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Get this everybody....Melania has said Donald was her first husband but there might be another husband (who got her a green card) lurking in the woodpile....
Trumps Bad Week Just Got A Whole Lot Worse As Melania Trump Immigration Lies Grow
From the story: In an interview with Larry King Live in 2005 Melania Trump said that she had never been married before meeting Donald Trump.
But, Michael Wildes, an immigration attorney who worked for the Trump Organization, told Univisions investigative unit that she obtained a green card four years earlier in 2001, based on marriage.
Melania and Donald Trump were not married until Jan. 22, 2005 at Bethesda-by-the Sea Episcopal Church in Palm Beach, Florida.
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/08/05/trumps-bad-week-lot-worse-melania-trump-immigration-lies-grow.html
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)et al. what a blast that would be !
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)Most of it is coming out of the public record.
NanceGreggs
(27,815 posts)... dead of exhaustion weeks ago, just trying to keep up.
worstexever
(265 posts)unblock
(52,257 posts)isn't this the sort of thing lawyers get disbarred for disclosing, unless their client wants them to?
in any event, the scandal-upside for us is so minor. of all the insane and horrible things trump has done and said, i can't see a huge backlash over marrying someone who may have run afoul of immigration laws being a major issue, notwithstanding his stance on immigration.
leave it be, i think, and focus on his lust for nukes.
this issue kinda pales in comparison, doesn't it?
DonRedwood
(4,359 posts)So, I think we can be both terrified of the nuke issue and question hypocracy and lying at the same time. Heap on some shady business dealings while you are at it, I can handle it all!
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)have to think about something.
moonscape
(4,673 posts)63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)And that she was hanging around with him when he was campaigning in 2000. Maybe they quietly married in 2001 so she could get a green card but made it public with the big ceremony in 2005?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,011 posts)riversedge
(70,245 posts)malaise
(269,063 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)Me thinks there is something going on here.
:idea:
malaise
(269,063 posts)family values. They aren't fooling people -
Turns out Americans prefer Bill to Melania by some distance according to the latest ABC polls
csziggy
(34,136 posts)I think he divorced #2 in 1999 - after he met Melania but before the rumored 2001 marriage so she could stay in the country.
I wonder if they might have had a legal marriage in 2001 but didn't really think it was going to last so didn't publicize it, then it got more serious. She had Baron in March 2006 - when she got pregnant, Trump may have wanted a public ceremony so there would be no question about his son's legitimacy.
malaise
(269,063 posts)Kathy M
(1,242 posts)One thing I did find that kinda irked me .....
" In 2011, after Donald joined the birther movement, she went on The Joy Behar Show:
BEHAR: But what is this with the birth certificate obsession? Did he ask to see yours when you met him?
MELANIA: Well, I needed to put mine anyway because if you want to become an American citizen you need to put the birth certificate. I have a birth certificate from Slovenia, and do you want to see President Obama birth certificate or not?
BEHAR: Ive seen it.
MELANIA: Its not a birth certificate.
BEHAR: Well, its a certificate of live birth, which they give. But, Melania, if he insists on what hes saying, then no one in Hawaii can ever run for President. Because they all get the same live-birth certificate.
MELANIA: Well, but they need to have
BEHAR: Bette Midler is finished, for example!
MELANIA: They need to have, and, in one way, it would be very easy if President Obama just show it. Its not only Donald who wants to see it. Its American people, who voted for him, and who didnt voted for him, they want to see that!
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/09/who-is-melania-trump
SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)Not any more.
Kathy M
(1,242 posts)Not after the speech and RNC , the birther stuff , heard /read something where she slammed Clintons for not bringing wedding gift .......... Oh yeah also when she said she would be like Jackie O while in white house , remember her saying that to Anderson Cooper in interview ......... I can not even imagine them in White House ........ The one I feel bad for is the child ........
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It's now obvious that she is as soulless as her husband.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)It's all there.
malaise
(269,063 posts)are all Americans so none of the birther crap mattered anyway. Imagine this fugging green card hustling foreigner challenging Obama on his citizenship.
Kathy M
(1,242 posts)Interesting article from New York Times ..... Trump started this in 2011 for wedge issue for 2012 elections which he dropped out of . Sounds like he dropped the whole idea when officials at NBC had concerns with his show and ratings . Don though.......
"It was a remarkable moment that Mr. Trump celebrated as a political victory."
"Mr. Trump was egged on by one key adviser Roger J. Stone Jr., a dapper dresser and political operative known for mischief and mayhem. Mr. Stone said that he did not plant the idea with Mr. Trump, but that once Mr. Trump came to him with it, he extolled what he saw as the political upside.
He was suspicious about it, or at least interested in it, Mr. Stone said. Among Republican base voters, he added, many of them believe the president is foreign-born, and Trump has an ability to interject any idea that is outside of the mainstream into the mainstream.
rest of article http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/us/politics/donald-trump-birther-obama.html?_r=0
Guess I am questioning wondering if this whole thing started as a plant .... meaning the pictures released and what Cory said etc ...?
Midnight Writer
(21,769 posts)Yallow
(1,926 posts)Ooops. Forgot. Bush's service records disappeared..... In triplicate.....
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Or maybe that's it - polygamy !!!
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,011 posts)Show us the forms -- Donnie's tax return forms and Melania's immigration forms.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)the thoughts that Trump put her up to it. It's still on her website -- Oh wait ! It's gone now
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/melania-trump-biography-deleted_us_57990c1ae4b02d5d5ed3fed9
she says on Facebook...
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,011 posts)"News" is a facade.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)want to give Trump a reason to play the "don't pile on my wife" fake outrage
Separation
(1,975 posts)Wouldnt they take that away, making her an illegal alien that he married?
jpak
(41,758 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,036 posts)And more concerned about the idiot she's married to.
Oneironaut
(5,504 posts)Otherwise, they're just pointless tabloid garbage. Anyone can say anything - "someone said this" stories are absolutely pointless and might actually help Trump.
Also, keep in mind that people may misspeak or be mistaken, which is fuel for 99% of baseless conspiracies, imo.
citood
(550 posts)Marriages aren't secret...they're civil actions that are public record. Absent that record, I'm skeptical too.
mainer
(12,022 posts)She questions Obama's right to be President. So she's fair game.
http://m.dailykos.com/story/2016/8/6/1557472/-Let-the-Record-Show-Melania-Trump-is-a-Birther