A former White House aide has claimed that Melania Trump is angry about Donald’s alleged affairs, but that she “lives in an ivory tower of denial,” and uses her stony silence over the allegations as a “shield” against them.
Melania, 52, was not at Donald Trump’s side when he turned himself in to the district attorney in New York City on Tuesday, and she was not present at the afterparty at the Mar-a-Lago Ballroom.
And now former assistant Stephanie Wolkoff and Winston have offered her own insight into their marriage.
Her allegations surfaced when DailyMail.com provided exclusive insights into Trump’s much-talked-about marriage in the wake of Donald Trump’s indictment.
Wolkoff claims Melania is really angry about Stormy Daniels’ sexual allegations again. Melania severed ties with Wolkoff when the latter left the White House in February 2018.
Despite this, Wolkoff said Page six In a new interview that Melania will never divorce the ex-president. Trump was in the Big Apple to respond to accusations of silent financial payments to alleged mistresses Karen McDougall and Stormy Daniels.
Of course she knows about Donald’s affairs, she knows everything. But her silence is her dignity. She will stand by her husband, as she always does. I don’t think Melania is offended by his affairs — but she is angry,” Wolkoff added.
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Melania Trump, and Donald Trump pictured together at the Gucci Gala in New York City in 2008
Former First Lady aide Stephanie Winston Wolkoff claims Melania is really angry about Stormy Daniels’ sexual allegations again.
She still won’t leave him. This is an exchange marriage, she knew what she was getting into when she married Donald. The way for her to survive, the former aide said, is to act as if it never happened
Wolkoff helped produce Trump’s inauguration and later served as an unpaid White House consultant. She later released a book about her relationship with Melania.
Wolkoff said she would have been surprised to see Melania next to her husband. “Her silence is deliberate, it is her weapon of choice and her protective shield,” she said.
She still won’t leave him. This is an exchange marriage, she knew what she was getting into when she married Donald. The way for her to survive, the former aide said, is to act as if it never happened.
Wolkoff said Melania calls her critics “jealous” and said the Slovenian “was hoping the Stormy Daniels scandal would be swept under the rug”.
Her way of coping is not to let her feelings show or affect her. I expect we’ll see her by his side at the next social event in Mar-a-Lago.
Wolkoff also said, “Melania believes she doesn’t have to answer or explain herself to anyone, so she wouldn’t put herself in that situation.”
After returning from New York on Tuesday night, Trump slammed New York Attorney General Alvin Bragg for filing criminal charges against him and declared himself a victim of election interference without providing evidence.
Gathered before him in a gilt-edged ballroom in Mar-a-Lago are a number of die-hard and combative Trump supporters, including Republican lawmakers Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz, longtime activist Roger Stone, pillow maker Mike Lindell, and former US ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell and Trump’s sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.
“I never thought something like this could happen in America,” Trump told supporters gathered at his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida. “The only crime I have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation against those who would seek to destroy it.”
Melania Trump failed to show up for her husband Donald’s speech at Mar-a-Lago after his historic arrest and trial in New York
Donald and Melania Trump were pictured together last week at Trump’s Palm Beach resort, following recent news of his conviction and imminent arrest.
Trump, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, on Tuesday night in Florida delivered a relatively short speech, 25 minutes, compared to his rally speeches that can sometimes last two hours.
Although he launched a tirade against the plaintiffs, he did not call for new protests from his supporters. While he is expected to return to campaigning soon, he did not elaborate on that.
Trump has dug deep into his own personal grievances to declare that political opponents are hunting him down using the legal system against him to try to prevent him from reclaiming the White House in 2024.
Trump accused Manhattan District Attorney Bragg of going out to wire him “before he knew anything about me.”
He said the judge in the case, Juan Merchan, is “a judge who hates Trump”. But he offered no evidence to support his claim that they were taking their actions to undermine his bid for the White House.
Trump took fresh shots at all of the various legal cases against him, from the handling of classified documents flown to Mar-a-Lago when Trump left the White House in early 2021, to the investigation into the January 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol and the election interference case. He is facing in Georgia since the 2020 elections.
Trump has expressed particular concern about the documents case being investigated by special counsel Jack Smith, whom he has called “crazy” several times.
He said the cases amounted to an attempt to thwart his third run for the presidency, calling it “massive election interference on an unprecedented scale.”
Donald Trump Jr. and his fiancee, Kimberly Guilfoyle, were also seen at Mar-a-Lago
Eric Trump, pictured with his wife Lara (left), and Tiffany Trump (right) were present at their father’s Mar-a-Lago speech
Donald Trump makes his way to a courtroom in Manhattan on Wednesday
Newlyweds Donald and Melania Trump pictured together in 2006
Among the hundreds was Nathan Mitchell, 18, the incoming president of the Republican Club at Florida Atlantic University.
He said he was there to support the man who represented “America’s best chance at being great again.”
“He humiliates us all in front of the world,” Mitchell said of the accusations against Trump.
Wearing a black leather biker jacket with the “Born to Ride” patch above the number 45, Alex Gonzalez, 45, who runs a security company in Palm Beach, said he was there to show the former president that people believe in him.
“It’s a charade, man, it’s a witch hunt,” Gonzalez said of the indictment. Trump should not be held above the law – if he does something wrong, he should be held responsible like everyone else. But this is BS and everyone knows that.
