Ex-Trump Aide Becomes Third Female Witness to Praise Former Boss
A former White House Oval Office aide praised Donald Trump as a “really good boss” while testifying during the former president’s hush money trial in New York on Thursday.
Prosecutors called Madeleine Westerhout as a witness to testify about how detail-oriented Trump was and to confirm certain emails and meetings, but her testimony served largely as the third positive review to come from a female Trump employee on the stand.
Westerhout characterized Trump as hardworking, saying he talked to “a lot” of people every day and took calls from 6 a.m. until well into the evening, according to courtroom reports from CNN.
Westerhout highlighted how concerned Trump was with his wife Melania’s opinion. Defense attorneys have argued that Trump’s wife was one reason he was motivated to make a lawful hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, an elected Democrat, has alleged that Trump was driven by the election to conceal the payment and that he therefore violated election laws.
“There was really no one else that could put him in his place too,” Westerhout said of Melania Trump. “He was my boss, but she was definitely the one in charge. I just remember that … thinking that their relationship was really special. They laughed a lot when she came into the Oval Office.” (Read more from “Ex-Trump Aide Becomes Third Female Witness to Praise Former Boss” HERE)
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