Former and future first lady Melania Trump said current first lady Jill Biden contacted her following the July 13 assassination attempt on President-elect Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. He revealed that he had taken it.
But Trump also said he didn't believe Biden was being sincere, given the inflammatory comments Jill made just days earlier.
“But I doubt whether Jill's concerns were genuine. A few days ago she called my husband a 'bad person' and a 'liar,'” she told French media.pari match'' he said in an interview just before the election.
“It was clear that the onslaught of rhetoric from Democratic leaders and the mainstream media had become deeply embedded in the national consciousness and led to the assassination attempt on Donald.”
President Biden, 81, spoke similarly to President Donald Trump, 78, moments before a bullet grazed his left ear and came within a quarter of an inch of his life.
President Trump, 54, largely stayed out of the spotlight during her husband's third run for the White House, but after publishing a revealing memoir, she may make a public appearance late in the 2024 cycle. Increased.
She had attended a rally at Madison Square Garden with her husband days before the Nov. 5 election.
On Wednesday, President Trump chose to forego the traditional tea between first ladies during the transition period, while her husband sat down with President Biden to discuss the transition.
“Mrs. Trump will not be attending today's meeting at the White House. I am encouraged that my husband has returned to the Oval Office to begin the transition process, and I wish him great success. “There is,” Melania Trump's team said. said in a statement Wednesday..
The main motivation for skipping it was the FBI's 2022 raid on Mar-a-Lago, sources told the Post.
she also fought back rumor She may not be able to return to the White House full-time with her husband in January. Her office stressed that “some anonymous sources in the media continue to provide false, misleading and inaccurate information.”
Melania Trump met former first lady Michelle Obama for tea in the Yellow Room following her husband's 2016 victory, but she extended similar courtesy to Jill Biden after the 2020 election. did not show.
Melania Trump said in an interview with a French publication that she felt a sense of relief immediately after her husband's death, saying “he was safe,” but blamed the political environment that led to the attack on her husband. .
“They want Donald out. They won't stop. Has the concept of 'respect' become obsolete?” ' she thought. “The Democratic political engine spreads harsh words and vile epithets, labeling our nation's 45th president a 'threat to democracy.'”
President Biden has characterized incoming Republicans as a threat to democracy, and Jill Biden has slammed them as a threat to women.
“People today have become so desensitized that they joke that they actually murdered the former president of the United States,” she continued. “There is no denying that this type of speech has created a toxic political environment.
In exchange for tea with President Melania Trump, Jill Biden, 73, gave her husband a letter congratulating him on the 2024 election and expressing her team's readiness to support the transition. I told you.
Jill Biden joined her husband in welcoming Donald Trump to the White House on Wednesday.
