Melania Trump is now 3 for 3 on skipping her husband’s arraignments.The ex-FLOTUS once again did not accompany Donald Trump to federal court in Washington, D.C.
yesterday, where he surrendered himself to authorities and pleaded not guilty to conspiring to overthrow the 2020 election results.The four charges Trump faces in the matter include: one count of conspiracy to violate rights, one count of conspiracy to defraud the government, and one count each of obstructing an official proceeding and conspiring to do so.
Each count carries a possible prison sentence of five and 20 years, which means that, if convicted, he could potentially spend the rest of his life behind bars.Melania also didn’t accompany Trump to court in April, when he was arrested and arraigned in the Stormy Daniels hush money case, or in June, when he was arrested and arraigned in the classified documents case.Former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham (ugh) told CNN that the ex-FLOTUS “knows” what’s “going on” with each of her husband’s indictments, but won’t lend him any public support until she feels like it.“I don’t make anything of [her silence].
She is saying in her mind, that this is his issue, he doesn’t need me here to prop him up, and I’m too busy to go with him,” Grisham surmised. “And that’s who she is.