“Of all the millions, maybe billions of photos taken of Donald Trump, this could stand as the most famous. Or notorious.”, Sean Wilentz, a professor of American history at Princeton University It is possible, he added, that in the future the mug shot will seem like the ultimate bookend to a political arc in the United States that began decades ago, with Richard Nixon’s “I am not a crook.”
Being Donald Trump’s spokeswoman can drive a person to drink, but Stephanie Grisham had a record of drunk driving long before she got the job in June.
Mugshots from 2013 and 2015 show the repeat offender after a pair of arrests in central Arizona that happened two years apart.
According to cops, Grisham also had a loose relationship with the truth before becoming White House spokesperson. During her 2013 arrest outside Phoenix, Grisham, driving on a suspended license, told police she hadn’t been drinking, then blew a .105, which earned her a DUI.
She told cops she’d earlier taken a Xanax after they reportedly pulled her over for speeding in an SUV and smelled booze on her breath, which she denied.
“She then blew directly in my face and I detected the odor of intoxicating beverage to be even stronger (along with the odor of gum in her mouth), according to a police report on The Smoking Gun.
Grisham pleaded guilty and the penalty was reduced to reckless driving, according to the New York Times.
She pleaded guilty again after being busted behind the wheel in 2015 and sentenced to a treatment program.
The 43-year-old White House flack is the third person to have held the title of White House press secretary in the 32 months Trump has been president.
"I’m going to surround myself only with the best and most serious people. We want top of the line professionals."
"I really don’t want publicity seekers who want to be on magazines or who are out for themselves.”
— Donald Trump
*** 17 of the ‘best people’ Trump hired — and then attacked, Washington Post
He’s now at the Alexandria Detention Center in Virginia awaiting trial.
