Stephanie Grisham Confirms Trump WH Officials Counted on Fox News to Provide Favorable News Coverage

Former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said officials in erstwhile President Donald Trump‘s medication counted connected Fox News to supply favorable quality sum of the administration.

“That’s conscionable wherever we went to get what we wanted out,” Grisham said during an quality connected CNN’s “New Day.” “By and large, they didn’t get pugnacious with us. They conscionable took what we were saying and disseminated it.”

Grisham besides drew a transportation betwixt Fox News’s sum of the Trump medication and the Capitol onslaught of January 6, the time a mob of Trump’s supporters stormed the United States Capitol based connected the mendacious premise that the 2020 predetermination had been stolen, a conspiracy mentation that Fox News often amplified.

“Again I’ve had a batch of clip to grapple with this and I consciousness horribly blameworthy astir my portion successful it,” she said. “Because I went connected Fox a lot.” 

Stephanie Grisham connected however the White House utilized Fox News: "That's conscionable wherever we went to get what we wanted retired … By and large, they didn't get pugnacious with us. They conscionable took what we were saying and disseminated it." pic.twitter.com/qltmEzYvUk

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During her clip arsenic Trump’s White House property secretary, Grisham often defended Trump from criticism, including erstwhile she said that the impeachment enquiry against Trump was a “sham hearing” that is “not lone boring, it is simply a colossal discarded of payer clip & money.” She besides described Trump arsenic a “counter-puncher” who was “under attack.” She yet near the White House aft the Capitol attack. During her clip moving for the Trump administration, she ne'er held a azygous property briefing but inactive recovered clip to onslaught the press.

Grisham’s memoir, “I’ll Take Your Questions Now,” comes retired today.