Donald Trump was arraigned for the second time in just two months yesterday and his wife, Melania, couldn’t be bothered to accompany him to the courthouse, despite a Fox News report to the contrary.Trump, who turns 77 today, is accused of 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information; one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice; one count of withholding a document or record; one count of corruptly concealing a document or record; one count of concealing a document in a federal investigation; one count of scheme to conceal; and one count of false statements and representations for a grand total of 37 counts.
He has denied any wrongdoing.Now, a source tells People that the ex-FLOTUS is “upset and unhappy” about her husband’s situation and “wishes these legal issues would go away.” “She doesn’t want anything to do with any of it,” the source says, which tracks with what we’ve observed thus far.
Melania hasn’t attended any of Trump’s recent court appearances (rumor has it she was having her hair done at the Mar-a-Lago spa during his arraignment yesterday, although we can’t confirm whether this is true), nor has she attended any of his post-court speeches or publicly commented in any way about his legal troubles.Sources say Melania “won’t be with him when he surrenders himself to authorities” tomorrow.“Although her husband feels the legal issues are witch-hunts, she prefers to stay away from making many comments as some of the recent evidence, especially in the Mar-a-Lago documents case, is quite damaging,” the source notes.Damaging, indeed.
Not just for Trump, but also for a “female family member” mentioned in the federal indictment filed against him last week.According to prosecutors, an unnamed member of.