
About a month into the former president’s hush money trial, there’s no sign of Melania Trump anywhere — not on Donald Trump’s campaign trail and certainly not in the courtroom.
Sarah Matthews, a former Trump White House official, told a CNN panel on Tuesday that Melania’s absence from her husband’s side speaks volumes, especially given the circumstances of the trial itself: a criminal case for allegedly falsifying business records to cover up a hush payment to an adult film star, Stormy Daniels, with whom Trump allegedly had a sexual encounter.