The following article by Mary Jordan was posted on the Washington Post website March 1, 2018:
People who demonstrate “extraordinary ability” are eligible for what is known as the “Einstein” visa. First lady Melania Trump was granted an EB-1 visa in 2001. (Victoria Walker/The Washington Post)
In 2000, Melania Knauss, a Slovenian model dating Donald Trump, began petitioning the government for the right to permanently reside in the United States under a program reserved for people with “extraordinary ability.”
The following article by Carol D. Leonnig, David Nakamura and Nick Miroff was posted on the Washington Post website February 21, 2018:
President Trump has railed against “chain migration.” His wife is an immigrant and his in-laws are in the U.S., but how did they come in? (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)
The parents of first lady Melania Trump have become legal permanent residents of the United States and are close to obtaining their citizenship, according to people familiar with their status, but their attorney declined to say how or when the couple gained their green cards.
The following article by Ronan Farrow was posted on the New Yorker website February 16, 2018:
One woman’s account of clandestine meetings, financial transactions, and legal pacts designed to hide an extramarital affair.
At right, from the top, David Pecker, the chairman of American Media, Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer; Karen McDougal, a former Playmate of the Year; Donald Trump; and Dylan Howard, A.M.I.’s chief content officer.Illustration by Oliver Munday; Source Photographs: Jesse Grant / WireImage / Getty (McDougal); Mark Peterson / Redux for The New Yorker (Pecker); Jamie Squire / Getty (Trump); Lucas Jackson / Reuters (Howard)
In June, 2006, Donald Trump taped an episode of his reality-television show, “The Apprentice,” at the Playboy Mansion, in Los Angeles. Hugh Hefner, Playboy’s publisher, threw a pool party for the show’s contestants with dozens of current and former Playmates, including Karen McDougal, a slim brunette who had been named Playmate of the Year, eight years earlier. In 2001, the magazine’s readers voted her runner-up for “Playmate of the ’90s,” behind Pamela Anderson. At the time of the party, Trump had been married to the Slovenian model Melania Knauss for less than two years; their son, Barron, was a few months old. Trump seemed uninhibited by his new family obligations. McDougal later wrote that Trump “immediately took a liking to me, kept talking to me – telling me how beautiful I was, etc. It was so obvious that a Playmate Promotions exec said, ‘Wow, he was all over you – I think you could be his next wife.’
Trump and McDougal began an affair, which McDougal later memorialized in an eight-page, handwritten document provided to The New Yorker by John Crawford, a friend of McDougal’s. When I showed McDougal the document, she expressed surprise that I had obtained it but confirmed that the handwriting was her own. Continue reading “Donald Trump, a Playboy Model and a System for Concealing Infidelity”
The following article by Michael Kranish and Ashley Parker was posted onthe Washington Post website February 15, 2018:
A quarter of the money spent by the inaugural committee flowed through a firm connected to event planner Stephanie Winston Wolkoff. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
President Trump’s inaugural committee paid $26 million for event production services to a firm connected to a friend of first lady Melania Trump, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who serves as a volunteer adviser in the East Wing, according to officials and newly released tax filings.
The following column by Petula Dvorak was posted on the Washington Post website February 5, 2018:
First lady Melania Trump acknowledges the the crowd prior to President Donald J. Trump’s delivery of the State of the Union speech. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)
Nope, ladies. No more mulligans for Melania.
Thanks to a recent report of her husband’s alleged affair with an adult film star years ago, a bipartisan sisterhood is coming to the first lady’s side. She has been defended and protected. Even a “Saturday Night Live” skit over the weekend gave her the closest thing to sympathy that merciless crew can muster.
The truth is, Melania Trump is not a delicate flower or a victim.
She is a grown woman, an immigrant who made it in a cutthroat industry.
The following article by Andrew Restuccia was posted on the Politico website February 2, 2018:
The home contractor from New Jersey is now working as an official in the Environmental Protection Agency’s New York regional office.
President Trump has made a habit of appointing people with close ties to his family or businesses rather than experienced policymakers or political hands. Credit: Evan Vucci/AP Photo
A home improvement contractor married to one of Donald and Melania Trump’s former household staffers is now working as an official at the Environmental Protection Agency, the latest example of someone with a personal connection to the Trump family finding work in the administration.
New Jersey-based Steve Kopec joined EPA’s Region 2 office in New York as a special assistant on Dec. 18, according to a memo obtained by POLITICO. “Steve comes to us from private industry, where he fashioned his career around customer service and organizational efficiencies,” EPA Region 2 Administrator Pete Lopez wrote in the memo. “Steve is an experienced manager with skills in team building, management and organization.” Continue reading “Husband of former Trump household aide scores government job”
In his State of the Union Address, Trump stated, “In America we know that faith and Family, not government and bureaucracy are the the center of Democracy.” The comment was met with a standing ovation from the crowd.
The following article by Brett Samuels was posted on the Hill website January 3, 2018:
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders takes reporters’ questions at a news conference in the White House briefing room this month. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
Washington, D.C., on Wednesday was dominated by a series of explosive excerpts from a forthcoming book focused on the early days inside the Trump administration.
Michael Wolff’s upcoming book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” depicts a president who did not expect to defeat Hillary Clinton in November 2016 and who clashed with White House staff. Excerpts of the book were published Wednesday.
The following article by John Wagner and Callum Borchers was posted on the Washington Post website January 3, 2018:
The Fix’s Callum Borchers lists three takeaways from the book “Fire and Fury” by Michael Wolff about President Trump’s campaign and first year in office. (Video: Bastien Inzaurralde/Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
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