An ex-aide to former first lady Melania Trump made a prediction about her possible attendance at Donald Trump's ongoing criminal trial in New York.
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"I don't think we're going to see Melania Trump accompany Donald to court," Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Melania's former friend and aide, said Tuesday. "Melania is Melania's own person," she told CNN. "In regards, again, to a marriage that you want to consider to be something that most people are trying to still understand, don't.
"I don't see her supporting him this way.... I think you can feel that humiliation without having to put yourself in front of the cameras. Everything Melania does is staged," Wolkoff said. Trump's criminal trial in Manhattan began its fifth straight week on Monday with testimony from his former lawyer and "fixer" Michael Cohen and is expected to continue on Tuesday. Trump is accused of falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment made before the 2016 election to hide an alleged sexual encounter.
In April 2023, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said the former president "fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal crimes that hid damaging information—including a $130,000 hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels—from the public during the 2016 presidential campaign. "
Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts in the case and has said it is politically motivated. He has also denied having the encounter with Daniels.