00:19Megan
00:19Kelly, one of the most prominent media voices who endorsed Donald Trump in 2024, just went there.
00:27In a recent podcast, she said the quiet part loud about Trump's marriages, about the affairs, about Ivana, about Melania.
00:36And nobody in conservative media knows what to do with it.
00:40Here's the actual quote.
00:42Kelly said,
00:43Trump cheated on every wife.
00:45He met Marla Maples while he was married to the mother of his children, Ivana.
00:50Ivana accused him of raping her.
00:52He winds up with Melania.
00:54And if you think Trump's been faithful to Melania, you've got bigger issues.
00:58That's not a CNN anchor.
01:01That's not Rachel Maddow.
01:02That is Megan Kelly.
01:04And the reason this is blowing up is because she's not wrong.
01:09Let's walk through what the public record actually shows.
01:12Trump married Ivana in 1977.
01:15They had three kids together, Don Jr., Ivanka, Eric.
01:19By the late 1980s, Trump was openly carrying on an affair with actress and model Marla Maples.
01:26It became tabloid legend when Maples confronted Ivana directly in Aspen and allegedly told her to her face that she
01:34loved her husband.
01:35That's not rumor.
01:37That was front page of the New York Post.
01:39Then there's Ivana's accusation.
01:41In divorce depositions from around 1989-1990, later reported in a 1993 biography, Ivana described an incident where Trump allegedly
01:52forced himself on her after a painful surgery.
01:55She used the word rape.
01:56She later walked it back, said it wasn't rape in a literal or criminal sense, but she never said it
02:03didn't happen.
02:03She said she felt violated.
02:06No charges were ever filed.
02:08It was, by all accounts, a brutal divorce.
02:10Trump married Maples in 1993.
02:14That ended in divorce in 1999.
02:17Then Melania.
02:18Married 2005.
02:20And here's where it gets uncomfortable.
02:22Because in 2006, while Melania was home with a newborn baby, Stormy Daniels alleges a sexual encounter with Trump.
02:29Daniels was paid $130,000 in hush money right before the 2016 election.
02:36Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen, went to prison partly over that payment.
02:41Around the same time, former Playboy model Karen McDougal says she had a year-long affair with Trump.
02:48Trump denies all of it.
02:49But the payments happened.
02:51The NDAs happened.
02:52And the convictions happened.
02:54Here's the thing that makes this story actually interesting.
02:57Meghan Kelly knows all of this.
02:59She endorsed him anyway.
03:01So why is she saying it now?
03:03Because something has shifted.
03:05Meghan Kelly and Trump are in an open public spat.
03:08And Kelly, who once had Trump attack her viciously after a debate, is apparently done playing nice.
03:15She's not pretending the personal history doesn't exist anymore.
03:19And coming from her, that carries a different weight than if it came from his critics.
03:24Voters have heard this history before.
03:27Twice they elected him anyway.
03:29Maybe the personal stuff genuinely doesn't matter to them.
03:32Maybe it's about the economy, the border, policy.
03:35That's a legitimate argument.
03:37But Kelly's point isn't really about changing votes.
03:40It's about honesty.
03:41About not pretending the record is something it isn't.
03:45And for a political world built on selective memory, that's a rarer thing than it sounds.
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