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    Melania Trump’s pro-choice stance isn’t just a revelation from a new book

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    WASHINGTON — You can use her full name if you want, but many years have passed since Melania Trump needed it.

    The former first lady may not have the creative or policy achievements of a Beyoncé, Rihanna, Bono or Hillary, but here she is, a month after Election Day, with a slim memoir with a one-word title from an aspiring icon: “Melania” (256 pages, Skyhorse).

    The book, packed with photos of the former fashion model, is a clear flight through Melania’s life, from her childhood during the Cold War in Yugoslavia – where her father was a wealthy businessman who drove a Citroën Maserati SM, one of the coolest cars ever made – to her arrival in New York at age 26, to her life with a certain real estate mogul-turned-president.

    There’s a lot ‘Melania’ doesn’t say about the Trump White House. Don’t worry: Many former Trump aides and appointees have stepped up to fill these gaps. No one should pay the $40 asking price for the book for sharp political insight.

    More: Donald Trump on Melania Trump’s abortion comments: ‘You have to write what you believe’

    What you get instead is a portrait of a woman who bordered on great power – and may yet do so – and her fierce devotion to her son, parents and husband.

    Here are seven takeaways from ‘Melania.’

    Melania is an election denier

    Although less bombastic than Donald Trump in her claims, ‘Melania’ leaves no doubt that Melania still clings to the false belief that the 2020 election was stolen.

    Melania writes that in the run-up to November 2020, “…the media, Big Tech and the deep state were all determined to prevent Donald’s election by any means necessary.” She “worried the election would be unfair.”

    The former first lady describes “suspicious voting activity being reported across the country” on Election Day, while ignoring the cold fact that about 30 judges — some appointed by her own husband — rejected Trump’s election challenges on the merits.

    And she makes no mention of the federal and state criminal charges the former president is facing in Washington, D.C., and in Georgia over his efforts to overturn his 2020 loss to President Joe Biden.

    “Many Americans still have doubts to this day,” she writes. “I’m not the only one who questions the results.”

    Melania is pro-choice

    Melania Trump is not the first first lady to break with her husband on important issues. Laura Bush also supported abortion rights, while her husband, George W. Bush, ruled and ruled as an abortion enemy.

    Polls show that Donald Trump, who has boasted that the constitutional right to abortion has been destroyed thanks to the three Supreme Court justices he appointed, is losing badly to Kamala Harris among female voters.

    Will Melania’s big reveal, almost four years after the Trumps left the White House, make a difference?

    Melania frames the issue as one of personal freedom, writing: “A woman’s fundamental right to individual liberty, to her own life, grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy.”

    More: The abortion measure in Florida shows how Trump has struggled with abortion politics after Roe

    Live in the Situation Room

    One of the first lady’s most important responsibilities is the maintenance and furnishing of the White House, and “Melania” chronicles her work to renovate the two-century-old presidential headquarters and residence.

    But one day in October 2019, Melania describes being called away from her duties to join her husband, Vice President Mike Pence, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other security officials in the Situation Room to receive a live feed. to look at. of a Delta Force attack in Syria.

    The target: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed “caliph” of the murderous Islamic State terrorist army. “Watch this incredible action at work,” the president whispers.

    Melania writes that she was impressed by the raid, but left before the climax: Al-Baghdadi, cornered by military dogs in an underground tunnel, detonated a suicide vest and killed himself.

    Don’t mess with Barron

    You can still feel Melania’s anger at Rosie O’Donnell, a former host of “The View” and a longtime adversary of her husband, for a Twitter stunt targeting then-10-year-old Barron Trump.

    Two weeks after Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory, O’Donnell tweeted a link to a video suggesting Barron was on the autism spectrum. The comedian claimed she was trying to erase the stigma.

    “I was shocked by so much cruelty. It was clear to me that she was not interested in raising autism awareness,” Melania wrote. “I felt like she attacked my son because she didn’t like my husband.”

    “There’s nothing shameful about autism (although O’Donnell’s tweet suggested there was), but Barron is not autistic,” she says. “…Bullying a ten-year-old boy is egregious, but to do so under the flimsy pretext of ‘raising awareness’… is truly abhorrent.”

    O’Donnell apologized and deleted her tweet days later.

    Where is Stormy?

    Melania makes no mention of the many allegations of sexual misconduct against Donald Trump, from his alleged tryst with porn actress Stormy Daniels, to a reported affair with former Playboy model Karen McDougal, to more serious claims of abuse by several women, including writer E.Jean Carroll.

    The former president was found civilly liable earlier this year for assaulting Carroll and defaming her when he denied doing so. He was convicted in a New York court of dozens of felonies — a first for a former president — for falsifying corporate records to conceal hush money payments to Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. Trump will appeal both rulings.

    More: Did Donald Trump rape E. Jean Carroll? Here’s what a jury and judge said.

    Unconscious and then shocked, on January 6

    Melania writes that she was slow to learn about the frenzied attack on the Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters on January 6, 2021. She worked with a team to document the White House and prepare it for its new residents. I don’t think of it as the day that Congress would certify the election results.”

    Stephanie Grisham, a former aide to both Melania and Donald Trump, has described asking Melania to denounce the violence at the Capitol, even though the president still refused. According to Grisham, who has endorsed Democrat Kamala Harris for president, Melania responded: “No.”

    “If I had been fully aware of the details, I would of course have immediately denounced the violence at the Capitol,” Melania wrote.

    Melania writes that she only learned of the attack on the Capitol when the White House chief usher told her. Her condemnation includes a swipe at Pence, who was targeted by rioters over his refusal to block the certification of Biden’s victory.

    “The violence we witnessed was unequivocally unacceptable,” Melania wrote. “While I recognized that many people felt the election was mishandled and that the vice president should halt the confirmation process, we must never resort to violence.”

    Blood on stage

    Perhaps the most intense moment in “Melania” was the most intense moment for the nation so far this year: the shooting of Donald Trump by a 20-year-old sniper at a July campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

    Melania doesn’t think about how close Trump was to death that day. She pays tribute to firefighter Corey Comperatore, who died in the hail of gunfire, and shows how difficult it can be to look away from trauma: “The relentless repetition of the rally footage on the news has only increased our fear.”

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