Former President Donald Trump’s hush-money trial has begun and his wife Melania Trump will have to hold her head high.
As her White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham wrote in her memoir, Melania wanted no Hillary comparisons. Melania told Grisham she wanted to drive to Air Force One ahead of Trump.
“I do not want to be like Hillary Clinton, do you understand what I mean?” Melania said, according to Grisham. “She walked to Marine One holding the hands with her husband after Monica news and it did not look good.”
Hillary used her husband’s infidelity to rebrand herself sympathetically and win a Senate seat.
It has been noted that the trial may help cement Melania’s image as a Trump, a loyal citizen of Trumplandia who thinks the system is rigged against her husband, and who will stand with Donald as he tries to regain the Oval — no matter his perfidies toward her and others.
Katie Rogers wrote in The Times, Melania shared Donald’s view that the trial is unfair and the prosecution is a disgrace, to election interference.
When the Stormy story broke, Grisham predicted Melania would storm. However, the presence of anger was conveyed by absence. Melania, who rarely visited her East Wing office anyhow, holed up in her suite and at the spa in Mar-a-Lago, a satiny confinement.
It has been noted that Melania has said she is not deigned to play Maureen Dean, sitting behind her man in court every day for support. Melania has long called Stormy “Donald’s problem,” noting to Stephanie Grisham via DNYUZ: “He got himself into this mess. He can fix it by himself.”
