Maybe I'm totally off base but I think there's something off

[Lint Head]

about Melania. It seems to me that, considering the affairs and other slimey things Trump has done, why she has not left him. I'm sure she loves the power but that could be slipping away. She could leave him and be free and very rich. I know her bio well. But things just seem strange about their relationship.
I'm starting to believe there may be kompromat on her. She was an internationally traveled model and has been around powerful people her whole life. Also, I think some of her bio should not be accepted on just face value.
We can Google and read all we like but we all know that popular people, models or otherwise, have public relations folks putting the most positive spin on anything.
The story of her turning down Trump's initial advances seem a little shady to me.
I have worked with famous folks in the past and I know the drill.

[peekaloo]

1. How was I to know,

she was with the Russians, too!

just thought I'd throw in some Warren Zevon.

[nolabear]

3. Send lawyers, guns and money...

and get me out of this!

[peekaloo]

4. .

[fierywoman]

2. The idea has been floated that she's his handler.

[Lint Head]

7. Haven't seen that but considering how secretive and shady

those types of operations are how would we ever know.

[JHB]

5. When all is said and done, I just don't care about Eva.

[RandomAccess]

21. ouch

but apt.

[dalton99a]

28. +1

[Pachamama]

30. +1000

[JI7]

6. how is she going to be rich ? she was not a supermodel

she did things that most attractive women can do. but it was not supermodel level which is more diffucult.

that's why she married trump.

[Lint Head]

10. She could take Trump for a huge settlement for one thing. Plus.

I think it's not a far-fetched cry to consider posing for Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, GQ, and the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue as being rather super.
Also models, not just the super ones, are paid very well. I know quite a few who work full-time as models and have quite a lot of money and there would be no one you would possibly have heard of but may have seen images of in popular magazines and online.

"Modeling Career

Trump began modeling at age 16, and two years later she signed on with an agency in Milan. She enrolled at the University of Ljubljana, but dropped out after one year to pursue her modeling career.

In her early days of modeling, Trump worked in Milan and Paris, before moving to New York in 1996. There she gained steady work, working with well-known photographers like Patrick Demarchelier and Helmut Newton, and landing covers on magazines such as Harper's Bazaar (Bulgaria), Vanity Fair (Italy), GQ (for which she posed nude in January 2000) and the Sports IllustratedSwimsuit Issue."

[JI7]

12. modeling careers are short, especially if you aren't gisele bundchen level

and real models like gisele are wealthy because they have turned into business people doing other things like selling products, tv shows like tyra banks and heidi klum etc.

Trump is in debt. she would not get a lot in a divorce and her lifestyle would be downgraded.

that's why she stays with him.

[Lint Head]

13. You seem to know a lot about Trump's private finances.

[JI7]

14. he has failed in all his businesses and gone bankrupt multiple times

that's why he went to the russians.

he had to pay off the fucking porn stars in installments.

[lunatica]

15. Don't forget she has one of his childrenq

The pre-nup probably has him giving plenty for her to bring up Barron, or her just for being his mother.

[RandomAccess]

22. Pre-nup

There were rumors that she was going to leave him after the campaign -- in fact, that divorce papers had been drawn up. Then he won. THen, apparently, things had to continue as they were.

I dunno, don't much care altho it is a little interesting.

[JI7]

24. she also sees first lady as profitable

there was done article about media paying her for pics.

and people may not remember but early on something leaked about how they can make money.

[renegade000]

8. Tracey Ullman has a good theory...

[fierywoman]

9. I lo-o-o-o-v-e this! There's one that precedes this one, but I think this one is better.

[Glimmer of Hope]

23. That is great!

[dubyadiprecession]

11. The answer to why melania stays with donnie is obvious.

She really doesn't care about her husband. Melania is only in it for the money.

How can she feel hurt or betrayed by someone she really doesn't love??

[blogslut]

16. Maybe she is just as horrible as he is.

I've expressed empathy for her but that empathy is on a basic, human level.

I used to work for an awful man very much like Twittolini. Boorish, cruel, shady. His wife was beautiful, well-mannered and gracious. But when you got to know her, you found out she was exactly as shifty and cruel as her husband.

[politicaljunkie41910]

17. Hmmm. Let's see. Both her parents and her sister have become US citizens in the past 5 years

or so undoubtedly with help from Trump and the parents have a condo in Manhattan. She herself lied about having worked in this country while here on numerous visitor's visas; a thing which would have made her ineligible for a permanent Visa for lying of official documents. She wasn't a very good model, she did what she needed to do to make a buck to include porn, and porn photos and videos with women. She lied about having a college degree from her country of origin, I forget in what (designing or something) and eventually dropped that lie about a college degree from her resume during his presidential campaign. Trump told Howard Stern on his show years ago that she purposely got pregnant with Barron while they were dating. She saw him as her future meal ticket and it came to fruition. My guess is that she now just hopes to outlive him and collect whatever she can from the remains when he's gone. They have separate bedrooms in the White House and lived on separate floors in Trump Towers which is what enabled him to bring women like the two most recent women who claimed that they had sex with him in his bed in Trump Towers without any worries from his wife. Trump had his own floor in Trump Towers, Melania had hers, and Barron had his own. The entire family is a bunch of frauds.

[empedocles]

18. A factor may be . . . fear?

There is a possibility in that Melania's 'medical procedure', which could have been a simple overnight stay, was stretched out, and rumored to possibly last a month, taught Melania something. If trump beat her, visibly even, and made so clear to Melania, that he could easily get away with it - that would explain a number of things, connect a lot of dots.

[Tatiana]

19. Perhaps she's an asset too.

And her job is to be with him. Kinda like Maria Butina and Paul Erickson...

[ProudLib72]

20. You just haven't seen him naked!

[Lint Head]

27. Eewwww!

[ck4829]

25. Kick

[Hekate]

26. The KGB deploys all kinds if honey-traps, some of them as wives/girlfriends...

And you know, sometimes a girl should play hard-to-get.

So, there is that.

[comradebillyboy]

29. Trump hired Melanoma to be his wife. It's her job.

It's just a business arrangement. She's well compensated.