Don’t forget it was a not-connected-in-any-way-to-Ted-Cruz Super PAC that used those photos to attack Trump and his wife.
On the plus side, she *is *brandishing a gun.
Yeah, her facial expressions are so …blank. Although her eyes do look kinda angry. And this isn’t a Vogue style fashion shoot. Did she even do top echelon fashion? I have no memory of her name prior to becoming Mrs. Trump. And I followed fashion stuff pretty intensely back then.
Assuming that is her, is Melania the first major party’s candidate’s wife for whom topless photos are known to presumably exist?
We live in a world where the future Queen Consort to the King of the United Kingdom has pictures of her in her undies posted to the internet … didn’t y’all feel the earth shake when Queen Victoria was spinning in her grave?
Hardly. There are paparazzi pictures of Jacqueline Kennedy sunning naked at a private beach from back in 1972.
Really? How did I never know that? What if instead my question was:
Assuming that is her, is Melania the first major party’s candidate’s wife who has voluntarily posed for topless photos and those photos have been seen by the public?
I suppose by the time the cellphone camera generation gets into political power, there will be quite the selection of salacious photos of everyone in politics.
Though, she was, at that point, a former First Lady, not the wife of a candidate, nor a sitting First Lady.
See also the nude posture photos taken for 3 decades at Ivy League & Seven Sisters schools. In theory there could be nude photos of both teenage Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham sitting somewhere; though there almost certainly have since been destroyed.
And these are the Republicans. THE REPUBLICANS. The party that is synonymous with Christian bible-thumping idiocy. Can you even CONCEIVE of the outrage that would result if a Democratic candidate’s wife did this? The hypocrisy is astonishing.
Are you kidding? Republican hypocrisy is redundant.
It was actually Liz Mair’s Make America Awesome SuperPac. She denies links with Ted Cruz, and I’m inclined to believe her.
She’s a NeverTrumper: here is her twitter feed. She will be voting Libertarian this fall.
She used to work for Scott Walker before she gaafed and was fired. Liz Mair - Wikipedia
Frankly, I don’t believe for a second that some form of communication hasn’t been worked out between campaigns and PACs. And I mean all of 'em.
It’s just too convenient to be able to let loose the most vicious hate-filled and untruthful ads possible with deniability.
Quick disclaimer-hetero female so I read the article-but what struck me is 18 carat gold seatbelts. That can’t be good. Isn’t gold a fairly soft metal?
I’m sure they mean the metal on the outside of the seatbelt clasp - the part you’d see and touch. The guts of the device would have to be stronger than that.
Sound instincts, but realize that the so-called ad was a crude photoshop job. The online ad-buy maybe cost them $300. PolitiFact | Donald Trump has no evidence that Ted Cruz was responsible for naked Melania ad
My take is that Liz Mair is a one woman show.
Speaking of semi-nude photo shoots, has anyone looked at Melania Trump.com? (Not technically NSFW, but just in case anyone has a prudish workplace, there’s a space in there to delete.)
She’s certainly not appealing to her intellectual capabilities when selling jewelry and skin care.
Also, am I the only one doing a double-take on caviar-extract skin care products? :smack:
At Open Secrets, we learn that Make America Awesome spent $208 on “Media”, with the proceeds going to Facebook. What I interpret as broadcasters received $4400. Total receipts were about $40,000: if I’m interpreting the website correctly I presume most of that went into Mair’s pocket. None of these figures are especially large.
They weren’t the only #NeverTrump PAC in town, but methinks this was emblematic of the flaccid and ineffective resistance to the Trump takeover.
What woman hasn’t dreamed of skin that looks and smells like very salty fish eggs?
It’s an improvement over the usual tuna.
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