In the first week of August, there were a lot of stories about Melania Trump. And then, like Keyser Soze, she was gone! She disappeared! She hasn’t given any interviews, nor has she made any appearances beside her husband. I personally believe that Donald Trump made the choice to throw his wife under the bus as a way to deflect attention away from his own shenanigans, but who even knows at this point. What we do know is that Melania is probably lying about a lot of things. Like, she lied about having a college degree, maybe. She probably lied a lot about her immigration status in the 1990s. And Donald Trump lied when he promised that Melania would give a press conference about her immigration stuff weeks ago.
So, what’s going on this week with Melania? She’s still in the wind, but people are still digging into her (increasingly shady-looking) past. Remember how she probably lied about having a college degree? Well, Racked found a transcript from a 2013 deposition with Melania where she apparently lied under oath about her non-existent degree. She was asked to describe her “formal education” and she said:
“I attended and graduated from design school, from Fashion and Industrial Design School and also attended, graduated from architecture degree, bachelor degree.”
When Politico and other outlets dug around, all they could find was that Melania maybe did one year of college before dropping out to become a model. Incidentally, the whole Racked piece is worth a read – they’re investigating the lawsuit against Melania’s “caviar skincare line.”
As for Melania’s “modeling years,” there are rumors. Of course there are rumors. Some media outlets even published those rumors. And Melania is threatening to sue those outlets that ran with those completely unsubstantiated rumors. Her lawyer released a statement:
“This law firm is litigation counsel for Melania Trump. Mrs Trump has placed several news organizations on notice of her legal claims against them, including Daily Mail among others, for making false and defamatory statements about her supposedly having been an ‘escort’ in the 1990s. All such statements are 100% false, highly damaging to her reputation, and personally hurtful. She understands that news media have certain leeway in a presidential campaign, but outright lying about her in this way exceeds all bounds of appropriate news reporting and human decency.”
I’ll defend Melania here: there’s zero evidence that she was an escort, and it’s no one’s business even if she was. There should be no reporting or rumor-mongering about that story. I would ask media outlets to focus their efforts on rooting out the immigration issue though, as well as the college education issue. Certainly it can’t be that difficult to hire someone to go to the University of Slovenia and acquire her records. Dig around her business records too, because what happened with her skincare line is genuinely shady. And absolutely, we need to know about the immigration issues from the 1990s. Don’t get sidetracked, media!
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I think they locked her away in Trump Tower after the speech and once the election is over, win or lose he’s kicking her to the curb.
Absolutely the first..or is she in Florida….Casa what-ever…likely to be fed to the gators a la Shelly Miscavage?
Do you think she will be dumped or does she have too much on the Orang’o tan to be gone?
I wonder if she may have some East European ‘friends’ or relative who may put him in a cement basement of the next t tower if anything bad happens to Melonia!!!
+1 @NEELYO
I call this too. She’s toast.
Trump is such a misogynistic narcissist he needs to have a symbol of perfection on his arm, the quintessential ‘trophy wife.’ Young or young-ish, and even more importantly without blemish. I personally think that’s why he and Marla Maples split because she started out wrong (was exposed) as his ‘ski resort ho,’ messing around with him under Ivana’s nose. She couldn’t live it down. She started out as bad girl or mistress.
So can you imagine how he’s dealing with these reports by NY Daily News and Daily Mail and others about Melania possibly being a prostitute?
In his mind, it’s bad enough she’s approaching 50. Now the world thinks she may be a ho? Plus the added humiliation that she lied about a college degree and the kicker that she plagiarized the first lady.
Oh he is so done with her. His ego can’t take the ridicule.
This is man who regularly impugns women for their looks and infers they’re loose or sl*tty himself.
He is probably hoping he loses so he can get rid of Melania faster. I’m not kidding.
I disagree. I think he’s such a delusional narcissist that he believes the “biased press” is to blame for all of the negative reporting about Melania, because in his mind no one who is associated with him ever does anything wrong, it’s always the fault of someone else. And even if he was upset with her (which would be absurd, because I’m positive she wasn’t the one who dreamed up this image for herself or drafted the resume he put on her website), ditching her after the election would be like admitting he was wrong about her.
That’s not how he operates. They’ll stay together, he’ll keep yelling to anyone who asks that Melania is the best woman, the best, and anyone who criticizes her is just jealous.
Esti is right. He’s not dumping Melania or Melonegia or whatever her real name is. He already knew she was a glorified prostitute or “model” when he hooked up with her. He’ll only yell louder what a great woman she is and try to take down anybody who says otherwise. He’ll sue everybody before he dumps her. She’s part of his conservative wholesome family picture now. Divorce isn’t an option.
It doesn’t matter what he knows about her, it’s more about how she’s a reflection of him and his brand. If she’s seen as imperfect, that’s a bad reflection on him, and that’s what’s going to get her kicked to the curb. I’m sure he had a hand in re-writing her past so she looked better on paper and to the public…for HIS image and brand.
I agree with JenniferJustice. There are loads of NYC models that model and other things. I can’t see Melania caring enough about the whole college degree thing- college takes prime years away from modelling. No shame in that.
Definitely don’t see divorce regardless of election outcome.
I bet she will be fine with it. I don’t think she ever contemplated or wanted to be First Lady. She will undoubtedly continue to be the primary parent of Barron, ensuring her a nice place to live and plentiful child support. And she is still young and attractive enough to meet another billionaire.
Chaine is right . I never for once believed she was happy w/his running for POTUS. I also don’t believe they expected him to be the nominee. This is all about starting a pay per view political media organization. Ailes, Brietbart head as political campaign operatives? Please. As for Melania she should take whatever cash he actually has & her son & run (in her highest heels) to the next Billionaire/Oligarch
Um, I might disagree with her being attractive. Maybe if she could find a way to undo that bad plastic surgery, bless her heart.
No. She really believed she had a degree. She squinted so hard she saw a diploma, a legit visa, a decent haired husband and money. The last part widened her eyes a bit.
Whenever her “college education” is mentioned it’s always that she went to university in Solvenia, not that she went to the University of Solvenia.
I’ve always found that highly suspect.
To be fair, I don’t believe there is a University of Slovenia…and I’m guessing the names of the universities there are pretty hard to our news media to pronounce.
Mind you – I don’t believe for one second that she spent any more than a semester at any of them!
Oh, I have no idea whether there is a University of Slovenia or not. I just meant that there has not once been an Alma mater specifically named. Smells fishy to me now, just like it did several years ago.
And while certain school’s names might be hard for various news outlets to pronounce, you’d think her bio on her own website could spell it correctly. Still, no – just “university in Slovenia.”
Universities in Slovenia, as in many places, take the name of the location/city/region:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_in_Slovenia
I don’t think any of the names is so difficult to pronounce, I am Italian and when asked abroad I say that I graduated from the University of Trieste, in Italy.
It would be indeed weird to say that I graduated from University in *insert nation* as Melania does.
The “University of Slovenia” does not exist. She purposely avoided the mention of an actual college/faculty so that it’s more difficult to check her records. The largest, oldest and most reputable (ranking 400-500 on the 2016 Shanghai scale) is the University of Ljubljana. And you can’t obtain a degree from “both architecture and design” here, it’s either or, and certainly was even more so when she would be studying. She most certainly dropped out. I’m Slovenian.
Have her produce a diploma and her transcript. Considering the binge The Red Fattie went on for Obama’s birth certificate why not. Plus did anyone get an eyeful of the Donald statues. Oh my that is what 70 year old men look like just ask Samantha from SITC.
SAME. I’m glad someone else caught that. It’s HIGHLY suspect, which is confirmation she’s lying. I don’t need anymore proof.
Also, this sentence???????????????????????????:
“I attended and graduated from design school, from Fashion and Industrial Design School and also attended, graduated from architecture degree, bachelor degree.”
Only the first half makes any sense. I don’t think it has anything to do with possibly having issues with the English language. It’s straight up lying.
When someone asks about my schooling I say “I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in _______________with a minor in _____________from _______ College”.
The way she says it is just so strange and suspicious. I’m proud of where I went to college as it was a high-end private liberal arts college (no I’m not loaded, I got a lot of scholarships) and I have no problem telling people the name of it. Also, I spent 4 years there, worked 20-25 hours a week while taking a full course load including AP classes every semester and interned without pay. I still managed to graduate with honors…so yeah, I want to brag about that, not convolute it to the point where people can’t figure out what degree I actually have and from where.
Trump wants her to be seen as a woman with brains and beauty so why wouldn’t they be more clear about her education?
I’d say her first date with Donald Trump is prime evidence that she was an escort! Why else would she have entertained the idea of going on a date with that man, if not for money? Yech.
Not to mention Trump is always insinuating tacky things about OTHER people’s wives and relationships. I think it matters if she was an escort, because covering up her real past is part of the mythic story of the small town girl who struck it rich. BTW was she really married before?
I’ve been saying this since long before anyone printed it. I suspect she was a prostitute. And I guess it’s unfeminist of me but…I do think we have a right to know if a woman who wants to be first lady used to be a hooker, sorry. I do have a problem with it. Thought frankly I feel that those lewd nudes, which go me aren’t nudes (there is certainly nothing tasteful about them) they’re porno and show her for what she is, are already disqualifying. If we were on twitter Id’ finish with “Don’t at me” but I know I’ll get a lot of cr*p for this, so go ahead. My opinion is they would slaughter a liberal or democratic woman for this, maybe drive her to suicide if they could, but of course we libs are supposed to be “better” than that.
Guess what folks, Trump could be President and this is not how war are won. His wife is trash, and for me, she is not off limits. That’s who I am. maybe not an admirable person but this sociopath would never become president on my watch.
Michelle Obama: “When they go low, we go high”.
You don’t have to go after the woman, after all nobody votes for her.
I don’t find Melania’s nudies as disturbing as the thought of Trump in bed with Putin.
She’s not off limits because she’s a woman. This idea that it’s nobody’s business if the First Lady of the United States was a prostitute is ludicrous. Please, this is moral conceit. Look at how moral I am.
It’s our business. I have zero sympathy for her. This is a tough, hard person who is married to AND SUPPORTS a psychopath who wants to be President. Who went on tv and informed us she broke no laws and that’s why she’s fine with her husband’s plan to destroy families and deport millions. (oh, prostitution is illegal Melania!) She’s fair game. His children who are all involved in his campaign, fair game. The only sole exception is the son Baron, who is 10.
@Tara I’m glad someone had the balls to say it and be true to themselves and not care about ridicule from other posters..
And as for going after the women, well plenty of people went after Michelle Obama.
The Bible: Turn the other cheek.
Also The Bible: an eye for an eye.
“I don’t find Melania’s nudies as disturbing as the thought of Trump in bed with Putin.”
..or just Trump in bed.
*shivers*
No one should criticize you for not wanting a former escort to be our First Lady, personally I agree. But I don’t think you should call her trash either, especially since a lot of this stuff is unsubstantiated rumor. Yes she has a lot of shady areas in her past, when she married Trump “Future First Lady” was never part of the equation. I highly doubt Donald even consulted her about running, it was a PR stunt that got wildly out of control.
Don’t misunderstand me, I don’t think Melania is a particularly good person, but I don’t think she deserves to be called trash either. My past isn’t even shady and I still cringe at the thought that one day someone close to me may become a public figure. Few people in this world live knowing one day every aspect of their lives will become fodder for the public and I sympathize with anyone in that position.
We regularly vote men into office with very sketchy pasts,so why do you expect the first lady to be wholesome? No wholesome woman would marry half those guys anyway. Love Barack and Michelle but he’s got quite the shady past himself and when he was a senator, when I lived in Chicago, he was known to be a cheating drug addict. He smoked more than cigarettes. Most first ladies are social climbers who married because they knew the man would eventually be big in politics.
Tara, I’m with you 100%. The Republicans are so poisonous when it comes to women – women’s health, reproduction, salary, child care – that I have no problem expecting their spouses to at least do a better job of pretending to be Stepford wives.
We all know they want a woman to be a baby making machine, then be a stay at home mom to the kids while their husband goes out to the mythical “good job”… which currently doesn’t exist because those darned Lib women and immigrants took them all. Oh yeah, and go to church every Sunday. Meanwhile, we are supposed to ignore Melania’s shady past. In any other case I’d say her body, her choice – whether that’s soft porn photos or escort work. But not when the Republicans turn such a blind, hypocritical eye when it comes to everything Trump. She is fair game, from her fake education to her unclear immigration status to her “work”.
I think it’s not only anti-female yet anti human to call a person trash. Very unenlightened. Methinks you’re a bit to gleeful with the name calling.
I am of two minds with this. I don’t want to have a former prostitute to be first lady that is a fair request, and I think it is also fair to point out that the conservative news media would never let a potential first lady get away with the photos and potential past. That being said I don’t think anything about these rumors make Melania trash, and I don’t think it is right to call her that.
I don’t think we should hold the spouses to a higher standard then the candidates, and also think if there isn’t anything illegal in their past they and the kids (in this case Tiffany and Barron since they aren’t working for the campaign) should be off limits.
But I do think we should hold our first family to a certain standard- they can’t be racist, they can’t be xenophobic, they can’t be uneducated, they have to be respectful and they have to law abiding. These are all fair to ask of them as they are representing our country to the world.
Preach on!
Personally I don’t understand why what she does would really reflect on the president. It’s really strange if you think about it. When I go to a job interview they don’t interview my husband as well…because they aren’t hiring him. In my country, I couldn’t even tell you the names of the wives of our former leaders. Because we don’t put any emphasis on the spouse just the person actually running for the job.
Tara, this is it! Well said me lady!
First, let me say I think prostitution should be legalized.
Second, it is currently not legal in the USA and I have a feeling she was an illegal alien working as both a model and as an escort. A woman who perjured herself under oath (illegal) and who plagiarizes (also illegal). All of these factors compound the utter arrogance of this man with his double standard. Basically as long as you are a white woman married to Donald Trump it’s okay, but if you’re an immigrant from the Middle East or Mexico then jail or extradition for you. It’s all so heinous I can’t hardly stand it.
Media likes a good scandal and her being an escort would be a juicy scandal. Waiting for the other shoe to drop (probably after the election and if the Donald loses) – Trump dumping her for a younger wife.
If they have proof she was an escort it most definitely is the business of the American people. An improperly documented person working in an illegal industry that abuses and exploits women, sounds like a story to me, even if it was years ago. And like Donald says if “people are saying”, or “I’ve heard” or “I read online”, it must be true.
Like.
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Whether you call it hooking or escorting, that work was still illegal. She and her clients should absolutely be exposed. Its not a private matter if its illegal.
And wasn’t she on a date when Donald asked her out. I believe he was on one as well. There were stories of her kept status that was a open secret in NY.
Naya and Aang, I think we will see more escort stories and some “schedulers” come late Septemebr.
She is really no different than LuAnn and Sonja from RHONY
Agree! If she was working at an illegal profession, while here on a Visa that did not permit working then it does matter. That should not be private. Period. And if DT knew about it then he’s even worse in my opinion…an exploiter of women. But, that’s pretty much been his MO all along. Ugh. He is so incredibly awful. I just cannot believe a plurality of Republican primary voters picked him. It says such horrible things about America.
If the press really wanted to know if she broke immigration law, they could find the other woman in the photos and find out how/what they were paid, but they won’t..shoot, they’re only starting to dig into his financial lies now (if you didn’t read the wash post piece last week on the ‘charitable gifts’ on the apprentice, you should..)
I was coming to say the same thing. Escorting is in a bit of a legal gray area because it’s not “explicitly” paying for sex, just time and company (legal), but the assumption is that sex is part of the package deal (illegal), particularly in the upper echelons of society. So, yeah… this doesn’t fall under private life and/or feminism. It would be on the list of her potentially breaking the law.
I have literally to type of respect for her or anyone that support Hitler 2.0 so they can expose her even more, i don’t care or feel sorry for her.
Can’t stop staring at the architecture of Drumpf’s ‘do in that top pic…
Who cares?! She is NOT the one who is running for president.
Hilary on the other hand….has a degree and has LIED about everything!
It’s been well established that both candidates have tenuous relationships to the truth so there needs to be a different barometer to judge them.
I choose to go with the one who is not an unmitigated bigot.
And I choose to go with neither. Third party all the way for me – I can’t in good faith vote for either candidate in this election when the facts are taken into consideration on both. I don’t want either of them running the country, because in my opinion, they’re both awful for different reasons.
… but I will say that having Melania or Bill as First Lady/Husband (?) would be entertaining to say the very least.
Writing in a third party candidate is irresponsible. I won’t be entertained by Trump’s placement of supreme court judges who send civil rights back to the 1950s. Hillary may represent some status quo and we NEED a strong third party, be it Labour or Green, but at least a democratic president won’t ruin the basic rights we take for granted. Please don’t ruin our country with irresponsible last-minute inept 3rd party novel candidates.
A vote for a third party candidate or a write-in is a vote for Trump.
I don’t understand the “Hillary is a liar” shtick. Republicans have been throwing crap at the Clinton’s for 25 years trying to get something to stick. So, far Hillary has been convicted of absolutely NOTHING. Either she is the most brilliant criminal ever or she’s not guilty. The crooked Republicans have spent Billions of our tax dollars on it. No results. Nothing. In my opinion, it’s the Republicans who are liars and crooks.
@LoveIsBlynd-Every single thing you said.
Yes to Silver Poodle.
Errr… I guess you’re free to call me irresponsible for voting for a third party candidate, but I choose to vote for the candidate that best represents what I believe in. I’ve done my own extensive research, so if I choose to vote for someone I can actually stand behind, regardless of if someone else thinks I’m wasting my vote, it’s still my vote. Frankly, it sucks to get attacked because of a differing viewpoint. I’m not name-calling. I’m not being irresponsible. I’m also not going on record for voting for a candidate that I can’t stand behind. Sorry if you disagree with me, but there’s room for all opinions here (I think??).
No, it has not been established that BOTH candidates have tenuous relationships to the truth. Real fact checkers say that Hillary is actually fairly honest as politicians go, but Trump’s statements are false at least 75% of the time.
Just because Trump keeps screaming that Hillary is a lying crook does not make it so. She has been relentlessly smeared since last Century, when she first attempted health care reform. Big profits in the health insurance industry were threatened. Follow the money to figure out why such baseless campaigns start. Hillary has been investigated and cleared many times, and it’s not a matter of where there’s smoke there’s fire but rather where a lot of money is at stake, those making the money will spend gobs more money protecting their profits. Her problem is not that she’s a liar but rather that she is too effective.
It’s the mainstream media that keeps pretending there is symmetry where there is none, for reasons known only to themselves. They’ve done that in other situations also, it’s baffling.
Media matters keeps a track of what is said by both candidates every day. The fact is. Trump lies ten times more than Hillary, and that’s a fact. Trump is a pathological liar. You can check that out. Trump lies, his wife lies, his
Sons lies, and his daughter lies. The entire family are liars.
Frankly, both candidates lie about everything. Hillary’s lies are more calculated about significant things. Trump’s lies are just ridiculous, as though he’s not thinking before he speaks. Either way, I find them both terrifying in terms of leadership and accountability.
Trump’s threatening to “vet” immigrants isn’t “ridiculous”- it represents a staggering financial cost to detain and interrogate Please study the record of detention centers where accountability and wages are low and violence against an huge population is shockingly high. Encouraging violence at rallies harkens back to fascism where “party members” went rogue in such numbers that aggression became that group’s mentality. Please study history before comparing the records of Hillary and Trump. Hillary -won’t- legalize Pot her first day in office or act like a cool hipster Green party candidate; Trump -will- appoint supreme court judges who will disintegrate civil rights for decades.
@orangecrush, technically both candidates do lie. As do non politicans. But there’s actual documentation about how much each of them lie, and surprise, she doesn’t lie that much. This is from December 2015, a newer graph is out, but isn’t really different:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/opinion/campaign-stops/all-politicians-lie-some-lie-more-than-others.html?_r=0
The Hillary Lies is regurgitated Republican propaganda. On my FB feed, I have friends of friends who voted for Bernie and repeat the Hillary is Lie meme all.the.time. I’ve had only one actually avoid the propaganda and actually list policies and votes she has as reasons why he wasn’t voting for her.
You don’t have to like her. But repeating the ‘they’re all liars’ is extraordinarily simplistic.
Can someone tell me what Hillary has lied about?
There’s already been a factcheck, and she comes out as one of the most honest politicians out there. Low bar (politicians) but she has.
So what are the lies please?
..and I’d like proven specifics, not speculations.
Oh and I’m sorry, telling a distraught family member in the days after a terrorist incident that their family member died because terrorists were enraged about a movie or that they died because terrorists were enraged about everything in general, is not a ‘lie,’ nor is it a discrepancy that is worse than LYING us into two failed wars that destabilized the ME. What Republicans Bush N Dick Cheney did. It also isn’t worse than lying to the DOJ about racial housing discrimination or releasing your taxes (Trump)
SilverPoodle, totally agree with you.
I didn’t say all politicians are liars. I did say that both candidates lie. I didn’t say that Hillary lies more than Trump, or vice versa. I was not comparing records of either candidate. I made a statement that I stand by: I find both of them terrifying in terms of leadership and accountability for different reasons.
My opinion, although seemingly different than most, is not wrong. It’s my opinion. I will not put anyone down for what they believe or who they choose to vote for or stand behind, and I would hope the same courtesy would be applied to me. Should you vote for Hillary or for Trump or for Donald Duck, that is your decision and yours alone – I won’t put you down for it, regardless.
The vitriol in this thread is a bit disheartening.
@orangecrush: this is your initial sentence:
“Frankly, both candidates lie about everything.” And then you say ‘I didn’t say that Hillary lies more than Trump, or vice versa’
But isn’t that what your first sentence implies?
Please, vote your conscience, if you don’t like either one based on actual policies and potential policies, fine. But part of my reaction to the ‘Hillary lies’ memes is that a lot of really is regurgitated bs. There’s plenty to disagree with on her actual voting records, but then I read many people saying ‘Hillary lies’ then can’t actually pinpoint something other than they read it somewhere. This isn’t a thoughtful examination of a candidate’s position, it’s kneejerk. And I do push back on that.
I think I mentioned on this thread (or a recent HC thread) that a FB friend of a friend was able to lay out several paragraphs of reasons why he wasn’t voting for Hillary, and it was all based on actual voting records and policies. It wasn’t based on ‘Hillary lies’ stuff that people seem to be picking up on Breitbart or likeminded sites. And he was the only anti-Hillary person on that post who was able to do that. He also mentioned he was writing in Bernie, but as he lives in California he felt safe in doing so.
no. she’s not running. however, she is the wife of a candidate for a party that screams “FAMILY VALUES!” from the rooftops, and a party that looks down on women who do this sort of thing, a party full of evangelicals and moralizers. so, what will THEY think of this?
as for the level of lying, it’s been proven over and over, based on statements made during this election season, that Clinton has been the most honest of all of the candidates, R or D. this is not to say that Clinton never lied, they all do, but if you want to judge by how often a candidate lies, she comes out on top.
@Orangecrush, that’s right, they all lies however Hillary is the only one labeled as a liar.
But her lies expose the hypocrisy of Trump. Things Trump says he is against, his own wife has done. So yeah, don’t yell about Hilary being a liar but then defend Melania as not a part of the election. Trump is a bigger liar than Hilary.
thank you. Hillary does nothing but lie and the Clinton foundation is highly suspect. that we have to choose between her and Trump pains me. they both are AWFUL, horrible people. I’m voting for Mighty Mouse.
Just because Donald Trump claims the Clinton Foundation is suspect doesn’t make it so. Read objective analyses of their Foundation and the work they do. It is a public foundation, meaning its books are open to scrutiny. It is a large foundation so it is expected that they have more IRS scrutiny than most. So some of the claims floating around are really extremely unlikely to be true – it is too transparent to get away with things that would jeopardize their tax deductible status.
The overhead is about 11%, amazingly streamlined for such a charity. So 89% of donations actually go to the people in need (they don’t just pass on funds to other charities, but fund their own projects). Often those numbers are reversed for some well known charities. They have projects around the world helping with HIV/AIDS, women’s reproductive health (explaining Republicans being aghast and going on the attack), African farmers’ issues, nutritional issues in US schools, etc.
They took steps while Hillary was Secretary of State to cut down on foreign donations to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest. Didn’t stop some from trying to use the Foundation as a shortcut to get the Secretary’s attention, but there is no evidence that such efforts put anybody on a fast track. They are setting up plans to reorganize if Hillary becomes President, cutting out foreign donations entirely and transferring many ongoing projects to other organizations. They do not intend to just drop the projects because too many people depend on those projects.
Donald Trump has a much smaller private Foundation that does seem to be a conduit for donor funds to travel to Donald’s pockets and political organizations and individuals favorable to Donald. It is a “pass through” charity that gives donations to other groups rather than funding their own projects directly. For example, they gave money to Citizens United and also to the attorney general in Florida who then decided not to investigate Florida citizen complaints about Trump University. There is good reason to suspect Trump’s Foundation, but the Clinton Foundation does have a good reputation among those who scrutinize such things. The Clintons have also made large donations to their Foundation (often from the large speakers fees they get) in addition to raising money from other donors, while Donald Trump has given very little money to his Foundation. This is not the first time that Trump has accused Hillary of doing what Trump really is doing but she is not.
I’ll repeat what’s already been said: The Trump campaign has pushed the idea that Melania was the ‘good’ immigrant, she followed the rules, etc.
Except that’s being shown that she didn’t follow the rules, and if one of those rules broken was that she was in fact an escort, then expose it (and her clients).
So Melania and her claims are fair game to be investigated.
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“Who cares?! She is NOT the one who is running for president.
DONALD on the other hand….(has a degree?) and has LIED about everything!”
There, fixed it for you!
3rd Party Vote in is the most irresponsible thing to do to this country.
Troll.
“…and it’s no one’s business even if she was…”
Listen, I’m with you on the rumors – if no proof then don’t smear someone’s name. But if a presidential candidate and/or his wife were involved in prostitution (an illegal activity in New York) then yeah it is news, fair game, and it is everyone’s business.
I found that sentence to be particularly amusing.
Of course it’s everyone’s business if it’s true. 3 marriages, kids from all 3, lying about immigration and university degrees, and possibly an escort added to the mix? That’s your first couple? Good lord what a mess.
And imagine the school kids doing a report on the First Lady for school, typing her name into Google and the pictures that pop up. smh
You mean universities of Slovenia, right ? There is no more reason for a University of Slovenia than there is for A University of the United States of America (UUSA would be a cool acronym though).
^there is American University in DC
true, but it’s not a state-sponsored school. it’s a private university that happens to be called “American”.
It reminds me of Coming to America when Eddie Murphy says he goes to “… the… University of the United States.” They are so small, they do not even have a basketball team.
Pretty sure I just revealed how old I am, quoting from a movie that came out in 1988.
The royal penis is clean.
Sexual chocolate!!!!!
man, you ain’t never met Martin Luther the King!
Don’t ever apologize for quoting the movie that gave us Sexual Chocolate.
This comment thread is FABULOUS.
Sow your royal oats!!
Prince Akeem:
” So, you would share your bed, and your fortune, with a beautiful fool?”
We have a University of South Africa (UNISA) over here along with 25 other Universities. just a little titbit :).
republicans have always dug for dirt on a potential democrat flotus.
this is the press digging because it is their job. not because they are petty haterz.
there are plenty of things to question because of drumpf’s platform alone. add to the fact neither of them can or will answer questions directly or substantiate their claims means the press needs to dig deeper.
how did they even meet?
sure this isn’t what she initially signed up for but she made her own bed, filled it with shady dubious orange troll roses and her husband is making her lay in it
“filled it with shady dubious orange troll roses”
DYING.
No need to pick on her. She has to have sex with Donald Trump. She’s in her own hell & deserves my pity.
THIS!
She does not have to have sex with him, Marla M cheated on him with one of her helper then he died mysteriously.
Hey, that’s on her. As far as I’m concerned, the whole family is fair game!!!
Ha, ha exactly.
Touche…
She doesn’t have even a fraction of the intelligence needed to get an architecture degree.
Exactly. Architecture is no joke – the creative process must be backed up by some exhaustive and expert engineering to ensure the structure is safe and functional. Maybe she is perfectly capable of this, but I highly doubt it. Not understanding how lying in a Vanity Fair article is lying under oath, though…is it because it’s in print? I always belived that (lying under oath) to be a specific legal term (about lying in a criminal case) but I am no lawyer, so…
Ah, never mind, I see now there was a deposition. Why pick architecture?! Should have stuck w/the interior design angle! Far more believable!
Lirko: The article above states: “Racked found a transcript from a 2013 deposition with Melania where she apparently lied under oath about her non-existent degree. She was asked to describe her “formal education”.
I feel really sorry for you guys. We complain about our pollies a lot of the time, but, geez, Trump is on a whole different level of dodgy and obnoxious, and I can’t stand his missus.
She got in, she passed an entrance examination. But then she got an opportunity in modeling and the rest is history. So, she is obviously not stupid. She is just more interested in money than education…
Why does she always look so mean and pinched? It can’t be worth all the trinkets and baubles to be married to him.
Look what shares her bed. Hell is real, y’all!
Pretty sure it’s the plastic surgery/injectables affect. I was reading an article about her Slovenian x-boyfriends, and how one (allegedly the love of her life) came to visit her in the US and commented on her changed looks, specifically her “cat eyes”. He said her beauty had been so “Americanized” he barley recognized her. Who knows if it’s true, but it got me thinking about the “American mold” we (believably) subject even young foreign models to that are, you know, already drop dead gorgeous.
http://giphy.com/gifs/eating-michael-jackson-thriller-iLgbO6Y4EoRc4 me at the sinking sh!tcaboose that is Trump’s Campaing
In my opinion she was either an escort or a mail order bride.
Nothing this family says or does amazes me. We’re screwed if he gets into office.
Dish: Marla Maples cheated on Donald Trump with her boxing instructor and didn’t get a penny from the divorce. She is rumored to be really sweet. Melania (sp) was indeed a hooker, one of the worst kept secrets in NY. Massage therapists talk;)
Oh I totally believe that. And it sort of is our business to know if our potential First Lady was a hooker. Heck Michele Obama can’t even wear short sleeves without tongues wagging.
Seems for the Trumps, Melania, Donald and Ivanka included, lying, stealing the work of others, bullying and suing are par for the family crest.
Ivanka according to multiple reports is in the mist of a lawsuit for producing cheap knock-offs. http://fortune.com/2016/06/23/ivanka-trump-shoe-designs/
The whole family seems very shady to me, and she seems to have disappeared since the convention, there is something very fishy about all this, and I wouldnt be surprised in the least if she was a escort, because she certainly was no model, have never seen her on any magazine covers apart from the ones she did when she married Trump.
When a person can’t even tell you the proper name of their degree or what University they graduated from, that sort of gives it away.
Oh, she’ll be absolutely fine! She has been married to Trump for years and so far has been pretty content. That tells you a something about her personality and the way she views herself and her life. She might not be very intelligent but nor is she dumb. I don’t think she was ever an escort, either. Maybe, she was looking for a rich boyfriend but most models do and why shouldn’t they?
The only thing I think she really feels is annoyance at how Trumps desire to become a president has rattled her world. But he (hopefully) will lose, they will go back to living in their gold tower and everyone will forget about these scandals in a few years.
“outright lying about her in this way exceeds all bounds of appropriate news reporting and human decency”
A Trump talking about lying and human decency? The irony is delicious here.
^^^^^ THIS SO MUCH THIS!!!!!
think of all the American hookers she stole work from!
I think she never wanted to be in the spotlight like this. She wants to be a well-kept trophy wife raising her son. She was okay with looking pretty and waving, but she didn’t want to speak or play a role in this.
But The Donald’s ego demands he be president, and he needs a first lady for that, so Melania got trotted out, regardless of what she wanted, and then it was a disaster.
So now she’s probably been sent to the doghouse, but I’ll bet she’s mostly relieved to be there.
If the media really wants to pursue it, they could hire local reporters in Slovenia to get the information if they don’t have the same confidentiality rules we do. Not sure it’s worth it, though.
She did not graduate college. She attended one year.
She did not have a work visa when she was first modeling. An H1B work visa, which she would have gotten, needs to be renewed only every 3 years. It is apparent that something is shady.