Would probably apply here.

The non-defendant spouse holds this privilege; meaning he or she is the one who may invoke the privilege not to testify and it is ultimately his or her decision.

That said, I'm sure there is more than one sheik ready to install her in a palace if she gave the word.

I doubt she wants her son to see his dad go to prison.

I wonder if Barron is staying with her?

...I think he's in his own little world anyway..

what 8-year-old boy straddles his mother like that to take her picture? I guess it wouldn't be so creepy if there wasn't that incestuous undercurrent between Ivanka & SCROTUS. They put the "fun" in dysfunctional!

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a spouse. She is perfectly within her rights to voluteer to testify against him.

or vice versa

A spouse cannot be forced to testify, but they can most certainly volunteer to testify. Happens all the time. The question that Don should be asking himself is, "Is she going to turn on me and throw open the doors? Is she going to turn over our taxes to Mueller? Is she going to become the betrayed spouse seeking revenge?"

I am going to make a generalization: Slavic women don't put up with betrayal, money or no money. You get caught screwing around, your life is in danger.. And they can be very vengeful.

Don may have forced her to sign a prenup, but that went out the window. She is in a good position to sue for divorce, and, prenup or no, be given enough money for her and Baron to comfortable live out their days.

Now we get the the really scary part for Trump: If she does that, Trump will have to disclose his finances to determine alimony. And if he doesn't the judge will say, "OK then, I think you are hiding assets, so here is what I think you are worth. and you have to pay $xx per month. And if you don't, you will go to jail or forfeit your assets to make the payments. And you don't have any say in the matter." Then Trump's assets and finances become public record. And then we will find out how deep in the hole Don is to the Russian mob.

Mueller is one thing... A public divorce with disclosure is another and is far more likely to bring Don down.

The divorced spouse is entitled to enough money each month to preserve her current lifestyle. I have a feeling Melania is high maintenance. Then there's Barron...

but I'd guess he doesn't tell her shit...she's an ornament.

The first is the Testimonial Privilege, this privilege is held by the spouse whose testimony is being sought. As the holder of the privilege they can not be compelled to testify, but may choose to do so.

The second is the Communication Privilege. This Privilege is held by the defendant spouse. The witness spouse can not testify to anything communicated to them by act or action that was meant to be confidential. The defendant may waive the privilege, but the witness spouse is prevented if the privilege is not waived.

Whether or not the communication is in fact confidential is based on a number of factors and is a determination made by the judge.

ETA: The above applies in all criminal and some civil cases. This does not apply to any case where the spouses are opposing parties to the action, such as a divorce.

You just can't be compelled to do so. But if she wants to... bombs aweigh.

For several reasons

Not just My Diary pen-and-ink but cloud-stored, encrypted, retrievable by trusted sources.

If she doesn't get her just desserts(?) from helping dump crash-n-burn, perhaps she can make another few millions bringing down some other bigger dicks.

out of a sense of companionship but you know how much he loves to brag. I think he's just stupid enough to brag to her how he knows Mueller will never get him because "fill in the blank."

All those years when he was selling real estate (spell that laundering money) he came home excited about "the latest big done deal", as in, "Today we sold a $5mm condo to <this oligarch> or to <that mobster> " etc. If she made a list, she's got the goods on him.

She married him. She actually has stomached living with the asshole. Even #@*#ing the asshole. She has lived through all the sexual abuse and infidelity. The accusation that Trump fondled a woman while Melania was upstairs pregnant. Or that when he spewed his 'wisdom' to the entertainment show about grabbing p*ssy, they were just newly weds. And I'm sure there are plenty more that only she is aware of.

She sold her soul a long time ago, and has hardened herself to it obviously. Her demeanor with him in public shows she is well past the "strained" part. She obviously detests him already. Its not about that. Its that she is just as much a greedy #$*# as her husband, daughters, and sons. I think if anything, she is being paid off to stay quiet, and to continue the marriage scam until after Trump is out of office.

That is her life and she needs to own it. No sorrow or sympathy from me.

with his actions until MONEY was exchanged? Did she think she would be the only paid "companion" he would ever have?

If the so-called christians can forgive, then why is she being difficult?

Want her to show proper obedience to her husband...based on their twisted and delusional belief system!!!

As a long time Christian I am nauseated at what Evangelicals have turned their brand of Religion into. They are driving a stake right into the ❤️ of their brand.

With all the powerful men losing their careers, some on the slightest word,yet Trump remains in the WhiteHouse.

You have so called Leaders like Tony Perkins and Franklin Graham making excuses,showing what they are, I hope this corrupted version is exposed and clear to most of the country.

Maybe we need this cleansing, but it is really sad what the quest for power has done.

I am off to a Church this morning that has moved in a new direction,following the footsteps of Jesus. They include inclusion and love. No,my way or the highway, but am honestly really depressed.

Is it going to end, or will those with no scruples at all win? Destroy our Country?

I mean why would his current betrothed be doing that after he is dicking around with others?

I am simple. Is this the christian method (vs. the missionary one)?

Do two wrongs make a righteous prick? How about an even very large number? Let's just say that dump sinned 2,167,352 times. Does that make it OK in the minds of the "deplorables"? How many times do they allow their spouses to sin without hitting them on the head with the frying pan?

Said that he would give Trump “a mulligan” over the Stormy Daniels affair when asked how he thought evangelicals should respond to this issue.

I'm not certain if it means you just put a new ball down and not count the last stroke, or if there is some other fine point to it.

mail order bride that Putin recommends.

So, naturally, everyone who isn't in a tournament uses them. It's pretty much what you'd expect: if you make a bad shot, you yell "Mulligan!" before setting your new ball exactly where the old one was, and try it again.

Do golfers ever yell "mulligan!" at the bartender after tossing back a shot at the 19th Hole?

Oh...many golfers do reserve them for tee shots, or say "one per hole," a certain number per round or whatever. They're only used in fun golf, so whatever you and your friends agree on is what goes.

Cheating at Golf, as they do at everything else.

You can only play mulligans if everyone in your group agrees to play them. They’re more of a way to speed up the game and make it more fun.

Trump would enter the US Open and demand to play mulligans (they’re not allowed in tournaments) when no one else got mulligans just because it’s his own course and he isn’t a pro golfer. That would be cheating.

A "mulligan" is allowed in some games either informally or by rules when a player has a particularly bad stroke of luck. In card games, sometimes if the hand you are dealt is so bad you have no chance to play properly, you can mulligan and get a completely new hand. Sometimes, this is only allowed once per hole/round/session and is often by the grace and permission of the other players who wish to be sportsman-like. In golf, if you tee off and land in the water, you might be permitted to mulligan and hit again, possibly with a one-stroke penalty. Essentially "okay, that didn't count, now for real..."

Only applies to friendly games and usually limited to once per round or one one the front and one on the back nine. Usually after a particularly horrible tee shot.

Re-taking a tee shot with a one stroke penalty is just part of the game. So if you plunk it into the water and decide you want to try again you just tee it up and now are shooting 3 from the tee.

Not defending her or the degenerate she married but the word is she's been staying with her parents who live nearby. Can't blame her for being pissed her "beloved" banged a porn star without a condom a month after she bore him a child.

If she's out of the White House and not attending functions with the Moron-in-Chief, the results are the same.

It will all be figured out shortly when either he goes to Florida or she comes home. if they don't end up in the same place at the same time, then we'll know.

In the mean time, it's not the gossip that matters to me, it's the added pressure on Donald Chump that I like. There is no doubt that something big is coming down just after the State of the Union. Indictments are imminent, that's why there is so much activity by the Repukes.

and this is supposed to be a fact based community.

us from trumpsters and their GIGO mentalities?

This OP posted from DailyMail.com, you know. A tabloid, entertainment. Don't bother looking for how many awards they've won for excellence in journalism. The answer is none.
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Btw, Melania sued DailyMail for claiming she'd been a prostitute -- and won. They settled the lawsuit privately, amount damages paid to her not known.

Melania was an immigrant from a modest background who had nothing remotely close to a modeling income that could support paying for her lifestyle at the time. There's also no question that she was at least at some level a sex worker, given the material she was being paid to produce. There's also a cottage industry of Manhattan immigrant "models" who aren't really models, so it just isn't that big of a stretch to believe she was a working prostitute at some point. However, regardless of whether this was true or not, if the DailyMail couldn't prove it, they were leaving themselves open to a libel suit, much like Liberace in the 50's.

Like most tabloids, the DailyMail uses dubious sources and anything they print should be suspect, but it doesn't mean it isn't true either.

It's unseemly for DU to engage in this gossip, and in any case it's none of our business.
We have a higher purpose here, and the Daily Mail is a rag.

London's version of the national enquirer, go right ahead. Here in NY, where Melania is from, the word is she's with her parents.

Both get paid hush money to keep quiet.

Malaria is basically a high-end mail-order bride. She's been in it for the money since day one.

into a marriage KNOWING he's a cheat, it's very difficult for me to muster up any sympathy AND she was/is a birthed It's Barron I feel sorry for. Not for me to say how she feels about Donnie, whether she loves him or not. I have no idea.

they get less upset when you cheat.

Both either are or have been sex workers. I suppose you could argue one of the two is just better at it by virtue of getting paid more with a narrower list of clients.

Are they on citizenship track? What length visas do they have? When do they expire?

Melania and her sister came here to work, became citizens and then their parents came. Now they want to shut the door for others. The whole thing makes me sick.

(There's some "chained migration" for you.)

White House but absolutely the beneficiaries of chain migration. Their daughters get citizenship and then they came over for same. THAT needs to be brought up every time chain migration comes out of any republican mouth.

That HAS to be used against his insistence on ending the practice.

What's she got to say about this?

and the rumor is that she is the person mentioned in "Fire and Fury" as being Trump's current flavor of the month and not Hope Hicks (who he just sexually harasses on a routine basis)

...allegedly

She is scum (though less psychotic than other thugs), but admittedly physically attractive. Not fuckface’s type though.

Sorry.

Lots of pictures and videos

I'm with you, but it still may be true.

That would be a further smackdown to the shithole....

Yup! Remember Martha Mitchell? After all the crap that she was crazy, she apparently was telling the truth, and husband and former US Attorney General John Mitchell went to jail.

I remember it well.

Martha Mitchell and spouse:

Reminds me of other republicans she shot

The staff at a trump hotel would likely report on her movements if don the con asked for the info.

i got a big smile on my face when i read this.

it would be great if she just took him DOWN.

That would be fun. Yes, fun.

That'd be sweeeeet!

just to shut him up!

that other target may be too hard to hit because of its little size...

in about 25 years or so, except maybe in a wide-angle mirror. They say, "a smart man builds a shed over his tools", but when that shed is made from a super-abundance of white fat cells, eh..........not so much.

You know how competitive he is..../

She knew who she was marrying. No sympathy for her at all.

would behave badly?

and Donnie clearly prefers his daughter to be the de facto FLOTUS since she's younger, tighter and much easier on the eye...

And just what is their little spat costing the taxpayers in added security?

Setting this article aside, it occurs to me that Melania seems to be immune from the rampant leaks that come out of the WH.

It seems to me she is either protective of herself, protected by others, immune to scandal, or respected in some fashion, all due to sympathy

I could imagine that she has a very close circle of confidants, which is wise

Her parents.


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Sounds like they are protective and keep their cards close to the vest

Very interesting. I imagine they know that someday this will all be over and the future of their daughter and grandson is important enough to keep guarded

They will live nice, quiet, well looked-after lives with all that money Melania will get in the divorce.

There's nothing like a big cash settlement to "ease the burden of living" and take the pressure off...

...but I can't see Smallhands Magoo being very supportive of that. I have nothing to base this on, other than my *read* of him, but he seems very controlling, and "access" to his trophy seems like something he would control very closely.

will try to explain to her that she's being unreasonable? Please, Franklin, tweet about that.

Who's picking up the tab for this?

weekend, with Baron. I can't remember where I saw it...read too much. However, she wasn't going to Mar o Lago. I assume it was on a Trump private jet, but I don't know.

...I don't believe the tone of the story. I'm sure she approved of the affair... still, she might take advantage of the incident to get away from her third lady duties for awhile!

almost.

I don't recall seeing pictures of him smiling.

Then his head position shifts slightly and he is looking at Melania. And some one-word remark seems to come out of his ugly anus-y mouth, again judging by head and movement, just before he turns back to face us with that repulsive smarmy Pharma-Bro grin.

Not sure if I agree with your assessment of what, if anything he said to Melania. It almost looks like he could have mouthed a kiss. That would be enough to make any woman sad!

It would make any woman THROW UP!!!

You look like you’re lying there, rolling around, corrected!


🤣*slaps own knee*🤣

On the other hand Melania went on TV to spread her husband's racist birther shit. She has also been less than honest re her early immigration status. And finally she married the shithole. As you make your bed, so shall you lie.

so she could smoke and talk to her friends.