the jacket episode you write about with rich detail. as someone who has covered a lot of campaign trips and political trips and gone from motorcade darting up to stairs, you admit that you missed the jacket, the feature of the jacket we re looking at. by the way, it wasn t entirely clear at first blush, but you also admit it grew up and blew up into a huge story while you were in the air on that trip. remind us where the trip was and also let the viewers in on the person you think the message was for. right. so the trip was down to texas, to the border in the thick of the first pictures that we were seeing of family separation. and she told the president i m going whether you want me to or not to bring more publicity, the well-intentioned meeting was negated by the fact that she wore this jacket on and off the plane. we were under the wing and as she got in the front, we got in the back, we are the press. we saw writing but didn t understand until we were
she got in the front, we got in the back, we are the press. we saw writing but didn t understand until we were downloading the pictures from the photographers on the way home. on the ground in texas she didn t wear the jacket, she had changed clothes. i m probably the only reporter who lost sleep over what does that jacket mean. i have a theory that it was directed towards ivanka trump based on both reporting and having operated in the melania trump orbit for so long. and perhaps was saying i worked on this. i worked behind the scenes to get him to sign this executive orders stopping zero tolerance. this was me. ivanka trump has a tendency to say i worked on this and behind the scenes they tried to get this done. she s very savvy with the media that way. and i think this was melania s moment, i think, to say i did this, i really i think there was a translation miss there, but her message was directed at ivanka trump. the message i got was