Blending the personal and the political, former first lady Melania Trump issued a statement Sunday denouncing the “monster” who tried to kill her husband even as she called for America to rise above hate. “When I watched that violent bullet strike my husband, Donald, I realized my life, and Barron’s life, were on the brink of devastating change,” she wrote in a post on X. “I am grateful to the brave secret service agents and law enforcement officials who risked their own lives to protect my husband,” she wrote. She added a note to those who were less fortunate “To the families of the innocent …
