Trumps weak spot: his wives

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1. Immigration status history.

Models very often start working under the table before they get a permanent green card. In Melania's interview, she says she was here legally until she got her green card. Every few months, she went back to Slovenia for a renewal until she got her green card. This is how people work under the table without overstaying their tourist visa. Question: what visa could she have held that would have allowed her to do this legally? How did she not get an H1b visa (yes, models can get them)? If she had an h1b visa, she wouldn't have had to take multiple trips. Green cards aren't awarded to someone without a good history with an employer. How do you get a green card so early-- it usually takes 10 years on an h1b? What is the timeline of her visas and her relationship with the Donald? Did she sleep her way to legal status? How did someone pull strings to get her to the head of the list?

How did she live in NYc without employment? Could have lived on savings?

Between age 18 and 26, what was she doing? She started off doing photo shoots in Paris and Milan and then finally settled in NY at age 26 (assume green card?). When did she get involved with trumps modeling agency. Did they sponsor her green card?

2. Tax evasion
Were her taxes paid properly? What was the basis for her residence in Slovenia ?

Ditto for Ivana.

Keep talking Melania. We want to know your story.



Melania's interview : [link:http://www.inquisitr.com/2827029/melania-trumps-morning-joe-interview-ignites-controversy-her-stance-on-donalds-immigration-plan/|

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1. Real models talk about visas

Contrary to Washington post story, here are real models asking about getting legal visas to work in the US [link:http:// modelmayhem.com/forums/post/851486| It ain't easy.

[yourpaljoey]

2. These are not weaks spots... not at all

Not one Trump voter will care about these at all.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. I don't care for this line of attack.

Trump's policy ideas are his disqualifer. His wife isn't running for office.

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7. You could say the same thing about Bill clinton

[TBF]

9. Is Bill Clinton running again? nt

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18. No but many attacks on Hillary are tied to bills actions

Both personal and policy.

If we get all Monica all the time, turnabout is fair play.

[TBF]

24. You're the only one bringing up Monica.

Bottom line, Sanders is the only candidate who has a chance against Trump in the general.

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27. I am on the fence between Hillary and sanders.

Last election was on fence between Hillary and Obama but went for Obama in the primary.

[snooper2]

31. he's holding events!

[jberryhill]

4. I doubt that Melanoma's immigration history will be of much interest

This "going after the wife" thing is a poor strategy. I am reminded of the "happy giddy dance" on DU a few years back on the basis that John McCain's wife had a history of drug problems and questionable financial management of her charity.

Melanoma is not running for any office, and whatever circumstances may have placed her in the US prior to meeting Trump, doesn't have squat to do with Trump.

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5. If trump expedited her green card

It certainly does

[jberryhill]

10. If he stowed her onboard a yacht and smuggled her in...

...it might be interesting too. But there's nothing to suggest he did.

Trump is such a fat target that this sort of thing is simply mean-spirited and petty. She's his wife, she's here, and that's all anyone is going to care.

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14. If he called the state department or a politician for a favor

Especially for a girl friend it does.

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19. Add in a political contribution and it's a quid pro quo

Timeline would place it during bush administration

[FSogol]

28. There are legal methods to speed up getting US residency.

Depositing $1 million in a US bank does wonders for your application.

[FSogol]

12. Normally I agree, but this is Trump. Someone photoshop his wives meeting Putin, Kim Jong Un, &

the #2 guy at ISIS. Let the fun begin!

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16. Trump will go ballistic and overplay his hand

[FSogol]

26. Then, photoshop Trump attending a flag burning and a police gun turn-in program event.

Of course, the media could talk about his racial discrimination suit, his frequent bankruptcies, and his shady business dealings....

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13. Working illegally and getting married to such an anti immigrant candidate

[jberryhill]

17. So the fuck what?

First, you have utterly nothing to back up "working illegally".

Second, if she was, it was before she met him.

Third, look how well the divorced Ronald Reagan went over with the "family values" crowd.

There's a jackass that shows up on DU every couple of months with similar theories about how Jeb Bush's wife is "really an illegal immigrant".

Going with an attack against someone's lawfully married wife on the grounds that you have suspicions about her because "she's a furriner" is just gutter stuff.

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22. And we are dealing with a gutter candidate

It ain't going to be pretty

[meow2u3]

32. ROFLMKO*

Melanoma Trump!!!

[font size="1"]*rolling on the floor laughing my keister off[/font]

[jberryhill]

37. Damned autocorrect

[Katashi_itto]

6. His base doesn't care and in the GE Republicans and others will simply be voting against Hillary.

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8. His base doesn't care about anything

But a number of Reagan democrats will.

[scscholar]

11. I wasn't aware that he had more than one

I knew he had an ex-wife, but not wives.

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15. Melania is number three

[scscholar]

23. But the Wiki page says she is only one...

and he divorced the other two. I think the OP is telling a lie in the title to create click-bait. It sucks to see this discussion site destroyed by such actions. He does not have wives.

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29. Sorry to say wives instead of one wife and 2 ex wives

[snooper2]

33. Do you ask how many wives have you had, or how many ex wives have you had?

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36. My point is conflict of interest

If you are going to run for president on an anti immigration platform, it's a fair question to inquire about your foreign born wife (s) immigration history. We ask about politicians wives all the time.

[951-Riverside]

20. I don't want this racist Eurotrash becoming the First Lady of MY country (NSFW)

Remember she supports banning Muslims from entering the US but can barely speak English and has no problem putting her goods on display for all the world to see.

I sure wouldn't want American girls looking up to such trash.

[jberryhill]

39. Barely speak English?

She speaks English just fine. Yes, she has an accent. So what?

This is the same sort of bigoted bullshit my mother had to put up with as a native Austrian who became a war bride and came to the US.

Throughout her career as an environmental activist and a political candidate, she had to put up with the same shit from people like you over "she's sound Russian" and similar comments on her accent.

And, yeah, she was quite a looker back in the day. So what?

Do you think Arianna Huffington "barely speaks English"?

[Person 2713]

40. I think she is almost perfect for our new Idiocracy !

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25. No

Because they aren't running on an anti immigrant position for president.

Btw, for the record, I am for a legal path to citizenship. Working in the shadows is too abusive. People fleeing from violence in Latin America need to work in the us legally.

[yuiyoshida]

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[Major Nikon]

35. Already had an OP hidden for the same bigoted garbage

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

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34. Melanie's official biography only lists photographers and magazine photos and covers

No employers -- no agencies. Usually models work through agencies.

What is her work record?

[LittleBlue]

38. You ought to be careful with that considering Bill Clinton's past

Somehow I doubt the Clintons want to explain Jeffrey Epstein.

[randome]

41. His sordid marital history is protection against his trying to make something of Bill Clinton.

Hillary can always say, "At least Bill and I are still together." Regardless of how much truth there is to that, it is at least public perception.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
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46. Melania and Trump are a bit "Palinesque"

Trump has commented on Melania's bathroom behavior.

In a separate 2004 appearance, Trump engaged in an especially peculiar conversation about his girlfriend Melania (now his wife), saying he had never witnessed her pass gas or defecate.
Trump, referencing an earlier conversation with Stern, said, “You said something a while ago about Beth (Stern’s girlfriend) that amazed me, because it applies to Melania. You said you’ve never seen here do anything like, bad, in terms of her own personal.”
“You said you’ve never heard her fart. Is that true? Is that amazing? In years, three and a half years,” Trump continued. Stern told Trump that his girlfriend had only pooped four times in three years.
“I’m gonna say, I can say the exact say thing about Melania,” Trump responded.
Stern then asked Trump if Melania ever “makes a doody.” Trump replied, “I’ve never see any, it’s amazing. Maybe they save that for after marriage.”
Asked about former wife Ivana’s bowel movements, Trump said, “It was a little more normal.”

[link:http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/trump-isnt-into-anal-melania-never-poops-and-other-things-he#.dyqyaL2v7|

There's a lot more ....

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47. Sex with Melania -- Howard Stern interview

Stern asked some probing questions about Trump's relationship with model Melania Knauss, who is now his wife, in a 2003 interview.

Asked whether Knauss was taking birth control pills, Trump said yes. Stern then ribbed Trump about his second wife, Marla Maples, whose unplanned pregnancy gave him his daughter Tiffany.

"I bet you still pull out, just to make sure?" Stern asked.

"No, I don't. [Melania's] just amazing," Trump said.

[link:http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/donald-trump-on-sex|

The Donald trash talks about Melania

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48. Melania on Trump in bed

Melania would be the only known first lady who once posed nude - for the British edition of GQ, on a bearskin rug on Trump's private jet before they were married in 2000,
She told Howard Stern that same year, 'We have incredible sex at least once a day. Sometimes even more.'
Trump bragged about Melania's hotness in a 'very small thong.'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3201088/Melania-Trump-Lady-pose-NUDE-talk-incredible-sex-life-Donald-Howard-Stern-rival-Jackie-Kennedy-elegance-style-quiet-strength.html#ixzz41DG0XzRZ

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42. A little time line

Melania was born in 1970. Started her modeling career at age 12 by winning a contest.
Was photographed in Slovenia by famous photographer, Steve jerko,

Introduced at a party in 1998, one year after he had split from his second wife, Marla Maples, "I saw Melania and I said, 'Who is that?' " Trump recalls. "She was a very successful model. She was terrific. I tried to get her number, and she wouldn't give it to me."

Why the cold shoulder?

"He came to the party with a date!" Melania explains, laughing. "I had heard he was a ladies' man, and so I said, 'I'm not one of the ladies.' He said later that he sent her to the ladies' room so he could get my number. I was like, 'Oh what a sneaky way!' "

Still, Melania says she liked his "sparkle" and took his number. After returning from a modeling gig in the Caribbean, she called him, and on their first date, "we talked for almost the whole night," she says. . -- People magazine [link:http://www.people.com/article/donald-trump-melania-wife-relationship-marriage|

So Melania started dating Trump when she was 28 and he was 46.

She did work for two agencies -- Irene Marie ( out of Palm Beach, closed in 2009) and Trump modeling agency.

She became a permanent resident of us (has a green card) in 2001 and married Trump in 2005. Got citizenship in 2006 (perfectly legal being married to Us citizen). It's easy to get confused about getting citizenship from her quote about being on green card for years and then getting citizenship without mentioning marriage.

So no problem about marriage. But what was going on between age 1988 and 2001. How did she get the green card? Was she legally working as an employee of the agencies or as a 1099. How did she file taxes?

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44. You are right let me fix this

[bettyellen]

45. no prob!

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49. When trump was running for President in 1999, Melania was campaigning with him

She was an attraction on the campaign trail. So.... Why is she hiding?

I think the front of she's a classy low key lady is just that, a front.