A source close to the former first lady told DailyMail.com that Melania Trump is sticking by her husband, even though she may still be angry with him. Donald Trump is facing a criminal arrest over allegations that he paid porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet.
‘Mrs. Trump has power. As she always has, she is focused on her family and supports her husband, a source told DailyMail.com. “The left has been trying to smear and attack her family for the past seven years, and this is just the latest attempt to bring him down.”
Melania Trump’s word of support is a change in strategy, since she was angry when news of Trump’s affair with Daniels got out. He has denied having a romance and that he did anything wrong.
Ivanka Trump, who is said to be separated from her father, also showed her support for him on Friday, as the family rallied around their leader in his time of legal need.
On Tuesday at 2:15 p.m., Donald Trump, who is 76, will be charged in Manhattan. Reports say there are more than 30 counts, but the exact charges haven’t been made public yet.
Sources say that Melania Trump is not likely to go with the former president to New York on Tuesday, when he will be charged. However, plans could change before then.
She is with the former president right now at their Mar-a-Lago home in West Palm Beach, Fla., where she was photographed right next to him.
Pictures shared on social media show that the couple sat next to each other at dinner in the private club’s fancy dining room and stayed close to each other as they moved around the room.
Melania Trump was easy to spot in the crowd because she was wearing a bright red dress.
It was a bold move for the former first lady, who often lets her clothes speak for themselves.
And if the historic case, which is the first time a former president has been charged with a crime, goes to trial, she would be a strong presence in the courtroom, standing next to him as he faced a jury.
In other ways, her being there could also help his case, especially if his lawyers use a “Melania Trump” argument.
Investigators were looking into whether giving Daniels $130,000 broke federal rules about how to pay for campaigns.
Donald Trump’s lawyers have said in public that the payment had nothing to do with him getting elected president. Instead, they say, it was a way for him to avoid embarrassment and protect his marriage to Melania.
Trump’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, told ABC’s Good Morning America earlier this month, “It has nothing to do with the campaign.” “He paid for this with his own money so that something false and embarrassing to him, his family, and his young son wouldn’t get out.”
And earlier this month, sources told DailyMail.com that the former president was afraid that Melania Trump would leave him if the affair was made public.
“Trump couldn’t believe that Melania would find out about his mistake, which was with a porn star, of all things.
A person said, “He knew what could happen, and he would do anything he could to keep it quiet.”
Melania Trump has stood by her husband during issues in the past.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, when an old “Access Hollywood” interview from Donald Trump in which he talked badly about women came to light, she stood by him and defended him in a CNN interview.
But when the Stormy Daniels story came out five years ago, the former first lady was very angry. When it broke, it caught her by surprise.
So it was interesting that Melania Trump didn’t say anything when the Wall Street Journal wrote about the payment to Daniels in January 2018.
The story said that Daniels was paid just before the 2016 election to keep quiet about an affair she said she had with Donald Trump ten years earlier, when the Trumps were just getting married and soon after Melania had given birth to their son.
Then-President Trump rejected everything right away.
Melania Trump, who was then the first lady, canceled her plans to go to Davos with Trump for the World Economic Forum. She had been set to leave.
Instead, she went to Washington, D.C., to see the Holocaust Memorial Museum. She spent time with her mother and then went to Mar-a-Lago, where she took time to relax in the spa.
After the news broke, she first went out in public at Trump’s State of the Union Address. She wore a white dress, and a handsome young male military officer walked her into the event.
Now, on Friday, she showed her support for Donald Trump along with the rest of his family.
Ivanka Trump had earlier that day made a short speech in which she said, “I love my father” and that she was sad for both him and the country.
“I love both my dad and my country. Today, I feel bad for both of them,’ she wrote in an Instagram story post.
“I’m glad that people from all sides of the political spectrum have shown support and concern,” she said.
Since he left the White House, Ivanka and her father seemed to have a hard time getting along.
There, they were close. She worked as an advisor in his government, and Trump made it clear how much he liked her and her skills.
But during the meetings in Congress about the January 6th uprising, Ivanka Trump said she didn’t believe her father’s claim that he was cheated out of the 2020 race.
Aides said that Ivanka Trump had tried to get her father to do something that day, like tell his fans to stop crowding the Capitol. She also backed then-Vice President Mike Pence, who stood up to President Trump’s push to send the results of the 2020 election back to the states.
Ivanka Trump didn’t join her dad’s campaign for president in 2024, and she wasn’t there when he said he would run again.
“This time around,” she said in a statement released hours after his news, “I’ve decided to put my young children and the private life we’re building as a family first.”
“I don’t want to get involved in politics. I will always love and back my father, but I won’t do it in politics from now on.
She was the last child of the former president to say something. Tiffany Trump hasn’t said anything, but she rarely does. Still in high school, Barron Trump.
Soon after the indictment was made public Thursday night, Trump’s two eldest sons went out to support him.
Donald Trump Jr., the oldest son of the former president, criticized the “crazed weaponization of the entire federal government against political enemies.” He called his father’s charge “communist level s***.”
He said on Rumble’s “Triggered with Donald Trump Jr.” after the charge came out, “Let’s be clear, people. This is about as bad as communist s**t. This is the kind of thing that would turn Mao into Pol Pot.
“They’d be embarrassed. It is so clear. Even extreme lefties at The Washington Post are saying that it’s not really based on facts, which is crazy.
People who said it wasn’t real, that Trump made it up, or that it wasn’t a big deal for us… If you don’t think it’s a problem that the federal government is being used as a tool against their political enemies and the people, who make up about half of the country, as we’ve seen, you don’t even belong in government, let alone as president.’
In an interview with DailyMail.com, Eric Trump slammed the charge, calling it a “ruthless attack” and a sign of “the decline of American law.”
He said, “This is an unfair attack on a political opponent during an election year.”
“They are attacking my father with no mercy because he had the nerve to stand up to the political elite,” he said. “This is proof that American law is getting worse,” they said.
Donald Trump has said that the federal government is making weapons to hurt him. He says that Democrats who want to keep him out of the White House are behind the court probes against him.