Stephanie Grisham slammed by former Obama officials for bogus claim about insulting notes left for Trump White House: ‘A complete and utter lie’

Stephanie Grisham, White House press secretary for the Trump Administration, has alleged that members of the Obama Administration left behind some insulting notes during the late 2016/early 2017 lame duck session — when Obama was on his way out and Trump’s administration was on its way in. But former Obama staffers have been pushing back on her claims, asserting that they are absolutely untrue.

Grisham claimed that Obama staffers left behind notes saying things like “you will fail” and “you aren’t going to make it.” But Peter Boogaard, who served as a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under Obama, said of Grisham’s claims, “l worked in lower press for the last 2 years of the Administration. This absolutely did not happen.”

Daniel Jabobson, former White House lawyer under Obama, was equally forceful —tweeting, “I was there. This is a complete and utter lie. Quite the opposite: we left them briefing books to try to help with the transition as much as possible.”

View the complete November 19 article by Alex Henderson on the AlterNet website here.