Melania Received’t Be Bullied Into Supporting Trump After Verdict

At this level, we must always all notice that Melania Trump just isn’t some form of “resistance” hero. As First Girl, she was not secretly working to undermine the Donald Trump administration; she largely saved to herself, apart from when she wore an offensive jacket and unintentionally revealed she doesn’t “give a fuck” about Christmas.

However I do respect one factor about Melania: She didn’t specific any assist for her husband in any respect as he was tried and convicted on 34 felony counts for paying hush cash to Stormy Daniels, the porn star with whom he allegedly had an affair whereas married to Melania.

At first, Melania’s absence from the courthouse wasn’t too conspicuous. She primed us to anticipate that she’d avoid the hush-money trial by skipping almost each Trump political and courtroom look for greater than a yr. Actually, Melania has given barely any indication that she backs Trump’s 2024 marketing campaign: She gave a single pro-Trump reelection assertion to Fox Information Digital, joined her husband to vote in Florida’s GOP major, and confirmed up to some of the marketing campaign fundraisers held at her own residence.

Up to now week, the Trump household quietly turned up the stress on Melania to supply some signal of assist for the previous president. Eric had usually attended courtroom along with his father, typically bringing his spouse, Lara. Don Jr. made it to courtroom twice, although he’s been recovering from knee surgical procedure, and he’s been shoutily defending his father on-line all alongside. Throughout Tuesday’s closing arguments, even Tiffany Trump and her husband, Michael Boulos, had been by Donald’s aspect.

That left solely three members of Trump’s speedy household who hadn’t publicly supplied any phrases of encouragement: Ivanka, Melania, and Barron (who doesn’t depend as a result of he’s a high-schooler who’s by no means spoken publicly).

Then, on the final minute, Ivanka broke. When the decision got here down on Thursday afternoon, her Instagram Tales featured a video of her son swinging a golf membership to the Eagles music “Take It Simple.”

Maybe realizing that’s too chill a vibe for the day your dad turns into a convicted felon, on Thursday night she posted this:

Does Ivanka suppose the jury received it proper? Does she agree with Don Jr. that “the Democrats have succeeded of their yearslong try to show America right into a third-world shithole”? Unclear! All we all know is that she formally continues to like her dad.

And what about Melania? Effectively, she wasn’t at courtroom when the decision was learn; Eric was the one member of the family in New York with Donald on Thursday. And almost 24 hours later, she hasn’t launched a press release and even posted a four-word message affirming her normal affection for Donald J. Trump. She has solely posted twice on Reality Social and Instagram within the final week, one to mark Memorial Day:

And one to advertise her ugly jewellery line:

Perhaps Melania has been supporting Donald behind the scenes all alongside. However her public silence on the matter actually ship the message that we must always add her husband to the record of issues she “doesn’t give a fuck” about.