OK, throughout the trial, Trump was often surrounded by GOP
leaders.
It was vice presidential hopefuls.
All the political people were right there by his side.
They put out statements constantly.
His sons, Eric and Don Junior and even Tiffany Trump,
they made an appearance. There was a lot of support
from those folks.
But the two women that the former president is arguably
the absolute closest to his wife Melania and his daughter
Ivanka,
they were absent, you may have noticed,
throughout the entire trial. And they were radio silent on
social media through all of it until the end.
And after Trump was convicted,
Ivanka did finally post on her Instagram story.
It was a short message.
You may have noticed it yesterday.
It is right there. We're going to put it up
for you.
It said, I love you,
dad. It was an Instagram story that he put up
in a photo of them together.
So what are we supposed to make of what feels
like this icy treatment by the most important women in
Trump's life?
I want to ask the author of Mar a Lago
Inside the gates of power at Donald's Trump at Donald
Trump's presidential palace.
Lawrence Lemur joins us live now.
Lawrence, thank you for being with us.
You know, I don't know what to think here.
I kind of feel bad even talking about this 'cause,
you know, did they have to go?
Maybe maybe Trump told them to stay back and you
know it.
You know, I don't want you involved in all of
this.
You know, I hate to read into it too much,
but a lot of people are questioning why Melania and
Ivanka were never there.
What do you make of it,
Lawrence?
Well, don't you think they realize what what everybody's thinking?
I mean, they there are these astute political creatures who
have been in this psycho drama for for decades.
I mean, from Melania. It's just amazing emotionally.
She can even put up with this after all this
time.
So you think it was.
I've seen. I've seen her a lot.
They were doing. Yep. Yeah.
Look, what is her life now?
Her, her. Her parents are gone.
Her son's going to go going off to college.
Her husband is a serial philanderer and mar a Lago.
She goes the beauty of power.
And the rest of the time she's with herself.
It's it's a sad life,
no matter what veneer she puts on it and the
image she tries to project.
In a sense, though, does it show strength from Melania
that you know, you, you know,
you see other spouses and women and,
and, and men too will stand by their lover and
go up there and stand there and everybody just sort
of feels bad for the person and oh,
that almost looks weak in a way.
Does it show her strength that Melania said,
you know what? I'm not I'm not going
well, remember when Hillary said I'm not a stand by
your,
by your by your woman kind of man woman kind
of kind of woman?
But she was. And that's what Melania is too.
And in some ways it's admirable.
After all, she's had to put up with them.
But but in some ways it's simply incredible.
But she but she wanted to marry a rich man.
She married him and she paid the price.
What about Ivanka? Because her and Jared were so
close to Trump, obviously, during the last presidency,
working in the White House,
they've taken a step back.
We haven't seen them campaigning.
She didn't make any comments
during the trial. And I did notice
that her, you know, her comment on social media was
an Instagram story,
which you can't comment on as a person who follows
her.
And it also goes away after 24 hours.
I mean, what do you think is going on with
Ivanka right now?
Well, they just wanted to get away.
The pressures of that first term was just overwhelming.
All the drama, all the controversy.
They wanted to have a life for themselves and for
the children.
And who could blame them?
Yeah, it's a good point.
Who could blame them? And,
you know, there's a lot going on with that family
right now.
It'll be interesting to see whether they are a little
more visible at some of the rallies
that are coming up and as the campaign really heats
up.
Lawrence Lemur, thank you so much for coming on.
We really appreciate it,
thanks for having me.