The former president has gossiped openly about and, so far, declined to endorse Josh Mandel.
In recent months, these sources said, the onetime leader of the free world has even spent an inordinate amount of time gossiping with a large array of advisers and close associates about unconfirmed details of Mandel’s sex life. Trump has privately regurgitated, often in disgust, a wide range of unverified, often completely unvetted, and lurid rumors about the MAGA candidate.
“He has talked about [Mandel] and sex in the same sentence more times than I would have liked to hear.”
— a source who spoke with former President Trump about Ohio Senate candidate Josh Mandel.
The salacious gossip has frequently found its way to Mar-a-Lago, and wherever else Trump and his political orbit roam, because Republicans opposed to Mandel have actively pushed rumors to Trump, Ohio political circles, and reporters at major news outlets, the sources independently said.
“The [former] president has used the term ‘fucking weird’ to describe Josh Mandel more than once, when I have spoken to him about” Mandel, one of the people said. “He has talked about [Mandel] and sex in the same sentence more times than I would have liked to hear.”
“In my experience, Donald Trump is a hungry gossip for all things, including very personal details of people’s lives,” Stephanie Grisham, a former top aide to both Donald and Melania Trump who’s publicly fallen out with the MAGA royalty, said Friday. “When I worked for him in the White House, he had no problem bringing up or asking about supposed details of the personal lives of prominent politicians or other famous people, even his own staff. It is ironic that someone like Donald Trump, who has been accused of all kinds of sexual misconduct, would care to gossip so much about these matters, but… that’s just who he is.”
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