Previously, she was widely admired for a very relatable reluctance to touch Trump – witnessed in the celebrated Tel Aviv hand-swat. Or could Mrs Trump, hardly a feminist icon from the start, have long been the object of spurious concern, sympathy, wishful thinking? Bennett confirms that Melania broadly agrees with her husband’s politics and urged him to run. Leave that to his latest press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, recommended by both Melania (her previous charge) and by the heavily indebted Bennett. It really would be condescending, considering the women’s strenuous promotional work, not to believe them implicated in its consequences.

Source: The Guardian December 07, 2019 18:00 UTC