Melania Trump’s Website, Biography Have Disappeared From The Internet
The professional website
of Melania Trump, wife of the Republican presidential nominee, has apparently
been deleted from the internet as of Wednesday afternoon.
The disappearance of
Trump’s elaborate website comes just days after news outlets, including The Huffington Post, raised serious questions
about whether she actually earned an undergraduate degree in architecture from
the University of Ljubljana, which is in Trump’s native Slovenia. Her online
biography claimed she had, but a book about her life published earlier this
year says she left the university after one year so she could pursue a modeling
career.
Here is a look at how the
biography section on Trump’s website appeared last week:
Embellishing Trump’s
educational achievements in her online biography “was almost certainly done in
consultation with Trump and his advisors, as they were desperate to give off
the impression that the Slovenian model was not just beautiful, but also smart
and well-educated,” according to Melania Trump: The Inside Story, an
unauthorized biography of the potential first lady.
Questions about Trump’s
educational background gained a new sense of urgency last week, after she
delivered a keynote at the Republican National Convention that had been plagiarized from a speech current first
lady Michelle Obama gave at the Democratic National Convention in 2008.
When pressed about the
subject last week, a campaign spokeswoman declined to confirm or deny whether
Trump had earned the degree. The refusal to answer questions about Trump’s
education quickly sparked speculation about whether other parts of her
biography were untrue.
A campaign spokeswoman did
not immediately reply to HuffPost’s questions on Wednesday about the deleted
website and online biography.
Digitally speaking, all we
have to go on is that an internet archive of Trump’s homepage shows that it has
been scrubbed of content, dating back at least a year, in the last week.
According to that archive on Wednesday afternoon, this was all that remained
of www.melaniatrump.com:
Despite the apparent
attempts to scrub Trump’s biography, there are older versions of her website
available in online archives, which contain the claim that she earned a degree
in design and architecture. Below is one of them, from 2012:
MelaniaTrump.com now
redirects to a home page for husband Donald Trump’s golf resorts and rental properties.
The “biography” portion of
that site does not mention his wife. Archived pages of this professional
site indicate that this is not new, and that the businessman’s online biography
hasn’t referenced his wife for at least
five years.
Donald Trump’s
presidential campaign biography references his wife one time, and does not
provide any details about her life or her qualifications to be first lady. The
site simply says that the GOP nominee “is married to Melania Trump and
father to Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka, Eric, Tiffany and Barron.”
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