Is This The Expose The Trump Family Is Most Scared Of?

Just when you thought that everything there was to say about the Trump White House had already been said, another insider releases a tell-all. But strangely, no matter how damaging the information these books would seem to contain, the Trump family always appears pretty unbothered by it all. It seems like every other day of the week that there's another new Trump exposé on the way, but some people believe that this is the one that will really rattle the family.

As The New York Times reported in August 2020, there were roughly 1200 books written about former President Donald Trump or his administration in the preceding four years — which doesn't include the plethora of biographies and tell-alls written about him and the family before he became president. Though not all of these books were unfavorable, some — like the ones written by his niece Mary Trump, journalist Bob Woodward, and former staffer Michael Wolff, in particular — contained eye-popping details and allegations that dominated headlines for months.

So what makes this upcoming book so special? Read on to find out. 

According to reporting by CNN, the next former Trump Administration official to drop an exposé will be Stephanie Grisham, who worked in several roles over the course of the Trump presidency — and was one of the few staffers who hung in from the start of the 2015 presidential campaign all the way through to the insurrection on January 6. But Grisham also offers another fresh angle. Rather than working directly for the former president, she worked most closely with former first lady Melania Trump, which may have given her some under-examined insights into how the White House operated. 

Melania hired Grisham in 2015 to work with the press on the campaign trail. Melania then brought her along to the White House, where she became the East Wing communications director, then she had a stint as White House press secretary, and then she went back to the East Wing to work as Melania's chief of staff. Grisham, sources say, "knows things no one else has been told," and the book will include behind-the-scenes details on the Stormy Daniels scandal and other sexual harassment claims, as well as Melania's real feelings about her husband and the rest of the Trumps.

If the first Melania exposé, "Melania and Me," written by a former best friend, is true, then Grisham's book may give us a few more details on the rumored Melania/Ivanka feud, as well as how much influence Melania really had on Donald.

For all the exposés that have been written about the Trump family and the Trump administration, very few had the kind of insider access that Stephanie Grisham had, having worked both as the White House press secretary and as former first lady Melania Trump's chief of staff. You may remember Melania as the quietest of the Trumps (except maybe for Barron and Tiffany), and that's because she always kept her business close to her chest. So what will happen when her former chief of staff starts spilling?

"When I heard this, all I could think about was Stephanie surrounded by a lake of gasoline, striking a match with a grin on her face," one former colleague of Grisham's told Axios, which sounds ... bad for the Trumps. The colleague also said, "There isn't enough water on earth to contain the fire she could set to all of Trump world, including parts like the first lady's orbit, which not many people are in a position to illuminate. They added, "It's hard to articulate how much anxiety this is going to cause."

Meanwhile, another former staffer told the outlet, "Grisham knows where all the bodies are buried because she buried a lot of them herself." Well, that certainly sounds ... spicy.

Stephanie Grisham's book, titled "I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at The Trump White House," is set to be published on October 5, according to Axios, and has been kept extremely hush-hush so far, which makes sense. Remember when Donald Trump's niece Mary Trump published her first tell-all about the family, "Too Much and Never Enough"? The Trump White House was apparently so worried about that book that they actually tried to block it from being published, as detailed by The New York Times.

If word of Grisham's book had leaked to the Trumps earlier, it's a pretty safe bet that they would have tried to stop that one from going forward as well. And Grisham would know, as she was part of the White House team that tried to stop Stephanie Winston Wolkoff's Melania memoir, "Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship With the First Lady," from being published in 2020, per The Washington Post. "Secretly taping the first lady and willfully breaking an NDA to publish a salacious book is a clear attempt at relevance," Grisham said of Wolfkoff at the time in a statement to CNN. "The timing of this continues to be suspect — as does this never-ending exercise in self-pity and narcissism."

What can we say? Life comes at you fast.