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1/In light of the President's ravings on race and immigration these past few days, offer a thread about the First Immigrant herself - Melania. Has it all - law breaking, years of deception, chain migration and Communists! And one assumes should be making all those Rs very angry.
2/It all began when in those dark days after it was learned she plagiarized her convention speech, reporters discovered Melania had been lying about having a college degree. nytimes.com/2016/07/29/us/… Issue is if she lied abt this degree to US imm authorities, she broke the law.
3/Then those nudes of Melania were published in the NYPost. Among other things they seemed to suggest she had been working in the US prior to when she had claimed she had been legally allowed to do so. nypost.com/2016/07/30/mel…
4/In what was perhaps most damming development, interviews Melania did in early 2016 have her describing her path into the US via a visa process which does not exist. Is clear she was lying, repeatedly, and her story didn't add up. politico.com/story/2016/08/…
5/A few days later, Aug 9 2016, candidate Trump promised to hold a press conference to prove Melania came here legally. The President never held that press conference nor he has produced the simple documents required to clear all this up. thehill.com/blogs/ballot-b…
6/Given the President's relentless attacks on immigrants it's unbelievable he's never been forced to address these questions about Melania's path. More has come to light. Pretty clear she broke laws. Failure to produce her docs implies guilt. It's ugly. ndn.org/blog/2016/11/a…
7/So legit questions abt Melania's path remain unanswered. But then her parents were able to become citizens in 2018 due to, you guessed it, the process of "chain migration" the President has also relentlessly attacked for years. nytimes.com/2018/08/09/nyr…
8/And finally, Melania's family were actual card carrying Communists. Her father appears to have been a prominent Communist official, and there are reports he got into trouble with the law prior to coming to the US. thedailybeast.com/melanias-dad-a…
9/So there you have it. Melania, the First Immigrant - clear lies about her path into the US, likely laws were broken, a long and spirited cover up, chain migration, Communism. Can we, and the GOP, really continue to look the other way given what we know?
