Former President Donald Trump faces escalating legal troubles and PEOPLE has reported that his wife, Melania Trump, is not pleased.
“Melania is upset and unhappy about last week’s federal indictment of her husband,” a source close to the former president’s camp tells PEOPLE. “Like her husband she wishes these legal issues would go away.”
The former president made his first appearance at a Miami courthouse Tuesday afternoon to be arraigned, just a few days after he was indicted by a federal grand jury.
In an unsealed, 38-count indictment, prosecutors allege Trump, 76, retained over 100 classified documents after leaving the White House and lied to his own attorneys (and, in some cases, instructed them to lie) to attempt to obstruct the investigation and hide that he was possessing some of the documents.
Meanwhile, the 53-year-old former first lady remains focused on her son and family amid her husband’s mounting legal issues, which also includes earlier charges brought by the Manhattan district attorney, and a potentially looming summer indictment in the Georgia election vote counting case.
“She doesn’t want anything to do with any of it,” the source says.
They add: “Although her husband feels the legal issues are witch-hunts, she prefers to stay away from making many comments as some of the recent evidence, especially in the Mar-a-Lago documents case, is quite damaging.”
The source says Melania is told that the legal problems her husband faces now are mainly politically partisan attacks, but she mostly keeps quiet about it.
“As is her way, Melania remains cool and aloof and prefers to go about her business,” the source says. “The recent indictment does not involve her, and while she may feel the evidence is damaging and that he has a rough road ahead, she has lived with other public humiliation for many years, including the sex scandals.”
The source believes that Melania has a way of keeping her own life on track, even amid the chaos around her.
“She continues moving ahead,” the source says. “In her own way, she is strong.”
