What Is Melania's Strategy?

The suggestion on X is that Ungaro has given an interview to El Pais which could be published today. It would appear that her motivation is around custody of her son, so I guess she’s maybe hoping pressure to expose information about the Trumps will assist her with that

They vote for them in the same way as women voted for the misogyny of the Democrats ( who placed male prisoners with female prisoners). I have also just looked up the list of allegations ( rape and sexual assault) against Clinton, I knew of some of them but like Trump he is a deeply unpleasant man. Sorry but mostly I don't believe this is concern for women, because as soon as names other than Trump are mentioned they are either supported ( Mandelsson at the time) or ignored. And yes I understand that Trump is president and clinton is not, but this isn't the first time a predatory man had been president.

That is probably it, bmacca. It is just so random, especially considering they have done everything they can to make us forget about the Epstein files.

I hope I am alive to see this all blown open for the world. We need to see every bit of it so we can hold these men and women accountable to the victims.

bmacca 7.22 and imaround 11.42.

That maybe the case- I'm just waiting for news to break to explain Melania's timing and motivation. It's about the victims not Melania- but really hope whatever comes out leads to greater accountability of perpetrators.

Dickens

Smileless2012

I can't say I hate Trump Dickens but I do agree with everything you have posted.

Well - I suppose the hate is perhaps more for what he represents, he is after all himself a product of the environment in which he was raised.

Hate the sin. Love the sinner.

I sincerely hope that the abusers and those who facilitated them do get held to account, and the victims eventually feel they have some justice. Sadly I’m not at all convinced that this will happen

I can’t see any benefit to hate the sin, love the sinner. Loving men who rape children won’t change things.
Loathe the crime, research and find effective ways to reduce it

It is what God says to do.
Love your neighbour as yourself.

It stops people going around hating each other.
Many benefits to that.

fancythat

It is what God says to do.
Love your neighbour as yourself.

It stops people going around hating each other.
Many benefits to that.

Could you tell Trump please.

shes a s stupid as he is and thinks she will his job if he out of it
think usa does likeother counrty the ones that their spouses office when the kick the bucket or boket

I don't know what she's ever done to be called silly or dim, not good taste in men to be sure, but same goes for a lot of smart women.
She did influence Trump to stop seperating families & detaining immigrant children in camps without either parent, at the beginning of his first term. Unless that was just a propoganda story.

valdali

I don't know what she's ever done to be called silly or dim, not good taste in men to be sure, but same goes for a lot of smart women.
She did influence Trump to stop seperating families & detaining immigrant children in camps without either parent, at the beginning of his first term. Unless that was just a propoganda story.

I don't think it was just propaganda.

She probably has little influence on her husband and I always feel as if she's still there under sufferance. Certainly she's a smarter cookie than him.

She made a rather vacuous documentary about herself- so maybe she is just vain and not very bright, is that better?

I don't see her as being very smart at all- maybe I may revise my opinion if I met her, which I never will so meantime I will go on the way she presents herself to me and the world.

I had the opinion that she never wanted to be in the White House. And I don't blame her.

I actually felt bad for her during his first term when she got so much crap for staying in NY with Barron while he finished the school year. I would have done the same thing. She obviously loves her son, and at the very least tolerates her husband. Who cares if she loves him or is in it for the money. That isn't our business, IMO.

That does not absolve her of accountability if she had any idea of her husbands antics. Maybe she could pressure her husband to release the Epstein files to absolve both him and her? Maybe she is smart and that is what she is doing with this statement?

fancythat

Dickens

Smileless2012

I can't say I hate Trump Dickens but I do agree with everything you have posted.

Well - I suppose the hate is perhaps more for what he represents, he is after all himself a product of the environment in which he was raised.

Hate the sin. Love the sinner.

That’s pushing it a bit!

fancythat

It is what God says to do.
Love your neighbour as yourself.

It stops people going around hating each other.
Many benefits to that.

It is what God says to do.

I'm an atheist so don't obey his word. However, I do believe in the principle of it.

It doesn't though acquit the individual of accountability for their behaviour or their actions.

Allowing for the fact that both Trump and Hegseth indulge in bluster and rhetoric, I find it impossible to tolerate their disregard for the norms of civilised humanity and the laws which protect that.

They also have hate in their hearts, or wherever their emotions reside. The difference between mine and theirs is that I don't wish death, destruction, or carnage on those I perceive as my enemies.

... which includes them.

imaround

I had the opinion that she never wanted to be in the White House. And I don't blame her.

I actually felt bad for her during his first term when she got so much crap for staying in NY with Barron while he finished the school year. I would have done the same thing. She obviously loves her son, and at the very least tolerates her husband. Who cares if she loves him or is in it for the money. That isn't our business, IMO.

That does not absolve her of accountability if she had any idea of her husbands antics. Maybe she could pressure her husband to release the Epstein files to absolve both him and her? Maybe she is smart and that is what she is doing with this statement?

Perhaps it's simply that she's afraid of what Amando Ungaro might say in relation to their shared time together as models during Epstein's heyday? She, Ungaro, is fighting for custody of her child and that's a potent motivator as I'm sure Melania will appreciate, as a mother.

It might though just be one of those odd occurrences which is never fully explained nor understood and quietly dropped by the media. Who knows.

I don't know enough about her to make a call on what this is about.
She had a jacket with something on it saying she didn't care? Anyone remember that?
This announcement seems out of character, and so I think it's a pre-emptive strike.

imaround

I had the opinion that she never wanted to be in the White House. And I don't blame her.

I actually felt bad for her during his first term when she got so much crap for staying in NY with Barron while he finished the school year. I would have done the same thing. She obviously loves her son, and at the very least tolerates her husband. Who cares if she loves him or is in it for the money. That isn't our business, IMO.

That does not absolve her of accountability if she had any idea of her husbands antics. Maybe she could pressure her husband to release the Epstein files to absolve both him and her? Maybe she is smart and that is what she is doing with this statement?

Well, she was a child model and then 'discovered' at 16 although, reportedly, rebuffed advances made towards her.
Perhaps she remembers what it was like to be a child with predatory men making advances and has empathy with Epstein' s victims.

That does not absolve her of accountability if she had any idea of her husbands antics. Maybe she could pressure her husband to release the Epstein files to absolve both him and her? Maybe she is smart and that is what she is doing with this statement?
Yes, yes and yes?

dotpocka

shes a s stupid as he is and thinks she will his job if he out of it
think usa does likeother counrty the ones that their spouses office when the kick the bucket or boket

Your calling her stupid 🤦🏼‍♀️

petra

dotpocka

shes a s stupid as he is and thinks she will his job if he out of it
think usa does likeother counrty the ones that their spouses office when the kick the bucket or boket

Your calling her stupid 🤦🏼‍♀️

I believe this poster has had some considerable medical / health problems, the treatment for which might have affected cognitive ability. I won't say anymore about that, it's not my place to do it.

... however, whatever Melania's character traits - I don't think stupidity is one of them and I don't understand why people think that because she often looks somewhat vacuous / aloof or distant, that she's dumb. She's navigating a culture and language that's not native - in the spotlight. In fact, I've seen her on one occasion being more acutely aware of 'protocol' than her husband who appeared to not be paying attention during a-very-important ceremony!

No, she isn't stupid. Clever as a fox, IMO. Though I seriously doubt her Einstein Visa.

imaround

No, she isn't stupid. Clever as a fox, IMO. Though I seriously doubt her Einstein Visa.

Well, looking at the list of some who have been granted 'the Einstein visa', you don't have to have the brain of Einstein to be granted one.