Why Melania Trump refused Jill Biden's invitation to the White House

Why Melania Trump refused Jill Biden's invitation to the White House
Why Melania Trump refused Jill Biden's invitation to the White House

Jeanne Le Borgne
11/12/2024 at 1:09 p.m.

According to the “New York Post”, Melania Trump will not accompany Donald Trump to the White House on Wednesday, November 13, breaking for the second time a decades-old tradition.

“Jill Biden's husband allowed the FBI to search her underwear drawer. The Bidens are disgusting. » A person close to Melania Trump told the “New York Post” that the latter would not accompany her husband to the White House on Wednesday November 13, the future First Lady having refused Jill Biden's invitation. “She won't go.” Jill Biden is not someone Melania needs to meet,” he insisted.

Traditionally, the outgoing president and his successor meet in the Oval Office after the election, while their spouses meet over a cup of tea or coffee. In 2016, Michelle Obama received Melania Trump at the White House, giving her advice for “raising her children” there. Four years later, the Trumps nevertheless broke with this tradition by not inviting the Bidens in a particularly tense context.

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When mentioning the FBI, Melania Trump's friend refers to the search carried out in their mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, in August 2022, as part of the investigation into classified documents taken with him by the former president upon her departure from the White House, in January 2021. The future First Lady had already deplored in the press that their agents had, on this occasion, searched her wardrobe and one of her son Barron's bedrooms, in addition to comb through her 78-year-old husband's office. “I saw unpleasant things that no one wants to see,” Melania Trump testified in an interview with “Fox and Friends”. “It made me angry because no one should put up with this kind of thing. »

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In an interview with Match, Melania Trump said that “after receiving the horrible news of the tragedy in Pennsylvania, Jill Biden took the initiative to [la] contact directly. » “I do not know, however, if her concern was real, because, a few days earlier, she had described my husband as “bad” and a “liar”,” she lamented, castigating “the verbal attacks of democratic leaders and the mainstream media” against her husband.

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