Melania Declines White House Meeting With Jill Biden for a Startling Reason
Nov 13, 2024 6:00 am
By Robert Spencer
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It’s a traditional thing: during the transition from one presidential administration to another the outgoing first lady hosts the incoming one for tea and shows her around the White House. This is one of the more genteel accouterments of the peaceful transfer of power in the U.S., but it has become more fiery this time around, as Melania Trump has just declined an invitation from Jill Biden to sit down for a happy transition chat. Ungracious? Bad manners? Hateful? We will be hearing all of that and more from the left’s propaganda organs, but as is always the case, reality is different.
The New York Post reported Monday that Melania “declined an offer to head to the White House Wednesday and meet with Jill Biden, citing the Biden administration’s past raid on Mar-a-Lago as part of the federal government’s investigation into classified documents.” Ah, now that makes sense. Holding this corrupt and authoritarian regime accountable and refusing to normalize it or to act as if its criminal acts were just all part of the great game of American politics could be the most consequential and important thing that Melania Trump, or any first lady, has ever done.
The Post quoted an unnamed source who was “familiar with Melania’s decision” and said: “She ain’t going. Jill Biden’s husband authorized the FBI snooping through her underwear drawer. The Bidens are disgusting. Jill Biden isn’t someone Melania needs to meet.”
This is harsh language, but the source certainly had a point. Donald Trump and Joe Biden aren’t just political opponents after the fashion of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan or George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Biden is the first president ever to have treated his principal opponent and eventual elected successor as if he were a criminal. What polite veneer can or should remain between the Trumps and the Bidens after that?
Biden is the first president ever to have declared that the leader of the opposition was outside the bounds of acceptable political discourse when he said: “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” That wasn’t just heated rhetoric, either: the Biden-Harris regime and its henchmen acted upon it with the Mar-a-Lago raid, the conversion of misdemeanors into felonies in order to be able to brand Trump a “convicted felon,” the fabrication of a rape charge out of the obvious fabrications of a histrionic fantasist, and so much more.
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