OAN Staff Blake Wolf
1:00 PM – Thursday, September 26, 2024
Former first lady Melania Trump appeared in her first television interview in over two years on Wednesday, reflecting on her feelings regarding the two assassination attempts against her husband, Donald Trump, as well as the current state of the country.
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On the show “Fox & Friends,” Melania recounted her immediate reaction to the July 13th Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting, where the former president’s ear was grazed by a bullet while on stage.
“I ran to the TV and I rewind[ed] it and I watched it,” she stated, after being told there was a shooting by her chief of staff.
“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.”
“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 stated, holding up her fingers to show how close the bullet got to hitting her husband’s head.
Melania also recounted her own personal experience of hearing about the second assassination attempt on September 15th while in New York City.
“I saw it on television,” she told Ainsley Earhardt, the co-host of the program. “And as soon as I saw it on television, I called again, and he was ok, because Secret Service were great.”
“And, I think both of the events, they were really miracles,” Melania added.
Additionally, Melania also speculated as to why her husband has been repeatedly targeted.
“We hear the leaders from the opposition party and mainstream media branding him as [a] threat to democracy, calling him vile names. [They’re] only fueling a toxic atmosphere and all of these people that they wanted to harm – this needs to stop,” Mrs. Trump asserted.
Melania also explained her thoughts on the disarray that the country is currently in under the Biden administration, in stark comparison to when her husband was in office.
“The country is suffering. People are not able to buy usual necessities for their families. We have wars going on around the world. Soldiers are dying. They were dying under this administration because of weak leadership. The border is open and dangerous. A lot of fentanyl is coming over, killing our youth. It’s very hard to see,” she stated.
“[The economy] it’s really not great. Inflation is high and, if we compare these four years under this administration compared to four years under my husband as commander in chief, he was leading the country through peace through strength. And the border was safer than ever before. We didn’t have any wars. People were prospering. They had jobs. They could support their families, so I think the American people need to decide what they really want. Maybe some strong tweets, but everything else great for this country, so it’s all in the American people’s hands on November 5th,” she concluded.
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