Stand By Your (Wo)Man: Trump Lashes Out at the Media’s Treatment of Melania

The media continue to hound First Lady Melania, all in order to strike against their personal Satan, Donald J. Trump.

Trump had enough Wednesday, chopping back at the purveyors of misinformation, related specifically to her whereabouts following her

widely-used-for-political-attacks kidney surgery.

“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

A few minutes later, the President asserted multiple reporters had seen the First Lady at the White House last week, refusing to publicize the fact due to its working against their false narrative.

“…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!”

…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

A CNBC journalist, Eamon Javors, had in fact passed along the news via Twitter, on May 30th:

“Not that this will deter the conspiracy theorists, but I saw the First Lady walking with her aides in the West Wing yesterday afternoon.”

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

Javers was right, and so is Trump. The media have treated Melania absolutely shamefully in their quest to treat Trump shamefully. Case in point: Rolling Stone’s Jamil Smith and The Atlantic’s David Frum:

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

Just pathetic.

In my opinion, Melania has shown herself to be the most graceful First Lady in a very long time. Democrats have fawned over Jackie Kennedy for decades; but I’d prefer Mrs. Trump any day. So long as the left-wing activists in the media continue to abuse her in their efforts to assault her husband, they will continue to reveal their nullifying bias. Furthermore, their misconduct serves as a catalyst for something they surely do not want: Donald Trump standing up for a woman.

All of this exposure is helpful, yet it isn’t worth the crucifying of an innocent.

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