@DerWouter @Gummi_Gal In advance of tomorrow's luncheon at Palm Beach U. honoring @FLOTUS for being "an exquisite human being, a magnificent wife & life partner, a superb mother & an outstanding first lady", let's do a run thru of her greatest hits....
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..Melania's recollection of the first time she met Donald has changed over the years. In '05, the Trumps told Larry King Donald was supposed to meet a "Super Model" at the Kit Kat Club but when he saw Melania sitting next to her, he changed his plans....
...In '16, Melania told Greta Von Sustern Donald arrived at the Kit Kat Club w/a date. She also said the party was in '96 rather than '98. A slip of the tongue? She also said she left for work in the Caribbean & didn't go out w/Donald until a week later..
...I think I know why Melania changed her story. In the first version, there was no reason for her not to go home w/Donald the same night. The second version gives her a veneer of modesty in that she's not that kind of girl. Here she is on that supposed "first date".....
...No idea what the nature of her "work" was in the Caribbean after the Kit Kat party during the week of Sept 14-18 '98 but I do know she held a very expensive press conference at a luxurious Hotel Lutetia in Paris earlier that month...,
...In a Sept 11 '16 story, Univision investigative reporter @GerardoReyesC wrote about Melania's Paris presser. Someone flew five Slovenian reporters via private aircraft to Paris where a "beautiful model" was presented as Melania Knauss...
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..At the Paris presser, Melania told the Slovenian reporters she was one of the Top 50 Models in the world! Although photos were not permitted, one was published in Nedelja on Sept 20 '98, just a few days after Melania said she first met Donald.....
..(Nedelja was a Sunday magazine supplement to a Sarajevo newspaper.) As evidence of her being a top 50 model, Melania offered her '97 cover of Harper's Bazaar shot in Mexico & only published in the magazine's edition for US Hispanics....
...In his story, Univision reporter Gerardo Reyes said Melania was already dating Donald at the time of her Paris press conference which was held shortly before the Kit Kat Club party. Does Mr. Reyes know something we don't?....
..Melania Knavs dba Melania Knauss was not a top 50 world model in '98 or any other year. The question is who would have paid for a lavish press conference in Paris in Sept '98 to promote a 28 yr old Slovenian model a couple of weeks before she "first" met Donald Trump?.....
...The only plausible answer, of course, is Donald J. Trump which means POTUS & FLOTUS met long before Fashion Week in Sept '98. My theory is they met in Milan in the spring of '95 when Trump was drumming up investors in Europe. One of the stops was Milan....
...At the time, Melania was w/the Milan modeling agency. Riccardo Gay, known for providing models as "arm candy" at parties. To be clear, I'm NOT saying Melania was paid for sex. I'm suggesting she did meet Donald at a party, only in Milan in '95....
...Ivanka, 14, was also in Milan in '95. If she knew anything about her father cheating on his then wife, Marla Maples, it was unlikely she would have said something since she & her brothers hated Marla....
...Melania & Ivanka's "modeling careers" later crossed paths when they both appeared in British GQ in 2000. Melania was on the cover in Jan '00, trying her best to link herself to another story about naked super models which had nothing to do w/her....
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...At the time, of course, Melania & Donald were frantically trying to make the case for Melania's EB-1 "Einstein" visa which she applied for later that year. The accompanying article describes the future First Lady as 26 (she was close to 30) but fluent in only four languages...
...In April '00, Ivanka, 18, appeared in a two-page spread in the same magazine. Donald's fav media outlet, PageSix, trumpeted her spread one day & the next, reported Donald didn't approve of it. Prob after blow back about soft porn.....
...Another one of my theories is Donald offered Melania & Ivanka as a two-fer to convince the editors at British GQ to publish Melania's spread in the same issue as the naked supermodel one bc he was desperate to puff up her resume for the EB-1 "Einstein" visa application....
...she filed for later that year. The visa application would have included info about her earnings which prob were provided by Trump's long time CFO, Allen Weisselberg, on a 1099. Coincidentally, Trump gave Weisselberg a free CPS condo in Nov '00 (per ACRIS)....
..(I'm not the only person who suspects Trump rewarded his CFO w/a free condo for his "assistance" w/Melania's EB-1 visa app). To qualify for the EB-! visa, Melania had to meet at least three of ten criteria. Can you pick the three she met?....
...The timing of Melania's EB-1 visa application is interesting. The outgoing INS commissioner, Doris Meissner, resigned in Nov '00 & the incoming commissioner, James W. Ziglar, only took office in Aug '00. Melania's visa was approved in March '00...
..As @DerWouter pointed out, Donald's sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, was a federal judge in Newark at the time Melania applied for the EB-1 visa. INS, now USCIS, was under the umbrella of the DOJ & I'm sure a good word from Judge Barry didn't hurt Melania's case.....
...My guess is NYC lawyer, Kenneth Sussmane, handled Melania's EB-1 visa application since he also represented Paolo Zampolli's business.
..An interesting Trump-related immigration question is what name Melania's sister, Ines "Knauss", used when she was granted a green card. Melania's legal name when she married Donald was Melanija Knavs so she didn't changer her name...
...Why is Melania's sister, Ines, who lives in a Trump Park Ave condo, using Melania's professional name? Ines wasn't a model. For that matter, I'm not sure she has ever worked in the US. Why isn't her name Knavs like her parents?...
..Some fun facts about the First Lady you might not know. The other woman in Melania's naked lesbian photo spread is Swedish model, Emma Paskovski nee Erickson who prob has a Trump NDA....
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...Wonder if Ms Paskovski would be willing to tell us if she made any trips to the US in the '90s or would that violate her Trump NDA? The naked spread was reportedly shot in the US in '96 & published in a French men's magazine, Max Magazine, in '97...
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...Melania's naked lesbian spread was published in an Australian gossip magazine in '02 to little fanfare & republished in '05 when Donald married her, The magazine claimed some Trump wedding guests were given envelopes w/the pix....
...As all "super models" do, Melania posed for Redbook in Oct '00 (snark, snark). Was prob a last ditch attempt to beef up her rather thin portfolio before submitting her EB-1 visa app. Not sure if she even made the cover....
...Two of Melania's magazine covers were for glossies aimed at the wealthy owned by long time Trump pal, Jason Binn in '99. Unlikely she was paid very much or at all. The April '99 Ocean Drive cover was obviously shot before her first kidney surgery.....
...One of Melania's claims to super model status is her only pic in the '00 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue which she posed for on Sept 12 '99 in Quemaro Mexico. I suspect the inflatable killer whale is supposed to be Donald. SI only pays the models a few hundred dollars....
..These pix of Melania circa '00 appeared in a British magazine but I don't know the name of it. Not one that Melania ever boasted about anyway. (kevol44 was selling the issue on eBay)....
..Whoa! eBay seller kevol44 has a Melania cover I don't remember ever seeing. A UK men's magazine Front, in March '02. Wonder when the pix were actually taken since Melania already had her EB-1 visa....
...According to @BrandyZadrozny at the Daily Beast in Nov '17. Melania appeared in the short lived magazine, Maximum Golf twice as Donald Trump's girlfriend...
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..ICYMI. Joy Behar's April '11 interview of Melania, a birther who questioned the legitimacy of Obama's presidency. Her accent sounds more pronounced than it is now. Speaking lessons?...
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