• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    There’s a lot to unpack here.

    The Florida GOP earlier this week said Barron Trump, who is 18, would join three of the former president’s other children — Eric, Tiffany and Donald Trump Jr. — as delegates, with Eric Trump serving as the state’s delegation chair.

    So the GOP just came out and announced it, perhaps without even asking Barron or Barron saying he wanted it.

    “While Barron is honored to have been chosen as a delegate by the Florida Republican Party, he regretfully declines to participate due to prior commitments,” former first lady Melania Trump’s office said in a statement.

    Then mom comes in and says “no” on his behalf. So we STILL haven’t heard from Barron what his wishes are.

    I’d like to think mom went to Trump and said “If you push Barron to do this, I’ll testify at your trial…you know which one”.

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      My guess is Trump asked him, or maybe even just told his guys he’d do it without asking Barron. Then Melania found out in the press and said ‘hell no’ to that.

      Just shows that nobody in that family actually talks to each other.

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        6 months ago

        Considering how they’ve exchanged a family dynamic for a corrupt corporate one, they probably just communicate in depositions.

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          Melania, after reading the news: “Oh, I guess he’ll be here for Barron’s graduation …”