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Former first lady Melania Trump on Sunday defended her beliefs on abortion, which she detailed in an upcoming memoir and which seem to be at odds with those of her husband, former President Donald Trump.

“[Donald Trump] knew my position and my beliefs since the day we met. And I believe in individual freedom. I want to decide what I want to do with my body. I think I don’t want government in my personal business,” Melania Trump told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo in a pretaped interview that aired Sunday.

Her remarks come days after The Guardian published excerpts of her book in which she wrote, “It is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government.”

“Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does with her own body? A woman’s fundamental right of individual liberty, to her own life, grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes,” she added in the upcoming memoir, “Melania.”

The former first lady also voiced her beliefs in a promotional video for the book posted on X last week.

“Individual freedom is a fundamental principle that I safeguard. Without a doubt there is no room for compromise when it comes to this essential right that all women possess from birth,” Melania Trump said in the video.

“Individual freedom. What does ‘my body, my choice’ really mean?” she added.

In Sunday’s interview, Melania Trump addressed questions she has faced after going public with her views so close to the election, telling Bartiromo: “Well, that was not written in the last week or the last month. … That book was written months before, and it was in print months before. So that was my belief, and it is my belief, and I wanted to put it in the book, because I want to be authentic.”

Asked by Bartiromo whether she was worried that voters may change their opinions of her husband because of her views, the former first lady said, “I don’t worry. Everybody needs to decide what they want to do.”

The former first lady said Donald Trump “knew” her position would be in the book, adding: “He lets me be who I am, and he lets me believe what I believe. He lets me be my own person. And he does respect that, and I respect that as I let him be his own person. He has different beliefs and he will do what he believes.”

Melania Trump’s comments echoed her husband’s remarks to Fox News on Thursday, in which he said: “We spoke about it, and I said, ‘You have to write what you believe. I’m not going to tell you what to do. You have to write what you believe.’”

She explains why she did not denounce the Jan. 6 violence.
Her husband has spent years railing against his loss to President Biden and, as recently this week, falsely claiming that the process was rigged.

In her book, Mrs. Trump puts a softer focus on the same belief by questioning why it took so long for the election to be decided.

For every moment that Mrs. Trump has appeared to veer away from her husband, there is another where she echoes his beliefs. The 2020 election is no exception.

Her husband has spent years railing against his loss to President Biden and, as recently this week, falsely claiming that the process was rigged.

In her book, Mrs. Trump puts a softer focus on the same belief by questioning why it took so long for the election to be decided.

“You can’t continue to count votes for days, which is what they did,” Mrs. Trump writes, ignoring the reality of how the country tallies millions of ballots. “It was a mess. Many Americans still have doubts about the election to this day. I am not the only person who questions the results.”

Even the parts of her book that are meant to showcase her legacy are clouded by post-election unrest, largely prompted by her husband.

In detailing her yearslong commitment to restoring rooms in the White House — one of the most significant contributions she made as first lady — Mrs. Trump writes that she was busy reviewing restorations when her husband’s supporters attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

She explains (sort of) the Jacket and the Hand Swat.
There are two episodes in Mrs. Trump’s tenure as first lady that were so explosive and confounding that they can be referred to in shorthand: There was the Jacket, the incident in June 2018 when she wore a jacket with the words “I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?” while on a trip to visit migrant children in Texas.

And there was the Swat, the time she slapped her husband’s hand away from hers while on a trip to Israel in 2017.

She writes in the book that she swatted his hand away because he was walking in front of her with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara. “The red carpet simply could not accommodate four of us abreast,” she writes. “It was a minor innocent gesture, nothing more.”

She has much more to say about the events leading up to her decision to wear the jacket. She blames Jeff Sessions, the attorney general at the time, and not her husband for overseeing a family separation policy that led to thousands of migrant children being taken away from their parents at the southern border.

Mrs. Trump recalls reading as much as she could about the separations before approaching her husband and lobbying him in private.

The government should not be taking children away from their parents,” she says she told him. “This has to stop.” He promised her he would look into the matter, and, soon after, signed an executive order ending the separations.

The decision to wear the jacket, she said, was to get back at the news media for its “skewed narratives” and “negativity.”

Throughout a book that jumps back and forth in place and time, one constant is the grudge Mrs. Trump has developed against the news media. It took root during the 2016 campaign, when journalists reported on her past work as a nude model. She sued a writer who suggested without evidence that she had once worked as an escort.

“We are living in a dangerous time when it comes to journalism,” Mrs. Trump writes.

She talks about her marriage, but omits the scandals.
Readers of this book will learn that both Trumps love Elton John. They will learn that Mrs. Trump doted on her husband and urged him to go to the hospital when he was sick with Covid. They will learn that the Trumps exchange letters with King Charles III as part of what Mrs. Trump says is a friendly relationship.

They will also learn that Mrs. Trump was sometimes invited by her husband for a close-up view of some of the most consequential moments of his presidency, as when he invited her into the Situation Room to watch the military’s raid on the ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

“Watch this incredible action at work,” he told her as they watched the operation unfold onscreen.

Readers will not get a better understanding of how Mrs. Trump was feeling in 2018, when it was reported that her husband had paid off a porn star to keep quiet about an affair that happened shortly after Barron was born. (She was furious.) There is no mention of an episode shortly before the 2016 election, when leaked audio from an appearance by Mrs. Trump’s husband on “Access Hollywood” revealed him bragging about grabbing women by their genitals. (She was not very happy then, either.)

Instead, in passage after passage throughout the book, readers will come to understand that Mrs. Trump sees her husband as the victim of attacks by powerful forces seeking to bring him down.

she's an immigrant!

Because of the later she is personally responsible for all of the suffering in North Carolina!

And she eats dogs and cats!

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Melania can rest easy, Donnie was talking about Haitians.

The point is that Trump has no policies, and has no solutions to run on...except for scapegoating immigrants. And that he will even concoct big lies to blame anything on immigrants no matter how preposterous.

She's made her choices. She's a bad person.