Former first lady Melania Trump gave a rare television interview this morning to promote her upcoming memoir, “Melania,” detailing how she learned of two assassination attempts against her husband.
“I ran to the TV and rewound it and watched it. It was only a few minutes late, but I guess something got the better of me. So I didn’t actually watch it live, but… “Maybe three minutes later, a few minutes later,” she told “Fox & Friends” of how she learned of the first assassination attempt against her husband during a July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“But when I saw it, it was just, no one really knew yet, because even though you saw him on the floor, you didn’t know what actually happened. Because I don’t know,” she added.
President Trump said she was in New York City when she learned of what appeared to be a second assassination attempt on her husband this month at a golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.
“I saw it on TV and I called him again because I saw it on TV and he said OK because the Secret Service was great and they were great and the team was great,” she said. .
She added that she thought it was a “miracle” that her husband survived both assassination attempts.
“I think something was watching him,” she said. “I think he does. It’s like this country really, really needs him.”
President Trump went on to blame the incident on Democratic rhetoric that framed her husband as a threat to democracy. “And all this terrible violence is being perpetrated against my husband, especially by opposition leaders and the mainstream media who have branded him a threat to democracy and called him vile names. Is it really that shocking to hear that?” she added. “They’re just stirring up a toxic atmosphere and giving power to everyone who wants to do him harm. This has to stop. This has to stop. The country needs to come together. be.”
She recalled that when news of the first assassination attempt against her husband broke, her son Barron Trump was outside playing sports before her husband ran into the house.
“It was very, very difficult,” she said.