Donald Trump has said his hush money criminal trial was “very hard” for his wife, former first lady Melania Trump.
He became the first former U.S. president convicted of a crime when he was found guilty on Thursday of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the case stemming from a hush money payment made to adult movie actor Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign.
He was accused of attempting to bury news of an alleged extramarital sexual encounter. Trump has denied having sex with Daniels, and has vehemently criticized the jury’s verdict.
While several of Trump’s family members attended the trial to show support for him, Melania Trump stayed away from the Manhattan courthouse.
In an interview that aired on Fox & Friends on Sunday, Trump said she is “fine,” but that “it’s very hard for her.”
“It’s tougher, I think it’s probably in many ways, it’s tougher on my family than it is on me,” he said.
Asked how Melania was doing, he said: “She’s fine, but I think it’s very hard for her. I mean, she’s fine. But it’s, you know, she has to read all this c***.”
During the trial, Daniels relayed in graphic detail the sexual encounter she claims she had with Trump in his hotel suite after they met at a celebrity golf tournament in 2006. Trump has been married to Melania Trump since 2005.
As well as being absent from the courtroom, Melania Trump was also not by Trump’s side when he delivered a speech in response to the verdict on Friday.
While other family members posted messages of condemnation on social media after the verdict, her silence online has also raised questions.
Trump’s former press secretary Stephanie Grisham said last month that Trump was “absolutely” bothered that his wife and his daughter Ivanka Trump did not attend his trial.
“Absolutely, I know it bothers him. That kind of thing would bother him. If Mrs. Trump wasn’t at some event and it was really noted, he would definitely bring it up with her,” she said on CNN. “So I’m sure in this context, it’s definitely really bothering him.”
Trump remains free on his own recognizance after the verdict, but he will have to return to the Manhattan courtroom on July 11 to be sentenced. That will be just days before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where GOP leaders are set to formally make him their nominee for the November election.
Trump has been charged in three other criminal cases, but it is not clear if any of them will go to trial before November. The 2020 election interference case in Washington remains on hold while the U.S. Supreme Court considers Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution for actions taken while in the White House.
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No one is above the law, Trump had a fair trial. I feel so sorry for Melenia. She should leave the lying hypocrite and get on with her life.
It’s not a fair trial when all the evidence isn’t allowed in. Stormy got to overindulge all she wanted as did Michael Cohen who are known for purgery in court. Plus Stormy is a prostitute. The court was set against him before it started. Keep swallowing all the manure Democrats are putting out!
True, Stormy Daniels has no credibility… obviously will do or say ANYTHING for MONEY!
Charley Bill’s statement is totally false as are the charges against President Trump!
You cannot know all the TRUTH that has come from many legal and knowledgeable credible sources as well as applying the LAW and believe these people who are totally violating many aspects of Law by their actions in conduct of the court and case! They are the ones breaking laws in numerous ways!
TRUE!!!!!
Trump was not allowed to testify on his own behalf He had his freedom of speech rights taken away with an UN-constitutional gag order = none of the liars were gagged. Read statements from interviews that the “hush” money was not that at all and his lawyer who handled that at the time said Trump did not know anything about what the money was for . Then I wonder how teh paid off jury considered the TWO official statements Daniels signed saying to sexual encounter happened. She also stated that in a few other interviews.
She only changed her story when big money was offered to her by the Dems who wanted to get Trump out of their way before the election.. The entire thing was a setup from the get-go ! And that so-called “judge” made up his
own laws as he went which is TREASON ! Everything he did was against the Constitution ! And that is TREASON and Treason only gets the death
penalty !
Those are the bare facts.
Charley Bill…are you asleep or just stupid???
I’m with Charley Bill.
Well I see C Bill is brainwashed and on democrats payroll as another slave. Everything that has been against President Trump is all setups by democrats and their puppet’s. Remember the Envelopes at papa Bush funeral? If not I’ll inform you now. Obama’s, Clinton’s, Biden’s, Bush’s and Pence’s all got an envelope and looked inside while waiting for other’s to be seated. Their faces said it. They had the look of fear and I mean each one. Those envelopes said that President Trump knows everything. The democrats fear President Trump something awful. Now since when are judges allowed to convict someone before a trail ever begins? Since when are jurors allowed no paper instructions? Since when are jurors told only four need to say guilty on all charges not 12? Since when are jurors told that a person doesn’t have to have committed a crime to convict them? Since when does a judge put a gag order on a that stays enemy after charged? Since when does a judge not allow certain people to take they stand who is a witness for the defense? Since when is a judge, DA, prosecutors and jurors all instructed to convict a person over no evidence? Since when does a judge, his wife and daughter allowed to go on social media about a case? Now this looks like hush money alright but not by a porn star more like a Judge, DA, Prosecutors and jurors are the ones receiving hush money just like all the rest. C Bill answer this. Do you wear your pj’s or get dressed to sit on computer all day trolling for democrats and how much do you get for it? In my books your a democrat slave, bought and paid for. Anyone with a brain can see that the ex porn star and ex lawyer are lying through their teeth. They set out to get rich from lies. The government has these lier’s on the payroll as well. Why else is Cohen out of prison and story making money off of he lie’s? Now they say all these puppets from this court have been doxed and blames republicans. News flash it’s another democrat rue to imprison more republicans. A spokesman from basement boy administration state on TV that basement boy is going to get rid of President Trump once and for all. So now tell me this trail wasn’t rigged just like the 2020 election. Remember basement boy gave FBI personal orders shoot to kill anyone at President Trump residence, they even had a medical doctor on site. J Smith tampered with evidence to set up President Trump. So C Bill you really need a real job and stop being so stupid. Not even a blind man would think this crap they are doing to President Trump is legal. Just on a high note to C Bill I didn’t see any rioters, arson’s, harming cops, violence, destroying our countries history, killings, looting and other things when verdict read, did you? Proof is in the pudding C Bill.
Well said, & Amen to it all. The Liberals are scared to death of Trump & will not stop until they totally stop him – as in not in this World. The Obama’s, G.W. Bush & Soros will find a way for feckless to order it done knowing feckless is on his way out & will face no punishment . Nor will the 3 (& more) mentioned above bcuz they are above the law. Actually, they are the Law Makers & the Law Breakers. Despicable!
All of these witch hunt trials are pure communist methods of silencing-destroying anyone and everyone that don’t agree with them, their main moto is “, create caos, divide and rule”. Accuse anyone that tries to go against you of the exact same things that you are doing, lies you are telling, crimes you are commiting and bribe anyone you can or tretten to do your dirty work for you against all opposition. The so called democrat party lost its way and stoped being democrat the day they Johnson killed President John Kennedy,, 3 years after they killed Robert Kennedy. All BLAK AMERICANS THAT STILL VOTE FOR SO CALLED DEMOCRATS SHOULD HAVE THEIR HAEDS EXAMINED, KENEDY was the best President America had since Lincoln, Regan was the best since KENEDY and TRUMP the best since Regan. Remember the statement Lindon Johnson made when attempted to run for re election, I quote” let us give the NIGERS Welfare, and they will VOTE for us 110 years”.. Johnson’s words not mine. And that was the beginning of destruction of Black Family …. Now these so called democrats “ communist stooges” are doing all they can to destroy AMERICA and turn it in to communists hell. WAKE UP AMERICA!!! It’s time for extermination