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Melania Trump has ‘successful’ procedure on kidney condition

Continued from Front The former model from Slo- of a 10-month affair with
venia is Trump’s third wife Trump in 2006. Trump also
“Melania is already on the and the couple has been denies the allegations from
mend,” Pence said. married for 13 years. They Karen McDougal.
In the Senate, Minority have a 12-year-old son Mrs. Trump has, at times,
Leader Chuck Schumer, D- named Barron. has been noticeably ab-
N.Y., sent well wishes for “a Mrs. Trump, who has been sent from her husband’s
speedy recovery to the first gradually raising her profile side. But both made a
lady.” as first lady, recently hosted point of displaying affec-
She was last seen in public her first state dinner and tion during last week’s Rose
on Wednesday at a White launched a public aware- Garden event where she
House event where she ness campaign to help chil- announced the “Be Best”
and the president honored dren. initiative.
military mothers and spous- With the president watch- The first lady lived full time
es for Mother’s Day. ing, Mrs. Trump last week in New York during the
Two urologists who have no unveiled the “Be Best” administration’s opening
personal knowledge of Mrs. campaign, which she said months so Barron would
Trump’s condition said the will focus on childhood not have to change
most likely explanation for well-being, social media schools midyear. She and
the procedure is a kind of use and opioid abuse. Barron moved to the White The entrance to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center is
noncancerous kidney tu- Mrs. Trump joined her hus- House last June.q seen in Bethesda, Md., Monday, May 14, 2018. Associated Press
mor called an angiomyoli- band last month to host
poma. the prime minister of Japan
They’re not common but for a two-day summit at
tend to occur in middle- the Trumps’ Florida estate,
aged women and can and the Trumps hosted the
cause problematic bleed- president of France at the
ing if they become large White House on a three-
enough, said Dr. Keith Kow- day state visit, including
alczyk of MedStar George- a lavish state dinner. Mrs.
town University Hospital. Trump also represented the
“The treatment of choice” administration at the April
is to cut off the blood supply funeral of former first lady
so the growth shrinks, add- Barbara Bush.
ed Dr. Lambros Stamata- The Trumps and their mar-
kis of MedStar Washington riage have been under
Hospital Center. Doctors scrutiny in recent months
do that with an emboliza- after revelations that a porn
tion, meaning a catheter is actress was paid $130,000
snaked into the blood ves- in hush money to keep
sels of the kidney to find the quiet about claims she
right one and block it. had sex with Trump in 2006.
Most of the time, these Trump has acknowledged
benign tumors are found reimbursing his lawyer for
when people undergo the payment to porn star
medical scans for anoth- Stormy Daniels but denies
er reason, but sometimes her allegations. Separately,
people have pain or other a former Playboy model
symptoms, Kowalczyk said. has revived her allegations
Many times, emboliza-
tion patients go home the
same day or the next.
The president had no of-
ficial public appearances
Monday and declined to
answer shouted questions
from reporters about his
wife as he departed the
White House for Walter
Reed.