Within the draft of Wolff’s 2019 e-book, Siege, he wrote that Trump remained in Washington, D.C., in December 2018 after his spouse, Melania, headed south to spend the vacations at their Palm Seaside, Florida, property, Mar-a-Lago.
“In an empty White Home, Trump’s private secretary, 28-year-old Madeleine Westerhout, introduced his papers and name sheets from the West Wing as much as the residence, discovering him, she advised buddies, in his underwear.”
The draft continued: “[Steve] Bannon recalled noting that Trump took a selected curiosity in her. A leering Trump stored repeating, ‘She’s acquired a method about her,’ his signature, and creepy, stamp of approval for younger girls.”
“Now the president was telling buddies that he wasn’t staying on the White Home due to the shutdown, he was staying as a result of he was ‘banging’ Madeleine. Shutdown bravado? Locker room discuss? Or all a part of a brand new various actuality that solely he appeared to be residing in?”