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DonRedwood

(4,359 posts)
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 12:01 AM Aug 2016

Melania Says Donald Was Her First Husband-Bombshell: She May Have Married For A Green Card in 01

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....

Trump’s 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 Univision’s 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

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Melania Says Donald Was Her First Husband-Bombshell: She May Have Married For A Green Card in 01 (Original Post) DonRedwood Aug 2016 OP
keep em coming. wish I was an investigative reporter assigned to Trump Laura PourMeADrink Aug 2016 #1
I'm not so sure most of this shit is that hard to find... Wounded Bear Aug 2016 #2
You would have been ... NanceGreggs Aug 2016 #3
No doubt!!! NT worstexever Aug 2016 #9
i smell a rat. unblock Aug 2016 #4
It is a matter of basic honesty DonRedwood Aug 2016 #12
Good point. Nothing more pointless to me then to be told - you don't Laura PourMeADrink Aug 2016 #19
Yeah, but this is the sort of thing that break more of Trump's hinges ... n/t moonscape Aug 2016 #39
There is nothing he has ever done on the up and up. Expose it all! All of it!!! 63splitwindow Aug 2016 #5
Wikipedia says she met Donald in 1998 csziggy Aug 2016 #6
This is the key angle: What did Donald know and when did he know it? What was his role? . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2016 #26
If it was that simply, I think Trump would come out and say that. riversedge Aug 2016 #27
Wasn't he still married then? malaise Aug 2016 #30
Wasn't Newt married his previous wife in 1998? So was Ghouliani. madinmaryland Aug 2016 #34
Don't yah love these ReTHUG malaise Aug 2016 #36
Yes - but do you think that would have stopped him? csziggy Aug 2016 #35
Wonderful family values malaise Aug 2016 #37
A lot of his stories do smell ........ wonder if he wants to get melania in news ..... Kathy M Aug 2016 #7
Yuck. I almost felt sorry for her. SunSeeker Aug 2016 #11
I almost did too ........ Kathy M Aug 2016 #16
Yeah, I felt sorry for her for a bit. smirkymonkey Aug 2016 #17
That's who she really is JustAnotherGen Aug 2016 #14
Missing from all their shit is that Obama's mother and his maternal grandparents malaise Aug 2016 #31
Agree ....... Kathy M Aug 2016 #38
Shhhh. Donald told her she was his first wife. Midnight Writer Aug 2016 #8
Won't Be That Hard To Find Out Yallow Aug 2016 #10
True dat !! Slimeball. Guess he's have to get rid of the divorce papers too - right? Laura PourMeADrink Aug 2016 #21
Perhaps she lied about her "degree" on her immigration forms too. Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2016 #13
Now why didn't the lying about degree make the news? That's big to me. Especially Laura PourMeADrink Aug 2016 #24
The media are in the entertainment business & the lazy conveyor belt for talking points business. Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2016 #25
right. agree. But, this is right down their alley - juicy. Maybe they don't Laura PourMeADrink Aug 2016 #32
So, if her 1st marriage caan be proven that she only married for citizenship/greencard Separation Aug 2016 #15
Lock her up!!1 Lock her up!111 jpak Aug 2016 #18
Funny !! Should alert you for right wing talking points:) Laura PourMeADrink Aug 2016 #33
Honestly I'm less concerned about Melania Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2016 #20
Stories like this should really have proof. Oneironaut Aug 2016 #22
This story should be easy to prove, if true citood Aug 2016 #28
Let the record show: Melania is a birther. mainer Aug 2016 #23
She can say the first marriage was for the green card, secomd one for the love of the money. Thinkingabout Aug 2016 #29

unblock

(52,257 posts)
4. i smell a rat.
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 12:42 AM
Aug 2016

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)
12. It is a matter of basic honesty
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 02:35 AM
Aug 2016

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!

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
6. Wikipedia says she met Donald in 1998
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 01:15 AM
Aug 2016

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?

madinmaryland

(64,933 posts)
34. Wasn't Newt married his previous wife in 1998? So was Ghouliani.
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 05:19 PM
Aug 2016

Me thinks there is something going on here.

:idea:

malaise

(269,063 posts)
36. Don't yah love these ReTHUG
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 05:27 PM
Aug 2016

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)
35. Yes - but do you think that would have stopped him?
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 05:27 PM
Aug 2016

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.

Kathy M

(1,242 posts)
7. A lot of his stories do smell ........ wonder if he wants to get melania in news .....
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 01:16 AM
Aug 2016

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: I’ve seen it.

MELANIA: It’s not a birth certificate.

BEHAR: Well, it’s a certificate of live birth, which they give. But, Melania, if he insists on what he’s 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. It’s not only Donald who wants to see it. It’s American people, who voted for him, and who didn’t voted for him, they want to see that!

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/09/who-is-melania-trump

Kathy M

(1,242 posts)
16. I almost did too ........
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 11:28 AM
Aug 2016

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 ........

malaise

(269,063 posts)
31. Missing from all their shit is that Obama's mother and his maternal grandparents
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 04:19 PM
Aug 2016

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)
38. Agree .......
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 12:33 AM
Aug 2016

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 ...?

 

Yallow

(1,926 posts)
10. Won't Be That Hard To Find Out
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 02:05 AM
Aug 2016

Ooops. Forgot. Bush's service records disappeared..... In triplicate.....

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
21. True dat !! Slimeball. Guess he's have to get rid of the divorce papers too - right?
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 02:50 PM
Aug 2016

Or maybe that's it - polygamy !!!

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,011 posts)
13. Perhaps she lied about her "degree" on her immigration forms too.
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 02:43 AM
Aug 2016

Show us the forms -- Donnie's tax return forms and Melania's immigration forms.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
24. Now why didn't the lying about degree make the news? That's big to me. Especially
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 03:34 PM
Aug 2016

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...

The website in question was created in 2012 and has been removed because it does not accurately reflect my current business and professional interests.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,011 posts)
25. The media are in the entertainment business & the lazy conveyor belt for talking points business.
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 03:36 PM
Aug 2016

"News" is a facade.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
32. right. agree. But, this is right down their alley - juicy. Maybe they don't
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 04:59 PM
Aug 2016

want to give Trump a reason to play the "don't pile on my wife" fake outrage

Separation

(1,975 posts)
15. So, if her 1st marriage caan be proven that she only married for citizenship/greencard
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 07:42 AM
Aug 2016

Wouldnt they take that away, making her an illegal alien that he married?

Oneironaut

(5,504 posts)
22. Stories like this should really have proof.
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 03:07 PM
Aug 2016

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)
28. This story should be easy to prove, if true
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 03:51 PM
Aug 2016

Marriages aren't secret...they're civil actions that are public record. Absent that record, I'm skeptical too.

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