Two months after she was humiliated when she delivered a plagiarized speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Melania Trump emerged from near-total silence to defend her husband during the worst stretch of his candidacy, calling his behavior toward women “inappropriate” but adding, “We are moving on.”
Ms. Trump faced a firestorm of criticism when her convention speech lifted lines from Michelle Obama’s 2008 address to the Democratic National Convention, and she has been absent from the campaign trail since, save for appearances at the first two general election debates.
But on Monday, she broke from weeks of avoiding interviews, saying that an “Access Hollywood” recording of her husband, Donald J. Trump, bragging about sexual assault was “not the man that I know” and that former President Bill Clinton’s history with women was fair game.
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