Donald Trump's hush-money trial was at its heart about his relationship with women – but the woman who mattered most was conspicuously absent throughout.
Prosecution witnesses insisted that Trump had tried to buy the pneumatic Stormy Daniels's silence for $130,000 in 2016 not because he was worried Melania would find out about his grisly assignation ten years earlier — but because he feared that news of it might hurt his election prospects. Yet what wife could have faced sitting in court to hear sordid testimony that her husband had slept with a porn star at a charity golf tournament while she was back at home nursing their new-born son?
Read More Raging Trump brands guilty verdict a 'scam', and calls America a 'fascist state' - but Biden calls him 'reckless' - as Nigel Farage stands by ex-president after historic criminal conviction In April, a source told the New York Times that Melania had accepted Trump's argument that the case against him was a 'disgrace': a cynical attempt to damage his election prospects.
'As soon as this criminal case is over, she will be happy, relieved, back home with Barron in her bathrobe with a smile on her face.' Melania and Barron, 18, reportedly sat out most of the trial at Mar-a-Lago, Trump's home in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump's son Eric and daughter-in-law Lara Trump returning to the courtroom from a break in the hush money trial on May 14
She is fiercely protective of Barron, the only child of their 19-year union, and was said to have been particularly concerned that his name was kept out of the hush-money trial. After, she was reported to be 'all smiles' at a dinner that raised $50 million for her husband's campaign, held by a Republican billionaire in Palm Beach in April, a source claimed that she was 'ready to be First Lady again and clearly enjoyed the evening'.
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