Let's start with Melania shall we?

[SHRED]

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[Retrograde]

1. Wasn't Trump's mother an immigrant?

If I follow Birther logic he's not a natural born citizen, then.

[DesertRat]

17. 45's mother was born in Scotland

Where was he born? Do we know for sure? Have we seen his long form birth certificate or college records?

[Leith]

2. Yes, Let's

We deserve to know.

[mopinko]

3. we know she lied about a college degree that she needed for the status

that she claimed.

eta- and may very well have been a trafficked person.

[dalton99a]

5. +1

[ProudLib72]

4. But, but, but, she's Slavic, not Hispanic

Makes all the difference in the world to these fucks.

[TrollBuster9090]

7. She's white, not brown. We all know that's the reason the conservative media will give her a pass.

But they can't say that out loud. Instead, we'll hear a lot of noise about how she was a BUSINESS person, who had a JOB and created EMPLOYMENT and blah blah bhal.

And I can already hear the conservative media (who spent eight years attacking Michelle Obama) gearing up the talking points about how family members of politicians are supposed to be out of bounds, but the 'left' is so uncivilized that anybody's 'fair game.' (Valerie Plame won't miss the irony of that one.)

But let's just remember that...

1. TRUMP was the one who made immigration an issue, and

2. TRUMP was the one who TOLD us that Melania would have a press conference, and show all her documents to prove that she wasn't an illegal alien working in the US without a visa...

[Raster]

18. Vlad* probably helped "pick her out."

[TrollBuster9090]

6. Start with Melania, and then move on to all those exploited eastern european models

who were brought in to work for the Trump modelling agency. I think, if somebody bothers to look, they'll find a lot of visa issues there.

[BamaRefugee]

8. They will find lots of VISA issues as well as ...

...MasterCard issues, American Express issues, lots of issues on how guys paid for them as the, shall we say "escorts" they actually were.

And the pimp called Carrot Top who deployed them.

[TrollBuster9090]

9. You're right, but I think Eliot Spitzer was the last rich guy to pay for an 'escort' on PLASTIC.

The Russians have since taught everybody that you pay cash.

[BamaRefugee]

14. you're right but I couldn't have made the joke otherwise ;-)

[Raster]

19. Or you smile for the camera...

...whether you know it or not.

[Lotusflower70]

36. Schneiderman is looking into that

Trump model management is being investigated for human trafficking with links to Russia.

[Nevernose]

10. Normally I say "leave Melania alone"

And the reposed are usually 2-1 against me. I'm good with that. She's essentially a Slovenian hooker who got a sex worker's dream job (married to an American billionaire more interested in a trophy wife than an actual marriage), and I still kind of feel bad for her current situation. It's not the job she signed up for. They want her to say and do something a normal wife would do, but she's not a normal wife: she's an employee.

Her status as an immigrant, however, is totally germane to the national conversation (as opposed to the choice of footwear of an Eastern European sex worker). Not only should we be bringing it up at every chance, so should she. Shame on her.

In fact, I was talking to an actual RW nutjob this morning (nice guy, drove me ninety miles to the airport) who loves guns, hates Obama, and doubled his weekly donation to Joel Osteen this week because "he's getting lied on by the liberals and the atheists." He's also married to a Central American immigrant.

And even THAT lunatic thinks deporting the DACA kids is wrong ("they just did what their parents and their government told them to do&quot , and went one step further and said that if we just punished the people HIRING the illegal immigrants, the immigration would stop overnight and would be cheaper for the taxpayers. So even some of the Teabaggers are opposed to this. Sounds good at a rally, but messed up in real life.

[PdxSean]

13. Quote of the month, leading for quote of the year!

" She's essentially a Slovenian hooker who got a sex worker's dream job."

[Nevernose]

15. I grew up in an entertainment-industry family in Las Vegas

Plus, I used to live in a lot of bad neighborhoods. My attitude towards sex workers is unusual, granted, but generally positive. I was trying to be funny, but I honestly wasn't trying to insult her.

There's quite a few people who marry for worse reasons and/or have worse jobs.

Really, if you think about it, she's parlayed sexy photo shoots into a high-paying, lifetime job, way cushier than most of us will ever have. So good for her.

Edit: except pimps and traffickers. Those people are the worst human beings alive, modern day slave-traders. I get infuriated just thinking about them.

[TrollBuster9090]

31. I think Melania, like Trump's other wives, is just sweating out this 'job' until she can divorce him

and take half of the wealth he's accumulated during the time they were married.

Although, at this point, she's got to be worried if there will be much of his fortune left to take him for in divorce court. (She's probably one of only three or four people who knows his actual worth.) When he was just doing crooked real estate deals, and ripping people off with a fake College, and a reality TV show, he was at least making some money. But being President has shone a spotlight on his illegal business activities, and he could end up spending years in court, and spending millions on lawyers. I'm thinking maybe she and Trump's kids are hoping he bails out of this Presidential gig fairly soon.

[Ilsa]

23. Imagine going back to the regs that punished the employer!

Didn't reagan do away with that?

[crazycatlady]

11. Ivana too

And while we're at it, 4/5 Trump kids.

[Goonch]

12. Pretty Woman

[Aviation Pro]

22. Shitty woman

And shitty person.

[3catwoman3]

26. Good gawd!

Caricatures are often not very flattering, but this one reaches a new level of "eewwwwwwwwwwwwww!"

[nini]

16. She's not brown

She doesn't count.

[George II]

20. Have we ever seen Ivana's, either?

[Ilsa]

21. Lawrence O'Donnell had her immigration attorrney on one night.

The man said he is/was a Hillary supporter. He said her stuff was all by the book, and that she had not worked illegally in the US.

I've heard that she did work prior to getting her "green card." And I wonder if she had the money to pay her lawyer or if someone else did. But if becoming a citizen costs as much as I've heard, then I wonder how she paid for it.

[Angry Dragon]

24. It is reported she made $20,000 before she got her green card

[Ilsa]

25. I want someone to bring forth that proof, so we can

throw the hypocrisy back in the R faces. I think it is likely, but I wouldn't say it until I knew the date of her work visa and had proof of her income prior to receiving it.

[Angry Dragon]

28. you could start here

https://apnews.com/37dc7aef0ce44077930b7436be7bfd0d

[Ilsa]

37. Thank you. That has me convinced that she broke the law.

She was/is a criminal, therefore, it should have taken her longer to get her visa.

I don't get why she got a work visa in a short amount of time while it takes others years to get a visa. It's not as if we have a shortage of models in the US.

[TrollBuster9090]

32. I can't imagine he's say anything ELSE, if he wants to go on bein an immigration lawyer.

But if it WAS all above board, either HE or SHE must have the paperwork to show us. So why don't they? It would be ridiculously simple.

[Boomer]

27. This is not way to get back at Trump

As someone has already mentioned, she's just an employee. If Trump has to throw Melania under the bus, he'll send her back to Slovenia without a blink. But keep his kid, because offspring are an extension of himself.

[TrollBuster9090]

33. Melania is fair game not because we have anything against HER, but because she's yet another

yet another example of Republican/Trump hypocrisy.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

29. Got paid for 10 modeling assignments before legal. . . . . nt

[Scarsdale]

30. Her parents live here, in

tRump Tower part time and Mar-A-Lago. They were members of the Communist party. How did THEY get visas? What type of work does he do, to afford that lifestyle? A former roomate said Maleria would get all dressed up in the evening, go to a "photo shoot" come back next morning with $1,500 in cash. Super models, as tRump claimed she was, do not handle their own money, they have agents for that. Also, super models do not pose for lesbian soft porn like she did. Phony as her "husband" They deserve each other.

[treestar]

34. after the demands for Obama's birth certificate

I'm up for it.

[Motley13]

35. we are still waiting for that interview she was supposed to give about her immigration