2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDid the Don himself leak his wife's nude photos as a distraction from the Khan story?
It seems all too plausible a theory . . . . What a monster, if he sacrificed his wife this way.
But he failed miserably. Since Dems are not Rethugs, he couldn't push the re-set button on the ongoing political controversy.
http://gawker.com/did-donald-trump-leak-nude-photographs-of-melania-to-di-1784622478
Late on Saturday night, amid Donald Trumps ongoing feud with Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the New York Post, which endorsed Trump in April, published several nude photographs of the candidates wife. THE OGLE OFFICE, the Posts Sunday edition punned.
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At the DNC last week, Khizr Khan, whose son, U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan, was killed by a suicide bomber while fighting in Iraq in 2004, said that Trump had sacrificed nothing in his life. Trump said that yes, he has made sacrifices, and he works very hard, and also why didnt Khizrs wife speak at the DNC, is it because she is a Muslim woman and Muslim women are not permitted to speak? No, actually, it is because she is a mother overcome with grief. Trumps comments, Khizr said later, were typical of a person without a soul.
This, coming on the heels of a pretty terrible Republican National Convention, makes for a rather inauspicious start to the general election for Donald Trump. Still, is it any wonder that his campaign might want to create a diversion? Its also the second time in two weeks that Melania has gotten thrown under the bus for the Trump campaigns ineptitude and routine mediocrity. So much for being really good for women!
Everybody knows that Melania is a former model, although that never seems to stop Trump from missing an opportunity to mention it. (Perhaps the most convincing argument that they were purposefully leaked is the fact that Trump hasnt tweeted about it.) To use her past now as a political plow only feeds into his self-conception as a Strong Man and a Great Leader, further exoticizing and eroticizing his (largely silent!) mysterious European wife.
Renew Deal
(81,802 posts)Inside job. Dirty trick. Try to control the media for the next week.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)the racism, bigotry and raw hatred does not seem to disturb them .... this might (as they seem to have more problems with stuff like this than hatred bigotry and general meanness of spirit)
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)chillfactor
(7,566 posts)it was a complete failure.
KMOD
(7,906 posts)However, I don't think he's smart enough to do this as a distraction from his awful comments about the Khans. I just think he's a vain, sick, sexist who wanted to show off and brag about his attractive wife.
Manafort probably came up with it. He gets a two for one doing it now. He knows the pics will come out anyways. Better now so people will forget and move on. I think they thought it at the same time distracts from the Khan some. And even though it was run by his buddy Murdoch. It will get blamed on left wing media. Don't worry some new stuff will come up tomorrow.
Princess Turandot
(4,784 posts)I feel sorry for her little boy.
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)Tal Vez
(660 posts)pnwmom
(108,925 posts)ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)Scrubbed from the internet, and nearest I can tell, scrubbed from the campaign altogether. I am sure the speech controversy devastated her, poor woman, and she is GONE gone.
Could be a kill two stones with one bird kind of thing, poison Melania, and stop the soldier story.
I think the T rump's will be divorcing on November 3rd after the results are in.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Maybe he wanted to change the subject from Pence promising to overturn Roe V. Wade and the GOP platform calling pornography a "public health crisis".
I can't imagine this helps. Our side doesn't generally get all frothy and outraged over consenting adult sex and nudity. That's their trip.
Onlooker
(5,636 posts)The fact that the New York post published was is essentially porn. The Post is a pro-Trump, Murdoch newspaper. I think this is a coordinated effort to get the photos out there before someone else does so as to control the message and to try to further build on the already strong support Trump has among white men. Sadly, there are men who like Trump for all the wrong reasons, including his rampant sexism.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)unitedwethrive
(1,997 posts)the Khan fiasco.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)rocktivity
(44,555 posts)Last edited Tue Aug 2, 2016, 08:32 PM - Edit history (1)
Which Duh Donald clearly did not learn from Kahn-Gate. But it seemed that maybe he'd finally taken the hint with the Melania pics.
Occam's Razor dictated to me that the alternative to not publishing the pics was the liberal media controlling the story, so having friend Rupert Murdoch beating them to the punch would the lesser of two evils.
But The Young Turks have come up with a couple of alternate theories. And remember look how the Rethugs reacted to the sight of Michelle Obama's arms.
rocktivity
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,406 posts)And none of his people would have mentioned the death in battle again.
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,406 posts)texanwitch
(18,705 posts)I think he has lot of little voices going on.
He has the best voices and the best words.
Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)But he keeps going. Even after 5 bad days of getting his ass kicked, he went back for more just an hour or two ago.