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madaboutharry

(40,181 posts)
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 07:30 AM Oct 2021

On CNN now: Stephanie Grisham

She says she feels horribly guilty and is ashamed for the terrible things she did and said while working in the Trump White House.

She blames the absence of press conferences on Trump as he prohibited her from holding them.

It is always tough to figure these people out. She had a thousand opportunities to walk away. She claims she had an undated resignation letter in her desk drawer. However, it wasn't until Jan. 6th, after Trump had already lost re-election, that she resigned.

So many times we find out how people are such cowards when it comes to doing the right thing. She admits lying to save her job.

I think she is a person who does know the difference between right and wrong but was too weak to make the right choice.

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On CNN now: Stephanie Grisham (Original Post) madaboutharry Oct 2021 OP
Shame. Shame. Shame on her, and all the Republicans. Champp Oct 2021 #1
Exactly, color me skeptical. She admits she is a liar, now is just trying to re-hab her image. Irish_Dem Oct 2021 #2
She admits to lying then. So is she lying now? Liberal In Texas Oct 2021 #3
Exactly. She admits she lies for personal gain. So we are supposed to believe her now? Irish_Dem Oct 2021 #4
She claims to have been a true believer in him, though not now. Hortensis Oct 2021 #11
Exactly. Any way you slice it, she is bad news. Irish_Dem Oct 2021 #13
I don't believe a word she says. spanone Oct 2021 #5
I understand the scepticism re: these persons who are only now confessing their culpability randr Oct 2021 #6
I don't need to open my heart and forgive her. Boomerproud Oct 2021 #7
For many of these Trumpers viva la Oct 2021 #8
"Oh, I think the country now has so much hatred. And I think that Hortensis Oct 2021 #9
Is she donating her salary to Planned Parenthood? C_U_L8R Oct 2021 #10
I will go with Tiffany Cross, Girl Bye! tulipsandroses Oct 2021 #12
Another day late and a dollar short conversion StarfishSaver Oct 2021 #14
Ah, but folks, she has shined a very big spotlight on what went on behind closed doors! machoneman Oct 2021 #15
I watched and found her credible babylonsister Oct 2021 #16
She's a proven liar. Don't fall for her nonsense. jimfields33 Oct 2021 #18
What I found credible babylonsister Oct 2021 #19
Grifter on the rehab tour. WhiskeyGrinder Oct 2021 #17
She's just another freaking right wing profiteer & destroyer of America. lark Oct 2021 #20
another grifter on a book tour tryin' to make a buck IcyPeas Oct 2021 #21
Oh! Well, if she feels bad about it now, that's all we can ask gratuitous Oct 2021 #22
Fuck her. I want to read the book, but I'll wait until it's available at my local public library. 11 Bravo Oct 2021 #23

Champp

(2,114 posts)
1. Shame. Shame. Shame on her, and all the Republicans.
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 07:32 AM
Oct 2021

Of course she feels shame for having thought and acted as a Republican. Natural to be ashamed of that.

Sad who the Republicans have become. Sad. Sick, and sad.

Liberal In Texas

(13,523 posts)
3. She admits to lying then. So is she lying now?
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 07:40 AM
Oct 2021

Probably.
She's going to have to do more than write a book to atone for working with the devil.

Irish_Dem

(46,368 posts)
4. Exactly. She admits she lies for personal gain. So we are supposed to believe her now?
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 07:46 AM
Oct 2021

The book is just an opportunist way to make some money.
And re-hab her image with some of the population.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
11. She claims to have been a true believer in him, though not now.
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 08:35 AM
Oct 2021

True or not, doesn't matter. She's demonstrated beyond any possible doubt t be profoundly dishonest and unprincipled, whether as a deceiver of self and others or just of others.

Irish_Dem

(46,368 posts)
13. Exactly. Any way you slice it, she is bad news.
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 08:54 AM
Oct 2021

Bald face liar, no moral core, profound lack of judgement, opportunistic, untrustworthy.
We can take our pick of her personal traits pointing to lack of character.

randr

(12,409 posts)
6. I understand the scepticism re: these persons who are only now confessing their culpability
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 07:52 AM
Oct 2021

I also recognize our need to open our hearts to them in hopes that more of them find the light of day. Eventually the totality of the crime will become ingrained in the American story. I always wondered how the Germans recovered after Hitler and now I understand it better.

Boomerproud

(7,936 posts)
7. I don't need to open my heart and forgive her.
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 08:01 AM
Oct 2021

She ain't on my radar. Life is too precious and short.

viva la

(3,261 posts)
8. For many of these Trumpers
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 08:12 AM
Oct 2021

This salary is the most they could ever earn. Who else would pay Boebert $174k?

Johnny McEntee? The golf caddy guy?

No shame in not earning..

I've never earned more than $50k.
But they are getting paid a lot for doing nothing good, and that was made possible by Trump's contempt for the common good.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
9. "Oh, I think the country now has so much hatred. And I think that
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 08:15 AM
Oct 2021
the president likes that. I think that he likes to control peoples' thoughts that way. He views these people as fighters, fighters for him..."

She fears a reelected tRump, that there'd be draconian policies that "no one'll care about because they won't have to run for reelection again," and that there'd be retribution and revenge.

She thinks the "1/6 crowd" would be there. She didn't name names for those, but I'm guessing we'd find out who the inside traitors were.

Nothing surer than any of that if he were to get power again.

tulipsandroses

(5,119 posts)
12. I will go with Tiffany Cross, Girl Bye!
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 08:47 AM
Oct 2021

I wish the media would stop giving these people airtime to sell their books. This is just another grift. She’s not telling us anything we don’t know. Trump is an awful person. Unless you have something to tell us that will get the orange turd locked up, I don’t want to hear it. This was the same man that said he grabbed women by the pussy, habitually spouted racist crap. This woman like many others are morally bankrupt. As well as you took OUR money and didn’t do the job you were paid to do.

machoneman

(3,994 posts)
15. Ah, but folks, she has shined a very big spotlight on what went on behind closed doors!
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 09:42 AM
Oct 2021

Sure, she was a huge liar and more. Yet, methinks we are far better off now that she has opened a huge window into the totally rotten core of TFG's WH operations, people and more. We now have far more info than before and heck, she may have even given the FBI, courts, et all a leg up on on additional future prosecutions where law enforcement had no idea on nefarious dealings by TFG and his camp followers.

babylonsister

(171,024 posts)
16. I watched and found her credible
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 09:49 AM
Oct 2021

despite writing a book to make money. I enjoyed hearing the inside skinny on these neanderthals.

babylonsister

(171,024 posts)
19. What I found credible
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 12:10 PM
Oct 2021

were the negative stories about iq45, his daughter and her husband. And she admitted she lied.

I didn't 'fall' for anything.

lark

(23,058 posts)
20. She's just another freaking right wing profiteer & destroyer of America.
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 12:55 PM
Oct 2021

I spit on her and her book and wouldn't buy it for 1 penny. If it were given to me, I'd burn it on a cold night so it finally did some good.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
22. Oh! Well, if she feels bad about it now, that's all we can ask
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 05:11 PM
Oct 2021

Let's all buy Ms. Grisham's book so she never again has to sell her "talent" for a paycheck.

11 Bravo

(23,924 posts)
23. Fuck her. I want to read the book, but I'll wait until it's available at my local public library.
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 05:11 PM
Oct 2021

I refuse to put one thin dime into her pocket.

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