Melania Trump on Monday suggested it’s fair for the media and Donald Trump to bring up former President Bill Clinton’s infidelities during his wife’s presidential campaign, saying, "They're asking for it."
“Well, if they bring up my past, why not?” Melania Trump asked, according to an excerpt of her interview with Fox News’ Ainsley Earhardt.
The New York Post published nude images of Melania Trump from the 1990s earlier this year, including a front page image with the headline “The Ogle Office.”
And during the Republican presidential primary, a pro-Ted Cruz super PAC pushed an ad that featured a nude Melania Trump from a 2000 photo shoot with British GQ ahead of the Utah caucuses.
“Meet Melania Trump. Your next first lady,” text over the image read. “Or, you could support Ted Cruz on Tuesday.”
Donald Trump had accused Cruz of using the picture of Melania Trump, warning: “Be careful, Lyin’ Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!”
Based on coverage of her, Melania Trump contended, it’s only right that Hillary Clinton’s husband undergoes similar media scrutiny.
“They're asking for it. They started,” Melania Trump told Fox News. “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.”
Melania Trump also described her husband’s rhetoric from a leaked 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape in which the real estate mogul was heard boasting about sexually assaulting women with impunity as “offensive” and “inappropriate.” But she maintained that the man in the video from more than a decade ago “is not the man that I know.”
“Those words, they were offensive to me and they were inappropriate. And he apologized to me,” she said. “And I expect — I accept his apology. And we are moving on.”
