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Trump calls his supporters ‘basement dwellers’, says former press secretary

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Stephanie Grisham excoriates ex-president at Democratic convention and says ‘he has no empathy, no morals’

Trump calls his supporters ‘basement dwellers’, says former press secretary

Trump mocks his supporters. He calls them basement dwellers. On a hospital visit one time when people were dying in the ICU, he was mad that the cameras were not watching him.”

She continued: “He used to tell me: ‘It doesn’t matter what you say, Stephanie, say it enough and people will believe you.’”

She repeated a story she has told before: that during the January 6 insurrection, she asked Melania Trump whether she could tweet that there was “no place for lawlessness or violence”, and the first lady gave a one-word reply: “No.”

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