The Most Consequential First Lady of our time

Which is not always good news for Melania Trump, given her husband's results. 

According to former Trump aid, Kate Bennett, it was Melania who ran the 2016 VP search and held Pence to promise not to invoke the 25th Amendment. That he stuck to it is not good for his legacy. In that term, staff walled off Trump from being Trump. This time out, where he can do official acts with no criminal blowback, the brakes are off.

I will give you three guesses on who writes the midnight tweets. Think about the level of both anger and language proficiency. It might not be Donald or some glorified intern. Just saying.

The latest is that she is the back channel to Putin. Maybe she always has been. Remember, when she was born, Slovenia was part of the Soviet Union. Some say Gabbard is Putin's woman in the White House - but maybe it goes higher. We will never know. If it is the First Lady, it is so classified that even Donald is not allowed to see it.

Remember Team Crazy? Putin was the common denominator. Maybe Melania too. Remember, this was before the official acts immunity decision. The Trump's had real exposure on any quid pro quo between cancelling Javelin missiles and funding the 2018 Protect the House PAC and the America First SuperPAC with Russian money.  See https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-2020-how-parnas-and-frumans-dodgy-donation-was-uncovered-by-two-people-using-google-translate and https://www.opensecrets.org/joint-fundraising-committees-jfcs/protect-the-house/C00669622/2018/summary.

The Supreme Court case that found presidential immunity now protects any of the dodgy behavior the insurrection was designed to cover up by keeping Trump in power. Had he not been vulnerable, what was obviously a GRU type of op would not have been attempted on January 6th. What did Melania know and when did she know it? Due to spousal immunity, we will never really know.

Melania is the power player. I would be surprised if she is not the decider when the Secretaries of the Treasury and Commerce are on one side of an issue and the White House Staff is on the other. Her job is to stop the President from looking bad. At the very least, that meant that Elon had to go. We will see how long the OMB Director and Stephen Miller are allowed to stay around - as their antics are truly making the boss look bad. At some point, Melania will pull the plug.

One last issue - one which the networks will not allow us to talk about - which is what was her involvement with Epstein and Maxwell before she was introduced to her husband by them? This is the question the media will not let you ask. Again, spousal immunity. Just saying.

Melania does not show public affection - sometimes not even affect. It is very Soviet. The reality is she is devoted to her husband and his legacy. Underestimate her at your own risk.