CNN’s Erin Burnett took a moment on Monday’s OutFront to give a “juxtaposition” of how Donald Trump and his wife, Melania Trump, are “spending their time” during his criminal business fraud trial.
“She’s out now selling a new jewelry line, , $245,” Burnett said. “She calls it, quote, ‘Her Love and Gratitude.’ Nothing on the websites suggests that the money raised is going to charity or anything like that. Do you have any sense what she could be selling the jewelry for? I mean, is this just money for herself? Money, to raise money for the legal defense where Trump’s been trying left and right and center to raise money. What’s it for?” Burnett asked the former First Lady’s ex-chief of staff, Stephanie Grisham.
“So, I try not to laugh at the thought that she would be raising money for his defense. I’m so sorry, that’s absolutely not going to be it,” Grisham said, continuing:
Number one, they’re using so many , you know, to the president and to his — or, former president — and to his campaign for those things. But, she’s doing it for herself, and had I been advising her, I would have said a couple of things. Number one, “This is the first day of your husband’s criminal trial and you’re going to hawk some jewelry? Probably not a very good look.”
And then yeah, I would have at least said, “Hey, are we going to give this to some kind of an initiative for children?” Or, you know, her mother did just pass, so perhaps it would go to some kind of a, whether it’s Alzheimer’s, cancer, something, some proceeds. But instead, it just says, “Here you go, buy this for $245.”
Grisham added, “And, then, another thing that you had said at the beginning of your segment is that, you know, she finds this to be a disgusting trial, or I forget what the word is. But, if that were the case, she would at least put that out on X. She would say something. Melania Trump absolutely does what she wants to do. And if she felt this was a disgrace, she would say something.”
Watch the clip above via CNN.
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