Craig Unger’s new book has already made headlines, in this newspaper and elsewhere, because of a charge from an ex-KGB colonel, Yuri Shvets, that Donald Trump has been a KGB asset for 40 years. But as Unger himself points out, former CIA director Michael Morell has called Trump an “unwitting agent” of the Russians; former national security director James Clapper has described him “in effect … an intelligence asset”; and former CIA director John.
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Ever since they met at a party back in 1998, Donald Trump and his third wife, Melania have certainly been on a wild ride. Well, it was kind of a given right? Seeing as their wedding alone cost more money than the average person is ever likely to amass over the course of their lifetime.
The years following on from tying the knot in 2005 have been equally as eventful too – the couple welcomed a son together, Barron William Trump, and Melania was thrust even further into the spotlight when she became First Lady of the United States, following her Donald s shock win during the 2016 election.
The private equity firm has found that Apollo’s chief executive and chairman, Leon Black, had paid $US150 million ($195 million) to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
But throughout the rollercoaster that was the Trump administration, Mrs Trump somehow managed to keep up her enigmatic facade. It s a fact that has even been acknowledged by Trump allies, with former Senior Counsellor to the President Kellyanne Conway claiming in a recent interview that there remains a curiosity and a mystery about her . So who exactly is the real Melania Trump - and what are her next moves now her husband has finally been prised from the Oval Office?
WHO IS MELANIA? Melania Knauss was born in 1970 in Slovenia, which was then under Yugoslavia s communist regime. She was discovered by photographer Stane Jerko in 1987 in the city of Ljubljana, and a modelling career in Paris and Milan soon followed, before she moved to New York in 1996.
Mystery still surrounds Melania Trump after four years in White House
22 Jan, 2021 08:17 PM
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Most members of the Trump clan have never strayed far from the spotlight.
But unlike the rest of the family, after four turbulent years of Donald Trump s presidency, former first lady Melania has pulled off the impossible – we still don t know who she really is.
Love them or loathe them, the rest of the family have dominated headlines; Donald Trump and his three adult children from his first marriage, Eric, Ivanka and Donald Jr, have been constant fixtures on our TV screens and social media feeds.