Posted on Apr 7, 2022
Stephanie Grisham worked in Trump's White House. She works against him from deep-red Kansas
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The former press secretary has become a high-profile Republican fighting against Donald Trump. And she’s doing that from an old house in Plainville, Kansas, a ranching-and-oil town of 1,750 in a county where Trump won 86% of the vote.
PLAINVILLE, Kansas — Stephanie Grisham has the distinction of serving as a White House press secretary who never held a press conference.
And who ultimately turned on the former chief executive who brought her into the West Wing.
Now she lives in a deep-red part of west-central Kansas — surrounded by Americans where Donald Trump remains a political savior and from where she’s coordinating with Republicans across the country determined that he never return to the Oval Office.
“She hides in plain sight here,” says Lauren Mack, veterinarian to the town of about 1,750 people.
PLAINVILLE, Kansas — Stephanie Grisham has the distinction of serving as a White House press secretary who never held a press conference.
And who ultimately turned on the former chief executive who brought her into the West Wing.
Now she lives in a deep-red part of west-central Kansas — surrounded by Americans where Donald Trump remains a political savior and from where she’s coordinating with Republicans across the country determined that he never return to the Oval Office.
“She hides in plain sight here,” says Lauren Mack, veterinarian to the town of about 1,750 people.
Stephanie Grisham worked in Trump's White House. She works against him from deep-red Kansas
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finally, a former ardent promoter exhibits some degree of moral reasoning.
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..."Now she lives in a deep-red part of west-central Kansas — surrounded by Americans where Donald Trump remains a political savior and from where she’s coordinating with Republicans across the country determined that he never return to the Oval Office.
“She hides in plain sight here,” says Lauren Mack, veterinarian to the town of about 1,750 people.
Six years ago, she viewed the New York real estate man and reality TV star the same way as so many of her new Midwestern neighbors do today. She saw him as a straight-shooting antidote capable of draining a swamp of graft and self-dealing in Washington.
Grisham became determined to make America great again by working for Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. She rose high enough in the campaign that after Trump was elected, she became First Lady Melania Trump’s spokeswoman.
And late in the administration, she took over the job as the president’s press secretary.
But her view from inside the Trump White House made her lose faith. And when, during the Jan. 6 insurrection, Melania Trump refused to OK a tweet condemning the violence on Capitol Hill, Grisham quit.
Like a handful of other Trump acolytes-turned-antagonists, she wrote a book. It was not kind to the man who was once her hero. It cast Trump as an angry man-child with a special love of dictators.
Grisham has become one of the more visible Republicans fighting against Trump, appearing on national TV and working with other disaffected former Trump staffers on a plan to make sure her former boss stays out of public office.
She’s doing that from an old house in the ranching-and-oil town Plainville in a county where Trump won 86% of the vote in 2020.
And, so far, so good.
“I’ve had absolutely no problems,” Grisham said. “Everybody’s kind to me. There are a couple of people who, I think, give me looks that aren’t super pleasant. But well, you know, maybe they’re just having a bad day.”
People who aren’t immediately recognizable in Plainville stand out. Some don’t know who Grisham is. For a lot of people in Plainville, the most important thing is that a relatively young person (Grisham is 45) has moved to this shrinking town and fixed up an old house.
Others, though, call Grisham a traitor, someone who double-crossed Trump to make a buck. And they adore Donald Trump.
“He’s it,” said Candace Rachel, long-time editor of the Plainville Times. “A lot of people in this town think he’s the savior.”...
..."Now she lives in a deep-red part of west-central Kansas — surrounded by Americans where Donald Trump remains a political savior and from where she’s coordinating with Republicans across the country determined that he never return to the Oval Office.
“She hides in plain sight here,” says Lauren Mack, veterinarian to the town of about 1,750 people.
Six years ago, she viewed the New York real estate man and reality TV star the same way as so many of her new Midwestern neighbors do today. She saw him as a straight-shooting antidote capable of draining a swamp of graft and self-dealing in Washington.
Grisham became determined to make America great again by working for Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. She rose high enough in the campaign that after Trump was elected, she became First Lady Melania Trump’s spokeswoman.
And late in the administration, she took over the job as the president’s press secretary.
But her view from inside the Trump White House made her lose faith. And when, during the Jan. 6 insurrection, Melania Trump refused to OK a tweet condemning the violence on Capitol Hill, Grisham quit.
Like a handful of other Trump acolytes-turned-antagonists, she wrote a book. It was not kind to the man who was once her hero. It cast Trump as an angry man-child with a special love of dictators.
Grisham has become one of the more visible Republicans fighting against Trump, appearing on national TV and working with other disaffected former Trump staffers on a plan to make sure her former boss stays out of public office.
She’s doing that from an old house in the ranching-and-oil town Plainville in a county where Trump won 86% of the vote in 2020.
And, so far, so good.
“I’ve had absolutely no problems,” Grisham said. “Everybody’s kind to me. There are a couple of people who, I think, give me looks that aren’t super pleasant. But well, you know, maybe they’re just having a bad day.”
People who aren’t immediately recognizable in Plainville stand out. Some don’t know who Grisham is. For a lot of people in Plainville, the most important thing is that a relatively young person (Grisham is 45) has moved to this shrinking town and fixed up an old house.
Others, though, call Grisham a traitor, someone who double-crossed Trump to make a buck. And they adore Donald Trump.
“He’s it,” said Candace Rachel, long-time editor of the Plainville Times. “A lot of people in this town think he’s the savior.”...
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