Color me dumbfounded. This is completely from out of left field and unexpected. As you know, Melania is coming out with an eponymously named book, “Melania.” It was supposed to drop October 1 but for reasons unknown the date got pushed back to October 8. Another interesting thing happened. Amazon cut the price of the hardcover book by 25%, also for reasons unknown. So we could speculate that Amazon took that step for two reasons: 1. They want to entice people with a sales price, or 2. Advance reviews may already be tanking the book’s sales. Remember the advance reviews on Kristi Noem’s opus, replete with animal executions? In all events, here is Melania’s latest sneak peek at the book and it is a doozy.
WOW!!!! Maybe this is why Melania Trump doesn't want to be seen with her husband. She is 100% pro-choice! This is what she wrote in her new book that comes out next week. pic.twitter.com/uPILExhYmD
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) October 3, 2024
Melania issues a statement today that suggests that she is completely pro-choice on abortion. pic.twitter.com/Y6U5s3mT40
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 3, 2024
That was not expected. And now it falls to J.D. Vance and other spokes shills for the Republican party to explain why the wife of the GOP presidential nominee just stabbed him and the party’s platform in the back. I’m sure you remember Donald Trump’s line, “There has to be some punishment for the woman.” Melania’s viewpoint is now on record as being 180 degrees diametrically opposed to the Republican platform, her husband’s Republican platform. This is getting intriguing to say the very least. The Guardian:
Her decision to include a full-throated expression of support for abortion rights is remarkable not just given her proximity to a Republican candidate running on an anti-abortion platform, but also given the severe deterioration of women’s reproductive rights under Donald Trump and the GOP.
In 2022, in the supreme court case Dobbs v Jackson, three justices installed when Donald Trump was president voted to strike down Roe v Wade, the ruling which had protected federal abortion rights since 1973. Republican-run states have since instituted draconian abortion bans.
Donald Trump has tried to both take credit for the Dobbs decision – long the central aim of evangelical and conservative Catholic donors and voters – and avoid the fury it has stoked, saying abortion rights should be decided by the states.
But Democrats have scored a succession of election wins by campaigning on the issue, even in conservative states, and threats to reproductive rights, among them threats to fertility treatments including IVF, are proving problematic for Republicans up and down this year’s ticket.
Amid a blizzard of statements opponents deem misogynistic and regressive, JD Vance, Donald Trump’s pick for vice-president, has indicated he would support a national abortion ban – a move it seems his boss’s wife would be against.
Donald Trump himself recently got into a tangle over whether he would vote in November to protect abortion rights in Florida, a ballot his wife will also cast given their residence at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach. He eventually said he would vote no. Judging by her own words, Melania Trump appears likely to vote yes. […]
Before discussing abortion, Melania Trump says she disagreed with her husband on some aspects of immigration policy, not least as an immigrant herself.
“Occasional political disagreements between me and my husband,” she writes, are “part of our relationship, but I believed in addressing them privately rather than publicly challenging him.”
That was then and this is now. This is nothing short of publicly throwing down the gauntlet. This is a first. The wife of a nominee going on record stating that her personal views of a given issue are 180 degrees apart from the nominee’s and the party’s views — not to mention one month out from the general election. This is nothing short of Melania tanking Donald. I love it.
“I have always believed it is critical for people to take care of themselves first,” Melania Trump writes. “It’s a very straightforward concept; in fact, we are all born with a set of fundamental rights, including the right to enjoy our lives. We are all entitled to maintain a gratifying and dignified existence.
“This common-sense approach applies to a woman’s natural right to make decisions about her own body and health.”
Trump says her beliefs about abortion rights spring from “a core set of principles”, at the heart of which sit “individual liberty” and “personal freedom”, on which there is “no room for negotiation”.
Detailing “legitimate reasons for a woman to choose to have an abortion”, she includes danger to the life of the mother, rape or incest, often exceptions under state bans, and also “a congenital birth defect, plus severe medical conditions”.
There went J.D.’s “inconvenience” commentary, straight out the Overton Window. My oh my.
Saying “timing matters”, Melania Trump also defends the right to abortion later in pregnancy.
She writes: “It is important to note that historically, most abortions conducted during the later stages of pregnancy were the result of severe fetal abnormalities that probably would have led to the death or stillbirth of the child. Perhaps even the death of the mother. These cases were extremely rare and typically occurred after several consultations between the woman and her doctor. As a community, we should embrace these common-sense standards. Again, timing matters.”
More than 90% of US abortions occur at or before 13 weeks of gestation, according to data from the CDC. Less than 1% of abortions take place at or after 21 weeks.
On the campaign trail, Republicans have blatantly mischaracterized Democratic positions on abortion. Last month, debating Kamala Harris, Donald Trump falsely said his opponent’s “vice-presidential pick … says that abortion in the ninth month is absolutely fine. [Tim Walz] also says: ‘Execution after birth’ – execution, no longer abortion because the baby is born – is OK.”
He was factchecked: it is not legal in any state to kill a baby after birth.
In response to news of Melania Trump’s support for abortion rights, Sarafina Chitika, a spokesperson for the Harris-Walz campaign, said in a statement: “Sadly for the women across America, Mrs Trump’s husband firmly disagrees with her and is the reason that more than one in three American women live under a Trump Abortion Ban that threatens their health, their freedom, and their lives.
“Donald Trump has made it abundantly clear: if he wins in November, he will ban abortion nationwide, punish women, and restrict women’s access to reproductive health care.”
The Trump campaign did not immediately comment.
Oh, I bet they did not. As a matter of fact, if I had to make a guess, I would bet that Susie, Chris, and Corey are playing rock, paper, scissors right now and the loser has to talk to the press about all this and make it make sense. I for one can’t wait. I’m dying to see how Team Trump spins this one.
And I just had a wild thought which I’m going to share with you. Maybe Melania intends to groom Barron for politics — but not as a Republican. Or not as a MAGA, in any event. Is that a scream or what? Total speculation, based only on how he was supposed to be a delegate at the RNC and then boom, three days later, the plan is scrubbed. Donald wants to use Barron as a pawn for his own purposes, but Melania may have different ideas.
Someone has suggested that she is an abused woman. It may be true, I have no idea. If so, this may be the ways she feels she can stand up for herself and against him. Pure conjecture on my part.
PS however unexpected it may be, I appreciate her honesty as a woman on this issue.
Ok, everyone old enough to remember George H.W. Bush’s election/presidency raise your hand…well…you know. No, seriously, remember Barbara Bush? Remember her coy little nonsense about reproductive rights/abortion? This during the election as I recall. How a woman doesn’t necessarily have to agree with her husband or some such shit. It was an utterance her husband and the g.o.p. were quite happy with her making because it cast doubt in folks’ minds just where George and the party stood with regard to a woman’s right to reproductive healthcare. Going by that sidestep dance in the 80’s, I have a feeling this crap from mellie was scripted. The campaign feels this might cast doubt or confuse voters still not sure if they want to put a moron back in the oval, so they’ll say “well his wife is pro-choice, maybe he is too and just says he isn’t to placate the party” (never mind of course he actually WAS instrumental in getting Roe overturned by the corrupt con xtians on the s.c.).
I seriously doubt she has any thoughts on the matter, yay or nay, or any concerns-even with regard to her son. After all, she can afford to get one even if she has to travel and she’ll make sure her son can get one for whatever girl he knocks up.
BTW-isn’t the timing of this little “bombshell” a wee too bit convenient? 4 weeks before the election? Stab in the back my ass-this is extremely scripted and I’d be shocked out of the remainder of my days on this planet if there was an ounce of truth in this “memoir” the silly bitch “wrote”. And I think we can all agree she did not get anywhere near a computer/typewriter/pen & pencil to spew out this pieces of trash.
Good thoughts, spike. A little reverse physchology, eh?
I read in WaPo that the Rs are now going around saying they’re PRO-CHOICE.
I guess this means they can go out a spew any fucking lie anytime they want to!
With these turds, who need enemies? Read the fine print after you read the headlines, especially in WaPo and NYT.
Pro-Choice – hahahahaha – there has never been an R who would let you do anything but what he wanted to you do.
Meh. You all forgetting Mel’s “past,” working as a Call Girl? In that “business” Contraception is a Priority. Besides, sounds like she wants to “Appeal to the Left” so she can sell more books. Mel’s an Opportunist, just like all the RW AH’s.
Simple answer…she knows she’s been robbed and she’s angry. She had a deal. She spent years on the arm of that bloated, orange diaper bag pretending to love him. In return, she was supposed to cash out big time and retire happy at some point in the future. That is all gone now. All those years of riding that sickening, s**t-smelling human sow, even giving birth to one of his filthy spawn. All for nothing. The money is gone, the retirement plan is gone, and she’s far too old and dried up to catch another gravy train at this point. She threw her life away for the promise of a payout that will never happen. I love it. 😁
geeze how many abortions has the first lady had in her life & wtf cares what she has to say unless it pushes voters into the Harris campaign.