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Former president called supporters "basement dwellers"
Then-White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham (L) listens to then-President Trump at Marine One at the White House in November 2019. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Former Trump aide Stephanie Grishamalleged during a Democratic National Convention speech on Tuesday that ex-President Trump privately "mocks his supporters."
Why it matters: Grisham served as White House press secretary and communications director for the Republican presidential candidate, and as former first lady Melania Trump's chief of staff.
What the's saying: "Behind closed doors, Trump mocks his supporters — calls them 'basement dwellers,'" Grisham said during her DNC speech in Chicago.
- "When people were dying in the ICU, he was mad that cameras weren't watching him," she alleged in an apparent reference to the early stages of the COVID pandemic.
- "He has no empathy. He has no morals and no fidelity to the truth."