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Bernardo de La Paz

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61. OK, you need me to break it down for you. It's got nothing to do with videotaping a birth.
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 06:47 PM
Oct 2016

I wrote (with a time line and synopsis of calculation to show how the figure was derived):

Melania was 3 months pregnant. Advanced enough for Donald J tRump to know.

It seems to have been shot around Sept. 16, 2005. Barron was born March 20, 2006. It is 185 days from the start date to the end date, or 6 months, 4 days excluding the end date. Donald J tRump talked like that while he knew his wife was three months pregnant.

You wrote:

"It seems to have been 'shot'"? I believe the word is "conceived".


Pregnancies take about 38 weeks on average, which is about 9 months. That length of time is longer than the 6 month period I mentioned in my post. So almost nobody (except you apparently) would make the mistake of thinking that the word "shot" referred to conception. Almost everybody (except you apparently) would know that a pregnancy is about 9 months. Almost everybody (except you apparently) would be able to subtract 6 months from 9 months and reach the figure of 3 months mentioned in my post title; this is how I made the calculation. Alternatively they might (but you didn't) add the figure of 3 months to the figure of 6 months and realize that made 9 months which is in concordance with the length of average pregnancies.

Then to assist you in your confusion between "shot" and "conceived" I wrote

you can figure out that a pregnancy is 9 months and video is shot.

to remind you that the word "shot" was being used to refer to videotaping and to remind you of the duration of most pregnancies so that you would be able to fit all the timelines and periods of time into a coherent whole. Since it was clearly related to Sept. 16, 2005 in the first post (quoted above), that would have nothing to do with either conception or birth. But bizarrely you switched your position from conception to birth and wrote

not evryone assumes every birth is videotaped, duh.


So to help you understand this very simple sequence of events, I will break it down for you.

Donald J tRump impregnated Melania approximately June 27, 2005, which is 38 weeks before Barron's birth, a reasonable assumption. His birth date is known to be March 20, 2006. Subtracting 38 weeks from that we begin at June 27, 2005.

The video was shot ("filmed", "taped", recorded) around Sept. 16, 2005, easily verifiable from source news stories such as the Washington Post's reporting. It is 81 days from March 20 to Sept. 16.

tRump made his lewd remarks admitting sexual assault then (Sept. 16, 2005), 81 days after estimated conception. That's over 11 weeks. Time enough for a cessation of menstruation, pregnancy tests, early symptoms, and possible weight gain. Time enough for both of them to know.

Thus Donald J tRump made his disgusting admissions of infidelity and battery knowing that his new wife was 3 months pregnant with his child.

All of that had nothing to do with videotaping a birth.
No assumption was made about videotaping a birth, except perhaps by you.
There was no mention of videotaping a birth in my posts.

This all should now be very clear even for you. Should you experience any difficulties of comprehension I suggest you ask another member of DU to explain this to you in a way you may be able to understand.
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OK, you need me to break it down for you. It's got nothing to do with videotaping a birth. Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2016 #61
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