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October Surprise! Melania Trump pro-choice!

Copernicus

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This news strikes me as a planned event designed to blunt a bad news cycle for Donald Trump. Melania Trump has just released a book, which she almost certainly had been working on for months. Her English is not that good, and she does not seem to have been inclined to become an author before. She has also released a slick new video--again, something that wasn't slapped together overnight. Jack Smith just released new damning details about his attempted coup on January 6, which made headlines yesterday. Abortion is the single weakest issue for Republicans in this election. The timing of this just strikes me as more than just a desire to cash in on book sales, although this will certainly pump up sales of her book. But it will also help Donald Trump, because he can be anti-abortion while she becomes the new poster child for the pro-choice movement. Thoughts?

See: ‘Bizarre’: Van Jones reacts to Melania Trump’s new video about abortion
 
Her opinion matters to me. Mostly because while SCOTUS tore down the right to reproductive health, she didn't emote a single thing. So that she comes out as being for abortion rights really matters. Because even though her husband put three justices on the Supreme Court bench that eliminated those rights nationally (and left the door open to eliminate them entirely), I feel like Melania's opinion on this matters some how.

Anyone who's vote is swayed by this is in a sad state mentally when it comes to politics.
 
I wouldn't discount the theory that this is simply part of a larger personal snipe at Mr. Trump. My guess (and it is only a guess) is that Melanie Trump wants out (and revenge) but doesn't want to significantly damage the payout she wants and expects. I would not be surprised that if (and I hope) Mr. Trump loses, divorce papers are filed by Mrs. Trump.
 
laughing dog said:
ideologyhunter said:
I REALLY DON'T CARE DO U?
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I care because I would like Mrs Trump to get what is coming to her.
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I'm also a little curious about how much information can be in a book by a person who really hasn't accomplished much in life.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
I'm also a little curious about how much information can be in a book by a person who really hasn't accomplished much in life.
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I highly doubt she wrote any of it.

Trump keeps claiming he wrote The Art Of The Deal. The real writer had to spend a lot of time with Trump and it was as bad as you can imagine.

www.newyorker.com

Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All

In “The Art of the Deal,” Tony Schwartz helped create the myth that Trump is a charming business genius. Now he calls him unfit to lead.
www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
I'm also a little curious about how much information can be in a book by a person who really hasn't accomplished much in life.
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It seems highly unlikely that she wrote the book, especially given that she struggles with English. It was likely written by a ghost writer who knew how to put such works together for the publisher's marketers. IOW, it was built around a series of questions to her and negotiations over what would go into the book. What we don't know is the extent to which Trump or his cronies had any input into that narrative. They must have known that the book was coming out and that it would have an impact on his election. It is for that reason that I suspect he may be part of the way this was timed to affect a news cycle. So far, it doesn't seem to have risen to the very top of news feeds, however.
 
Copernicus said:
Thoughts?
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Subliminally I think most people will see it as "they're saying the abortion thing is no big deal, and we shouldn't freak out about banning it",
I think subliminally, that might blunt the impact of the "issue" a little on some slightly trump-averse Republicans, but it's going to give a lot of women the creeps.
That's my thought, but I don't know about women.
Maybe some of our resident women have thoughts on that?
 
Hey, I never said she wrote it! :D

I asked how much information could be in it. The subject of Melania Trump isn't very in-depth.
 
Who mentioned "negotiations?" She's doing this so that when she and Orange Manchild are divorced she gets something for helping him get elected. It's obviously a ploy to help the Orange get votes.
 
I was curious about the publisher, so I looked it up. The publisher is Skyhorse Publishing, an independent publisher that specializes in right wing materials, including some wacky conspiracy theories. From the Criticism section of their Wikipedia page:

Criticism​

Skyhorse Publishing has been criticised as a toxic workplace, and for printing books containing conspiracy theories.

In 2013, the Southern Poverty Law Center chided Skyhorse Publishing for allowing the American Free Press, whom they described as "an anti-Semitic periodical run by long-time Holocaust denier Willis Carto", to sell two of Belzer's books co-written with journalist David Wayne, Dead Wrong and Hit List.

The Guardian called Skyhorse publisher Tony Lyons “the US publisher who picks up books ‘cancelled’ by other presses. In response, Lyons said, “Maybe the role of publishers is to bring people closer. To encourage them to read things they disagree with, that make them angry, but ultimately to learn things that help them bridge the gap to what they thought they hated but may find some nuance in.”

In June 2022, Simon & Schuster announced it would be distributing Skyhorse's forthcoming publication of the House Select Committee's report on the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The book will contain an introduction by Darren Beattie, a former Trump employee and conspiracy theorist who has referred to the Committee's investigation as a "witch hunt."

In 2023, the AP reported that Skyhorse had a deal to publish books by the vaccine misinformation organisation Children's Health Defense, run by RFK Jr.
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Skyhorse Publishing has also bizarrely demanded a fee for allowing Melania Trump to do an interview with CNN:

CNN requested an interview with Melania Trump. Her book publisher asked for $250,000 in exchange​

 
Here is the video that Melania Trump just released this morning on Twitter. Note that she does not explicitly endorse reproductive rights. She only asks a question at the end of the video. It remains to be seen how this story develops in coming days.

 
Copernicus said:
Here is the video that Melania Trump just released this morning on Twitter. Note that she does not explicitly endorse reproductive rights. She only asks a question at the end of the video. It remains to be seen how this story develops in coming days.

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MSNBC showed that video earlier today and someone, I think a women who was from Planned Parenthood or a similar organization, not sure since I missed her introduction, laughed and said it was obviously a fake attempt to make women think that Trump would support abortion. I think she's probably right.
 
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