The day: US Department of Justice sues author for disclosure book about Melania

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff served as a from 2017 to 2018 unpaid advisor to Melania Trump and as such not an employee of the US government. Then she enrolled Disclosure book about the first lady. Wolkoff's book "Melania and Me. The Rise and Fall of My Friendship With the First Lady"(Melania and I. The emergence and failure of my friendship with the First Lady) was published in September. In the book, the wife of US President Donald Trump is portrayed as a bitter rival of her stepdaughter Ivanka Trump.

The The US Department of Justice has now filed a lawsuit against the author. The former advisor to the First Lady had breached her contractual obligation to keep information from the White House confidential by publishing the publication, the Ministry justified the move. According to the Justice Department's lawsuit, she had signed a contract-like and thus enforceable agreement that prohibited her from disclosing unauthorized information from the White House. Should the Justice Department prevail with the lawsuit, it could confiscate all proceeds of Wolkoff's book.