While it was previously reported that as the insurrection unfolded, Melania declined to issue a plea for the violence to stop, one might have thought there was some sort of dialogue between the first lady and her staff in which she explained her refusal to say something. But apparently, not so much! Per Politico:
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Sometimes it seems that everything has already been said about the Trump years although not everyone has said it. In the latter camp is Stephanie Grisham, the former Trump White House press secretary best known for never holding a press briefing. Now Grisham is breaking her silence, and Politico's Daniel Lippman emails us with a scoopy preview of her upcoming tell-all about her:
At 1:25 p.m. On January 6, soon after rioters had broken through barricades outside the Capitol, Melania Trump received a text message from her then chief of staff, Stephanie Grisham. “Do you want to tweet that peaceful protests are the right of every American, but there is no place for lawlessness and violence?” Grisham asked the first lady. A minute later, Melania responded with a one-word answer: “No.” At that moment, she was at the White House preparing for a photo shoot of a rug she had selected, according to exclusive excerpts from Grisham's upcoming book, I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw in the Trump White House, obtained by Political.
It is shocking that Melania, a woman of extremely few words who appeared to hate her time at the White House almost as much as she hates her husband, didn't abruptly cancel the photo shoot, call a meeting, and hash out the pros/ cons of responding to the attack? In a word, no. But it's still incredible to learn that she couldn't even eke out a “No, I don't think so” or a “No, it's not a good time.”