Melania Trump secret recordings: ‘I’m driving the liberals crazy’

First Lady Melania Trump expressed support for the care that migrant children separated from their families received in US detention centres, suggesting the facilities were better than what they had at home with their parents, in a series of recordings that came to light on Thursday. The tapes aired on CNN come from Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former aide to the first lady who released a book last month titled Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady. She is promoting the book in interviews and released recordings to CNN of some of her private conversations with Mrs Trump. In one, the first lady discussed her take on the conditions migrant children faced in the US after being brought in by “coyotes”. Two female detainees sleep in a holding cell at the US Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Arizona, in this June 18, 2014 file photo [File: Ross D Franklin/Reuters]“The kids, they say, ‘Wow I will have my own bed? I will sleep on the bed? I will have a cabinet for my clothes.’ It’s so sad to hear, but they didn’t have that in their own countries. They sleep on the floor,” she said in one excerpt. “They are taken care of nicely there. But you know, yeah, they are not with parents. It’s sad. But when they come here alone or with coyotes or illegally, you know, you need to do something.” At another point, she opined that some immigrants seeking asylum in the US were coached about what to say. “They go over and they say like, ‘Oh, we will be killed by a gang member, we will be, you know, it’s so dangerous.’ So they are allowed to stay here.” She added: “Some of them are using that line.” style="width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0; left: 0;">