A former aide to Melania Trump recently shared her thoughts on why the former first lady has been absent throughout her husband Donald Trump's historic hush money criminal trial. Former aide Stephanie Winston Wolkoff recently sat down for an interview with CNN, where she was asked why Melania continues to be noticeably absent from the trial.
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"I don't think we're going to see Melania Trump accompanying Donald to court," Winston Wolkoff stated.
"I don't see her supporting him this way because... I think that you can feel that humiliation without having to put yourself in front of the cameras." Trump is facing 34 felony charges for allegedly falsifying business records to hide payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016 to cover up an affair he has long denied.
Last week, Daniels testified in the trial, sharing damning details about the alleged affair that she claimed took place in 2006, only a year after Trump married Melania.
Winston Wolkoff explained that everything Melania does is "staged" and "strategically planned."
"She is not going to put herself in a position where she's giving anyone the opportunity to say anything negative about her." During her interview, Winston Wolkoff described Trump's marriage as "transactional," explaining that both parties "garnered so much out of their relationship."
"By marrying Donald, Melania really did finally get to be the Vogue cover model that she's always wanted to be... and by marrying Melania, Donald was legitimized as trying to get away from that whole playboy mentality that everyone wanted to characterize him as ."
She also shared her thoughts on Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen, who has been testifying this week about how he orchestrated the payments made to Daniels.