Discussion: Melania Trump Denies She Came To U.S. Illegally–But Won't Provide Specifics

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Welp, that settles that. Nice statement. And her English has improved A LOT!

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‘I came to the U.S. completely legally on a Visa! Or was it a MasterCard?’

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She may have plagiarized that.

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Another poor sap who made the mistake of thinking being associated with Trump was a positive for their career.
Ain’t seen too much of you Melania since the “Speech” Where ya been hidin? Watcha been up to?

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And if you don’t believe her, she’ll stare you to death.

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Yes. Nothing like responding to specific facts that cast doubt on your citizenship with boiler plate language written by a lawyer that sounds like she is hiding something.

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FIFY

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I wouldn’t be surprised if THIS is the thing that kills Trump, more than anything else. I have to say that she seems extremely stupid—something which isn’t true of Ivana.

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Well…that was written by a lawyer.

Which makes this very intriguing…

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Well, it kind of proves Trump’s point…she apparently came here in violation of immigration laws, and clearly she stole work from hard working Americans…namely Michelle’s speech writers.

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Yep, yep she’s smart enough to not let her father grope her on stage. Oh…wait a minute…

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I’m sure Josh and TPM, who also covered this story, were trying to get type of visa verification, but like Politico, could not.

Are visa designations considered confidential? Certainly they were not destroyed (?)

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Adding, “What’s in your wallet?™”

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I think she’s trying to smize (smile with your eyes). it’s a Tyra Banks thing.

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Ivana, not Ivanka, although Ivanka is not dumb either.

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Sorry, I’m always getting those “Ivan” names confused.

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I’m sorry, but how do nude photos of her imply she was in the U.S.?

No cameras in Slovenia?

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This is a fun side issue, but can’t be made into a huge, central issue I think. She’s not running and we’ll just look like we’re victimizing her, even if it’s true…and even if it would make me giggle like a schoolgirl to give her the birth-certificate-treatment about her immigration papers.

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No, this will make for some entertaining comments and reporting, but its a non-issue on the campaign trail. Trump supporters will rally around Trump even more vigorously as the see this as the press being unfair to poor precious Melania. And besides maybe a potshot by a surrogate, I doubt that Hillary even addresses it.

The Russian connections is the story that is going to kill Trump, combined with the continuous display of reprehensible behavior. The Russian story because it will continue to slowly leak out more and more over the entire campaign, the behavior because it is so beyond the pale abhorrent and won’t stop ( and will probably escalate as he continues to slip n the polls).

To the average American, Melania doing some photo shoots when on a visitor visa is hardly worth noticing. Attacking a Gold Star family pisses everybody off.

EDIT TO ADD: What it does do is probably make for some more extremely uncomfortable nights for Melania, and significantly increase the chances she gets dumped by Trump very soon after his defeat in November.

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