Former Aide Explains Why Melania Stays With Donald Despite His Disgusting Behavior

A former top aide to Melania Trump says the reason the ex-first lady remains with Donald Trump has nothing to do with love or keeping the family together. Instead, their marriage is just a business transaction.

Speaking with CNN’s Jake Tapper yesterday, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff noted, “I think people have to remember who Melania really is.”

“There is no enigma, there is no mysteriousness,” she added. “Melania really is who she has portrayed herself to be. There is a strength within her that is unlike any other individual I have ever met. She does not care what others feel about her nor does she feel she had to ever explain anything to the American people.”

Donald and Ivanka have a “transactional marriage,” Wolkoff explained.

“By marrying Donald, Melania really did finally get to be the Vogue cover model that she’s always wanted to be, that supermodel, and by marrying Melania, Donald was legitimized as trying to get away from that whole playboy mentality that everyone wanted to characterize him as.”

As the ex-president faces a possible criminal conviction in New York for paying hush money to Stormy Daniels and interfering with the 2016 election, no one should expect Melania to show up at the courthouse with her husband, Wolkoff said.

“I don’t think we’re going to see Melania Trump accompanying Donald to court,” Wolkoff said. “Melania is Melania’s own person, in regards, again, to a marriage that you want to consider to be something that most people are trying to still understand, don’t.”

“I do not see her supporting him this way because she is not someone who, I think, that you can feel that humiliation without having to put yourself in front of the cameras. Everything Melania does is staged, so everything is articulated in a way for her before she does her interviews. So everything, like I said, is very strategically planned. She is not going to put herself in a position where she’s giving anyone the opportunity to say anything negative about her.”

How romantic! Donnie and Mel are using each other and love money and power more than they do anything else. They’re perfect for each other because no one else would have them.