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Once again, Trump aide paints a picture of a White House wracked by chaos, infighting

Among Trump tell-all authors, Stephanie Grisham stands out because in a White House where turnover was constant, she managed to remain there for almost all of Trump's presidency.
Stephanie Grisham attends the Congressional Picnic on the South Lawn of the White House on June 21, 2019.

When she was press secretary for then-President Donald Trump, Stephanie Grisham never publicly briefed reporters from the iconic lectern in the White House briefing room. But now — many months after Trump left office — Grisham has a lot to say.

In her new book, I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House, the longtime Trump staffer paints a portrait of an administration wracked by chaos and infighting egged on by the president himself.

"At the White House, Trump was the distant, erratic father we all wanted to please," Grisham writes.

It is far from the first tell-all

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