Melania Trump sat down with CNN, Fox News for her first interviews since sexual assault allegations
The first of the two interviews will air on CNN at 8 p.m. Monday.
Melania Trump sat down with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Monday for her first interview since a wave of sexual misconduct allegations surfaced against Donald Trump.
According to CNN, the interview will air at 8 p.m. Monday.
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She was also interviewed by Fox News’ Ainsley Earhardt, a network spokeswoman confirmed Monday. The interview will air Tuesday morning on Fox & Friends.
It’s the first time Melania Trump has spoken to the media since the Washington Post obtained a recording of her husband, the Republican presidential nominee, making sexually aggressive comments about women. Melania Trump did address the comments in a statement released by the Trump campaign, in which she called his remarks “unacceptable and offensive.”
After Cooper questioned Donald Trump about the lewd remarks during the second presidential debate, the candidate has faced a wave of women with new allegations of varying degrees of sexual harassment, including sexual assault.
According to excerpts provided from the Fox News interview, Melania Trump said she accepted her husband’s apology after the tapes were released.
“We are moving on,” she told Earhardt.
Melania Trump also suggested that it was fair for her husband or the media to bring up Bill Clinton’s past scandals, because of the role her history has played in the campaign (in July, the New York Post ran a nude cover photo of the former model).
EARHARDT: “Is it fair for the media to bring up Bill Clinton’s past or for Donald Trump to bring up Bill Clinton’s past?”
TRUMP: “Well, if they bring up my past, why not?”
EARHARDT: “So they — they’re asking for it?”
TRUMP: “They’re asking for it. They started. They started from the — from the beginning of the campaign putting my — my picture from modeling days. That was my modeling days and I’m proud what I did. I worked very hard.”
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