It’s a little clap of thunder, revealed by the Guardian and the New York Timeswho had access to Melania Trump’s memoirs before their release on October 8, 2024.
In this book, which resembles “less like a confessional than like a CV”according to the New York Times, Donald Trump’s wife says she defends the right to abortion. “A woman’s fundamental right to individual freedom, to her own life, gives her the power to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes”reports the Guardian.
A point of view that she claims to have defended “all his life”. But far from that of her husband who, if he tries to be less vehement on the issue, has only slowed down access to abortion by appointing ultra-refractory judges to the Supreme Court.
Shooting “a bullet in the foot”
Melania Trump, extremely discreet since the start of the campaign, “returns here to the forefront of the media scene”, underlines Alexis Pichard, researcher at the Center for Anglophone Research (CREA EA370) at Paris-Nanterre University, and specialist in American politics and media.
“She explains here that we cannot deny a woman’s right to control her own body. It’s a real bomb less than thirty days before the election”scheduled for November 5, he estimates. So far very little invested in the campaign, Donald Trump’s wife “shoot you in the foot” of her husband with these contrarian memoirs.
However, speaking out is symbolic. “It also shows that she is free in a certain way, and not a prisoner of her husband, as we have thought so far. » Maybe “the only positive aspect” of this surprise publication.
