Melania Trump ‘privately called Donald’s hush money trial a disgrace and unfair’
Former First Lady Melania Trump may be absent and silent as her husband Donald Trump attends his hush money criminal trial, but she reportedly shares his view it’s ‘a disgrace’.
Melania agrees with Trump that the trial unfolding in Manhattan Criminal Court is unfair, several sources who know her thinking told The New York Times on Tuesday.
‘In private, she has called the proceedings “a disgrace” tantamount to election interference,’ reported the newspaper based on an account from a person with direct knowledge of what Melania allegedly said.
The report on Tuesday comes a day after Trump’s historic criminal trial started. On Monday the presiding judge, Justice Juan Merchan, said that Melania could be a potential witness.
Trump is the first former or current US president to face a criminal trial. He has been charged with falsifying records during his 2016 presidential campaign to cover up an extramarital scandal with porn star Stormy Daniels that allegedly happened while Melania was pregnant with their son, Barron.
Melania was livid when reports of the hush payment emerged in January 2018 and flew from the White House to the couple’s Mar-a-Lago home and spent some time there away from him.
In private, Melania has apparently long referred to her husband’s hush money case as ‘his problem’ and not one of hers.
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