Joining me now is Stephanie Winston Wolkoff,
a former longtime adviser to Melania Trump.
Stephanie, good to see you tonight.
You know this couple very well.
What do you think is happening behind closed doors now
that Trump has actually been convicted?
I think that the family is speaking,
you know, very clearly and vocally to Donald,
as Melania always does, as I used to witness.
And I think she's telling him exactly how she feels.
And I think that she is probably putting a mirror
up to him to show him that his brazen attempts
of trying to subvert our democracy and his attempt to
hush, you know, everyone into believing that he did or
did not sleep with Stormy Daniels has nothing to do
with the fact that this was about election interference.
So this episode with Stormy Daniels is something I think
that was pretty painful to Melania.
She was at home with their young son Baron at
the time.
What do you think is going through her mind that
it has all LED up to this?
I think that, you know,
Donald finally got caught. And along the way,
Melania knew exactly who she married.
She knew that this was a transactional marriage.
She became a Top Model.
He became a, you know,
a loving, doting father. And it set them up for
their run for the White House.
Do you think she'll show up eventually to the July
11th sentencing or frankly,
I mean, really anywhere? We have not really seen her
anywhere.
I didn't think we were going to see her.
The only time I really did believe that perhaps she
would show up would be maybe at the verdict to
shine a light away from what was actually happening.
So the attention would be taken away from what the
reality of their life is going to be.
So I do believe she will show up and it
will be the art of distraction.
It will shine a bright light on Melania and when
it's needed most,
when other things are happening in Donald's life,
need to be shaded.