第一夫人秘密录音两周后梅兰妮·特朗普当第一夫人被曝光时，人们可以听到她用咒骂的语言抱怨圣诞节不得不装饰白宫，并称与父母分离的移民儿童的生活条件比正常儿童有所改善，第一夫人对此进行了反击。
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2020年7月23日，美国第一夫人梅兰妮·特朗普在白宫国家餐厅参加会议。
以书信的形式帖子特朗普夫人在白宫网站上发表文章，攻击她的前朋友和顾问斯蒂芬妮·温斯顿·沃尔科夫，后者上个月出版了一本名为《梅拉尼娅和我》的回忆录，并分享了她与第一夫人私人对话的精选录音与美国有线电视新闻网。特朗普夫人还抨击媒体仔细审查她的评论，她对此没有争议，而是说“脱离了上下文”。
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2018年6月21日，第一夫人梅兰妮·特朗普参观得克萨斯州麦卡伦的移民拘留所。
“当媒体选择关注自私的个人&淫秽的流言蜚语，而不是帮助我们的下一代时，这需要被谈论，”特朗普在白宫网站上发布的一条分享这篇文章的推特上写道。
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2017年11月27日，第一夫人梅兰妮·特朗普在白宫与记者一起参观节日装饰。
在录音中，可以听到特朗普抱怨“在圣诞节工作”，并赞扬移民儿童拘留中心的条件。
“孩子们，他们说，‘哇，我要有自己的床了?我会睡在床上。“我要一个柜子放我的衣服，”听到这个消息很难过，但他们自己的国家没有，他们睡在地板上，”可以听到特朗普夫人在录音中说。他们在那里受到很好的照顾。但你知道，是的，他们没有和父母在一起，很难过。但当他们单独或与郊狼一起或非法来到这里时，你知道，你需要做些什么。"
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2018年6月21日，第一夫人梅兰妮·特朗普在前往得克萨斯州参观了位于美墨边境的设施后，爬回到位于马里兰州安德鲁斯联合基地的车队中，这些设施收容并照顾从父母那里带走的孩子。她的夹克上写着“我真的不在乎，你在乎吗?”印在背面。
在帖子中，特朗普表现出自己在“帮助孩子”的斗争中脱颖而出，尽管她利用帖子对她的前朋友进行了攻击，她现在描述她是“在我丈夫赢得总统职位后紧跟着我的人”，现在出版了一本充满“试图歪曲我性格的无聊八卦”的书。
“任何一个专注于为了自己的利益而推倒一切的人，在知道我所代表的是什么之后，已经忘记了我们在这里要完成什么，我们在这里要为谁服务。她写道:“推进个人议程，试图诋毁我的办公室和我团队的努力，只会减少我们帮助儿童的工作。”
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斯蒂芬妮·温斯顿·沃尔科夫于2016年12月5日离开纽约特朗普大厦。
第一夫人的办公室谴责了两周前首次曝光的录音，但这是刚刚从冠状病毒中康复的第一夫人第一次直接回应。
尽管这些录音引起了媒体的关注，但当美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)首次播放这些片段几小时后，总统透露，他和第一夫人都检测出新冠肺炎呈阳性时，媒体对她的评论的关注很快就被掩盖了。
但现在选择在一篇批评媒体审查的博文中做出回应，这位第一夫人的帖子也将人们的注意力带回了她最初的评论。
她的职位是在司法部几天后发布的提起民事诉讼针对温斯顿·沃尔科夫(Winston Wolkoff)，指控她违反了政府声称她在成为第一夫人的高级顾问之前签署的保密协议，并试图从该书中获取任何利润。
温斯顿·沃尔科夫(Winston Wolkoff)的出版商画廊图书(Gallery Books)此后在一份声明中做出回应，支持作者，称政府的诉讼是“利用政府作为恐吓作者手段的透明企图”。
Melania Trump strikes back at former friend who secretly recorded conversations
Two weeks after secret recordings of first ladyMelania Trumpcame to light in which she could be heard using expletive-laced language complaining about having to decorate the White House for Christmas -- and calling the living conditions for migrant children separated from their parents an improvement from their normal ones, the first lady is striking back.
First lady Melania Trump attends a meeting in the State Dining Room of the White House on July 23, 2020, in Washington.
In a letter-stylepostpublished on the White House website, Mrs. Trump attacks her former friend and adviser, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who last month published a memoir called 'Melania and Me' and shared select recordings of her private conversations with the first ladywith CNN. Mrs Trump also blasts the media for scrutinizing her comments, which she does not dispute but rather says “were out of context."
First lady Melania Trump visits an immigration detention facility in McAllen, Texas, June 21, 2018.
“When the media chooses to focus on self-serving individuals & salacious gossip instead of work to help our next generation, it needs to be talked about,” Trump wrote in a tweet sharing the post, which appears on the White House website.
First Lady Melania Trump tours the holiday decorations with reporters at the White House on Nov. 27, 2017.
In the recordings, Trump could be heard complaining about working "my a** off at Christmas stuff” and praising the conditions at detention centers for migrant children.
"The kids, they say, 'Wow I will have my own bed? I will sleep on the bed? I will have a cabinet for my clothes?' It's so sad to hear it but they didn't have that in their own countries, they sleep on the floor," Mrs. Trump can be heard saying on the recording. "They are taken care of nicely there. But you know, yeah, they are not with parents, it's sad. But when they come here alone or with coyotes or illegally, you know, you need to do something."
First lady Melania Trump climbs back into her motorcade at Joint Base Andrews, Md., after traveling to Texas to visit facilities that house and care for children taken from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border on June 21, 2018. Her jacket has the words “I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?” printed on the back.
In the post, Trump presents herself as rising above the fray to “help children,” even as she uses the post to go on the attack against her former friend, whom she now describes as “someone who clung to me after my husband won the Presidency” and has now published a book full of “idle gossip trying to distort my character.”
"Anyone who is focused on tearing things down for their own gain, after knowing what I stand for, has lost sight of what we are here to accomplish and who we are here to serve. To push forward a personal agenda that attempts to defame my office and the efforts of my team, only takes away from our work to help children," she writes.
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff leaves Trump Tower, Dec. 5, 2016, in New York.
The first lady's office condemned the release of the recordings when they first came to light two weeks ago but this is the first time the first lady, who just recovered from the coronavirus, is directly responding at length.
While the recordings have drawn media scrutiny, the media’s attention to her comments was quickly overshadowed when, just hours after CNN first aired the clips, the president revealed that both he and the first lady had tested positive for COVID-19.
But in choosing to respond now in an extended post criticizing media scrutiny, the first lady’s post has the effect of also bringing attention back to her initial comments.
Her post comes days after the Justice Departmentfiled a civil lawsuitagainst Winston Wolkoff, accusing her of breaching a non-disclosure agreement that the administration alleges she signed before becoming a senior advisor to the first lady and seeking to seize any profits from the book.
Winston Wolkoff’s publisher Gallery Books has since responded in a statement supporting the author and calling the government’s lawsuit a “transparent attempt to use the government as a means of intimidation against authors.”
