makes it obvious that this is a manufactured scheme of some sort. He truly reminds me of soviet dictators who invented other explanations for reality

Putin poses shirtless to prove his virility.

Trump makes Melania pose shirtless to prove his virility.

So I am not sure what the deal with the pictures is.

All dots connect..

are much more telling than Russian connection though. He fucking lied about his involvement in the Vietnam memorial and made fun of a war hero's parents.

Wendi Deng reportedly had several high profile affairs while married to Murdoch. Theses included former PM Tony Blair and Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Those affairs were apparently overlapping and led to her divorce from Murdoch.

There are recent reports that Deng has been dating Putin. Murdoch recently married Jerry Hall -- yes, that Jerry Hall.

I assume Donald himself released those pics. He may be trying to get ahead of the story by getting it out sooner rather than later.

jftr - They don't change anything.

maybe she shouldn't pose for the photographers.

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It's Manafort strategy right out of a banana republic. This is a subject changer. No one has "attacked" him or Melania over it.

Who cares about her pictures?

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Don't take the bait. The Trump campaign is trying to create a distraction.

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It simply highlights that in 2016, most Americans aren't hung up about nude pictures as long as everyone involved was a consenting adult at the time.

...it's a distraction. Also, Ms. Trump seems to enjoy posing in the nude and must want people to see her naked body.

Rather beautiful pictures.

I feel kind of bad for her. She posed for those photos when she was 25 and trying to make it as a model in Europe. That was over 20 years ago.

I think soul-less trump is exploiting her for his own selfish purposes. She looked thoroughly miserable throughout that repuke convention.

Get out of her situation if she is truly miserable, unlike many people.

Guess it depends on how badly he would stiff her according to the pre-nup.

If she loves her son and he threatens to have a custody battle. You never know until it happens, but he definitely has a mean streak.

In an effort to defeat the strawman they created, they've motivated 'our' side to commune in language as bigoted and prejudiced as their own.

Why would they do that, and why would we fall into that?

They are helping him

- distract from attacks on Khan
- put the Melania pics out early so they can get that out of the way

If New York Post wants to publish the photos, it publishes to photos. We can't control what it does.

and distract from his crumbling support.

shameful in any way for a woman doing that and hasn't been since the Renaissance. There is nothing shameful in the female body, and there is nothing shocking here.

I've looked at the photos, and it is easy to see why she should be proud of her work here and of her body. I enjoyed looking.

However, these are DIFFERENT from the pictures of Michelle Obama. These are professional modelling pics intended for public display. She is selling her sex appeal.

I have nothing to say about them, but it does tell you what sort of qualities Donald Trump looks for in women.

if it were Donald himself that was responsible for the photos appearing in the NY Post?

This strikes me as another one of his "Look at my hot wife" sideshows. His knuckle-dragger supporters just love this kind of thing. They're far more impressed that he was able to snag a Russian model than they are concerned about the lack of actual detail and substance in his campaign. What better thing to distract them from his bashing of the parents of a dead soldier than a picture of naked Melania?

He's filed many a frivolous lawsuit so winning isn't the only goal. This would be a supportive move.

I wouldn't be Melania Trump for all the guilded furniture in the world.

from the ass kicking Trump is getting from gold star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan.

Second on what grounds could he sue?

they may be photoshopped. Also skin looks unnatural. Plastic. It must be touched up.

I'd wager some things don't appear now as they did back when she was in her mid 20's, if you know what I mean.

of the skin - does not look real at all. Young women don't look like that pic does either.

I'd say it is her, but airbrushed (i.e. Not fakes)

Has been around since the late 80s.

I'm attempting to counter the notion that pics are recent photoshops. And correct the notion that photos in the olden days were never altered.

But thanks for the correction.

not natural

There are nude photos on-line that had nothing to do with modeling.

I believe they were called a money shot.

It's a trap. Warning movie spoilers at the link.

He has Murdoch post pictures of a naked Donald Trump on the cover of the post.

I thought I was distracted by his tiny hands, I'll never be able to look at him again.

C'mon, the wife of the nominee of the 'family values' party posed for nudie pics. Remember the outrage when Janet Jackson dared to expose a nipple for half a second?

Clinton should make sure as many people as possible get to see those pics. Let's have the 'family values' party try to explain the potential First Lady's lack of family values.

The pics are meant to take the attention away from all of that.

the family values people should not be supporter Trumpeter at all. His divorces alone should make him condemnable in their eyes. You have to wonder if they really believe what they claim to believe.

She made that bed, she can sleep in it. You couldn't be more wrong about it helping him, it will in fact hurt him with fundamentalist voters. What line was crossed? She willingly posed for semi nude pics, maybe that offends you but it is reality.

We cannot control the way they view women, we can only try to educate. What this shows is that Trump will use his wife in a campaign like this. They are literally using is as a strategy. Interesting some keep trying to bring this to our doorstep.

Seems like he would have gotten advance notice about the release and been able to prevent the pictures from being printed if the publisher is a Trump ally and supporter since he has a history of quashing plenty of other stories he didn't want printed.

He certainly retaliated when the Ted Cruz supporters brought out the Melanie picture scandal sparking his feud with Ted Cruz involving their wives.

Something just to distract attention. There is a post here quoting dipshit donnie has no problem with them being out. All adds to the circus he wants see in the media.

Too bad he doesn't do that TV show: Desperate Housewives of the Orange and Stumpy!

(No offence intended for anyone else with undersized imbs: He had it coming)

...or the Khans, or his mispoken opinion on Putin invading Ukraine....then he wins.

The pics were printed by a right wing Murdoch paper in an attempt to control the news cycle by changing the dominant conversation.

Our job is to let it die out and focus on the important flaws, not ogle and comment on his wife's body.

Don't fall for it Dems!

Having a possible first lady pose nude for public consumption is one of the least controversial parts of Dumps campaign.

Time to move along, nothing to see here; so to speak.

I have a friend who thinks Christians can't vote for Hillary. I can't wait to ask her how she feels about this. Republican evangelicals are such hypocrites.

and it's the Post eating its own.

Do they hate him as much as we do?

I hold no glee for the objectification and humiliation of Melania Trump. (Whether she feel humiliated, who knows?)

Pervert trump doesn't mind a bit.

If she did I couldn't care less one way or another. Most people I know have at least one naked body. I have bigger issues to worry about.

So there is a hypocrisy angle which I think is relevant. The fact of the matter is, most Americans don't give a shit about nekkid pictures or films of consenting adults having sex.

This highlights the disconnect between actual reality in 2016 and the fundamentalist wackadoodles who want to censor what the rest of us can look at, but not much else.

hypocrites obviously eats away at them. There is no hiding behind their precious pretenses anymore. Trump done fucked that one up for them!

After the debacle over the plagiarized speech he had written for his wife and then had her deliver, she was so obviously pissed and stayed out of sight. She continues to stay out of sight.

I think the marriage is in serious trouble and this was (to him) and inconsequential thing.

Meanwhile, Melania is getting angrier. But with the prenup, she knows she has to stay quiet or lose millions.

Like FRC or the Million Moms thingie?

A gay couple in a hotel ad rises their ire because "what about the children". This doesn't though?

Just dont. Wish they'd stop showing them to me since I am not interested. On the flip side it is driving him bananas, so maybe I like them. She looks very fit.

I do find it funny that Michelle Obama has been dragged through the dirt and called every name in the book for being an up standing citizen. But now you have da trumps family which gets funnier every day, so what are those right wingers going to do with this. Lol.