Former first lady Melania Trump detailed how she found out about both assassination attempts against her husband in a rare TV interview this morning to promote her upcoming memoir, “Melania.”
“I ran to the TV, and I rewind it, and I watched it, I was only a few minutes behind, and something, I guess, took over me — so I didn’t really see live, but maybe, you know, three minutes, few minutes later,” she said on “Fox & Friends” when describing how she found out about the first assassination attempt on her husband during a July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“But when I saw it, it was only — nobody really knew yet, because when you see him on the floor, and you don’t know, you don’t know what really happened,” she added.
Trump said she was in New York City when she found out about the apparent second assassination attempt on her husband this month at his West Palm Beach, Florida, golf course.
“I saw it on the television, and as I saw it on television, I called again, and he was OK because Secret Service were great, the guys that they were, the team, they were fantastic,” she said.
She added that she thinks her husband’s survival from both assassination attempts are “miracles.”
“I think something was watching over him,” she said. “I think he’s, it’s almost like country really, really needs him.”
Trump went on to blame the incidents on Democratic rhetoric casting her husband as a threat to democracy. “And is it really shocking that all this egregious violence goes against my husband, especially that we hear the leaders from the opposition party and mainstream media branding him as a threat to democracy, calling him vile names,” she added. “They’re only fueling a toxic atmosphere and giving power to all of these people that they want to do harm to him. This needs to stop. This needs to stop. The country needs to unite.”
She recalled that their son, Barron Trump, was outside playing sports when news of the first assassination attempt on her husband broke before he rushed inside.
“Was very, very difficult,” she said.
