Stephanie Ann Grisham is an American former White House official who was the 32nd White House press secretary and as White House communications director from July 2019 to April 2020.
40 Facts About Stephanie Grisham
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Stephanie Grisham was Chief of Staff and Press Secretary for the first lady of the United States, Melania Trump from 2020 to 2021, and previously as her Press Secretary from 2017 to 2019.
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Stephanie Grisham was the first White House Press Secretary to hold no press conferences, instead opting for interviews on conservative news outlets.
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Stephanie Grisham assumed the role of chief of staff to the first lady on April 7,2020.
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Stephanie Grisham resigned on January 6,2021, following the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol.
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Stephanie Grisham Ann Sommerville was born in Colorado to Robert Leo Sommerville and Elizabeth Ann Calkins.
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Stephanie Grisham's parents divorced, and her mother remarried, first to Dave Allen, with whom she had another daughter, and then to Roger Schroder.
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Stephanie Grisham moved with her mother to East Wenatchee, Washington, where she graduated from Eastmont High School in 1994.
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Stephanie Grisham's mother has since moved to Nebraska, where she is known as Ann Schroder.
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Stephanie Grisham began voting in Arizona as a registered Democrat in 1997.
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Stephanie Grisham attended Colorado Mesa University, but did not earn a degree.
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From 2008 to 2010, Stephanie Grisham worked as a spokeswoman for the Arizona Charter Schools Association.
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From about 2011 to 2014, Stephanie Grisham was spokeswoman for Tom Horne after he was elected Arizona attorney general.
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Stephanie Grisham witnessed the 2014 execution of Joseph Wood and controversially claimed that the two-hour ordeal had been "quite peaceful," contrary to several reports that Wood had "gasped and snorted" throughout his execution.
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Stephanie Grisham revoked the Arizona Capitol Times's press credentials hours after their reporting that the House speaker, David Gowan, had traveled at state taxpayers' expense during his campaign for Congress.
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In 2012, Stephanie Grisham worked for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.
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In September 2015, Stephanie Grisham worked as a press coordinator for Pope Francis's visit to Philadelphia as an independent contractor.
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Circa August 2015, Stephanie Grisham started working as a press aide to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
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Stephanie Grisham helped arrange his campaign stops in Phoenix and around the state and region throughout the primary, a role that quickly expanded to include his rallies around the US Grisham was on state payroll until May 2016, when she took an unpaid leave from the Arizona House of Representatives to work on Trump's campaign.
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The United States Office of Special Counsel stated that Stephanie Grisham violated the Hatch Act of 1939 following a complaint by Senator Tom Carper.
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Stephanie Grisham was accused of using her official Twitter account on July 11,2018, to tweet out Trump's campaign slogan.
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Violation of the act is not a crime, but a workplace guideline, and the agency responded by sending Stephanie Grisham a warning letter.
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In July 2019, Stephanie Grisham replaced Sarah Sanders as White House press secretary and White House communications director.
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Stephanie Grisham's appointment was announced by Melania Trump via Twitter on June 25,2019.
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That same month, Stephanie Grisham claimed that Obama administration officials had left "you will fail" notes for the incoming Trump administration officials.
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In December 2019, Stephanie Grisham defended President Trump's implication that former congressman John Dingell was in hell.
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Stephanie Grisham described Trump as a "counter-puncher" who was "under attack".
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On January 5,2022, Stephanie Grisham testified to the January 6th Committee.
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Stephanie Grisham had testified to them once before, but that testimony was briefer.
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Stephanie Grisham extended to more than a year a period during which there were no formal press briefings, such that there were none during her whole tenure as press secretary.
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Authors Don Winslow and Stephen King pledged to donate $100,000 each to charity if Stephanie Grisham held a one-hour briefing answering questions from the White House press corps.
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Stephanie Grisham's husband joined KOLD-TV as a news anchor in Tucson, Arizona, on the day after their son's first birthday.
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Stephanie Grisham has been romantically linked to former Trump White House aide Max Miller.
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Stephanie Grisham moved to dismiss the lawsuit but the Judge, Emily Hagan, dismissed Stephanie Grisham's motion.
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On January 9,2013, Stephanie Grisham was pulled over for speeding in Gilbert, Arizona.
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Stephanie Grisham denied consuming any alcohol, but said she had taken a Xanax 90 minutes earlier and a Zoloft the prior night.
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Stephanie Grisham was found to be driving on a suspended license since August 2012 for failure to answer a traffic citation.
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Stephanie Grisham returned to court twice for failure to pay the $779 in fines and failure to complete a Mothers Against Drunk Driving program.
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Shortly after midnight, December 5,2015, Stephanie Grisham was arrested again in Phoenix, Arizona, for driving without her headlights and suspicion of driving under the influence, violating her probation.
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Stephanie Grisham failed to appear at her court hearing on January 19,2016, whereupon the judge issued a warrant for her arrest.