{"id":1565349,"date":"2022-07-21T20:04:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T00:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1565349"},"modified":"2022-07-21T20:04:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T00:04:40","slug":"former-first-lady-melania-trump-breaks-silence-on-jan-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-first-lady-melania-trump-breaks-silence-on-jan-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Former First Lady Melania Trump Breaks Silence on Jan. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-first-lady-melania-trump-breaks-silence-on-jan-6%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1565349&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former First Lady Melania Trump said Thursday that she was not aware of the events taking place during the U.S. Capitol breach on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn January 6, 2021, I was fulfilling one of my duties as First Lady of the United States of America, and accordingly, I was unaware of what was simultaneously transpiring at the U.S. Capitol Building,\u201d Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/melania-trump-says-fulfilling-official-duties-first-lady-jan-6-always-condemn-violence\">told<\/a> Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>She added that \u201cit was my obligation to record the contents of the White House\u2019s historic rooms, including taking archival photographs of all the renovations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeveral months in advance, I organized a qualified team of photographers, archivists, and designers to work with me in the White House to ensure perfect execution,\u201d she continued. \u201cAs required, we scheduled January 6, 2021, to complete the work on behalf of our Nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump also cast doubt on claims made by her former press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, who has often criticized former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> and the former first lady after they left office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMs. Grisham was not in the White House on January 6, and her behavior in her role as Chief of Staff ultimately amounts to dereliction of duty,\u201d Trump said, while adding that normally, the first lady\u2019s chief of staff \u201cprovides detailed briefings surrounding our Nation\u2019s important issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, Ms. Grisham failed to provide insight and information into the events surrounding January 6 as she had abandoned her post in Washington, D.C.,\u201d she said. \u201cShamefully, this behavior has only partially become public knowledge; yet was consistent for Ms. Grisham.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump added:\u00a0\u201cIt is evident that Grisham\u2019s recent betrayals are a last-ditch attempt to resuscitate her ruined career and reputation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Text Message <\/p>\n<p>Grisham responded to Trump\u2019s statement Thursday with a cryptic Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OMGrisham\/status\/1550210702501183490\">message<\/a> that read: \u201cLol. That\u2019s truly all I\u2019ve got.\u201d The Epoch Times has contacted her for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former First Lady Melania Trump said Thursday that she was not aware of the events taking place during the U.S. Capitol breach on Jan. 6, 2021. \u201cOn January 6, 2021, I was fulfilling one of my duties as First Lady of the United States of America, and accordingly, I was unaware of what was simultaneously [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1565349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1565349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}