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applegrove

(126,034 posts)
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 11:57 PM Oct 2024

As to Melania Trump's view on abortion, the wives

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of the rich have not had to face the same misogyny as women who are not affluent. My grandmother loved to read history and my grandfather didn't so much. The library was mostly hers and she could afford to build a library of her favourite books. I brought a secondhand bookseller I knew over to take a look at her books when she moved out and he brought in one box. When he saw her books were great history books from the last 100 years (her father had a library too and only two daughters), he got his girlfriend to go out to the car to get 'all the boxes'. Compare that to Betty Davis whose first husband divorced her because she read. I'm assuming she, as an artist, could afford a divorce but what happens to the women who can't? It is the same with Melania. Different rules apply to her. She can fly anywhere to get a safe, legal abortion and she always could even though she lives part of the time in Florida. She still supports her husband. She is enabling him.

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As to Melania Trump's view on abortion, the wives (Original Post) applegrove Oct 2024 OP
It's being reported that CNN asked for an interview and her book publisher wanted $250K for her appearance Jmb 4 Harris-Walz Oct 2024 #1
I've had conservative, Evangelical friends totally defend Melania's abortion view as identical to theirs. lees1975 Oct 2024 #2
Good. applegrove Oct 2024 #3
Supports her husband? Bayard Oct 2024 #4
She supported him while he packed the Supreme applegrove Oct 2024 #5

Jmb 4 Harris-Walz

(1,087 posts)
1. It's being reported that CNN asked for an interview and her book publisher wanted $250K for her appearance
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 12:07 AM
Oct 2024

It’s truly insane. I wouldn’t pay her a penny!!

lees1975

(6,517 posts)
2. I've had conservative, Evangelical friends totally defend Melania's abortion view as identical to theirs.
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 12:11 AM
Oct 2024

She's Catholic, Eastern European, married to Trump, and so shares the exact same totally restrictive view of abortion, and supports a total national ban, just like Trump himself. I'm in the process of putting together video and news clips showing this and making sure I can disabuse them before the election.

applegrove

(126,034 posts)
5. She supported him while he packed the Supreme
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 01:58 AM
Oct 2024

Court though. Maybe her not campaigning for him is a protest of sorts.

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