There’s no better example of Republican voters’ hypocrisy than the curious case of Melania Trump. Melania came to America as an incorrectly documented immigrant, and spent time working illegally. She blatantly lied about her education, her work history and more. She plagiarized her first public speech. And she posed for softcore p0rnography. If a Democratic man’s wife did any one of those things, it would be the biggest scandal of the year. It would have been in church fliers and Rush Limbaugh would have devoted no fewer than eight full months to denouncing the wife a trollop, a liar, and an “illegal.” But because Melania is white, pretty and married to Donald Trump, I guess she – much like her husband – gets a “clean slate” with the media and everybody else. That’s what Melania is hoping.

Melania’s official website once claimed that she had an undergraduate college degree. During the campaign, a lot of media outlets tried to verify that claim only to come up empty. The best anyone could tell was that Melania might have gone to college for one year, tops, then she began modeling. Well, now her official bio has been changed to reflect that ever-changing story.

The official bio of Melania Trump now suggests that she did not complete a college degree in Slovenia, as she previously claimed on her own website. The future first lady’s bio on President-elect Donald Trump’s government website says that she “paused her studies to advance her modeling career in Milan and Paris.” It does not say whether she resumed or completed the degree.

As recently as July, Melania Trump’s personal site said she obtained a degree in design and architecture at an unspecified university in Slovenia, her country of birth. It did not say when or where she completed the degree but said she was working as a model at the time and “jetting between photo shoots in Paris and Milan.”

Questions began to surface earlier this year about whether this resume was entirely accurate. Blaz Matija Vogelnik, a professor who said he briefly taught her at Slovenia’s University of Ljubljana, told NBC News in August that she did not complete his course.

“She hasn’t finished university, at least not in Ljubljana,” he said. “My personal opinion is that, because she was very beautiful girl … I believe that she realized that she could gain more with that, than to have long studies.” Vogelnik noted that his former student had passed a rigorous test to gain entry to the college, and based on that he believed “her IQ was very high.”

Had she completed the course, Melania Trump’s research would ordinarily be in the university’s library, but it could not been found there when NBC News visited the college this summer. In April, GQ magazine reported that she “decamped to Milan after her first year of college, effectively dropping out.” The story included an interview with Melania Trump, as well as friends and former colleagues.

[From NBC News]

Yeah, obvious story is obvious. Of course the transition team is already trying to whitewash Melania a little bit so that she’s not seen as a lying, scandal-prone, out-of-touch trophy wife. Whoops, too late! I always wondered if Melania had lied to Donald Trump and he only found out during the campaign that she did not, in fact, have a college degree. Or did he know years ago and he cosigned the idea that she should just lie about it? Or did he not care either way? I get the feeling that Melania and Donald are not – how shall we say? – close. I don’t think they spend much time together, nor do they speak to each other all that often. She does her thing, he does his thing. And they’ll be doing their own things in different cities.

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