For eight years, Melania Trump has done a brilliant job of keeping us all guessing. Is she, as gossips have long suggested, secretively estranged from her errant husband? Does she hate politics? Or is she, behind closed doors, the real force that drives the Trump family’s remorseless ambition?
Nobody seems to know and that has only added to her allure. The former and perhaps soon-to-be again First Lady has been a smoking-hot riddle and people of all political persuasions seem to adore her for it.
Now, however, at arguably the crunch moment of the American presidential election cycle, Melania is busy promoting Melania, her new autobiography – and suddenly her sphinxish appeal is melting like a bad facelift.
This week, with a month to go before ‘America decides’ on 5 November, she plunged herself into the sturm und drung of the culture wars by coming out as a staunch pro-abortionist.
‘Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does with her own body?’ she asks, in a passage from her book now leaked to the press.
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Freddy Gray
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