She does!

At this point, if Mitt was running, people would flock to him in the hopes that his Mormon cleanliness could counteract Trump’s gooey slime drippings.

You miss my point. You conflate cheating with sexual assault, which is not wise. I think Melania knew Donald would cheat, given his history. Some women will be okay with cheating as long as they live well materially, which she does. My point is that cheating does not, as has not, ever equaled sexual assault - they are…

Oh, I think it’s basically common knowledge he cheats at this point. Ivana and Marla actually had a massive public fight in Colorado when they crossed paths while he was still married to Ivana. I think Melania knew that going in that expecting total fidelity was a pipe dream. But I’m not sure she knew how much of his…

Wikipedia says that Trump separated from Marla in 1997, but they did not finalize the divorce until 1999. If he met Melania in 1998, he was already separated from Marla, so I don’t think that Melania can be blamed for ending that marriage.

That makes me wonder how exactly he was convinced to marry Marla Maples. Tiffany was born in October and he married Marla two months later, in December. How magnanimous of him, to marry the “damaged goods.” What a prince he is.

When I think of a cad, I think of a guy like Hugh Grant - openly sleeping with multiple women, having kids with them - but by all accounts, the women don’t mind (or at least don’t complain) and he seems like he cares for the women and kids, he’s just open that he’s not a one-woman man. Not my cup of tea, but nothing…

Oh, I agree. Like I said, I don’t think expecting Trump to not be a cad is reasonable, and she probably knew that. But there is a marked difference between being a cad and being a sexual predator, between sleaze and criminality. I presume she knew about the former, but possibly not the latter.

The ultimate irony is if she’s a vegetarian. How do you deal with that one, Trump?

This makes me feel kind of slightly sad for Melania. The reporter says repeatedly that Melania was really sweet towards her and genuinely did not seem to have any idea about Donald’s nastiness - that as soon as she’d come into the room, he’d turn and become the doting husband. I’d have to imagine that she understood…

Well, at least we can be grateful you’re not in the legal system. You obviously don’t care about any of its actual principles, like that pesky due process thing.

I already noted this case in another thread - that case was jury nullification. Legal scholars agree that Hughes did not meet the legal definition of insanity (she pre-planned it, evacuated the children, etc.). You’d do well to read more about that case before you presume to know what it means legally.

Do any of them get that they are being used? Donald Trump does not care one iota about any of them. All I can feel for any of them is badly. They keep getting victimized over and over again.

Except letting her go would excuse shooting a sleeping man - and I don’t think the law should do that. As I said above, even the biggest piece of crap walking has a fundamental right to due process and to have their guilt determined within the confines of the justice system. She acted as judge, jury and executioner.…

Except you don’t note that the Hughes case is generally accepted as a case of jury nullification - not insanity. Most legal scholars accept that Hughes did not meet the standards of insanity; the evidence showed that she had some degree of planning, instructed the children on what to do, etc.; all actions that would…

Self-defense does not apply. Her father was shot while he slept. You cannot claim defense against a sleeping person. Hannah left that part out.

I’d wager that part of the problem is that while abuse is alleged and very, very likely totally true, without a legal record of it, the legal system cannot treat it as true. If ever there was an argument for reporting abuse - or at least documenting it - this is the case. There are many examples of people who have…

Evangelicals have no problem backing him because for them, actions don’t matter. Calvinist Christianity (the predominant form of fundamentalist Christianity in the US) is premised upon the idea that as long as one accepts God and Jesus as his son, you’re saved - actions be damned. You can be the biggest piece of crap…

Everything you just said is predicated upon a falsehood, and it is this:

Except that genuinely makes no sense. Part of the point of Gunn’s article is that economically, it makes no sense to NOT do plus sizes. The average American women is now a 16-18 - safely into the plus category. Two thirds of Americans are now classified as overweight/obese. That means at LEAST 50% of American women…