First Melania Trump interview in more than two years to air on Thursday

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Melania Trump will appear on Fox & Friends on Thursday. Fox News announced that it will be her first interview in over two years, as the former First Lady has barely been involved in the election campaign.

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Melania Trump’s first major campaign appearance was at the Republican National Convention in July. Unlike most spouses of presidential candidates, she did not address the crowd, but arrived on the final day before her husband’s speech and took the stage with him at the end of the convention, along with several other members of the Trump family. Before her appearance at the convention, she was last seen at her son Barron’s high school graduation in Florida. She also attended a fundraiser for Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, in April. Later that month, she spoke at an event hosted by the conservative LGBTQ+ group Palm Beach Chapter for Log Cabin Republicans at Mar-a-Lago, which paid her $237,500 for the engagement, according to multiple reports.

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Melania Trump has posted a series of carefully produced videos of herself on her X account in recent weeks to promote her book. In her most recent video on Sunday, she talked about being woken up in the middle of the night by the Secret Service as they took her to a secure location in the White House during the 2020 George Floyd protests.

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