Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham says 'Trump's anger level' with Mark Meadows 'has got to be through the roof right now'

• The former top Trump aide Stephanie Grisham says Trump is likely furious with Mark Meadows.
• Meadows initially cooperated with the House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot.

Since publishing a scathing tell-all memoir describing her years as one of Donald and Melania Trump's closest aides, Stephanie Grisham has used her platform to publicly condemn the former president and his allies and offer insight into their thought processes and motivations.

On Monday night, she tweeted that Trump was likely furious with his former chief of staff Mark Meadows for initially cooperating with the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot. Meadows produced more than 9,000 documents to the committee that shed new light on his role in Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Last week, Meadows reversed course and defied the committee's demand that he sit for a deposition.

Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican on the bipartisan panel, on Monday night read out text messages Meadows received on January 6 from Donald Trump Jr. and several Fox News hosts urging the then-chief of staff to get Trump to condemn the rioters and call for peace amid the Capitol breach.

Grisham, who quit her job as Melania's chief of staff on January 6, tweeted that newly disclosed messages made her "stomach turn" and that she was hoping for "substantial punishment for all involved."

"Trump's anger level has got to be through the roof right now," Grisham wrote, adding three fire emojis. "Not that it matters AT ALL, but I can absolutely picture his reaction & I promise it's not pretty."

Grisham declined Insider's request for comment.

In one text, Trump Jr. wrote to Meadows, "He's got to condemn this shit ASAP." In another, the president's son told Meadows his father "has to lead now." "It has gone too far and gotten out of hand," he added.

The select committee voted unanimously on Monday to recommend that Meadows be charged with criminal contempt of Congress for defying its subpoena.

Reports emerged last month that Trump was angry with Meadows after he wrote in his memoir that Trump tested positive, and later negative, for COVID-19 before his first in-person debate with Joe Biden in September 2020. The news undermined Trump's claim that he tested positive for the virus three days after the debate and suggested that the president recklessly endangered hundreds of people, including Biden, by potentially exposing them to the deadly virus.

After Meadows announced he would no longer cooperate with the committee earlier this month, Grisham tweeted, "Translation: Trump is pissed about his book, so now Meadows is doing all he can to get back in his good graces."

Grisham started as a press aide on the Trump campaign in 2016 and steadily rose through the ranks in Trumpworld, ultimately serving as the White House press secretary and a top aide to the first lady. In her memoir, "I'll Take Your Questions Now," she describes the Trump White House as deeply chaotic and incompetent and writes that she and other staffers "got heady with power" and "didn't think about serving the country." She adds that she's "terrified" of a second term of Trump.

Both the former president and the former first lady have denounced Grisham in recent months, calling her incompetent, "deceitful," and "troubled."