'Selfish': Melania Trump said to be 'sad' Donald brought Barron into criminal court spat
Melania Trump is standing by her man while he faces his first criminal trial, but behind-the-scenes she's fuming their son Barron was thrust into headlines.
"He talked about missing Barron's graduation to the cameras and then again on Truth Social because it caused a lot of coverage about that and it's just not something she would have liked," Trump's former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham told The Daily Mail. "No reason to put such a happy occasion into new stories like that, which will follow their son everywhere.
"I thought it was incredibly selfish of him to use Barron in that way."
Indeed, a furious Trump strolled to the media scrum outside his courtroom in the corridor of 100 Centre Street on Monday to gripe. He said, "It looks like the judge will not let me go to the graduation of my son who's worked very, very hard."
"He's a great student and he's very proud of the fact he did so well and was looking forward for years to having his graduation with his mother and father there, and it looks like the judge isn't going to allow me to escape this scam, it's a scam trial."
The public display that incidentally plotted Barron in a political pickle was undoubtedly something that's miffing Melania, who has long been known to be very protective of their son.
"She's family person and it's normal that would make someone sad," a source told The Mail.
The 45th president is facing 34 criminal counts in an indictment brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg suggesting he tried to bury revelations of an alleged sexual affair with porn star Stormy Daniels and eliminate the publication in the National Enquirer of another conquest with ex-Playboy playmate Karen McDougal.
He charges Trump with fraudulently falsifying New York business records to "conceal crimes that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election."
The trial has recorded two days and already seated seven jurors.
The potential shame brought on by the sordid details of the trial have built up some to wonder why the former First Lady isn't by his side.
But according to The Mail, Melania is very much supporting him, despite experiencing humiliation once the initial reports of $130,000 payments to Daniels splashed in the news in 2018.
So much so that she traveled separately from her POTUS husband when he delivered the State of the Union address.
"She's not going anywhere," a source close to the Trumps told the outlet. "They're going through it together."
"She's been that rock of the family."