Melania Recalls Her Husband’s Unusual Situation Room Summons

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Donald Trump beckoned his wife to the most secure room in the White House one Saturday in the autumn of 2019. There, in spite of the fact that she lacked a security clearance, Melania Trump learned the classified identity of the furry U.S. soldier who chased the leader of the ISIS terrorist group to his death.

“Sadly, he sustained some injuries,” she recounts of the soldier in her eponymous memoir “Melania” set to be released on Tuesday, a copy of which was viewed by the Daily Beast.

It was a “seemingly normal” weekend, she writes, until “I was caught off guard when I received a call informing me that the president wanted to see me in the Oval Office.” When she arrived, she says, “I was directed to join him in the Situation Room—a first and unique experience for me.”

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