PHILADELPHIA
— Melania Trump’s cribbing last week of Michelle Obama’s lines was not
the first time she claimed something that was not hers.
For months now, reporters have noted that Ms. Trump, who grew up in the small Slovenian town of Sevnica,
did not obtain an undergraduate degree in architecture from the
University of Ljubljana, as her professional website claimed she did.
Instead, she left after her first year to pursue a modeling career in
Milan.
As
recently as a week ago, Ms. Trump’s website stated that she had
obtained a degree before going on to become a philanthropist and skin
care entrepreneur.
On Wednesday, The Huffington Post noticed that the site had been entirely scrubbed of its content. People clicking on its address are now redirected to the Trump Organization’s website.
In
a Twitter post, Ms. Trump said the website had been removed “because it
does not accurately reflect my current business and professional
interests.”
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Last
week, Ms. Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention
contained a few lines from Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic
convention in 2008. The Trump campaign initially denied that she had
plagiarized the lines. Eventually a Trump employee who had helped write
the speech, Meredith McIver, acknowledged using Ms. Obama’s lines and apologized, saying it was unintentional.
Credit- New York Times
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