Donald Trump Jr's wife files for divorce

[Johnny2X2X]

https://pagesix.com/2018/03/15/vanessa-trump-files-for-divorce-from-donald-trump-jr/

They have 5 kids, that makes it not funny.

[SoCalNative]

1. Maybe not to you

but some of us couldn't care less about the irresponsible breeders and there sprog.

[EffieBlack]

2. While the gettin's good

[StarryNite]

3. The kids could be better off if they divorce.

Not all divorces are bad for the kids.

[Stallion]

4. Scattershooting While Wondering: Will Hope Hicks Make Her Move?

[LisaM]

8. No, Leeann Tweeden...

Remember all the tweets?

Also, just found this: http://polipace.com/2017/12/12/vanessa-trump-thought-donald-jr-affair-leanne-tweeden/

[flotsam]

10. What does this say about Democratic Senators

if they were taken in by Trump Junior???

[LisaM]

13. I agree to some extent, but...

really, who expects anyone to be as creepy as the Trumps are?

[anneboleyn]

18. ?? It says infinitely more about Trump family values & his supporters

His supporters, inside and outside of politics, have spent their time endlessly condemning Bill Clinton (remember when Trump invited Clinton accusers to one of the presidential debates? Trump’s response to everything, and apple-closest-to-the-tree Trump Jr.’s response, is to deflect). His evangelical supporters condemn everyone else (who is a democrat) who didn’t say or doesn’t say the things they wanted/want to hear, even if the person in question is a church-going Christian —unlike Trump.

I don’t really understand your question as it seems obvious that the major issue is the insane distance between what Trump himself, his team, and his voters claim to value and believe while supporting a man who allegedly paid hush money to a porn star he f*cked while his wife was pregnant and so on. I think Melanie’s absence as flotus says everything we want to know about the state of their marriage.

And yes Trump Jr. and the divorce filing is a legitimate issue as Trump Jr. fully involved himself in the political scene during and after his father’s campaign. He has been on countless shows and given many interviews in which he condemned Clinton and others and democrats in general for doing the things that he is very likely guilty of himself (imho — we will no doubt hear more about this soon). Trump Jr. has five young children, and I have a feeling that his soon to be ex-wife had a lot motivating her to file for divorce (the family will be in the public eye now even more than it was— I think the issues were profound enough for her to choose this course of action rather than just enduring the situation until Trump senior was out of office etc)

[LisaM]

21. I just meant in reference to certain senators.

I don't agree with how Franken was railroaded at all. But I think there were certain (misguided, IMO) people who really thought they were on the right side of history and doing the right thing, rather than falling into a trap set up by one of the sleaziest families of all time. The Trumps do terrible, terrible things that would never occur to me, or probably most people, in a million years. Al Franken was getting too pointed with Sessions (one of my favorite things about Al Franken was his way to make his questions both incisive and easily relatable to the casual observer). So the smear machine went into action.

Editing on second thought - if certain senators were one-time prosecutors, then I agree with you that there should have been a lot more due diligence. That would be sloppy lawyering, and it's certainly sloppy "senatoring".

[anneboleyn]

19. I wondered about that too. Her flirtation was pretty obvious and who knows what went on

behind the scenes. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if these stories come out soon.

[PatSeg]

5. Good for her

At least someone will escape the madhouse.

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. Horrible people, the parents.

[MrScorpio]

7. Oh, nothing to worry about

All he has to do is take a cue from his dad by hanging out in trashy discos, dating Russian “models” and shoveling enough Bolivian Marching Powder past his already deviated septum to gag a hippo and he’ll be just fine.

He can always stay busy by killing defenseless animals as well.

The pre-nup has this covered.

Wait. There is a pre-nup, right?

[DesertRat]

9. Melania must be so envious. nt

[NurseJackie]

11. Ha!! :-D

[GWC58]

30. Why?

In the words of Trump himself; “she knew what she signed up for!”

[Gidney N Cloyd]

12. Ya gotta wonder if it's a ruse to safeguard half their money from Mueller.

[MurrayDelph]

22. Actually, I'm wondering

what it does to her spousal immunity against being compelled to testify.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

32. Spouses Don't Have Immunity Anymore

That rule was taken out years ago.

I AM wondering, however, if Mueller can go after that money from the divorce settlement after the fact. In a lot of cases, if you see a huge transfer of money just before a divorce, the court can order that that money be returned because it should have been included in the marital assets. You see this concept in bankruptcy law and in several other areas of the law. You generally can't "hide" your assets in this way.

Here's what to watch for: if you see the divorce got resolved really quickly, with a HUGE lump sum settlement paid to the ex-wife, then there's an excellent chance that the divorce was a ruse to get millions of dollars out of the Trump Crime Family before their assets are frozen. Obviously, Don Jr. and Daddy are too dumb to think of this on their own, but they do have a team of lawyers working for them.

[dameatball]

27. Ooh-Ooh!! Gunther Toody says you may be on to something. Old-timer's reference.

[smirkymonkey]

14. She's getting out before the shit really hit's the fan.

Hopefully she'll get a nice settlement before it all goes toward lawyer's fees and legally change hers and the kids names to distance herself from that horrible family. The kids will be better off without him.

[Books_Tea_Alone]

15. Not buying it with this family

It's a ruse to shuttle all of their money before Mueller's hammer comes down. This reeks of desperation- he will be arrested soon.

[dawg day]

26. Where did they file?

New York divorces take a long time to complete. The Trump family could be broke and bankrupt before there's any settlement.

[Fla Dem]

16. She probably wasn't looking forward to those visits to the penitentiary.

[procon]

17. She must know what's coming down the pike and wants to get out now

while she can still get her share of the assets before the legal fees bankrupt Junior.

[ecstatic]

20. Protecting assets. Will Melania follow suit? nt

[McCamy Taylor]

23. She needs to get her settlements before he blows it all in bankruptcy.

[crazycatlady]

24. There was an article earlier about Jr's wife and Eric's wife

And how politics is dividing the family. Apparently Jr's wife was turned off by his involvement in politics while Eric's wife frequently goes on Fox.

[aikoaiko]

25. Good timing. She has maximum leverage right now.

[enid602]

28. Practical

Maybe Ms tRump wants a divorce now so she doesn't have to do a Magda Goebbels later.

[nocalflea]

29. Calling all legal eagles.

If subpoenaed to testify and if she is willing to do so , does any NDA she has signed preclude her from doing so ?

Does the subpoena overide the NDA ?

[ChoppinBroccoli]

33. No, The Court Can Compel Testimony On Any Subject It Sees Fit

The only way to LEGALLY refuse to testify is to take the Fifth, and since non-disclosure agreements are civil in nature, the Fifth wouldn't apply to them.

[nocalflea]

34. Thank you. Glad to hear it. Makes sense.

I didn't want to assume expertise I don't have .

[gibraltar72]

31. No it makes it imperative.