Trump Says 4 Reporters Saw Melania ‘Walking Merrily Along’ Last Week, Blasts ‘Vicious’ Attacks

“The Fake News Media has been so unfair, and vicious, to my wife and our great First Lady, Melania,” says President Trump on Twitter

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President Donald Trump lashed out at his old foes in the “fake news media” on Wednesday, accusing journalists of spreading “vicious” speculation about his wife, Melania, that they knew to be false.

“The Fake News Media has been so unfair, and vicious, to my wife and our great First Lady, Melania,” said Trump. “During her recovery from surgery they reported everything from near death, to facelift, to left the W.H. (and me) for N.Y. or Virginia, to abuse. All Fake, she is doing really well!”

Trump added in a follow-up tweet: “Four reporters spotted Melania in the White House last week walking merrily along to a meeting.” He did not name which reporters might have seen the first lady, or provide any further details.

“They never reported the sighting because it would hurt the sick narrative that she was living in a different part of the world, was really ill, or whatever,” he wrote. “Fake News is really bad!”

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Before re-emerging on Monday at a White House event honoring gold star families, the first lady had spent most of the last month out of sight.

She had emergency surgery, described as embolization procedure involving her kidney, on May 14 at Walter Reed Medical Center, the White House said at the time.

Her long public absence, coupled with news that she would not be joining her husband for a G7 summit in Quebec or in Singapore for this month’s meeting with Kim Jong Un, stoked wide speculation about her whereabouts.

One writer from Rolling Stone tweeted without sarcasm that he was concerned the first lady could be a victim of domestic violence. Many others offered their own jokes and theories. CNN even produced this infographic, with a link, courtesy of the channel’s media guru Brian Stelter to a “CNN discussion” of the issue.

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