So, the Associated Press has verified that Melania Trump entered the country in 1996 on a visa that did not permit her to work. She then immediately went to work, taking modeling jobs from actual U.S. citizens and foreigners who had actual work visas. This is precisely what her husband has been railing against.
I don’t personally care that she came here to work. It appears from the records that a modeling agency paid for a car service to pick her up at the airport. That’s great as far I am concerned. She had a plan. She had a job lined up. She quickly obtained a work visa. She’s a citizen now. I don’t see a problem, except for that wee thing about this being “a nation of laws.” I mean, either we have borders or we don’t, am I right?
And, I mean, there’s all kinds of criminals who came here from Eastern Europe after the Cold War ended. Some, I am sure, were good people. But it’s not like Slovenia was sending us their best, if you know what I mean. They didn’t send the nice married couple down the street.
You get the point. Trump has blasted Mexicans and Mexico but he hasn’t said a word about Slovenians and Slovenia. Why is that?
Let’s go back into the Wayback Machine all the way to August 9th:
At a rally Tuesday evening in North Carolina, Trump said his wife, Melania, came into the country legally.
“She has got it so documented,” Trump said, adding she will hold a news conference over the next few weeks to address the issue.
“They said, ‘Melania Trump may have come into our country illegally’ and ‘how would that be for Donald Trump?’” Trump said of the media, after questions arose about when and how Melania Trump received her green card.
“Here’s the only problem, she came in totally legally,” he continued.
“I said to her: ‘No no, let is simmer for a little while. Let them go wild, let it simmer, and then let’s have a little news conference.’”
Trump spox Hope Hicks confirms @MELANIATRUMP will hold news conference on immigration questions. No timing details https://t.co/qGqDIbHRQf
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) August 9, 2016
That news conference never happened, perhaps because they would have only compounded the problem by elaborating on their lies.
I don’t want to pick on Melania. I really don’t. But the bottom line is that she’s married to a guy who thinks it’s an absolute outrage and a threat to law and order and national security for people to enter the country under false pretenses, work illegally, and then gain citizenship for themselves or their children. By that logic, she should self-deport before she’s rounded up by one of Trump’s ICE deportation officers.
She looks passably white though, so I don’t think this will happen.
Pick away she seems fairly lazy and ignorant.
Somebody I know called her a money girl. Think she could’ve chosen better, in my opinion.
I personally see nothing wrong in marrying for money. Marriage has until very recently been primarily an economic union and you just had to hope you could work with your spouse. If that’s what you want, go for it.
But chosen better? Couldn’t agree more. And she has not appeared to use the resources she gained in a positive way either to better others, or improve herself save in material possessions.
For some reason I doubt this moves the needle. Trumpkins don’t care; everyone else realises that marriage is the ultimate visa and she hitched a ride on her gravy train. Happens all the time; case closed.
The Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-womens-blog-with-jane-martinson/2012/apr/30/women-rich-
not-feminist-triumph”>The record number of women in the Rich List is not a feminist triumph
I may not like reality, it is what it is. Therefore, I have a grudging admiration for gold-diggers. It’s not so easy to accomplish and the job isn’t easy once a woman gets it. And only the best hold onto the job once they succeed in getting it.
Most Trump supporters, including the women, would agree with the assessment that hot women should be allowed in regardless of the immigration laws. Also tough-guy conservatives/dictators.
As with everything else conservative there really isn’t a principle here. It’s not about following the law. The people they like are allowed in, those they don’t kick out.
Let me add to this – when you talk to pro-Trump minorities you’ll often find that they are aware that Trumpites hate their racial group, but somehow thing that they’ll be the exception when the hammer comes down. Like Jewish businessmen for Hitler.
These are the types of circumstance that prove conservative objections to “illegals” are in fact based on race and ethnicity, not “rule of law!”
So (hot) Slovenians, yes; Mexicans, no…
But there’s got to be “some form of punishment”, right, Trump supporters?
“She has got it so documented,” Trump said,
Right, you lying sack of shit.
As an immigration lawyer I am just loving the exposed hypocrisy here.
I’ll have to join the chorus here and say that this hypocrisy will be added to the heap of others in the Trump Universe. His loyal followers are not outraged by his lies and blatant deceit; they love it! He beats the system! He’s a super businessman who makes yooge deals and doesn’t take crap from anybody, not subccontractors, not immigrant workers, and not women.
I’m convinced now that Trump can say and do whatever he wants without repercussions. Everyone said the pu**y-grab would be his downfall, no way could he survive that! Guess what: recovered and back to tight numbers. Everything he said out of one side of his mouth about illegal immigrants is being ignored in the case of his current wife. And he will finish this race without ever having disclosed his tax information.
Trump has not and never will be held accountable for his actions. I don’t believe he’ll win the election, but Donald Trump will always come out ahead.
Yes, and when does he proclaim Melania will commence her next libel action?
. . . held accountable for his actions”.
He is, after all, currently defendant in multiple legal actions.
And as I recently saw someone point out, even in the worst-case-imaginable scenario, Paula Jones v. Clinton set precedent against presidential immunity.
What does it say about Trump’s judgment that he married her despite her illegal status, then began trash flirting with other women and finally (I love this part) had a fling with another woman according to The Enquirer who bought the rights to the story.
What does it say about Trump’s judgment …
That he’s like most other insanely rich men?
I had a chance to go see Melania in Berwyn the other day, and wisely did not go because my tolerance for stupid people has gone way down over the years. My curiosity was piqued after her stunned reaction when Trump said in an interview that she “would be giving speeches, major speeches”.
Watching her give that sham of a speech about anti-bullying and watching the the Trump Campaign again try to take one of Hillary’s mantles as their own after-the-fact would have driven me insane.
It was bad enough just reading the quotes of Trump supporters in the various articles where they commented about her “bringing grace back to the white house”.
Not that I was surprised, but certainly disappointed that these voters on the right can be so blinded by hatred that they refuse to even acknowledge that Michelle Obama has been nothing but the epitome of grace for the past 8 years. Meanwhile, a woman who has posed nude multiple times is apparently what they consider having “grace”.
I don’t think it’s an “alt-right”, I think it’s an “alt-reality”.
(they wont, they’re shameless, what more evidence of that could be needed?) for going along with the, er, whitewashing of blatantly racist white-supremacists by adopting their “alt-right” re-branding euphemism.
Disgusting.
Grace = white.
Full stop.
Waiting for an end to “conservative” hypocrisy is Waiting for Godot.
Obviously, as all here seem to agree, this will be meaningless to virtually everyone. Hell, the corporate tv media may not even cover it for more than 10 minutes—can’t be “unbalanced”! Same with the latest documented adulterous Trump affair with the playmate of the year (or whatever)–while on Melania’s watch, ha-ha. But I haven’t much sympathy for her, she surely knew what kind of a horrendous turd she was hooking up with. And having to live in that gold-plated vulgarian “paradise”! Jeebus.
Anyway, all Trump’s moral shenanigans, and fully exposed lies, turn out to be meaningless to the electorate, just as Trump’s terrible “debate” performance(s) were ultimately meaningless.
At a certain point after the election, there will have to be considered reflection upon the catastrophic collapse of the white American voter in this election. Exactly how and why have they concluded that an obviously psychologically damaged, completely unqualified con man was substantially superior to a woman with HRC’s experience and credentials? (Leave aside the endless opinion polls which indicate that strong majorities supposedly support the Dem policies HRC says she supports). Even as a lesser-of-two-evils decision this shouldn’t have been a close call. Yet here we are.
It’s either a revelation of the pull of white nationalism or a very strong reluctance to return the same (two term!) family to the WH which is sticking in the craw of an awful lot of “independents”. (Most here seem to have strongly suspected self-identifying Repubs would overwhelmingly “vote for the nominee”–as the accepted formulation goes). But how does white NH vote twice for Obama and then go for a boob like Trump? Mind-boggling to me.
Morning Edition was still on in the background, and never heard a peep about this, even though there was a segment with NPR’s “political correspondent/editor” (or some such title) Ron Elving.
Disclosing I missed the first half-hour or so altogether, and was multi-tasking through the rest, so not paying intense attention. Pretty sure such coverage would have perked up my ears had it happened, though.
Great comment from someone I saw that since the $ is before agency took cut and before taxes taken out, it looks like even though she did not have legal status to work she paid more in taxes than Donald did.
I’d be willing to bet this stuff happens all the time in modeling. Someone comes here for a week, says they’re vacationing, and does a model shoot or three. And it’s probably easier for the home agency to pay the model as well. Beats the hassle of having to get a work permit for a bunch of different jobs that might last two or three days tops a piece. Is there anything the GOP isn’t huge hypocrites on?
Uhh — the choice for gold-diggers is limited to the best offer. It’s not as if there’s a huge pool of billionaires (or near billionaires) that they can pick and choose from and it takes a certain amount of luck to connect with even one.
No, it really doesn’t. Do you know the story about how Marilyn Monroe met Joe DiMaggio? Granted, DiMaggio wasn’t the richest man of his day but he was the most famous baseball player of that time, even though he had just recently retired.