It's very hard not to have compassion for Melania Trump at this point. She is now in the same category as Hillary Clinton and Jackie Kennedy. Probably more like Jackie Kennedy who likely knew that her husband had every woman he could because he was so handsome and debonair. So, being in this position now that the press doesn't protect 1st ladies anymore from all this is an interesting phenomenon in itself. My thought is how could she stay married to a man that has been having anything that moved, before during and since she got married?
This is the double standard more expected in JFK's day and less expected now but it is still the double standard which has always been the death of many women around the world. However, Melania strikes me as a very strong woman in many ways and since she grew up in Eastern Europe this kind of behavior from powerful men likely was expected by her when she married Trump. Likely what was unexpected was that she and her son would have their faces rubbed in this to this degree. So, if I were her I would be very upset about the effect on her reputation and that of her son in all this even if she didn't care at all what Donald Trump thinks.
Melania Trump arrives solo to air base amid second affair scandal
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Melania Trump arrives solo to air base amid second affair scandal as first couple heads to Florida
(CNN)First
lady Melania Trump eschewed the traditional South Lawn couple's walk to
Marine One on Friday amid another adultery allegation scandal, opting
instead to drive separately ahead of President Donald Trump.
"With
her schedule it was easier to meet him on the plane," Stephanie
Grisham, the first lady's communications director, said in a statement.
Melania
Trump does plan to accompany her husband when he visits with victims of
the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, a White House official told
CNN.
Earlier Friday, The New Yorker published a report based on a handwritten account from Karen McDougal who detailed her alleged affair with Donald Trump
for nine months from June 2006 to April 2007, when Trump was two years
into his marriage with Melania Trump. The document was provided to The
New Yorker by McDougal's friend, but she confirmed to the magazine that
the handwriting in the document is hers.
A White House spokesperson denied the affair in a statement to the magazine.
"This
is an old story that is just more fake news. The President says he
never had a relationship with McDougal," the spokesperson said.
This
isn't the first break with tradition the first lady has showed in the
wake of allegations of her husband's indiscretions. She drove separately from the President to the US Capitol to attend the State of the Union address on January 30.
The
White House said the unusual move was so she could attend a reception
with the guests joining her in the first lady's box and connect with
them on a more personal level.
But it marked her first public event after The Wall Street Journal first reported a payment
made to porn star Stormy Daniels, who allegedly had an affair with
Trump in 2006, four months after Melania Trump gave birth to the
couple's only son, Barron.
The President has denied the affair took place. But The Wall Street Journal reported Trump's attorney Michael Cohen
paid Daniels $130,000 to keep it covered up. Cohen also released a
statement on behalf of Daniels calling the report "absolutely false."
Cohen has admitted paying her the money out of his own pocket, however.
Melania Trump was reportedly "blindsided" by the reports of the payoff and "furious" with the President, two people close to the couple told The New York Times.
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