Donald Trump Calls Media Coverage Of Melania’s Disappearance ‘Unfair’ And ‘Vicious’
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump blasted the news media for their recent coverage of Melania Trump‘s disappearance in the aftermath of a kidney surgery she received in May.
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The media has been speculating the first lady’s potential whereabouts since she hadn’t made a public appearance in more than 25 days until Monday.
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“The Fake News Media has been so unfair, and vicious, to my wife and our great First Lady, Melania,” Trump wrote on Twitter, attacking the press for creating false theories for why his wife had not been seen in several days.
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“During her recovery from surgery they reported everything from near death, to facelift, to left the W.H. (and me) for N.Y. or Virginia, to abuse. All Fake, she is doing really well!”
The Fake News Media has been so unfair, and vicious, to my wife and our great First Lady, Melania. During her recovery from surgery they reported everything from near death, to facelift, to left the W.H. (and me) for N.Y. or Virginia, to abuse. All Fake, she is doing really well!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2018
…Four reporters spotted Melania in the White House last week walking merrily along to a meeting. They never reported the sighting because it would hurt the sick narrative that she was living in a different part of the world, was really ill, or whatever. Fake News is really bad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2018
Melania underwent kidney surgery on May 14 and wasn’t seen in public again until Monday, when she and Trump attended a ceremony for Gold Star families. This event was not open to the media, although several people who were present took photos or videos of the president and first lady and uploaded them on social media.
On May 30, CNBC’s Eamon Javers tweeted that he had seen Melania “walking with her aides in the West Wing” just a day earlier.
Not that this will deter the conspiracy theorists, but I saw the First Lady walking with her aides in the West Wing yesterday afternoon. https://t.co/N9xadq7P0d
— Eamon Javers (@EamonJavers) May 30, 2018
That same day, Melania posted this on her Twitter account:
I see the media is working overtime speculating where I am & what I’m doing. Rest assured, I’m here at the @WhiteHouse w my family, feeling great, & working hard on behalf of children & the American people!
— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) May 30, 2018
Melania also attended a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) event with the president on Wednesday afternoon.
Several other reporters began speculating that Trump had physically abused Melania and subsequently tried to cover it up, citing his long history of mistreating women as a reason for their theory.
I wish that I didn’t suspect that the prolonged, poorly explained public absence of Melania Trump could be about concealing abuse. I wish that it was a ludicrous prospect. I wish that the @POTUS wasn’t a man with a history of abusing women, including those to whom he is married.
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) June 3, 2018
Suppose President Trump punched the First Lady in the White House (federal property = federal jurisdiction), then ordered the Secret Service to conceal the assault. POTUS has Article II authority over Secret Service. Is that obstruction? Under Sekulow/Dowd, apparently NO
— David Frum (@davidfrum) June 2, 2018
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