Melania Trump trashes Jill Biden after revealing she called her post-assassination attempt questions if her concern was genuine

Melania Trump, the once and future first lady, revealed that current first lady Jill Biden reached out to her following the July 13 assassination attempt against President-elect Donald Trump in Butler, Pa.But Trump she also said she doubts Biden was being sincere — given the inflammatory rhetoric Jill had unleashed just a few days earlier.“I do question, however, whether Jill’s concern was genuine, as a few days prior she referred to my husband as ‘evil’ and a ‘liar,’” she told French outlet “Paris Match” in an interview just before the election.“It was obvious that the onslaught of rhetoric from Democrat leaders and the mainstream media was so deeply embedded in our nation’s consciousness it prompted an attempt to assassinate Donald.” President Biden, 81, similarly spoke to Donald Trump, 78, just after a bullet grazed his left ear and came within a quarter of an inch of ending his life.

Throughout her husband’s third White House bid, Trump — 54 — largely eschewed the limelight, though she began making more public appearances during the tail-end of the 2024 cycle after she published a tell-all memoir.She had appeared with her husband at the Madison Square Garden rally just days before the Nov.

5 election.On Wednesday, Trump opted to forgo the traditional tea between first ladies during the transition, while her husband sat down with President Biden to go over the switch.“Mrs.

Trump will not be attending today’s meeting at the White House. Her husband’s return to the Oval Office to commence the transition process is encouraging, and she wishes him great success,” Melania Trump’s team said in a statement Wednesday.A key motivation for skipping it was the 2022 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, sources told The Post.She also hit back at rumors that she might not move back into the White House with her husband full-time come January.

Her office stressed that, “several unnamed sources in the media continue to provide false, mislead...