As Stephanie Grisham spoke at the Democratic National Convention, a screen behind her displayed a text exchange she said she’d had with Melania Trump on Jan. 6, 2021.

An apparent screenshot of text messages between Grisham and first lady [Melania Trump appeared on a large screen as Grisham spoke. The messages show Grisham asking Melania Trump on Jan. 6, 2021, if the first lady wanted to tweet that there is no place for lawlessness and violence.

Grisham said Melania Trump simply responded, “No.”

Grisham said she was the first senior staffer to resign that day, as the DNC crowd applauded.

“I couldn’t be a part of the insanity any longer,” she said.

  • Bertuccio@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    No. They are promising to not do worse, while offering nothing better. Exactly the game that people constantly bitch about the Democrats playing all the time - ratchet and pawl.

    In fact this is barely different than the shit Republicans pull with Hunter Biden’s laptop.

    What Melania thinks about the rioters has no bearing on anything, and we already know what Trump says about it because he constantly mouths off. Just like what Hunter Biden does has no bearing on Joe Biden as president and we can can find out about Joe Biden’s policies and opinions directly from him.

    While everyone should be calling out Republicans for their continued attempts to overthrow the government, Democrats have to at some point actually offer to do something to fix the problem.

    As it stands now, Dems have no reason to address the core problem because as long as Trump is in the picture all they need to say is they’re notasbadasTrump. And when Trump is out of the picture you can bet they’ll prop up the next guy so they can say they’re not as bad as them.

    If voters don’t call out that nonsense, especially in blatantly obvious cases like this, it’s not going to change.