Where is Melania Trump now that all the spotlights are once again on her husband, the former US president donald trump? After being indicted for the third time, he appeared in court in Washington on Thursday and pleaded not guilty to trying to reverse the 2020 election results. Meanwhile, he remains determined to try to become president of the United States again. Polls place him as a great favorite among Republican voters to be the party’s candidate in next year’s elections. And they also predict a close battle in a supposed final duel with Joe Biden for the presidency.
how do you cope the hieratic and discreet former first lady, 53 years old, this new stage after staying away from the flashes after leaving the White House in January 2021? During this time – in which the family moved to the Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida – she has chosen to be out of focus. She has not been seen with her husband in any of his electoral acts or in his appearances before the courts.
Since Trump (77 years old) announced his presidential candidacy last November, Melania has not attended any campaign event with him. About her husband’s decision to run for the presidency in 2024, she remained publicly silent for months. Until last May, when she said in an interview with Fox News Digital: “You have my support and we hope to restore hope for the future and rule America with love and strength.
People close to them assure that this lack of public support does not imply disapproval and indifference, reports The New York Times. According to the American newspaper, these testimonies They maintain that “she continues to defend her husband” and that, like him, she thinks that he is being unfairly attacked.
The life of the former first lady
What is Melania Trump’s life like today? Her day to day is reduced to a small circle of people, according to The New York Times: his son Barrón (17 years old); His parents (Already older, they have an apartment in the Trump Tower in Manhattan) and several old friends. And he maintains contact and friendship with a small group of people from his time in the White House.
During this time, Melania Trump has worked on some charitable and lucrative projects, reported Newsweek. Earlier this past May, she hosted a potluck at Mar-a-Lago to celebrate the fifth anniversary of her “Be Best” initiative. It is a project that she launched as first lady to support America’s children and fight the opioid crisis. It has also supported another program to award college scholarships to children who have gone through the foster care system.
On possibility of becoming first lady for the second timeMelania Trump assured Fox News that in this new opportunity “would prioritize the well-being and development of children”.
Although at the time, many rumors suggested that the couple could divorce after leaving the White House, that news never came to pass.
Last March, Trump was charged in the case linked to the porn star Stormy Daniels. He is accused of bribery for allegedly buying the silence of the actress in the 2016 electoral campaign to prevent her from talking about the extramarital affair they would have had several years before. Daniels has recounted that they had sex despite the fact that he was married to Melania. It would have happened shortly after Barron’s birththe son of both.
Trump is also indicted in the case of the classified documents. He is accused of taking hundreds of boxes of confidential White House files to his mansion in Mar-a-Lago.
The former president has returned to the covers. But Melania prefers to stay away from the spotlight. Although, according to The New York Times, next year she would be willing to participate in campaign events with her husband. Everything, for the White House.
