Melania Trump, the once and future first lady, revealed that current first lady Jill Biden reached out to her following the July 13 assassination attempt against President-elect Donald Trump in Butler, Pa.
But Trump she also said she doubts Biden was being sincere — given the inflammatory rhetoric Jill had unleashed just a few days earlier.
“I do question, however, whether Jill’s concern was genuine, as a few days prior she referred to my husband as ‘evil’ and a ‘liar,’” she told French outlet Paris Match in an interview just before the election.
“It was obvious that the onslaught of rhetoric from Democrat leaders and the mainstream media was so deeply embedded in our nation’s consciousness it prompted an attempt to assassinate Donald.”
President Biden, 81, similarly spoke to Donald Trump, 78, just after a bullet grazed his left ear and came within a quarter-inch of ending his life.
Throughout her husband’s third White House bid, Trump, 54, largely eschewed the limelight, though she began making more public appearances during the tail end of the 2024 cycle after she published a tell-all memoir.
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