The Telegraph | Donald Trump's secret weapon? It's Melania - here's why | Analysis @telegraph | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
When it was revealed Melania Trump had penned a fierce defence of abortion rights in her upcoming tell-all memoir, her husband’s sect of staunch pro-life supporters were dumbfounded.

Here, the wife of a man heralded for helping overturn Roe v Wade - the biggest win for anti-abortion activists in more than half a century - was pouring petrol over and holding a match to all of his work.

Leading pro-life activist Kristian Hawkins said it was “hard to follow the logic” of the former first lady releasing a book “undercutting” her husband’s message to pro-life voters, with just weeks to go before the election.

But far from being an accidental faux pas or a sharp stiletto to the heart of her husband’s campaign, Mrs Trump’s memoir may be a carefully thought-out asset to boost the Republican candidate one month before polling day.

Melania, it seems, is the Trump camp’s secret weapon.

Read more here: telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/10/03/donald-trump-melania-book-secret-weapon

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