Melania Trump, wife of Donald Trump, said Monday they knew that it was only a matter of time before unflattering videos and interviews from the GOP nominee’s past surfaced to haunt him presidential candidacy.
“[I]t’s very hard, especially for him, when he decided to run for presidency. Because he did so many stuff in his life. He was on so many tapes. So many shows. And we knew that, that, you know, tapes will come out. People wouldn’t want to go against him,” Melania Trump said in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
“But my husband is real. He’s raw. He tells it as it is. He’s kind. He’s a gentleman. He supports everybody. He supports women. He encourages them to go to the highest level. To achieve the dream. He employs many, many women,” she added.
This is Melania Trump’s first interview since the Washington Post published a report earlier this month revealing the GOP nominee once bragged about sexually accosting women.
The Post released a video from 2005 that showed Trump saying to “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush, “You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait.”
“And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything.” “Grab them by the pussy,” Trump said. “You can do anything.”
The 2005 conversation, which was apparently recorded without Bush or Trump realizing it, also included a moment in which the billionaire businessman boasted that he leverages his celebrity status in return for sexual favors from women, some of them married.
Multiple women have also come forward since the Post report to allege that Trump touched them inappropriately.
On Monday, Melania Trump maintained that the allegations against her husband were not true, and she alleged that the entire story is part of a coordinated effort by “the media” and the “left-wing” to bring down his campaign.
