Melania Trump has declined an invitation to visit the White House and meet with First Lady Jill Biden on Wednesday, citing the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago as part of the federal investigation into classified documents.
According to CNN, the First Lady extended the invitation last week, but sources say that Melania has a “prior scheduling conflict” related to her memoir that came out last month. However, one source said that the decision had not been finalized. Hopefully this means that Jill has a free hour on her schedule now, maybe she can go out to lunch or something. Their husbands, meanwhile, are set to have a meeting on Wednesday.
“She’s not going,” a source close to Melania told The Post. “Jill Biden’s husband authorized the FBI to go through her private things. The Bidens are disgusting,” the source added. While Melania won’t attend, her husband, President-elect Donald Trump, is expected to meet President Biden in the Oval Office on Wednesday for the traditional post-election discussion.
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When Trump won the 2016 election, Melania received a White House tour from then-First Lady Michelle Obama. However, after Trump lost his re-election bid in 2020, he reportedly did not invite the Bidens for the customary White House tour before the inauguration, breaking a long-standing tradition.
The Post has reached out to both the Trump campaign and the White House for comments on Melania’s decision.
In August 2022, the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago as part of a probe into Trump’s handling of classified documents. Melania, 54, previously expressed anger about the raid, calling it an “invasion of privacy” during a September interview on Fox & Friends. FBI agents searched her wardrobe, Donald Trump’s office, and even reportedly checked a room belonging to her son, Barron.
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