• Melania Trump retains rejecting Donald Trump’s requests to seem with him on the 2024 marketing campaign path, in line with the New York Occasions.

• She additionally hasn’t been at any of his court docket appearances.

• Individuals near the household instructed the Occasions that her lack of public help does not imply she does not privately help him.

Former — and probably future — first girl Melania Trump has repeatedly rejected her husband’s provides to marketing campaign with him forward of the 2024 presidential election.

That is in line with The New York Occasions, which revealed a prolonged profile Wednesday of Melania Trump’s personal life within the years since former President Donald Trump left the White Home.

Melania Trump hasn’t simply been absent from the marketing campaign path; she additionally hasn’t been at any of Trump’s court docket hearings.

(The previous president is dealing with two legal indictments, one from the Justice Division over his dealing with of categorized paperwork and one other from the Manhattan district lawyer’s workplace accusing him of falsifying enterprise information. He is additionally staring down two upcoming civil trials: a $250 million fraud lawsuit in opposition to the Trump Group from the New York lawyer basic’s workplace, and a defamation lawsuit from former journal columnist E. Jean Carroll. And he is dealing with a attainable third indictment over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.)

Individuals near the Trump household instructed The Occasions that Melania Trump’s lack of public help for Trump doesn’t imply she does not privately help him and that she nonetheless defends him behind the scenes. The report additionally famous that Melania Trump believes that Trump can win the presidential race subsequent yr regardless of myriad authorized points that he faces.

The previous first girl made headlines all through Trump’s presidency after showing to publicly snub her husband.

In a single viral second in 2017, Melania was seen swatting Trump away as he tried to carry her hand whereas they had been visiting Israel on a diplomatic journey.

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In January 2021, Melania left Trump hanging throughout a photograph op after the 2 touched down in Palm Seaside, Florida, hours after leaving Washington, DC. She was seen strolling away from the tarmac whereas the previous president was met by photographers and members of the press.

Melania Trump appeared with Trump on the marketing campaign path when he formally introduced his 2024 presidential bid in November. However aside from one interview with Fox Information in Might, she hasn’t mentioned a single phrase in regards to the marketing campaign since then, The Occasions reported.

When Trump first introduced his presidential marketing campaign in 2016, many puzzled how Melania Trump — who had beforehand been ensconced within the vogue world — would make her mark on the marketing campaign path.

She was in the end well-received by conservative ladies and emerged as a key surrogate within the last weeks of the marketing campaign, talking up for then-candidate Trump after an “Entry Hollywood” video surfaced of him making lewd feedback about ladies in 2005.

Whereas Trump was in workplace, Melania Trump typically sought to deal with points affecting kids, which she mentioned would even be a precedence ought to her husband win the presidency once more.

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