Melania Trump calls husband’s survival of two assassination attempts ‘miracles’ and describes anger over FBI raid in rare TV interview
Melania Trump has spoken about the recent assassination attempts on her husband’s life in a rare TV interview.
Melania Trump said she considers it miraculous that her husband survived the two assassination attempts against him and revealed that she was fuming after the FBI rummaged through her Florida home.
In her first television interview in more than two years, the former first lady told Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt that she struggled to comprehend what had happened when she saw her husband, former President Donald Trump, “on the floor” at the July 13 Butler, Pennsylvania, rally after he was grazed by a would-be assassin’s bullet.
“I ran to the TV and I rewind[ed] it and I watched it,” Melania said of her immediate actions after being told by her chief of staff that her husband was OK but that there had been a shooting at the rally.
“When I saw it … nobody really knew yet [what had happened],” she continued.
“When you see him on the floor and you don’t know, you don’t know what really happened.”
Melania, 54, said she was in New York City on September 15, when her husband was targeted yet again by a sniper as he golfed near their Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, the New York Post reports.
“I saw it on the television,” the retired supermodel said of how she found out about the second assassination attempt. “And as soon as I saw it on television I called again, and he was OK, because Secret Service were great.”
“The guys that [the former president’s golf group] were between, they were fantastic.”
“And, I think both of the events, they were really miracles,” Melania said.
“If you really think about it, July 13th was a miracle. Like, that much and he could, you know, he could not be with us,” she added, noting with her fingers how close the Butler shooter’s bullet got to her husband’s head.
She also explained who bears responsibility for the two attempts on her husband’s life.
“We hear the leaders from the opposition party and mainstream media branding him as threat to democracy, calling him vile names. [They’re] only fuelling a toxic atmosphere and all of these people that they wanted to harm — this needs to stop.”
When asked about her reaction to the August 2022 FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago, conducted as part of the government’s investigation into her husband’s withholding of classified White House documents, Melania said the ordeal left her “angry.”
“Yeah, it made me angry,” she said, calling it an “invasion of privacy.”
“The way it was done, was, I was really surprised.”
FBI agents scoured Melania’s wardrobe, combed through her husband’s office and even reportedly searched one of her son Barron’s rooms during the raid.
“I saw unpleasant stuff that nobody wants to see,” Melania said of her experience returning to her ransacked residence. “And you get angry because, you know, nobody should be putting up with that kind of stuff.”
“Some person – I don’t even know who or how many people – they, you know, they went through my stuff.”
Earhardt’s full interview with Melania will air Thursday morning on Fox & Friends.
This article originally appeared in the New York Post and has been reproduced with permission.
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