Melania Trump stands up for her unfaithful husband
The first lady, in an unusual gesture, attacks the press and closes ranks with the president after accusations of infidelity
Michael Cohen's confession exploded all over Donald Trump's face and splattered Melania. The president's trusted ex-lawyer confessed to paying a porn film actress and a former Playboy model to shut up his alleged sexual relations with Trump between 2006 and 2007, when the tycoon was already married to the Slovenian. The first lady has not referred to the issue but she has shown support for the president, unlike her reaction when the scandal was barely known at the beginning of the year.
In the midst of the hurricane on the private life of the president of the United States, a voice asked to leave Melania alone: Stormy Daniels. One of the two women who received money during the presidential campaign to silence her affair with the then Republican candidate.
The Trumps' first activity after Cohen's confession was at a children's hospital in Ohio. After touring the medical unit, the couple shared a smile with the children and even colored with them. The president had a slip that in the turbulent week reached only the weight of a pen: he used the blue pencil to paint a line of the American flag, instead of red. The next day, the first lady sent an email to Republican voters with the aim of raising funds for the November legislatures: "The Democrats and the opposition media are doing everything they can to discredit Donald with false accusations, spreading his false news and making it appear that he does not have the support of the voters of the United States, "the letter read.
With the ruling on the media, Melania, who often stays off the political spectrum, became involved for the first time in Trump's war on the press, which she dubbed "the enemy of the people."
On Tuesday, the first lady reappeared publicly alongside her husband. They both welcomed Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and his wife Margaret Wanjiru Gakuo to the White House. Melania will make her first major solo international trip to Africa in October. The objective of her visit will be to strengthen relations between the United States and various countries on the continent - which ones are still unknown. "I am excited to educate myself on the issues children face, as well as learning about their rich culture and history," she said in an official statement.
When Stormy Daniels (Stephanie Clifford) appeared in January this year, Melania vanished. The exactriz arrived with a time bomb for the tabloids and the legal world. In 2006, she met Trump at a celebrity golf tournament in Nevada and, she said, they had sex repeatedly. While the first meeting was taking place, Melania, who had been married to Trump for a year, was recovering from the delivery of her son Barron. Ten years later, Cohen knocked on Daniels' door and paid her $ 130,000 in exchange for signing a nondisclosure agreement, but in 2018 she no longer wanted to keep the secret. When he opened his mouth 10 months ago, two weeks went by in which nothing was heard from the president's wife. The first lady broke with the presidential agenda and canceled her trip with Trump to Davos. Instead, she took refuge in the golf club in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. A very different reaction from the one he has had this time.
Shortly before the president's trusted ex-attorney broke his silence, former White House adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman published a book —Unhinged (Volatile) - where she maintained that Melania was "counting the days" to leave her husband. A treat that fed the tabloids, used to speculating about the Trumps' distant relationship. Although the first lady has on certain occasions cleared up any rumors of separation, this time it was Stormy Daniels who asked the media to leave her alone. The public "should stop talking for her. Maybe she is happy," the 48-year-old woman who claims to have had an affair with Trump told the British newspaper The Mirror. "The whole world," she added, "would be interested to know what you feel. But if you never tell, it is your right and I support you."
Sexual relations
Trump has denied having sex with Daniels. It also said in April that it knew nothing about the payment to it. Now, however, he says that he was aware of it, but that he found out after it happened. Of course, the money was his, he clarifies, to rule out a crime of illegal financing during the campaign. And Karen McDougal, the Playboy model who also claims to have had an affair with the president, has yet to be developed. Eyes are on David Pecker, the president of American Media, the editor of the National Enquirer. The newspaper allegedly helped Trump by exclusively buying the McDougal story for $ 150,000 and then never running it. An indirect payment to bury the possible romp. Pecker received immunity in the federal investigation two days after Cohen surrendered. We have to wait to see if this time it is his story that monopolizes the covers, and if the story sprinkles Melania again.
