Former first lady Melania Trump urged her fellow Americans “to ascend above the hate, the vitriol, and the simple-minded ideas that ignite violence” like the assassination attempt Saturday against her husband, former President Donald Trump.
In a statement, the former first lady expressed gratitude to the Secret Service agents and law enforcement who protected Trump, and sympathy to the families of the one person killed and two others wounded in the shooting at the Butler, Pa. campaign rally.
And she described in loving detail her husband – “his human side,” she said, that has been “buried below the political machine.”
“A monster who recognized my husband as an inhuman political machine attempted to ring out Donald’s passion — his laughter, ingenuity, love of music, and inspiration.”
— MELANIA TRUMP (@MELANIATRUMP) July 14, 2024
“Let us not forget that differing opinions, policy, and political games are inferior to love. Our personal, structural, and life commitment — until death — is at serious risk. Political concepts are simple when compared to us, human beings,” she added.
Trump, who’s scheduled to attend the Republican National Convention this week in Milwaukee — a rare public appearance, as she has been noticeably absent on the campaign trail and at her husband's lengthy hush money trial in New York — said the time has come “to look beyond the left and the right, beyond the red and the blue.”
“Dawn is here again. Let us reunite. Now,” she added.
“I commend those of you who have reached out beyond the political divide — thank you for remembering that every single politician is a man or a woman with a loving family.”
