WASHINGTON – First lady Melania Trump’s office is fed up with speculationabout marital strife in the White House.
Mrs. Trump’s spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, took to Twitter Friday toblast “flat-out false reporting” about the first lady that has emerged inrecent days.
“BREAKING,” she wrote. “The laundry list of salacious & flat-out falsereporting about Mrs. Trump by tabloid publications & TV shows has seepedinto ‘main stream media’ reporting.”
Grisham added that Mrs. Trump is focused on her family and role as firstlady, “not the unrealistic scenarios being peddled daily by the fake news.”
The tabloid Daily Mail reported Friday that Mrs. Trump has spent a numberof nights at a D.C. hotel in the wake of reports of allegations by adultfilm star Stormy Daniels that she had an affair with Donald Trump in 2006,shortly after he married Melania.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump’s personal lawyer brokered a$130,000 payment to Daniels in October 2016 to prohibit her from publiclydiscussing the alleged affair before the election.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has scheduled an appearanceon ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” following the president’s State of the Unionaddress Tuesday.