Melania Trump Blames Stephanie Grisham for Failing To Update Her About January 6 Attack, Ex-Chief of Staff Calls BS

Former First Lady Melania Trump said Thursday that if she had known about the Capitol brawl last year she would have "immediately repudiated" it.

Former President Donald Trump's wife stated to Fox News that on January 6, 2021, she was assisting with the documentation of architectural and aesthetic alterations she made to the White House during her four years in residence.

Melania Trump Says She's Unaware of the Capitol Riot

"As a result, I was uninformed of what was going on inside the US Capitol Building," Melania Trump told the newspaper.

The former first lady spoke out as the House select committee probing the day's violence prepared a primetime hearing, promising to expose the 45th president's behavior as his supporters rampaged through the hallways of Congress.

Melania Trump attacked her former press secretary and chief of staff Stephanie Grisham, who claimed the then-first lady declined to issue a statement denouncing the incident, in the same interview.

Grisham tweeted the screenshotted exchange a day after former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Jan. 6 and made several shocking claims, including that Trump attempted to overpower his Secret Service detail and drive himself to the Capitol, according to New York times.

Grisham worked on Trump's campaign and was sent to the East Wing shortly after his inauguration, only to be transferred to the West Wing to serve as White House press secretary from April 2020 to January 2021 - yet she never conducted a briefing.

Grisham then returned to the East Wing as Melania Trump's chief of staff. Melania Trump then claimed that Grisham failed to inform her of the gravity of the incident.

Stephanie Grisham Shares Conversation With Melania Trump

She stated that she had "always been very supportive of my former Chief of Staff, Stephanie Grisham." Grisham worked for Trump's campaign and was assigned to the East Wing shortly after his inauguration, only to be transferred to the West Wing to serve as White House press secretary from April 2020 to January 2021, but she never held a briefing.

Grisham later rejoined the Trump administration as Melania Trump's chief of staff. Following the stunning testimony of former Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson before a House panel, Grisham tweeted a snapshot of her text message interaction with Melania Trump.

Hutchinson informed legislators that former President Trump hurled food when Attorney General Bill Barr publicly stated that there was no significant election fraud. She also claimed to have heard from Secret Service personnel that Trump rushed at his chauffeur after being told he wouldn't be traveling to the Capitol Building following the Ellipse rally on January 6.

There had previously been no specific proof that Trump wanted to join his supporters on Capitol Hill. That evidence, Grisham claimed a day later on CNN, made her wonder if Melania Trump was aware of her husband's larger ambitions, which would explain why she declined to denounce the MAGA mob's activities, Daily Mail reported.