Blending the personal and the political, former first lady Melania Trump issued a statement Sunday denouncing the “monster” who tried to kill her husband even as she called for America to rise above hate. “When I watched that violent bullet strike my husband, Donald, I realized my life, and Barron’s life, were on the brink of devastating change,” she wrote in a . “I am grateful to the brave secret service agents and law enforcement officials who risked their own lives to protect my husband,” she wrote.
She added a note to those who were “To the families of the innocent victims who are now suffering from this heinous act, I humbly offer my sincerest sympathy. Your need to summon your inner strength for such a terrible reason saddens me,” she wrote. “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.
The core facets of my husband’s life — his human side — were buried below the political machine,” she wrote. Melania Trump, who has long defied the political conventions and led an independent life while her husband has been a candidate and a president, called him a “generous and caring man who I have been with through the best of times and the worst of times.” The statement also addressed those she called “my fellow Americans” as she said America must from the brink.
“We have always been a unique union. America, the fabric of .
