For many of her time as first woman, Melania Trump gave off the vibe that she’d actually slightly be wherever else, a conclusion plenty of individuals got here to due to (1) that “I Actually Don’t Care” jacket, (2) the “Who provides a fuck about Christmas stuff and ornament?” recording, and (3) her refusal to attempt to cease the brutal January 6 assault on the Capitol as a result of she reportedly was busy photographing rugs. (Additionally, her seeming disdain for her husband, the not-happy tears she reportedly cried after he gained, and the truth that she delayed her transfer to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for practically 5 months had been fairly good indications.) However a brand new report means that the previous first woman could have been extra intimately concerned in issues of presidency than beforehand thought.
In a brand new e book set for launch this week by former performing protection secretary Christopher Miller, the ex-Trump-administration official writes that Melania was, inexplicably, within the Scenario Room throughout the US’s 2019 ISIS raid that resulted within the demise of then ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In keeping with Miller, Melania was there with the president, Vice President Mike Pence, Protection Secretary Mark Esper, and Joint Chiefs of Employees Chairman Mark Milley, amongst others. He writes: “Her presence was surprising, to say the least. I puzzled how it could play within the press if phrase acquired out that the primary woman had popped in to observe a serious navy operation,” based on a replica of the memoir that was seen by The Hill.
As we’ve identified for a number of years now, al-Baghdadi blew himself up after a navy canine named Conan led troops into the ISIS chief’s compound and had him surrounded. (The blast additionally killed two of al-Baghdadi’s youngsters and two of his wives.) However based on Miller, it was Melania who got here up with the thought about easy methods to inform the American individuals concerning the mission. “You need to speak concerning the canine,” Miller stated she instructed the president. “Everybody loves canines.”
Everybody, after all, besides Donald Trump, who has a well-established disdain for animals generally and canines specifically. (The one president in additional than a century to stay within the White Home with no pet, Trump’s ex-wife Ivana wrote in her 2017 memoir that “Donald was not a canine fan,” and that her poodle, Chappy, would “bark at him territorially” each time he acquired close to her closet. Trump additionally has a protracted historical past of denigrating ex-employees and different perceived enemies by evaluating them to canines, tweeting that his enemies have “choked like a dog,” been “dumped like a dog,” been “fired like a canine,” and, our private favourite, been “kicked out of the ABC News debate like a dog.”)
However, Trump selected to hearken to his third spouse, which apparently led to him excitedly tweeting that Conan was a “fantastic canine” who did a “GREAT JOB” on behalf of the USA, and sharing a photoshopped picture of him awarding Conan the medal of honor and calling him an “AMERICAN HERO.” Later, he invited Conan for an official go to to the White Home whereby he instructed reporters, “The canine is unbelievable. Really unbelievable. We spent some good time with it. So good and so good.” Later, he added that “Conan was very badly damage as you realize, they usually thought possibly he was not going to get well. Recovered in a short time and has since gone on essential raids.” Naturally, he additionally “joked” about siccing Conan on a a member of the free press known for asking powerful questions, saying, “It’s skilled that if you happen to open your mouths you can be attacked. You must be very, very cautious.”
But maybe essentially the most shocking flip of occasions, given what we now find out about Melania’s reported position in all this? That she answered a curt and completely unambiguous “no” when requested if she was involved in adopting Conan for her son. That’s proper, not even an “I’ll give it some thought!”
Anyway, this revelation clearly raises extra questions than it solutions, corresponding to, what number of different issues of grave nationwide safety did the then first woman sit in on, and can she be spearheading any abroad navy operations in a possible second time period?
