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.
When asked to explain the marriage discrepancy, Wildes said he would seek clarification, presumably from the Trump Organization. He later sent an email saying “I didn’t hear back, sorry.”
Wildes said he acted “on behalf of Trump models” and handled legal work to obtian visas and green cards for Miss Universe when Trump owned the pageant. He told Univision that he had been authorized by the Trump Organization “to speak on the matters concerning Melania.”
He said he could not comment on how the Melania Trump became a U.S. permanent resident.
“Ms. Trump received citizenship in 2006 and prior to that she had a green card based on marriage,” he said in a recorded interview by phone. “Before that, she had a work visa and was in full compliance on her visas and never disrespected any of them. That has been made clear to me.”
Wildes later clarified that legal privacy issues meant he could not discuss her status. “There are certain parts of the process that remain private. The immigration authorities don’t discuss this nor should we,” he said.
How convenient.
Apparently the Trump campaign is already pushing back on this story.
Of course that in no way means it is inaccurate as we have seen Trump do the same thing with virtually EVERY negative, yet factually based, story that has come out about him, his campaign, or his family.Trump campaign pushing back on Univision report in statement: "Melania was not married prior to her marriage to Mr. Trump in 2005."— Ben Schreckinger (@SchreckReports) August 6, 2016
And being married before really should make no difference, especially considering Trump's history with marriage.
However since the official Melania Trump biography claimed that she was only married one time to Donald Trump, and the campaign is pushing back against this story, that makes it newsworthy.
You know I cannot help but notice that virtually ANY of these scandals would have destroyed the campaign of any other politician, yet for reasons that completely escape me the Trump train keeps right on chugging away.
So Trump bought a used Yugo with s long history of rear end collisions. I bet she told him she was a virgin also.
ReplyDeleteAnon 11:09: YOU DO HAVE A WAY WITH WORDS!!!!!
Delete" . . . a used Yugo with s long history of rear end collisions . . . "
ROTFLMAO!!!!!
how does a miss universe get a Green Card? The position only lasts a year so why would you be entitled to one? Trump was already publicly dating Melania when she got her green Card so it would have to be a sham marriage to someone else.
DeleteTrump and Melanoma have been married for 11 years (January 2005). She's 46 -- a 1970 model. It's time for him to trade her in on a new model, you know, maybe get himself a spiffy new 1995 -- low-mileage, tight steering, firm seats . . . if you get my drift.
ReplyDeleteIf he kept the box she came in, and returned her in it, he just might get a refund.
DeleteMalenia looks like Caitlyn Jenner
Delete46? Has she been lying about her age too? I thought I heard somewhere she was just into her 30s. Even at 36 that's pretty old for Trump. She would have been 25 when he married her. Doesn't he usually go for them younger than that, then trade them in before age 40?
DeleteBoy, is she on a short thread. He is so going to dump her as soon as this campaign is over.
note when she got the green card in 2001 she was already dating Trump- But he was married to someone else. That suggests that she entered sham marriage with someone else in order to get her green Card rather than one she just wants to forget about
DeleteIt keeps chugging away because the people who support Trump don't have a problem if his eastern European wife plagiarizes the First Lady's speech,probably illegally worked in the country, has nude photos all over the NY Post, lies about her education and maybe even her marital status . . . .
ReplyDeleteIts ok if your supporters are racist asshole imbeciles who could find out any lie about your life and still support you.
In addition she was a "birther" just like Trump and spoke publicly about her own doubt about Obama's birth certificate. And she's been pretty damn nervy in interviews saying she complied with immigration laws unlike the "others". Well, well, well --- Melania is fair game for the press and other investigative sources for her past actions and the Trump mafia's take no prisoners attitude about immigration.
DeleteOh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive.
Sorry, Donnie, but she is NOT First Lady material. Nothing wrong with her nudie modeling life choices but successor to Michelle? Just another reason not to vote for you, as if I would have in the first place.
ReplyDeleteYes, Donald, we've seen far too much of her already. Feed her sometime, she looks like she could use a good meal or two, all skin and bones.
DeleteShe said that, with her visa, she had to go back to her home country every few months to get her visa stamped. That would indicate a visitor's visa,not the working visa that lasts for three years. Yet, according to her own timeline, she was "working" while in the US before she got her Green Card. Usually, one has to marry an American in order to get a Green Card or have somehow excelled enough (through education, talent) to merit one without marriage. Years ago, a friend of mine went to Jamaica and met a local there and married him. He followed her back to the US and applied for a Green Card and, once granted, he disappeared; caused her a world of trouble.
ReplyDeleteThere are other reports that Melania was part of a stable of Eastern European beauties who were imported to be used as "incentives" by mobsters to gain favors from people like Trump. This could open up a whole scandal re: mail order brides.
Perhaps Bill Maher is right; Trump still has the packaging in order to send her back to Slovenia. Bubble wrap anyone?
She might actually have been 'married', but in name only. Used to be, you can pay some US yokel (male or female) some money (anywhere between $1000 and $10,000) and get 'married'. Then, after one year, you automatically got the Green Card. Nowadays it takes a bit longer (you have to saty married and live in the same household together for five years, I believe) and you both have to go through some interogations by immigration officials before you can get the Green Card.
DeleteHaving seen them together on occasion, I fail to see any kind of natural affection between them whatsoever body language-wise. Almost like a business arrangement, and boy Barron was conceived only so she had a piece of the money pie. I'll bet they sleep in separate bedrooms.
DeleteThe five year thing makes sense, since she married Trump in 2001 and became a citizen in 2006. I too, see little affection between them..he walks in front of her, doesn't open doors for her, touches Ivanka more intimately than his own wife.
Delete@12:16PM -- That's how contract marriages usually are, no warmth. Any noticeable affection is nothing more than good acting but the scarlet ladies are paid well to put on a front.
Delete1:38 PM Melania married someone else in 2001 to get the green card, apparently. She and Drumpf were married in 2005 and she already had a green card - she says.
DeleteIt's funny how Trump stayed silent re the plagiarism (the campaign made a statement but he never said a peep--in his tweets and at rallies he has only said how great a job she did), he stayed silent on the nude pics (of course, maybe b/c he let those drop to take attention off himself), and he stayed silent on the visa matter UNTIL the issue of a previous marriage was brought up. Trump would never take someone who'd been married before. He may not insist on a virgin, but no way would he marry someone who could be termed (because this is just how he thinks) sloppy seconds.
ReplyDeleteForgetting, of course, that he's had multiple marriages and is 'used'!
DeleteI find him so damned repulsive. How a woman could bed him is totally beyond me...even with money attached to him!
He's never been physically attractive - even as a younger man. At the age of 70, we find him obese - with a face, neck and chins surrounded by multiple layers of fat!
Find him gross as a human - in all aspects!
Not true-Ivana was previously married.
Delete12:03 He reminds me of William Shatner, another guy who thinks he is "all that and a bag of chips" tRump is repulsive, in any color, white or orange.
DeleteIvana was definitely shacked up with some guy in Canada before meeting The Donald, but according to a 1980s copy of Spy Magazine from my basement, all public documents regarding her live-in/"husband"/whatever had mysteriously disappeared from the Canadian city in which they resided.
DeleteIvana claims to have met The D, among other places, at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. Her since-debunked claim to have been an alternate on the 1972 Czech ski team sent the Czech Olympic officials into head-banging fits of frustration back in this day. "Who is this woman? No such woman was a team alternate!" they howled.
Reportedly Ivana DID earn a degree in physical education from Charles University, but since she's the first wife and not the current one, nobody cares.
Ivana has been spookily absent/silent, hasn't she?
Good reason for that, MrsTBB. Back when the primaries were in full swing, it was said that in business dealings and pre-nups that no one is allowed to talk against him if things go south. Whether true or not, who knows, but Maples was all smiles when asked about him on DWTS.
DeleteI don't have the book in front of me, but I think they're mixing Melania and Ivana. Ivana married a Canadian to get to north America, then came to the US. Something like that. I always thought her marriage and citizenship were suspect.
ReplyDeleteWhat about Ivana Trump and her immigrant status - Wikipedia has kind of "shaky" info with her eventually arriving in US via circuitous route to Canada then NY. Citizen of US? Supposedly Czech originally but her claim to fame there denied by one Czech organization she cited - never heard of her.
ReplyDeleteHope Politico gets on that one as well if there is anything shady about her stay here in the US. Go after it all, like what kind of status did she have to enter business with Drumpf? Unclear.
It would matter very much if she had a "green card marriage" ,she would be prosecuted.
ReplyDeleteShe could be prosecuted for working in the US without a proper Visa. But it's too late to determine whether there was a sham marriage for purposes of getting a green card or citizenship. There's scrutiny before approving the green card or citizenship and subsequent divorce doesn't change anything.
DeleteA previous marriage wouldn't be prosecuted but it would be one more thing Melania has lied about.
DeleteA marriage can't be "prosecuted", but if she received her green card and subsequent citizenship under false circumstances, such as a sham marriage, then that is illegal. She could be prosecuted for that, but in reality, it's very unlikely.
DeleteHer husband should pay a political price since he's been such an ass about illegal immigrants, but who knows. He seems to skate on everything that would destroy anyone else.
"an immigration attorney who worked for the Trump Organization"
ReplyDeleteWhat? Why? hmmmm
"The Trump Organization" sounds very much like a particular family 'Mob Organization" doesn't it?
DeleteDon the Con, we are finding out, has done illegal things and has been dishonest as Hell (in his actions and deeds) throughout his many past years in New York City. And, his wife appears not to be who they have promoted since he married her!
I still say we are going to see him assassinated in the not too distant future. It would fit exactly with the 'mob organization' scenario for a member who is proven to be a liar and cheat!
Who would shoot him? He does owe the Saudis money, and maybe Russia. I guess if they could make it look like the Clintons did it....one more 'murder' to pin on Hillary?
DeleteHopefully not assassinated! They'll blame it on Hillary, and I want to see him defeated by a woman fair and square.
DeleteHe knows it, too, else why would he have already brought up the "if I don't win, it's rigged" stuff.
I absolutely detest him!
Piss poor excuse for a man, but especially for a PRESIDENT. Imagine that tub of lard trying to replace President Obama? It was shameful enough to have Dubya as president, tRump could be even worse, if that is possible. tRump is talking about "everyone loves Ivanka" so he is thinking of putting her in a position when he is President. Not likely, tRump.
DeleteTrump organization hires a lot of H1B1 workers for their hotel and resorts!! So much for creating jobs for Americans.
DeleteAlso they can bully them easier because they can threatening to fire them, then their visa is no longer validate.
However I do question why they would be doing Green Cards for Miss Universe contestants!!! That sounds really fishy.
Funny how Trump says she was a "super model", but never got paid because she was on a tourist visa.
ReplyDeleteSupermodels do not have to resort to lesbian nude porn shoots. Cindy Crawford, Cheryl Tiegs, Christie Brinkley, Linda Evangelista. Ever seen any of those SUPERMODELS in sleazy nude poses? She was as much a "supermodel" as she is a graduate of the U of Slovenia.
DeleteI don't find Trump's wife attractive at all. Think she looks like a man, truthfully.
ReplyDeleteSurely sounds as though she isn't the wife/woman we have been led to believe - liars and frauds - both of them!
The Donald Trumps and family members have lived lies for years and it's all catching up with them! He'll never be elected POTUS! No way, no how!
She reminds me of one of those Brat dolls.
DeleteShe looks like Bruce Jenner, or he her.
DeleteI agree, she does look somewhat like a man -- like Caitlyn Jenner for example -- that same artificial look. I wonder if she used to have a penis?
DeleteShe looks like the Jack O Lantern from the Headless Horseman. Fucking scary.
DeleteShe looks mean to me. And heartless. And she obviously has some problems with honesty and integrity.
DeleteI'm starting to see that she and Don actually do have a lot in common.
Melabnorma and spokesperson for Drumpf's folly on this are not in sync. Did she or didn't Melabnorma get paid for the nude photos NY Post printed? Maybe photographer just took it "out in trade."
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand Melabnorma's male roommate says she got ~$1500 for each shoot. Which is it?
Melabnorma states herself she got a green card and that was years before Drumpf. Tourist visa or H1-B (Drumpf says he will abolish) and a marriage to get a green card? The thick plottens.
Politico - go for it and thank you!
Well, she lived with the photographer for a time so it's very possible there was some bartering going on.
DeleteI guess you must really like that name melabnorma.
DeleteMelabnorma? Are you in 1st grade?
Delete#1500 for each "shoot"? Exactly what was shot, and who was doing the shooting? Enquiring minds want to know.Maybe she got $1500 for an entire night?
DeleteThose premature F Stops are tricky.
DeleteHer whole wholesome story is crap. It is well known that a lot of these "actresses" and "models" get their start on the escort circuit and just "happen" to meet the very wealthy connected men. Many women from eastern Europe were part of that and there is a well known yacht circuit in the Mediterranean, esp during the Cannes film festival and the summer months. Some of that has moved to the Middle East/Dubai given all the wealthy men and high end luxury lifestyle that has been built up over there. Yeah right -- she just "happened" to meet The Donald and is totally legal in all her immigration dealings. The only good thing is that all this scrutiny of Trump that is long overdue will ruin him business wise even if his ignorant supporters still stick with him in his losing campaign.
ReplyDeleteIt's even where some actresses go to "die". Lindsay Lohan is part of that "Yacht Hooker" group in the Mediterranean and also makes money "entertaining" wealthy men across the middle east. Looks like a sad existence, except for getting to hang out on the yachts.
DeleteSupermodel Miranda Kerr is said to demand $150,000 for a night!!
DeleteMan, if you put her picture above next to a picture of her from 1995, you would not recognize that these two are the same woman! Seems to me that tRump likes his women with a big mouth...
ReplyDeleteJust like Barfstool with her 'jaw realignment'. Unrecognizable!
12:07 - Agreed! That is how I came up with Melabnorma. There is nothing real about her, her stories, her history, her eyes, her mouth, her "stone face" that is so plastic it does not move, now sports boobs spread from her waist almost to her shoulders, an A** which is deliberately "hugged" in all the dresses she wears - including the one she wore when she spoke at the convention where the back side stuck out way too much. Guess the abnormally large boobs and abnormally, enhanced butt balance each other so have to give credit for that. Normal body structure - I don't think so.
DeleteReally poor job by a plastic surgeon but suspect Drumpf was in charge and ordering the new "parts".
Still a really stupid nickname you're trying to make happen and failing miserably.
DeleteMaybe she was one of the Eastern Europeans he hires to work at Mar o Lago on H-2B visas because he can't find American workers. The same VISAS he doesn't want others to use. It's very hard in S florida to find bartenders, maids, and floor sweepers, you know.
ReplyDeleteWell you can,but they are brown.
DeleteThe latest scuttlebut is Cheeto Jesus supporters can't seem to cancel reoccurring donations. Hope he takes all those rude a******s at that rally for a ride! http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/08/05/1557281/-WOW-Scam-Alert-THERE-S-NO-WAY-TO-CANCEL-RECURRING-DONATIONS-TO-DONALD-TRUMP-S-CAMPAIGN
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump's 16 gaffes this week. (To which I reply, only 16?)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-donald-trump-worst-week_us_57a56964e4b021fd9878be0e?53a60n1u42jf00y66r
Yeah right...seems like he makes 20 every time he opens his ugly foul mouth.
DeleteI have to wonder if he won't use this Melanie info to dump her. I mean, gee, 11 years with one woman? He's not getting any younger. IF she were married, even conveniently, and he did not know about it, he'll be really mad. Ah, Donnie, karma is sweet, isn't it?
As Big Daddy said, "I smell the powerful odor of MENDACITY!" Not yet clear which part of it they are lying about, but the parts don't add up, and Trump has a stellar track record for lying whenever you see his mouth moving.
ReplyDeleteThere's probably two reason why no one calls Donald Trump on any of his bullshit. One is that he's been saying and doing crazy shit for over forty years and people are use to him. That's why his base likes his rhetoric because he's been saying things like this for forty years or more with no change. The fans are homesick for the yesteryear of Leave it to Beaver years. They have all hit a mental ceiling on the changes and problems of America. Their thinking capacity is at its' end. Therefore Donald is the answer. He knows who he is dealing with too that's why he says he can shoot someone on the street and get away with it. That part of America that's done thinking through our countries complexities is done thinking, and we know now they just want to punch out everyone who they blame as being part of their perceived problems. I was just having a conversation with my 24 year old daughter and she was ambivalent about Hillary and Donald. I told her that for the last forty years Hillary has been working for the good. Donald only helps himself. I asked her if she wanted a country where she gets up goes to work, and enjoys her free time, or does she want four years of this whole crazy year we've had with Trump. He generates drama like a thirteen year old girl. I told my daughter the Republican party and the so called Christian right has been gunning for Hillary for over two decades because the misogyny is so prevalent in our country, and the men in ties that point down to their all penises feel so threatened by a strong and intelligent women in general. The thing is she didn't like Hillary but she couldn't tell me why and so I had to enlighten her that she had drunk the kool aid without realizing it. I know why I don't like Donald. He's gross, prejudiced to the bone, rich, spoonfed, loud mouthed, uncaring, and not too smart. Hillary works. I have seen women in my life work their asses off and have to come home and be wife, lover and mom, cook, and thensome to their families. Men come home and sit in front of the tv. I guess, those days are the ones that the Republicans don't want to end. It's a new world folks. Let's dump Trump and fight off our inertia and move onwards. Vote Hillary.
ReplyDelete1:53
DeleteBeautifully said! You're a great mom!
Anon @ 1:53 P.M. - spot-on analogy!! I truly hope your daughter learns from your life experience and sees the wisdom of your ways!
DeleteThey lied about her college degree, so why not lie about a previous marriage or immigration violations.
ReplyDeleteI doubt there was a previous marriage, she defrauded the USA by lying.
DeleteHow stupid are these people not to get Melania's issues straightened out before Trump decided to run for POTUS? Her bio should have been written to reflect the truth, not some other version about her being a college graduate. Now there seems to be holes in her stories about her visas. It doesn't seem unconceivable that she would marry someone before Trump to get a green card. However, if she paid someone to marry her, then her biggest fears will not be the media or Donald J. Trump, but ICE! Hopefully, this whole thing will come back and bite Trump in his big fat orange ass!
ReplyDeleteIssues?
DeleteI would hardly call defrauding the US federal government to get a green card an "issue". It's a crime and quite a serious one at that.
BTW is there any evidence of a marriage in the USA before 2005? I think not, I think she outright lied to obtain a green card, meaning she was an illegal when she got married and got her citizenship thus voiding her citizenship.
Call it what you want, it's still an "issue" and like I said, if she got married before Trump to get a green card, the least of her "issues" are the media and DJT as she will have to deal with ICE!
DeleteHusband #1 could sue Trump for alienation of affection.
ReplyDeleteYes, he has likely already spent the $$$ tRump gave to him. Look at her, does she look as though she could be "affectionate"? Not even with her young son. Icy cold.
DeleteWhile I think this is hilarious, it is also illegal. It means being stripped of her US citizenship which she got through fraud, an automatic deportation and a ban of up to 10 yrs before being allowed back in the US of A ( married to an American citizen or not).
ReplyDeleteRelated, Megyn Kelly, while bleeding from every pore of he being, calls it a nothing burger,
ReplyDeleteThing is, if she had to go back to the farmzinki (slovenian for goat herder's quarters) to get it stamped, it's not necessary if she were here on a legal WORK visa. If Trump never did the birther issue nor attack immigrants, I'd agree, whatever Melanie did before, nude modeling, getting college degrees, plagiarizing, or marrying Roma Downy's cabana boy to get a green card, wouldn't matter if her last name wasn't Trump. She comes across as weak and untrustworthy.
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/08/megyn-kelly-cant-imagine-why-it-might
Leave it to Fox to defend her, especially that mummy Kelly, who probably gained financially for defending Trump.
OR, that lawyer who said she had been married before could be wrong. He would have had to have his reasons for saying such a thing to Univision (bitter enemies of Trump since he sold the beauty contest to them, and they refused to run it on TV after Trump did the Mexican rapist talk). As Trump would say, "something is going on." But what???
ReplyDeleteOr the lawyer was lied to originally.
DeleteOR,consider this. It does not have to be either/or regarding Meania and her marital status. MY reading of the reference to her immigration document says..."marriage", not married. Could be, just sayin' she was able to use the terminology, as a result of her well-off,romantic sponsor-The Donald. My recollection is they "courted an excessively long time, with her under his care. She shopped, designed her engagement and finally wedding outfits, and she spoke abot being the next Jackie-O. This was not a short process. A better reporter than I could find the dates, ai am sure. This was a plan. Sorry about that "diploma", and your "speech", however. She wont last after the election, I predict. mermaid michele
DeleteThe problem is, if she wasn't married, how did she get a green card? They are not easy to acquire unless you're married to a citizen. Then you can get one after a year.
DeleteIf she was in some sort of a sham marriage and got the green card in 01, then the date of becoming a citizen in 06 lines up. You have to have the green card for five years before you can become a citizen.
Who knows how much sabotage, subterfuge there is in the Drumpf family? D Trump Jr. said, on record, in 2008 when noting he had traveled to Russia 6 times in 18 months - "Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets." "We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia."
ReplyDeleteRecently on the internet there were entries saying Trump owed Russia 600 million for a loan and in Germany 330 million was owed. Don't find those accessible now - why?
Big concern - Ivana Trump says she came from Czech & was big star athlete - denial from Czech.
Czech Republic has companies mining uranium and of course Russia is interested and their Rosatom consortium is ready to participate in the uranium mining in the Czech Republic. Ivana advises Trump on his campaign according to the media reports so still in the picture.
How many and how deep are the back-scratching, praises for Putin from the Trump Organization? I find this all beyond scary.
Anonymous11:09 AM said
ReplyDeleteSo Trump bought a used Yugo with s long history of rear end collisions. I bet she told him she was a virgin also.
$$$$
I don't understand why would a rich man buy a used Yugo with rear-end collisions that goes both-ways from a previous owner and then has to put money into getting the front end fixed and has to replace the nose-grill? Why not buy a new American model with no previous owner that doesn't require an overhaul?
This shows me Trump wants to make "European (That Goes Both-Ways) Great Again".
Well, could be because the one American wife he had cheated on him with a bodyguard? Marla was caught. He probably has an ron clad contract with this one.
DeleteAnon 2:43,
ReplyDeleteDid Marla cheat on her multimillionaire husband with the bodyguard because the Donald couldn't deliver the goods to satisfy a woman? Or was it because he was into watching her with the bodyguard and she started leaving Donald out and he got fed up?
Do you think Melania Trump squints because she thinks it is cute or did she get too many face-lifts and she can't help looking that way?
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