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NEW: Outlet’s Anti-Trump Hit Piece Goes Down In Flames After GOP Rep. Speaks Out
A new book set to hit the shelves this week is drawing the wrath of a GOP congresswoman who asserts that authors left out her side of a story about President Donald Trump allegedly offering her his bed.
The salacious moment occurred aboard President Trump’s personal airplane where Rep. Anna Paulina (R-FL), faced with a complication during pregnancy, was in need of a place to lie down. According to Axios reporter Alex Isenstadt’s new book “Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power,” Trump jokingly warned Luna, “Don’t tell Melania,” after he offered her his bed.
“If you need a bed to lay down in, there’s one here on the plane. If you feel sick and you need to lay there, you can lay on it,” Trump reportedly told Luna.
“Just don’t tell Melania. She doesn’t like other women on my bed,” he joked.
After the comments were picked up by the Daily Beast, Rep. Paulina trashed Isenstadt for using the moment to raise concerns about the Trumps’ marriage while failing to ask her about the incident.
“I don’t usually respond to nasty headlines, but with a book allegedly using my name to attack @POTUS, his marriage, and our First Lady—while implying something distasteful about me—I have to speak up,” Luna wrote on X.
“I was very pregnant, experiencing undiagnosed pre-eclampsia symptoms, when @realDonaldTrump kindly offered me the back room on his plane if I felt unwell. He did this respectfully in front of my husband, and we both thanked him. He also ensured a medical team was ready and available on board, aware of my condition. Weeks later, I was induced due to pre-eclampsia.”
Calling the president “extremely sensitive and compassionate” to her situation, Rep. Luna said neither she nor her husband felt “disrespected by President Trump in any way” following his offer.
“The author never contacted me, so this book is likely a baseless hit piece,” she adds.
A representative for Axios said editors stand behind their reporter and his account.
“In our report, Axios correctly portrayed and contextualized comments made by President Trump during an interaction that he had with Rep. Luna, an interaction she confirmed in her statement did in fact happen,” the spokesperson told the Daily Beast.
Isenstadt’s book is the latest report purveying turmoil within the presidential couple’s orbit. Last month, journalist Michael Wolff released “All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America” in which a source tells him Melania “f***ing hates” her husband and only appears by his side when necessary.
“She leads her own life and joins [the president] when appropriate in either place,” a source told People last month about the first lady.
In response, a White House spokesperson called Wolff a “lying sack of s***.”
“Many of these so-called insider books are a desperate attempt to make money off of President Trump’s name because journalism is a dying industry with reporters peddling lies and selling their souls in order to make a quick buck,” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said in a statement to the Daily Beast.
“These works of fiction either belong in the bargain bin of the fantasy section in a discount bookstore or should be repurposed as tissue paper.”
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