Melania Trump now also challenges election result and says ‘every legal vote must be counted’ to ‘protect democracy’
MELANIA Trump has waded into the election row saying the American people “deserve fair elections” and illegal votes should not be counted.
The outgoing First Lady, 50, wrote on her Twitter page: “The American people deserve fair elections. Every legal – not illegal – vote should be counted. We must protect our democracy with complete transparency.”
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Earlier today CNN reported Melania had told Donald Trump the time had come for him to accept Democrat Joe Biden had won the presidential election and concede defeat.
Donald’s sons though demanded a “manual recount” of the vote and urged him not to concede defeat.
The president has continued to rage against the “stolen” election and refused to accept defeat as a “black mood” falls over the White House.
The news comes as reports circulate that Melania is considering divorcing Donald once he is out of the White House.
Fired White House aide and The Apprentice star Omarosa Manigault Newman is certain they will split, reports the Mail on Sunday.
She said: “Melania is counting every minute until he is out of office and she can divorce.
“If Melania were to try to pull the ultimate humiliation and leave while he’s in office, he would find a way to punish her.”
She told British daytime TV show Lorraine last month that Melania is “repulsed” by her husband.
She said: “I’m very cautious to comment on the dynamics of a marriage because you never know what goes on behind closed doors.
“But I have known this couple since they were dating, they got married a year after The Apprentice aired.
“What I have observed in the last 17 years would make your head spin. Sometimes they like each other but sometimes she is repulsed by him.”
Newman claimed the First Lady’s feelings for her husband were made clear when she appeared to pull her hand away from his after the final presidential debate.
It was the latest of several occasions when she has seemed to refuse to take his hand – which Newman claims is her way of embarrassing him on purpose.
Property tycoon Trump married Solvenian ex-model Melania, his third wife, in 2005.
She was rumored to be against his running for president and is famously said to have burst into tears when he won the 2016 election.
One friend said: “She never expected him to win.”
She waited five months before moving from New York to Washington, apparently because the couple’s son Barron “needed to finish school”.
But another ex-aide, Stephanie Wolkoff, claimed it was because Melania was negotiating a post-nuptial agreement to give Barron an equal share of the Trump fortune.
She alleged the Trumps used separate bedrooms in the White House and had “a transactional marriage”.
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Despite frosty moments in public, Melania says she has “a great relationship” with her husband, 74. He insists they never argue.
The First Lady’s spokesman Stephanie Grisham said about Newman’s book in August: “Mrs Trump rarely, if ever, interacted with Omarosa.
“It’s disappointing to her that she is lashing out and retaliating in such a self-serving way, especially after all the opportunities given to her by the President.”