Actually, as a survivor of child abuse with CPSTD (the kind of PTSD you get from being in a situation with no real or perceived avenue of escape for a prolonged period of time), I think it’s incredibly important to crush that narrative. When someone is abusing you, you have a perceived sense of helplessness and loss…

I reckon she’d opt out of the whole presidential thing if she could.

I’m also getting really sick of people saying “but if he’s abusing her, she can’t leave”. Not true. Just like you, I was abused growing up. I, a kid with less resources and zero real/perceived way to escape other than college, got out. I got so far away I ended up halfway around the world. It took a huge amount of…

[insert grumpy cat face]

Not only did she know about his 2 other wives and serial cheating, but she knew about rape allegations, sexual assault allegations, was very aware that he barely interacted with his kids except Ivanka, and still chose to marry him. Oh, and all those stories that came out during the election about Donald being…

Exactly. And let’s not forget that she married him knowing full well who he was. He already had rape and sexual assault claims against him. He had already been a serial philanderer who for all intents and purposes had nothing to do with his kids (save Ivanka) while growing up. She knew all this and still married him…

She even repeated the lie about having a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture (she dropped out of a Slovenian university barely halfway into her first year to go into modeling) while under oath in a lawsuit, even when it was completely irrelevant to the case.

...good.

This right here is why the #freemelania shit irritates the living hell out of me. She’s a grown-ass woman, she made her choices. I doubt she’s unhappy with how things have turned out. Only Barron gets my sympathy in that family.

He is just following the RNC playbook. He has no original ideas and no interest in governoring. Up next in no particular order:

Remember, President* Trump will personally benefit from the pipeline. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: it’s a good thing that his conflicts of interest aren’t over something truly sinister, like helping African children with AIDS.

Exactly. She’s an asshole who choose to trade on her looks to get ahead. Now it’s biting her in the ass. Tough shit. His behavior towards women was well known when she showed up. It’s not like he was unknown quantity. The conditions of her marriage may have changed but she willing entered into this marriage. As for a…

My Trump-voting colleague has spent the last year interviewing and going through the motions to enroll in a particular federal job training program that would have guaranteed him a significantly higher salary and better benefits than our current job. Hebjust told me that he can’t get hired now because of Trump’s…

Did you not read the article? She does actively support his beliefs and did actively campaign for him, going back years. Stop projecting.

Or maybe she really believes the right-wing crazy talk (she’s from Slovenia and most of what she knows of US politics is filtered through her husband!), and she’s ALSO being treated badly. He doesn’t have to literally be holding her prisoner in order for her to do the talk show circuits and spout conspiracy theory.

She needs to put on her big girl panties and realize than no one in the history of abusive relationships has a better opportunity to escape her abuser. Get Katie Holmes in there to advise her.

I agree. I’m sorry she chose to marry this man. I feel sorry for Barron because he didn’t choose his parents. That’s it.

I think you maybe missed the point of her op-ed which was, succinctly, that she has chosen to embrace an ignorant, self-obsessed charlatan of a political figure because someone threw an egg at her once.

a Goldwater-Reagan-George W. Bush girl