Comment Former First Lady posted a video on X (formerly Twitter) addressing her husband Donald Trump’s assassination attempt (Pictures: Getty Images/X) Former First Lady Melania Trump broke her silence on her husband Donald Trump’s assassination attempt and appeared to push a conspiracy theory around it. Melania, wearing black and with a black background, addressed the July 13 shooting in a roughly 30-second video she posted on her X (formerly Twitter) account on Tuesday morning. ‘The attempt to end my husband’s life was a horrible, distressing experience,’ she said in the clip. ‘Now the silence around it feels heavy.’ To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Melania then cast doubt on the events leading up to the shooting at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. ‘I can’t help but wonder, why didn’t law enforcement officials arrest the shooter before the speech?’ she said. ‘There is definitely more to this story, and we need to uncover the truth.’ It ends with an image promoting her forthcoming memoir titled, Melania. Former First Lady Melania Trump broke her silence on her husband Donald Trump’s assassination attempt on July 13 at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania (Picture: Getty Images) Her words seemed to fall in line with some conspiracy theories that emerged following the shooting, many of them around how gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks managed to go unnoticed by Secret Service agents and fire a bullet that grazed Trump’s ear. Trump has blamed President Joe Biden and his 2024 opponent Kamala Harris, accusing them of making it hard for the Secret Service to have sufficient staffing to adequately protect him. That theory and others that have emerged are without evidence. Melania shared the video hours before the first presidential debate between Trump and Vice President Harris.