Stephanie Grisham received a baptism by fire over the weekend as she accompanied the president on his high-stakes trip to Asia and threw her body into a fracas with North Korea security officials. She’s taking the job just as Trump enters a White House stretch that will help determine whether he wins another four years in the job. Later, she showed other White House officials the bruises she had to show for it. It was a brief defence of press freedom from a White House that has produced few of them. While relations between the press and Trump White House will likely remain hostile, “it’s good to see the American press secretary standing up for the American press corps,” he said.

Source: thestar July 01, 2019 20:15 UTC