Does Melania Trump care that her husband allegedly broke the law? According to her former senior advisor, Melania and Donald are "on the same page" about everything.
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00:00Does Melania Trump care that her husband allegedly broke the law?
00:04According to her former senior advisor, Melania and Donald are on the same page about everything.
00:08In March 2023, Donald Trump was indicted on criminal charges,
00:12making him the first U.S. president in such a position.
00:15Now that the trial for one of his four criminal cases has started,
00:18Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, former advisor to Melania Trump,
00:21is one of many taking to social media to comment.
00:23At the center of the trial is Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who allegedly had an affair
00:28with Donald and received subsequent hush money payments before the 2016 election.
00:33In all of his criminal cases, Donald has pleaded not guilty and has long denied
00:38having had any relationship with Daniels. In the days leading up to the start of the trial,
00:42Wolkoff took to X to give her opinion on Melania's feelings about what Donald did
00:46or didn't do with Stormy Daniels, and it's a roller coaster ride.
00:50Wolkoff started on April 10th by summarizing her take on the trial, writing,
00:54This is not a hush money case, but an election interference case. The indictment states Trump
00:59falsified his business records trying to cover up an effort to illegally influence the 2016 election
01:05by arranging payments that silenced claims harmful to his candidacy.
01:09But April 12th is when she started to bring in her perspective on Melania.
01:13That evening, Wolkoff posted a clip of Donald Trump
01:15being asked if he planned to testify in the hush money trial.
01:19Do you plan to testify in the trial at all?
01:21Yeah, I would testify, absolutely.
01:23In her comment on the clip, Wolkoff said,
01:25Donald and Melania Trump are on the same page. Unless someone else was in the room
01:29where it happened and no one else could ever prove otherwise, don't ever admit to it.
01:33You bet I pressed record.
01:35She didn't clarify in the post what she pressed record on,
01:38but likely assumed her audience would connect it to her taped phone calls with Melania from 2018,
01:43some of which she later played for news outlets to coincide with a book she wrote about Melania.
01:47On April 14th, Wolkoff seemingly confirmed that's what she meant in her previous posts
01:52when she took another jab at Melania on X, writing,
01:54Melania Trump called me March 28th, 2018, three days after the Stormy Daniels 60-minute interview.
02:00You think Melania ever mentioned Donald? Nope. That's Melania.
02:04Instead, Melania was more concerned with the fact that Daniels was getting a Vogue photo shoot.
02:09Annie Leibovitz shot the porn hooker.
02:13What do you mean, she shot the porn hooker?
02:17Stormy.
02:18From Wolkoff's perspective, it seemed clear that Melania isn't the least bit bothered by
02:21what Donald may have done, which Wolkoff chalks up to a similarity in their characters — and
02:26not in a good way. A few hours after posting about their porn hooker conversation,
02:31Wolkoff shared a picture of Melania looking steely-eyed, writing,
02:34Believe me, she knows. She and he are one in the same.
02:38Again, Wolkoff didn't clarify what she thinks Melania knows regarding Donald's trial
02:42and other allegations. But the insinuation is clear, and she doubled down on that on April 15th,
02:48writing pointedly,
02:49Melania and Donald will say and do whatever it takes to protect themselves,
02:52no matter who they hurt along the way. You need to understand that she is no different than he.
02:58Melania hasn't commented much on Donald's alleged affairs over the years. When asked
03:02in 2018 by ABC News about the affair accusations, Melania brushed them off.
03:07It is not concern and focus of mine. I'm a mother and a first lady,
03:11and I have much more important things to think about.
03:15As for the actual matter at hand — charges of Trump falsifying business records to supposedly
03:20make that hush money payment to Daniels — Melania hasn't said a word about it publicly.
03:24But it appears that Wolkoff is correct about her being on her husband's side.
03:28An anonymous source told The New York Times that,
03:30privately, she thinks the trial is a, quote,
03:33"...disgrace."