow. We don't trust American medicine, his life there is at risk," Vlasov wrote.

One Twitter user said Trump should be flown to the same Siberian hospital where doctors treated Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny in August.

Navalny was poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent, according to German, French and Swedish laboratories. Moscow denies this and says it has yet to see evidence of poisoning.

Alexander Gintsburg, head of the institute that produced Russia's Sputnik V vaccine, told RIA news agency he expected the United States to take proper care of its president but said other U.S. officials should consider getting the Russian jab.

"It would have been good to vaccinate him," Gintsburg said of Trump.

(Additional reporting by Alexander Marrow, Gleb Stolyarov and Maria Kiselyova; Editing by Mark Trevelyan and Frances Kerry)

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