Melania Trump does not believe husband’s accusers
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gives his thumb up as he walks off the stage with his wife Melania during the Republican National Convention on July 18, in Cleveland.
NEW YORK >> Melania Trump dismissed her husband’s sexually aggressive language as “boy talk,” insisting his remarks do not reflect “the man I know,” and said she does not believe that he has assaulted any women.
Trump’s wife, in a series of media interviews today, said she has accepted her husband’s apology and the couple is “moving on.” The comments come more than a week after the release of a 2005 video in which Trump brags about kissing women and grabbing their genitals without their permission.
“I said to my husband that, you know, the language is inappropriate. It’s not acceptable. And I was surprised, because that is not the man that I know,” she told CNN.
She suggested that Trump may not have known his microphone was on, calling it “kind of a boy talk” that “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush was encouraging. And she suggested that the women who have claimed in recent days that Trump made unwanted advances were attention-seekers who were making “damaging and unfair” accusations.
“I believe my husband,” she said in the interview that aired tonight. “My husband didn’t do anything.”
Mrs. Trump also said it is fair game for her husband to appear with women who have accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual assault, claiming the Democrats fired the first volley into the increasingly ugly war about the couples’ private lives.
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“They’re asking for it. They started. They started from the beginning of the campaign putting my picture from modeling days,” she said in excerpts released by Fox News ahead of the interview’s broadcast. “That was my modeling days and I’m proud what I did. I worked very hard.”
Melania Trump’s image was used in a negative ad campaign during the Republican primary, but there is no evidence that the Clintons were involved. At the time, Donald Trump accused former rival Ted Cruz of being involved and responded by tweeting an unflattering image of the Texas senator’s wife. Cruz also denied involvement.
The interviews are Melania Trump’s first moments in the public eye since the accusations over the last 10 days that have sent her husband’s White House bid reeling.
First, a 2005 video leaked of Trump using vulgar language to describe women and apparently boasting of sexual assault. And in recent days, several women have come forward to say that Trump had groped or sexually assaulted them.
The Republican nominee has denied the claims, calling the women liars and belittling their appearances.
In the interviews, Melania Trump deemed the celebrity businessman’s comments on the leaked tape “offensive to me and they were inappropriate.”
“And he apologized to me,” she said in an interview with CNN airing at the same time the crowd at her husband’s rally in Wisconsin was chanting “CNN sucks.” “And I expect — I accept his apology. And we are moving on.”
She said something similar in a statement released by the campaign after the video’s release. She has also demanded retractions from a People Magazine writer who profiled the couple in 2005 and last week accused Donald Trump of an assault at the couple’s Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, while Melania was out of the room. And she repeated her husband’s assertion, which he makes without supporting evidence, that the media and Clinton campaign are working in tandem to sink the Republican nominee’s campaign.
Melania Trump has never filled the role of the traditional political spouse, only making rare appearances on the campaign trail. Her speech at July’s national convention was initially praised until it was discovered that passages of it were lifted from Michelle Obama’s 2008 convention address.
Trump, who attended each of the first two presidential debates, was also lampooned on this week’s Saturday Night Live. The long-running sketch show ran a video in which actresses playing Melania Trump, her two step-daughters and two of the candidate’s most visible female allies did a version of Beyonce’s feminist manifesto “Lemonade” in an act of rebellion against the candidate.
The video ends with the Cecily Strong, the comedian playing Melania Trump, suggesting she wrote the song herself.
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Mrs. Trump blamed Mr. Bush for somehow forcing Mr. Trump to admit that he had committed multiple sexual assaults. No on in Mr. Trump’s inner circle can take responsibility for anything. Anything.
Mrs. Trump also suggested that Mr. Trump would not have said those things if he knew he was being recorded. Remarkable.
“Lock him up. Lock him up!”
Klastri, I do not doubt for one second that Trump has “made it” big time with many beautiful women and some who were not so beautiful. It goes with being a celebrity with lots of money. And I do not doubt for one second that the women involved willingly participated because of Trump’s celebrity status and were not sexually assaulted as you incessantly claim. Don’t you find it strange that during Trump’s many years of fame and fortune, not one woman accused him of sexual assault, sexual harassment or inappropriate behavior and that such allegations were not made until the past week and less than a month before the General Election? What do you think motivated them to come forward now with their allegations?
You’re lying again.
Trump and his companies have been sued over and over again for years for sexual harassment, and he has settled the cases. The women involved in those cases were bound by non-disclosure agreements that would be opened if Mr. Trump actually prosecutes his ridiculous case against the New York Times.
Can’t you ever – just once – write something truthful?
You are a liar, Kalastri. You are making up stories. Cite your source if what you say is true. My research shows that Trump and has companies have been accused of sexual harassment or discrimination 20 times going back to the early 1980s. Sexual harassment and discrimination and not sexual assault. I think there is a difference. None of the claims were directly related to Trump’s conduct. Oh, wait. There was one lawsuit filed in 1997 by makeup artist Jill Harth, who alleged Trump sexually harassed her on different occasions and allegedly groped her. You have to love her profession – MAKEUP ARTISTS. Trump denied the allegations and Harth withdrew her the lawsuit. She subsequently dated Trump for several months. Is this one of the “settled cases” to which you refer?
Wrong, he has been sued many times and has also settlement many times for very similar claims.
Ike, name one women who sued Trump for sexual assault and settled with him. My mind is open. Show me the proof.
Ronin006 – Your mind is open? You follow Alex Jones – a sociopath who denies the Newtown massacre happened. You are pridefully and willfully ignorant.
Klastri, why can’t you cite one example of Trump and his companies being sued over and over again and settling the cases as you claim? Calling people names is not an answer.
Klastri, are you a dumb jackass like the Democrat Party symbol? Please respond.
It’s a conspiracy against Billy Bush! The NBC media and Team Trump working together to make him the scapegoat. Russia, time to hack and release emails between NBC and Trump—unless Russia is in on it also…. So diabolical!!!
You know there are a lot of “boys” out there like that…they talk trash…have no respect for women…are abusive, mentally and physically…and are in relationships where they other thinks “they can change this bad boy..he is sweet around me, except when he gets drunk or angry…” the hallmarks of a passive-aggressive bully.
I guess NBC doesn’t agree with this type of behavior, even in one of their employees, let alone a Presidential candidate, since they just fired Billy Bush!.
Melania Trump says husband’s language about women is ‘boy talk. Well there’s the problem right there. Trump was a 59 year old man at the time, but with the mind of a “boy”. And he is still acting like he’s out on the playground – bullying others, never holding himself accountable for anything, objectifying women, and disparaging any and all minorities. Up to him if he wants to remain a “boy” his entire life, but as President of the United States of America? No, thank you.
Been in a lot of locker rooms, bars, golf course,country club locker, and all the “private places” where “men talk trash”. I have never heard this kind of “talk” and if someone started on this kind of Trump talk I’d walk out and not tolerate such sick talk. Malenia must sure love the Donald to back him up on this one.
Or may be she signed a lousy prenuptial agreement?
She’s a bimbo, plain and simple. She lied on her web page for three years that she had graduated with a four year degree. Not only did she never graduate she was never even accepted at the college. Very very questionable way she got her green card, highly doubtful it was legally done and that she was an Illegal foreigner working illegally in the US. Of course Dishonest Donald’s blind mice will cry foul over the facts as usual since they have a man crush on his small hands…
Still waiting for the lawsuit Trump threatened when it was reported that the owner of the modeling agency that brought Melania into the US also ran an escort service.
Can’t admit that her Husband may have been cheating on her. Plus, her Pre-nuptial agreement probably forbids her from disparaging her husband in public. You really didn’t think that she would admit her husband is a cheat and a liar even though he was caught on tape saying that’s how he likes to treat women.
Where is HiLIARy today? here’s an item of interest…Now, Barack Obama’s own personal physician has terrible news for Hillary and her brain-dead fans. This is incredible!
Via The Hill:
President Obama’s former physician said that he believes Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton should have a neurological examination due to her history of brain injury.
During an interview on CNN, Dr. David Scheiner argued that Clinton’s note from her doctor isn’t enough. The letter details that Clinton had follow-up testing in 2013 that showed a full recovery from a concussion and that she tested negative for clotting disorders.
“I think she should have had a neurological examination, a thorough neurological examination in 2016,” Scheiner said Tuesday night. “We know what happens to football players who have had concussions, how they begin to lose some of their cognitive ability.
Read more: http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/obamas-doctor-shocking-news-hillary-health-breaking-news/#ixzz4NPV7T5rX
So, Donald Trump blames Hillary Clinton for defending her husband’s infidelities….., how are Melania Trump’s actions any different? Trump himself has said that he is not attracted to older women. Melania Trump is nearing 50–she must be getting a bit nervous because she must be close to running out of facelifts!