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Shankapotomus

(4,840 posts)
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 08:16 AM Jul 2016

Melania Trump is lying about graduating college

It's HuffPost but if true it is huge:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/melania-trump-college-claims_us_578dd95ce4b0c53d5cfac0dc?section=

Her bio on her professional site says she graduated, her biographers and wiki page says she didn't. Sounds like some major inconsistencies surfacing here.

-----my own take:

There is a growing contention that Mrs. Trump is lying about having completed college in Slovenia.

If this is true that means that a presidential candidate himself, Donald J. Trump, is most certainly involved in knowingly perpetuating that lie to the public.

If Mrs. Trump did indeed graduate college she needs to show proof and that proof needs to be independently confirmed as valid.

If she did indeed lie, it is most certain that Trump knew she was lying and helped perpetuate that lie to the public due to their close association and marriage.

The Trumps need come clean on this now.

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Melania Trump is lying about graduating college (Original Post) Shankapotomus Jul 2016 OP
They belong together bravenak Jul 2016 #1
It's not that difficult to get a fake degree in eastern Europe. DetlefK Jul 2016 #2
Yep Dem2 Jul 2016 #5
I want to see her diploma and transcripts JustAnotherGen Jul 2016 #3
I'm unsure about her country but many European schools don't have "transcripts" whatthehey Jul 2016 #6
Gee - isn't that convenient (ETA: note I'm talking about Melania Fraud Trump) JustAnotherGen Jul 2016 #12
I'm sorry what? whatthehey Jul 2016 #15
I did not say that about you! JustAnotherGen Jul 2016 #17
This message was self-deleted by its author whatthehey Jul 2016 #19
so easy to fix up some 40 year old forgeries, she probably already has those from her old model days Sunlei Jul 2016 #9
Ah - it's relevant to me JustAnotherGen Jul 2016 #13
good points! This is probably more recent history than I assumed it was. I forgot shes a 3rd? 'wife' Sunlei Jul 2016 #18
No, Trump needs to step down now and turn it over to Pence and let Pence choose a VP. nt glennward Jul 2016 #4
Ryans third in line, ready for action. That's why the orange man is gone. Sunlei Jul 2016 #8
She's not running for president & her life 'story' between age 16-19 was long ago. Sunlei Jul 2016 #7
She has an honorary degree from Trump University Capt. Obvious Jul 2016 #10
We need to see her "long-form" diploma. MineralMan Jul 2016 #11
I want his taxes. Nt NCTraveler Jul 2016 #14
Maybe he could send a team of lawyers to Slovenia to dig up the truth nt jcgoldie Jul 2016 #16

JustAnotherGen

(31,881 posts)
3. I want to see her diploma and transcripts
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 08:32 AM
Jul 2016

We have a right to see those.

Remember this:
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/barack-obamas-college-transcripts/

Barack Obama’s College Transcripts
James Joyner · Wednesday, October 24, 2012 · 75 Comments

So, Donald Trump has yet again duped the media into giving him attention by hyping a “bombshell” that turned out to be a nothing-burger, in this case a re-upping of his insistence that President Obama release his college transcript, sweetened with an offer to donate $5 million to the president’s charity if he does so


Link to a site with the actual 'tweets':
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/07/trump-piles-on-demands-obama-release-college-transcripts-passport-records/

whatthehey

(3,660 posts)
6. I'm unsure about her country but many European schools don't have "transcripts"
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 08:40 AM
Jul 2016

One of my degrees is from a British university as I wanted to study under a specific professor. Whenever employers try to verify it (despite it being decades old and utterly irrelevant to my job) I have had to explain the lack of transcripts several times. The place is happy to verify graduation by email/phone etc but because a degree there is not, or at least was not 20 odd years ago, made up of X credits from Y separate courses but just proving you have mastered the subject, there really is no transcript more detailed than the diploma itself.

JustAnotherGen

(31,881 posts)
12. Gee - isn't that convenient (ETA: note I'm talking about Melania Fraud Trump)
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 09:28 AM
Jul 2016

So they SHOULD have her degree - right?

I mean - if they give you one for dropping out after a year - right?

Point being - she did NOT finish at University.

She didn't. She went the model route instead.

whatthehey

(3,660 posts)
15. I'm sorry what?
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 09:35 AM
Jul 2016

You think universities that were centuries old before the Americas even had one set up their curricula and degree process to cover for a baboon's trophy wife whose seventeen-times great granddame wasn't even born?

WTF do you mean I dropped out after a year? Why the personal attack, false I might add, against someone you don't know from Adam?

I have no clue and were it possible less interest about whether she finished or not. It was worth pointing out however the parochialism that demands something other cultures do not possess simply to prove a truly trivial point in US political infighting.

Response to JustAnotherGen (Reply #17)

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
9. so easy to fix up some 40 year old forgeries, she probably already has those from her old model days
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 08:58 AM
Jul 2016

not relevant about her, its what trump did back in those days bringing young girls 'models', ' His beauty contests entries' from communist countries to New York City that needs investigating.

JustAnotherGen

(31,881 posts)
13. Ah - it's relevant to me
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 09:33 AM
Jul 2016

After 'those' people have spent 8 years degrading and demeaning First Lady Obama -

It's time to enter the valley of comeuppence.


It's a cold dark place - and sometimes it's a bit cruel. But once you enter - you have to eat your peas.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
18. good points! This is probably more recent history than I assumed it was. I forgot shes a 3rd? 'wife'
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 09:41 AM
Jul 2016

His most current 'hand picked' model?

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
7. She's not running for president & her life 'story' between age 16-19 was long ago.
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 08:49 AM
Jul 2016

Republican presidential candidate himself, 'hung around' with teen models and 'owned' & ran beauty contests. Contests in America and contests in other countries.

Seems like some of those young girls were brought to New York, and one was even chosen as wife. What about all the other models/ beauty contest girls brought to New York? Their stories would show the character of this Republican.

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