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Former first lady Melania Trump is set to release her much-anticipated memoir just before November’s election and it’s already making headlines.
In her memoir, the former first lady declares that she is an ardent advocate for a woman’s autonomy over her own body, including the right to an abortion.
“It is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government,” Melania wrote, according to an excerpt obtained by The Guardian.
“Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does with her own body? A woman’s fundamental right of individual liberty, to her own life, grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes. Restricting a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her control over her own body. I have carried this belief with me throughout my entire adult life,” she wrote.
In the excerpt, she goes on to frame the issue as one of “personal freedom.”
Melania Trump is teasing the release of her memoir, saying after years of “public scrutiny and clear misrepresentation,” she will share “the truth.”
“Writing this memoir has been a deeply personal and reflective journey for me,” Trump said in a video released Thursday on social media.
“As a private person who has often been the subject of public scrutiny and misrepresentation, I feel a responsibility to clarify the facts,” Trump said ahead of the Oct. 1 release of “Melania.”
“I believe it is important to share my perspective: the truth,” she said into the camera in the video.
The 54-year-old former model, who married former President Donald Trump in 2005, announced the publication of a memoir in July. In promotional materials, publisher Skyhorse Publishing called the book an “intimate portrait of a woman who has lived an extraordinary life.”
The book is poised to include “stories and images never before shared with the public,” according to its publisher.
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In a new promo for her forthcoming memoir, former First Lady Melania Trump says:
“As a private person, who has often been the subject of public scrutiny and misrepresentation, I feel a responsibility to clarify the facts.” pic.twitter.com/YKUQMx8viJ
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 5, 2024
Donald Trump revealed this week that his youngest son, Barron Trump, learned about him being shot when he was at a tennis lesson.
During an interview with Fox News’ Mark Levin, Trump revealed his youngest son learned that his father had been shot while on the tennis court.
“He’s a good tennis player. And somebody ran up (and said), ‘Barron! Barron! Your father’s been shot,’” Trump recounted, adding that Barron reacted immediately: “He loves his father. He’s a good kid, a good student. And he ran, ‘Mom! What’s going on? What’s going on?”
Trump said his wife, former First Lady Melania Trump, was watching coverage of the July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and saw the attempt on his life play out live. “She was watching it live. Can you imagine? And then I got up and let people know I was okay. Fight. Fight. Fight. But it was a big hit,” Trump said.
In a previous interview with Fox News, Trump had spoken about Melania’s reaction to seeing the assassination attempt: “When I could talk to people, I said, ‘So what was your feeling?’, and she said she can’t even talk about it, which is okay because that means she likes me,” he said.
At another point in the interview, Trump said that, after he had been taken to safety following the shooting, his son, Donald Trump Jr., who is “great with guns,” told him, “I can’t believe it. From that distance… I can’t believe it.”
