First Lady Melania Trump’s aide is hitting back claims in a new book that suggest the first lady was not in a rush to move to the White House for another reason other than for their son, Barron Trump, being in the middle of a school year.
In addition to the school reason, Washington Post reporter Mary Jordan is claiming in a new book that Melania Trump also delayed her move to the White House to use it “as leverage for renegotiating her prenuptial agreement with President Trump,” as The Washington Post reports.
The Post also notes about the book, “The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump,” “The incoming first lady needed time to cool off, and ‘to amend her financial arrangement with Trump — what Melania referred to as ‘taking care of Barron.'”
Melania Trump’s chief of staff and press secretary Stephanie Grisham, however, is hitting back at that claim.
Grisham told Fox News, regarding the report of the book, “Yet another book about Mrs. Trump with false information and sources. This book belongs in the fiction genre.”
She also reiterated that the first lady had stayed back in New York so that she would not pull Barron Trump out of school mid-school year.
Additionally, as the Post reports, Jordan wrote, “Melania had finally renegotiated the prenup to her liking. She had already been looking out for Barron’s future by making sure he had dual citizenship in Slovenia, which will position him to work in Europe for the Trump Organization when he comes of age.”
Jordan wrote that Melania Trump wanted the prenup to make sure there was equality with Barron Trump in the family business.
“She wanted proof in writing that when it came to financial opportunities and inheritance, Barron would be treated as more of an equal to Trump’s oldest three children,” Jordan wrote.
