''I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House'' is a nonfiction tell-all book written by former

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for the

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. It was published in October 2021 by

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Background

served as the 32nd

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and as

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from July 2019 to April 2020. She served as Chief of Staff and Press Secretary for the

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from 2020 to 2021, and previously as her Press Secretary from 2017 to 2019. She is now estranged from the Trumps. She was a press aide to

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, and then a member of the presidential

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. As Press Secretary, she was the first White House press secretary in American history to hold no press conferences, instead opting for interviews on conservative news outlets. Grisham assumed the role of chief of staff to the first lady on April 7, 2020. She resigned on January 6, 2021, following the

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. In September 2021, she announced the publication of her book.

Responses

calls the book "The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet." Grisham said, " is is not, by the way, a book where you need to like me." Trump himself said, "Stephanie didn't have what it takes and that was obvious from the beginning." He also said " e had big problems and we felt that she should work out those problems for herself."

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