President Trump’s former personal assistant has a book deal that focuses on the mistake that made her lose her job.
Madeleine Westerhout, who spent more than two years as the Oval Office gatekeeper, is releasing her memoir on Aug. 11, according to Axios.
The book, titled Off the Record, will recount a dinner she had with reporters, the details of which were later made public. Westerhout called the incident a “momentary lapse in judgment that occurred because of too much wine at a dinner.”
The publisher, Center Street, said Westerhout plans to hold “accountable the reporters who, according to the author, broke their agreement” that the dinner was off the record.
The Washington Post’s Philip Rucker, Bloomberg’s Jennifer Jacobs, Reuters’s Steve Holland, and Andrew Restuccia of the Wall Street Journal attended the dinner.
Westerhout was fired in August after she reportedly made critical comments about Trump’s daughters to reporters. She told the journalists that she had a better relationship with the president than his daughters, Ivanka Trump and Tiffany Trump, and that the president did not like being photographed with Tiffany because of her perceived weight.
Westerhout abruptly left her position after Trump found out she had divulged information about his family to a small group of reporters who were covering Trump’s vacation in Bedminster, New Jersey, earlier that month.
After Westerhout’s departure, Trump said she had acknowledged to him she had been drinking when she commented on his daughters.
