Former First Lady Melania Trump is not attending her husband's criminal trial in Manhattan at least partly because she doesn't want to take up her own "free time" doing it, National Review reporter John Fund explained to GB News' Steve Edginton.
Trump is charged with felony falsification of business records, for allegedly concealing payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, which Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg argues amounts to a plot to defraud voters in the 2016 presidential election. It is the first of four criminal trials Trump is set to face, and given procedural hurdles and delays in the other three, may be the only criminal trial he faces prior to the November election. Trump's wife has been conspicuous only in her absence.
In response to Edginton suggesting it was strange the she hadn't yet turned up, Fund said, “Well, there are going to be four trials. If you showed your support publicly in all four trials, you wouldn't have much free time, would you?”
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This trial is likely one of the more embarrassing for Melania specifically, since it involves allegations Trump was unfaithful to her — and regarding that, Fund said, she doubtless "wasn't pleased to hear" these details, but "she's used to a lot worse."
“And I think that as much as she would like to avoid being in the public spotlight, she knew this was going to be in the public spotlight so long as he was,” Fund continued.
The idea that Trump's wife is trying to avoid the public spotlight is bolstered by the fact that when Trump took a break from the trial to attend his youngest son Barron's graduation, she wore an outfit that observers speculated was an attempt to conceal herself.
The trial, which is being overseen by New York Judge Juan Merchan in New York, is expected to go into jury deliberation next week.
